In the year of our Lord 2026, prestigious architecture prizes should not be going to monumental, standalone structures surrounded by highways and surface parking.
Free idea for an Errol Morris documentary: track this guy down and interview him about the post-truth world and its impact on the region since 2003.
"Landslide"
And this one from a 1,000 current and former Google and OpenAI employees: notdivided.org
That's on top of this letter from technology trade groups raising similar concerns: www.siia.net/wp-content/u...
Today @cdt.org and allies shared a letter from dozens of military, national security and AI leaders raising deep concerns about the Pentagon's threat to designate Anthropic a supply chain risk: cdt.org/insights/def...
There is no more firey pit in Hell than the one waiting for whoever decided I can't print a black-and-white document until I replace my printer's yellow ink cartridge.
It flipped GITMO and American Samoa!
I'm an Eagle Scout, and Scouting was an important of my youth and who I became as an adult.
This is some cowardly bullshit and the Scouts should be ashamed. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
My decision to root for Canada this year has been vindicated over and over again.
I'll argue that. Liberals are never gonna build the democracy we want in a gun fight. Violence pushes people to define out-groups to punish & points them towards the perceived safety of strongmen & autocrats. Minorities (religious, racial, sexual, etc) & women will never be safe in an armed society.
I recognize this is a niche complaint, but the quality of curling commentary drops precipitously when they let Americans do it. During the Round Robin matches we got a charming Scottish woman discussing strategy. Now I'm being told that Sweden is about the size of California.
Fun fact, the woman playing the guitar in that scene is Edward Gorey's mother.
This is a good but very disheartening piece.
Two-thirds of being an ANC commissioner is just begging the District to enforce the laws on the books against bad actors.
Has anyone else in DC basically stopped getting mail since the storm last week?
Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post and is turning it into the Washington Examiner.
The news from the Washington Post is just so, so depressing.
This kind of campaign against marriage equality is extremely worrying. The fact that the Religious Right is *choosing* this battleground means they think they can win on it. They overturned Roe and this is next on their list.
Tressie McMillan Cottom delivers an important wake-up call on the urgent need to enact strong protections for personal data -- and the world we could face without them.
I think some of those fall in the "I'll die before I read that" category.
I'm weirdly fascinated by this culture and I hope somewhere a sociologist is working on a paper about this psuedo-monasticism.
