Daniel Lenski

This feels like the framing device for an 80s movie, and I for one am eager to see where it goes in the next scene!

Nice! Seems very similar to English expressions like "put on your big-boy/big-girl pants and get to work."

Imagine we all drove EVs and then someone came along and proposed an ICE vehicle…

Video credit: Nic Cruz Patane (link in Alt text)

Very interesting! Wikipedia suggests he individually might be responsible for the prevalence and prestige of the al-Mursī name in Egypt.

"His legacy and reverence in Egypt were such that Mursi became a common name in the country."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_al-...

How did the name end up in Egypt? Did many Moors flee there during the Reconquista, as with Jews in Greece and Turkey?

Or something else?

I'm confused.

Is Harvard denying that they're going to do any corrupt deal with the Trump admin?

Or are they merely denying the accuracy of the $500M number, so that no one should be surprised if they sign a $450M deal?

popular anti-fascism as taxpayer revolt...might have some legs

It did. Discovering a Linux developer with good sarcastic opinions about programming languages after three or four layers of riffs about a guy drinking a fancy drink in the wrong way… very nice 😄

I'm not a whisky drinker, had never heard of this product, and between the replies and the Wikipedia articles I spent nearly an hour in a rabbithole on this.

Thank you 🫡

I knew it! DHS appears to have STAGED the removals of serious criminals to Africa, even though they could actually be sent back to their home countries to try to pressure courts to permit the practice for anyone. We can't trust anything they say because DHS LIES.

“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”

@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...

I'd drive a company into the ground for half that, tbh

Tangential I know, but what is this small pocket of Finnish speakers on the Sweden-Norway border, on the left side of the image?

The problem with the horse-race coverage of Trump II is that, across the board, he is destroying nonzero sum arrangements: rule of law, institutions, collective goods, trade relationships, alliances.

So what the media portrays as a win for Trump is usually a net loss for everyone, including the US.

It's genuinely kind of surprising to me that Trump is capable of bending over to pick up a golf ball with ease. I think I must've overestimated his weight and physical infirmity. 🤔

Can someone explain this to us non-golfers?

Why does he do a little short shot with the golf club held by one hand, that seems to go nowhere?

Is he cheating in a competitive game here?

Or is he just messing around for fun, assisted by other humans?

This must be what it felt like back in history when emperors/kings were only like 10 years old.

With all the others, I'm getting way too distracted by the surely-unintended cultural dimensions of the comparison.

"Georgia is nothing like France",
"Illinois is so not Spain",
"Minnesota = Sweden? Okay, intriguing but simplistic."
"Maryland = Canada? Fine maybe, but where is Canada's Baltimore?"

Now That They’re Free, Venezuelan Men Want the World to Know What They Endured in CECOT Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration say they endured months of physical and mental abuse inside a Salvadoran prison. Though happy to be home, they say the fact that they were released…

Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison.

He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.

Having very recently been to both Liechtenstein, Sweden, and Finland, I'm noodling over the Liechtenstein/Vermont and Sweden/Finland/Minnesota comparisons 😄

List of U.S. states and territories by Human Development Index score - Wikipedia

Very interesting, I didn't realize Colorado and Washington were so high.

Kind of interesting to compare US vs Canada. The high states are higher AND the low states are lower in the US… tracks with pretty much everything else.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...
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Without question the thing Trump benefits from more than anything else is being able to do stuff that would've triggered Watergate-level media outrage and turn it into a nothing burger you barely hear about

We have had stable, professional, vouchsafed information about the physical & economic world for so long that we entirely take it for granted. It's going to be truly wild to operate in a world where quite literally no one knows for sure what is happening, where there is no fact of the matter.

The best I can come up with is something like

'longer' (pronounced /ŋ.ŋ/, rather than /ŋ.g/)
vs.
'lower' (pronounced slowly, something like /low.wer/)

Even the preceding vowels seem to be practically in a complimentary distribution; few "long" vowels before /ŋ/, few "short" vowels before /w/. 🫠

‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.

The US government has sent innocent men to be beaten and raped in a foreign gulag

www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Would it kill him to come up with a good nickname? So much material to work with here.

The VERY BIASED "Dr" McFarter. I came up with that. Lot of people don't know it, but I came up with that. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

She'd be stupid not to, right?

In the last few days I've fixed…

some car electronics problems for baby boomers,
and some HP printer problems for baby boomers.

The car companies are paragons of virtue compared to HP printers.

(The company is nothing but dark patterns and subscription scams all the way down 🤬)

You'll laugh (ruefully) when you see what this is a reply to.