Jared Hutchins

Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.

Hey, look at that—you can embed Bandcamp songs right in Bluesky now

I’ll try not to be too annoying about that

but hey, listen to our song "Dive"!!

Melania | Audience Reviews See what audiences are saying about Melania. Read user reviews, reactions, and ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. Join the conversation today.

I don't know how they must have goosed the verified reviews but the "all audience" reviews are full of bad reviews.

www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania/re...

5 star audience review of "Melania": I attended a screening of "Melania" and it proved to be a surprisingly nuanced portrayal of Melania Trump. The theater was about two-thirds full, with a diverse audience, reflecting a widespread curiosity about her story. What struck me most about the film was its emphasis on her personal life rather than the typical political discourse. Each frame felt deliberate and artfully crafted, making the film not only a visual treat but also an engaging experience that complemented the exploration of her journey. Overall, I felt the film is a worthwhile viewing experience for those seeking to understand her life beyond the headlines.

Totally real, 5 star reviews reflecting the totally full theater which was also diverse!

A very detailed map of Trump's job approval Explore our new interactive map of Trump's job approval, powered by 12,000 survey interviews conducted in 2025 and 2026

Today I am publishing what I believe to be the most detailed available map of Trump's job approval rating. Powered by over 12,000 interviews for our Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll. I hope this generates many stories, and hours wasted exploring data!

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-very-det...

my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

I Came to CES to Check Out Energy and Solar Power Innovations and Found That China Is Running Laps Around Us In Las Vegas, I saw a tale of two nations’ energy priorities. The US needs to get its act together.

"Made in China" has been synonymous with "cheap crap." But that's changing, especially in solar, batteries and consumer electronics, where they lead the world.

This report from a trade show found Chinese companies were "light-years ahead" of US companies.

www.pcmag.com/opinions/chi...

MANAGING MIDTERM EXPECTATIONS The president expressed frustration that his Republican Party could lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate in this year’s midterm elections, citing historical trends that have seen the party in power lose seats in the second year of a presidency. “It's some deep psychological thing, but when you win the presidency, you don't win the midterms,” Trump said. He boasted that he had accomplished so much that “when you think of it, we shouldn't even have an election.”

This was always the goal.

Source: www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

Yet more ad-hoc payments revealing that crops like cotton get generous payments... despite being not impacted by any of the trade disruptions.

Plug for my colleague's work on this topic, who found that cotton and sorghum also got generous payouts in MFP:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Silicon Valley rediscovers phrenology

The veer into eugenics was the least surprising part of this article.

New paper alert: Plastic waste imports & coastal litter: Evidence from citizen science data
doi.org/10.1016/j.ec...

Plastic waste is an internationally traded commodity, yet there are concerns that the importation process creates plastic litter in importing countries. 1/8

The first is a working paper by three economists—Elliott Ash, Daniel Chen, and Suresh Naidu—from 2017. While the authors are economists, the actual contribution—summed up in a title that few historians would think debatable, “Ideas Have Consequences”—is about legal or intellectual history. It presents a powerful and discrete account of the transmission of ideas across social networks through textual analysis. The substance argues that privately funded Manne seminars in law and economics—which were attended by a substantial proportion of the federal judiciary—affected the language, decisions, and sentencing of federal justices who attended them and thus, by implication, allowed large-value conservative donors to capture the federal judiciary. The effect seems robust to a variety of covariates [...] Reading this paper was exciting, but looking through the tools and tricks and sources also made me feel like someone in a science fiction movie encountering an artifact sent back from a few decades in the future. The extraordinary quality of data that economists can obtain is almost unimaginable to humanists. It is not just a million or so circuit court votes and 300,000 opinions but also the institutional capacity to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to get the exact years of attendance for every judge who went to the Manne program and the disciplinary capacity to casually use relatively new methods like word embeddings without spending pages slowly, gently analogizing them to some “simpler” concept. Humanists wandering through algorithms seem to have to justify using an algorithm by first identifying which Borges short story—whether about the Map of the Empire, the analytical language of John Wilkins, or Pierre Menard and the Quijote—it most closely resembles.

This essay from @bschmidt.bsky.social on how history rejected computational methods, & so "quantitative history" ended up in the social sciences, & "digital humanities" in literature, with no historians doing computational work, is fascinating, & worth a read: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/computa...

a man wearing glasses and a hoodie says but i 'm not a rapper . Alt: Supa Hot Fire saying “but I’m not a rapper”

My nieces and nephews (high school aged) had the AUDACITY to start quoting the Supa Hot Fire rap battle video in front of me and then say to me “you wouldn’t get it.”

Also those absolute noobs didn’t know about the sequels.

xkcd comic about git. https://xkcd.com/1597/

obligatory xkcd

I thought this was a joke headline, but the joke is on me:

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

I find the next line, "You took my dreams from me when I first found you," to be similarly devastating.

Segregation was not just a Southern phenomenon, it was a national issue. Explore the spatial history of racial segregation and discover how it connects to our communities today: greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

This is a point the “AI inevitability” folks simply do not engage convincingly—We would not accept this technological caveat in any other context

“Our machine lets everyone make their own custom pharmaceuticals—but now every drug everywhere is maybe poison—better do your research!”

Yeah no thanks

The glyphosate debate has been a disaster from the jump.

This isn't the first time Monsanto meddled with the research when they were supposed to be hands-off.

But the association with GMOs meant many people *really* wanted glyphosate to be bad, so there's lots of crap research on that side too.

Still from the tuk-tuk chase in the movie Ong-Bak. Not pictured: the last part where the tuk-tuk twirls in the air as everything explodes around it.

If tuk-tuks count as public transit, this scene from Ong-Bak 1 surely qualifies

Had to look a long time until I found "Joker took ballet," which was the version I remember

seems like as good a time as any to remind y'all of the work we did showing that the rollout of GM soy (which tolerates glyphosate application->brought an increase in agrotoxin application) is associated with increased child leukemia mortality

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Ok, I have been hearing about how seaweed will reduce methane emissions for going on a decade. Yet, I have never seen it actually adopted, despite how effective it's supposed to be?

Something does not add up.

Apparently it is against the terms of service to do batch processing using the USPS API

#EconSky

I am trying to send out a survey to several farms and I need to validate the addresses I received (from state govt) with the USPS database (to make sure they are deliverable). Google Maps does not validate, just checks if it looks like address.

Anyone have a way that they've done this?

do I dare to eat a peach?

staying ahead of @willwheels1.bsky.social