Adam Rogers

Ha. “Tracks.” Oops.

Well, sure. I didn’t know this, but it tracks.

Words are the problem for sure

What the

Innumerate

You can just say, “wait, sorry, just to back up—I don’t understand. How does that work?” And then you just keep asking that , occasionally throwing in a “but that would mean TK, wouldn’t it?” until it makes sense or their head explodes.

Once! Just one follow-up! One time!

When they said they were against integration, I didn’t think they were talking about calculus.

Actually another possible follow-up is, in fact, “oh, come on. Where are drug prices less than zero, precisely?”

Also there were reporters there on the tarmac. The only possible next question is “How would that work? That’s not how percent cuts work. What do you mean?” There is no other next thing to say.

Come on.

Until Trump Fired Her, She Was an Economist With Bipartisan Support

Option 1: There were people who believed she was a competent public servant until a person in power told them to believe something different, which is bad. Option 2: They never really cared until a person in charge told them to, which is bad.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

“Help our systems learn about content generated by AI”? Wait wait wait, Facebook. “Systems?” What *kind* of systems, exactly?

This intersection has been approved for safety improvements which were first proposed in 2011 (!) and funded in 2019.

But because the people who put together the budget for the city do not prioritize saving the lives of our kids, these improvements are not scheduled to be completed until 2027

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

“My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.” open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

That’s fair; I’m quite old.

This all goes back to the death of Reader

It would be cool if I was the first person to say that, because

Nope, I stand by it.

Technically I em dash, but you are dash.

If you get a grant to study laser guns that should be a Pew Fellowship

“Do we really want tech billionaires or do we really want tech?”

Kiddo just explained to me that Star Trek engineers are just wizard-class characters, and now I’m kind of mad.

Key route!

Working on a newsletter piece about that prog-rock Spiderman album with the Stan Lee narration...why did people act like the Julie Taymor Broadway production was the first spiderman musical when that stone masterpiece exists?

The stronger the man, the heavier the load….

the passion for automaton machinery soon wears off, more especially when it is known that the fine machinery in our cotton factories almost rival those of the finest automaton. This is the utilitarian age of the world and what excited the wonder of past ages, though ingenious, if it in not useful, will be but little esteemed now The same combination of mechanical powers that made the spider crawl, or the finger of the automaton move are now adapted to nobler and more useful purposes. The present is the grand and majestic age of mechanical invention. The tiny wheels and pinions of the spider now move the spinning jenny and the loom in more large proportions. The magician of Mailiardet has given way to the more mighty magician of Watt, and the miniature horse and carriage of Louis the 14th, is now to be observed in snorting loco-motives, as hugely ingenious aid powerful, as the other was minute and skillfully small.

Instead of producing inventions to amuse, the present age invented only to benefit man and increase the product of the earth. No piece of mechanism, however trivial, if ingenious, should be despised. It may be the germ of some mighty machine, as the wheel was that of the spinning jenny.

Just got my head snapped back by seeing every argument we're having about AI and human work today...in the June 3, 1848 issue of Scientific American. Like...did Capital write this?

SPIDER-MAN: A ROCKOMIC Celebrates 50 Years of Being Groovy You love this record, don’t you? I do…

Yeah, I had that Cap and the Falcon one, though I didn't know they connected to hip hop. I used to fall asleep to these story records. Had this one, too: 13thdimension.com/spider-man-a...

In a movie the cool analyst would come back after an all nighter with this data and say something like, “well, that’s just it. It’s too perfect. Even the uncertainties are too normal. That was the tell.”

Im pretty sure that is the source code for my entire writing style.