Nils Gore

Liner Note 36. UCLA in the Extortion Machine UCLA on May 14, 2018     It’s a Friday in the 6 th   grade, when you eat at the lunch truck parked outside the school gate. While standing i...

100% this

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I’m in my 7th decade and I’ve read myself to sleep for as long as I can remember. My favorite time of the day. (If I don’t read, I have a hard time falling asleep.)

Opinion | The Climate Solution That’s Horrible for the Climate (Published 2023)

We use nearly 40M acres of cornfields to grow ethanol. Nearly 40M acres of solar farms (with some batteries) could easily power the country, even if we all drove EVs and used AI. www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/o...

But they sure know how socialism works when it comes to the financing of stadiums

Not sure they know how capitalism works.

What is wrong with you

So beautiful

Scientist on green card detained for a week without explanation, lawyer says A Korean citizen studying in Texas on a green card was detained in San Francisco after a trip overseas.

No other word will do: Gestapo. American Gestapo - words I never imagined I'd associate together. A legal resident. A scientist searching for a Lyme disease vaccine. Criminality? Arrested for weed - ten years ago. Abducted at the airport by anonymous goons and disappeared.
wapo.st/4lPELyy

Perhaps there’s an upside to having lousy sidewalks in my ‘hood after all

Focaccia dough in a sheet pan with chorizo scattered on top

Focaccia ready for the gas grill

Focaccia on pizza stones in a gas grill

Finished focaccia on a cutting board.

🍽️ Zucchini and potato focaccia, based on @smittenkitchen.bsky.social recipe. Didn’t have salami but had Spanish chorizo. Cooked it on the gas grill (on 2 stacked pizza stones) given the punishing summer heat, but finished it under the broiler to crisp up the top. Would do it again.

🍽️ Mufuletta Dogs w Central Grocery (New Orleans) olive salad. Spiral cut and grilled. Perfect for a summer Saturday afternoon.

Harvard Real Estate was my landlord so I doubt they suffered too much from the situation. (They may beg to differ)

I remember how for years "libertarians" cried about how rent control in Cambridge was so awful, you had to get rid of it and once you got rid of it rents would go down.

It's too bad so few people smelled the bullshit then.

Remember: every one of these stupid arguments boils down to "if you let landlords charge whatever they want, rent will be cheap."

And it NEVER EVER WORKS

Common sense should tell you that -- but for decades Republicans and libertarians (but I repeat myself) threw Mises Institute pixie dust in everyone's eyes and the Democrats just laid down for it.

Time to regulate the everliving fuck out of that market.

I lived in Cambridge rent controlled housing from 1986-93. It-allowed me to get my feet on the ground, go to grad school, become stabilized as an adult, get onto the next career level, &c., &c. I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. 100%

Mr. Jones

i CANNOT stop watching this

The webpage says "Seattle's Only Real Fake News."

He’s a fake. He’s a fraud. He is a mob inciting, sycophantic, bootlicking traitor to the people of Missouri…

How Venture Capitalists Built A For-Profit "Micro-University" Inside Our Public Flagships You can graduate any time, but you can never leave.

I don't think we call things bangers anymore, but if we did, this piece from @mattseybold.bsky.social would be one. theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/how-ventur...

AOC discovering that the online left is a collection of the worst, most toxic people on the planet, whose sole function in life is to set up arbitrary, shifting purity tests so they can preen about their superior moral virtue while doing fuck-all to improve anything.

Fuck them, AOC for president.

Like when the Taliban blew up that ancient Buddha carved into the mountainside. Just because they could

roll the dice, and hope you get Aileen Cannon

I have 2 bottles of AltTexaner left. So delicious! It's only gotten better with time. I'll make some more in the fall.

I tried both Anylist and Paprika. Anylist won for me. (Don't really recall details as to why...)

Woks of Life is a GREAT recipe site, mostly focused on Cantonese food, with searchable recipes and so much useful, well-written info on ingredients and techniques.

thewoksoflife.com

For Helsinki architecture: anything by Alvar Aalto. Rock Church. Oodi library. As someone else said, Kiasma museum.

I was just in Helsinki a month ago. If you’re a beer drinker: Helsinki Bryggeri. Food: if you’re a meat eater, reindeer stew at Cafe Engel. A nice surprise for me: Georgian food at Ravintola Lia. Also had a really nice meal at Savoy. Took a boat ride to Lonna for a very special food experience.