Graham Cummins
@grahamiancummins.bsky.social
Bikes, transit, tech, dense cities, wilderness, thriving within environmental limits.
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You have to understand what pieces like this from the NYT are and are not.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
They are not an honest assessment of the state of politics today.
They are a negotiation tactic—an effort by a calcified, right-leaning legacy institution to steer the discourse in a direction more palatable to elites.
November 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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SMALLER PHONE!!!!
(My wife is avoiding replacement of a damaged phone because she hasn't found *anything* she's willing to carry. She might buy a 2yo nodel on ebay)
(My wife is avoiding replacement of a damaged phone because she hasn't found *anything* she's willing to carry. She might buy a 2yo nodel on ebay)
No one cares about a thin phone.
Now try a smaller phone with a headphone jack.
gizmodo.com/iphone-air-2...
Now try a smaller phone with a headphone jack.
gizmodo.com/iphone-air-2...
The iPhone Air 2 Might Already Be DOA
Well, that was fast.
gizmodo.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:32 PM
SMALLER PHONE!!!!
(My wife is avoiding replacement of a damaged phone because she hasn't found *anything* she's willing to carry. She might buy a 2yo nodel on ebay)
(My wife is avoiding replacement of a damaged phone because she hasn't found *anything* she's willing to carry. She might buy a 2yo nodel on ebay)
"We have an 18% growth target" is how you say "Job satisfaction is impossible here, and wanting it is heresy" in capitalist.
the race to scale is so pernicious
Friends don't let friends build things they care about with VC
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"We have an 18% growth target" is how you say "Job satisfaction is impossible here, and wanting it is heresy" in capitalist.
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
My TL keeps showing me the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Although I like history (and Gordon Lightfoot), I'm just not in the market for another metaphor for US democracy just now, thanks anyway.
Although I like history (and Gordon Lightfoot), I'm just not in the market for another metaphor for US democracy just now, thanks anyway.
November 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
My TL keeps showing me the Edmund Fitzgerald.
Although I like history (and Gordon Lightfoot), I'm just not in the market for another metaphor for US democracy just now, thanks anyway.
Although I like history (and Gordon Lightfoot), I'm just not in the market for another metaphor for US democracy just now, thanks anyway.
The new imposter syndrome is where you believe that you might not be an imposter, and thus you're doomed to never fit in. Your only hope of social acceptance is to hide your fitness-for-purpose from your peers at all costs.
This is extremely representative of Nate's talent for predicting the opinions of crowds (which is the primary skill he's paid for, in case anyone still finds it possible to have imposter syndrome)
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
The new imposter syndrome is where you believe that you might not be an imposter, and thus you're doomed to never fit in. Your only hope of social acceptance is to hide your fitness-for-purpose from your peers at all costs.
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
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Don't give another dollar to Democrats until @schumer.senate.gov resigns as Minority Leader
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Don't give another dollar to Democrats until @schumer.senate.gov resigns as Minority Leader
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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The threat of cutting SNAP didn't scare Senate Dems much. The threat of shutting down air travel worried them a bit. The threat of granting them sweeping election victories terrified them into submission overnight. Anything but that!
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The threat of cutting SNAP didn't scare Senate Dems much. The threat of shutting down air travel worried them a bit. The threat of granting them sweeping election victories terrified them into submission overnight. Anything but that!
Hopefully we all banked enough hope and joy from our 5 day allotment to make it through another few years of betrayal.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Hopefully we all banked enough hope and joy from our 5 day allotment to make it through another few years of betrayal.
Once again, America's message to Donald Trump is loud and clear: the way to get whatever you want at no cost is to be cruel and break the law.
Masta, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, Rosen, Shaheen, and King must be forced out of the Senate.
Masta, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, Rosen, Shaheen, and King must be forced out of the Senate.
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Once again, America's message to Donald Trump is loud and clear: the way to get whatever you want at no cost is to be cruel and break the law.
Masta, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, Rosen, Shaheen, and King must be forced out of the Senate.
Masta, Durbin, Fetterman, Hassan, Kaine, Rosen, Shaheen, and King must be forced out of the Senate.
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Fight don’t fold.
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Fight don’t fold.
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You can’t afford a coal mine.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
You can’t afford a gas turbine.
You can’t afford an oil rig.
Only fossil fuel states and billionaires can.
But you can afford a solar power station on your roof.
Now, ask yourself why you encounter so much anti-renewable energy propaganda.
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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I think there's one conservative faction that would plug their ears and scream La La La if you tried to show them any of this, and another faction that will cheer anything that clearly rejects what's been done in the past.
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I think there's one conservative faction that would plug their ears and scream La La La if you tried to show them any of this, and another faction that will cheer anything that clearly rejects what's been done in the past.
This is great.
Non-zero commutators do lead to the uncertainty principle, and some modelers don't like uncertainty, but IMO uncertain models of the world are preferable to certainly wrong models.
Non-zero commutators do lead to the uncertainty principle, and some modelers don't like uncertainty, but IMO uncertain models of the world are preferable to certainly wrong models.
Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is great.
Non-zero commutators do lead to the uncertainty principle, and some modelers don't like uncertainty, but IMO uncertain models of the world are preferable to certainly wrong models.
Non-zero commutators do lead to the uncertainty principle, and some modelers don't like uncertainty, but IMO uncertain models of the world are preferable to certainly wrong models.
In a developed economy** the profit motive becomes a bad incentive.
** that is, once the people who start businesses and their most lucrative potential customers already have their needs met
** that is, once the people who start businesses and their most lucrative potential customers already have their needs met
November 7, 2025 at 11:34 PM
In a developed economy** the profit motive becomes a bad incentive.
** that is, once the people who start businesses and their most lucrative potential customers already have their needs met
** that is, once the people who start businesses and their most lucrative potential customers already have their needs met
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Today on Volts: Octopus Energy came out of nowhere to become the biggest retail energy provider in the UK by focusing on smart home-energy management & good customer service. Now it's coming to the US (& figuring out how to work with vertically integrated utilities). I talk with the CEO.
Octopus extends its tentacles into America
Nick Chaset of Octopus Energy US joins me to discuss how the UK's biggest electricity supplier plans to conquer the American market.
www.volts.wtf
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Today on Volts: Octopus Energy came out of nowhere to become the biggest retail energy provider in the UK by focusing on smart home-energy management & good customer service. Now it's coming to the US (& figuring out how to work with vertically integrated utilities). I talk with the CEO.
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The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.
Liquor should always be neat, but it turns out it's OK if sandwiches are sometimes on ice.
November 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Liquor should always be neat, but it turns out it's OK if sandwiches are sometimes on ice.
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"Objects in your rearview mirror are closer than they appear."
November 6, 2025 at 3:50 PM
"Objects in your rearview mirror are closer than they appear."
The pompadour is going to go the way of the toothbrush moustache
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The pompadour is going to go the way of the toothbrush moustache
This edit tells the real story.
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This edit tells the real story.
Musk demonstrates why so many of the very rich don't have imposter syndrome. They have no doubt. They *know* they are imposters. Their life mission, embraced with unshakable faith, is to be convincing imposters until their opportunity to betray arrives.
Did Mamdani sell full-self-driving cars that he couldn't build and had no viable plan to develop for 10 years, and we just didn't hear about it?
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November 6, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Musk demonstrates why so many of the very rich don't have imposter syndrome. They have no doubt. They *know* they are imposters. Their life mission, embraced with unshakable faith, is to be convincing imposters until their opportunity to betray arrives.