Brent Neal
@brentn.bsky.social
Scientist. Obsessed with infrastructure and the constructed world. Food and culture.
Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and every other good, public and private.
Virtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and every other good, public and private.
Everybody needs at least one long distance bestie who will respond to a text saying “Hey, bitch, I’m in your town this week. Want to get drunk and talk shit?” with a “Fuck yes. When?”
You know who you are. ❤️💕❤️
You know who you are. ❤️💕❤️
October 6, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Everybody needs at least one long distance bestie who will respond to a text saying “Hey, bitch, I’m in your town this week. Want to get drunk and talk shit?” with a “Fuck yes. When?”
You know who you are. ❤️💕❤️
You know who you are. ❤️💕❤️
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And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.
September 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM
And remember, the reason he wanted separate vaccines wasn't due to any science, but because *he'd filed a patent application for a single measles vaccine*. It was just grifting.
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Genuinely shocking levels of institutional rot going on in the US. The push to 'both sides' every question has left fucking National Public Radio to say "hey maybe tylenol really does cause autism, many people are asking questions"
September 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Genuinely shocking levels of institutional rot going on in the US. The push to 'both sides' every question has left fucking National Public Radio to say "hey maybe tylenol really does cause autism, many people are asking questions"
I’m really loving it for the Chumbawamba folks who’re seeing a mysterious resurgence in popularity for one of their old songs.
Just goes to show that art is universal.
Just goes to show that art is universal.
September 23, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I’m really loving it for the Chumbawamba folks who’re seeing a mysterious resurgence in popularity for one of their old songs.
Just goes to show that art is universal.
Just goes to show that art is universal.
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South Koreans are reporting ICE put them chains & treated them like animals for 7 days.
They had valid visas.
They were here legally.
They did everything right.
Trump still treated them like trash.
It was NEVER about "legal" immigration. It was always about banning non-white immigration.
They had valid visas.
They were here legally.
They did everything right.
Trump still treated them like trash.
It was NEVER about "legal" immigration. It was always about banning non-white immigration.
September 15, 2025 at 4:29 AM
South Koreans are reporting ICE put them chains & treated them like animals for 7 days.
They had valid visas.
They were here legally.
They did everything right.
Trump still treated them like trash.
It was NEVER about "legal" immigration. It was always about banning non-white immigration.
They had valid visas.
They were here legally.
They did everything right.
Trump still treated them like trash.
It was NEVER about "legal" immigration. It was always about banning non-white immigration.
Folk Fest Day 2 - Sonny Miles!
September 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Folk Fest Day 2 - Sonny Miles!
EthnoUSA At the NC Folk Fest
September 12, 2025 at 9:51 PM
EthnoUSA At the NC Folk Fest
BLT on an onion roll. chipotle bacon, homemade umami mayo, iceberg lettuce (ofc), Campari tomatoes, basil, and smoked pecan salt from Hatteras Saltworks.
#lunch #justcook #readyin30
@hatterassaltworks.bsky.social
#lunch #justcook #readyin30
@hatterassaltworks.bsky.social
September 5, 2025 at 3:58 PM
BLT on an onion roll. chipotle bacon, homemade umami mayo, iceberg lettuce (ofc), Campari tomatoes, basil, and smoked pecan salt from Hatteras Saltworks.
#lunch #justcook #readyin30
@hatterassaltworks.bsky.social
#lunch #justcook #readyin30
@hatterassaltworks.bsky.social
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If the US wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating, Dan Wang tells @zeyiyang.bsky.social in our latest Made in China newsletter.
"Engineers are much more focused on doing very rational things, like figuring out how to build a great subway system."
"Engineers are much more focused on doing very rational things, like figuring out how to build a great subway system."
Why China Builds Faster Than the Rest of the World
In a his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that if the US really wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating.
www.wired.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
If the US wants to compete with China, it needs to focus more on engineering and less on litigating, Dan Wang tells @zeyiyang.bsky.social in our latest Made in China newsletter.
"Engineers are much more focused on doing very rational things, like figuring out how to build a great subway system."
"Engineers are much more focused on doing very rational things, like figuring out how to build a great subway system."
Squash, lentils, and rice. Mistakes were made, but it still came together. 😬 and it’s still super tasty.
#justcook #readyin30 #onlyifyoureprepped #andnotstupidlikeme
#justcook #readyin30 #onlyifyoureprepped #andnotstupidlikeme
August 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Squash, lentils, and rice. Mistakes were made, but it still came together. 😬 and it’s still super tasty.
#justcook #readyin30 #onlyifyoureprepped #andnotstupidlikeme
#justcook #readyin30 #onlyifyoureprepped #andnotstupidlikeme
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In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
August 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
In 25 years, every business school in the country will be doing case studies about how a long defunct company known as “Google” once had an unbeatable lock on online information retrieval and then started doing shit like this.
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I think it's more accurate to say AI is providing financial value, and solving a problem created by Trump's 2017 changes to the tax code.
A Problem ‘AI’ Does Solve: Section 174 of the U.S. Tax Code
And Trump is the reason the problem exists. But I’m getting ahead of myself. Every day, there’s a new story about how AI is letting bosses lay off workers. Some of this might actually b…
mikethemadbiologist.com
August 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I think it's more accurate to say AI is providing financial value, and solving a problem created by Trump's 2017 changes to the tax code.
Trofim Lysenko was a second rate Soviet biologist who destroyed the study of biology in the USSR for decades. He declared Mendelian and Darwinian concepts as tools of the bourgeois and had scientists jailed or killed for disagreeing with his pseudoscience.
This is not a post about Soviet history.
This is not a post about Soviet history.
August 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Trofim Lysenko was a second rate Soviet biologist who destroyed the study of biology in the USSR for decades. He declared Mendelian and Darwinian concepts as tools of the bourgeois and had scientists jailed or killed for disagreeing with his pseudoscience.
This is not a post about Soviet history.
This is not a post about Soviet history.
Some of this market could have belonged to US manufacturers. Too bad our myopic view of shareholders capitalism prevented that.
Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.
Africa Is Buying a Record Number of Chinese Solar Panels
Energy-starved countries on the continent have reluctantly turned to coal and gas for decades. Cheap Chinese solar panels are now finally changing the calculus.
wrd.cm
August 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Some of this market could have belonged to US manufacturers. Too bad our myopic view of shareholders capitalism prevented that.
Are many of you getting social media posts from doctors and medical providers that start with "Today, an insurance company infringed on my practice of medicine?"
These are golden. It's so important to keep doing this kind of education/public outreach. Kudos to whoever started this.
These are golden. It's so important to keep doing this kind of education/public outreach. Kudos to whoever started this.
August 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Are many of you getting social media posts from doctors and medical providers that start with "Today, an insurance company infringed on my practice of medicine?"
These are golden. It's so important to keep doing this kind of education/public outreach. Kudos to whoever started this.
These are golden. It's so important to keep doing this kind of education/public outreach. Kudos to whoever started this.
Social butterfly cocktails with some fried plantains.
August 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Social butterfly cocktails with some fried plantains.
Me in the grocery store: It is WAY too early to be stocking märzens.
Also me: *puts it in the cart*
Also me: *puts it in the cart*
August 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Me in the grocery store: It is WAY too early to be stocking märzens.
Also me: *puts it in the cart*
Also me: *puts it in the cart*
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Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...
Stop Pretending Chatbots Have Feelings: Media's Dangerous AI Anthropomorphism Problem
When AI causes harm, headlines blame the bot instead of the billion-dollar companies that built them. This anthropomorphic coverage is tech journalism at its worst.
www.readtpa.com
July 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...
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It is pretty unequivocally true to say that the American punditocracy and intelligentsia vastly prefer the company and input of race scientists and Nazis to "woke" liberals. I don't think there's really any argument about that, it's extremely clear up and down the board.
Here’s Barro sharing a Nazi’s post with approval
July 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It is pretty unequivocally true to say that the American punditocracy and intelligentsia vastly prefer the company and input of race scientists and Nazis to "woke" liberals. I don't think there's really any argument about that, it's extremely clear up and down the board.
Wait, just hear me out on this: kitchen-grade rotary evaporators.
July 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Wait, just hear me out on this: kitchen-grade rotary evaporators.
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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Imagine being Hasret Icsen. You pay $1,015/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in a green, mixed-income building full of amenities. When you touch your home, you're touching climate progress.
This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
June 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Imagine being Hasret Icsen. You pay $1,015/month for a 3-bedroom apartment in a green, mixed-income building full of amenities. When you touch your home, you're touching climate progress.
This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
This is Vienna's green social housing. As @NPR explains, we could do it here
www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...
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Really proud to have worked with @waterslicer.bsky.social and the tremendous @wired.com staff on their courageous special project.
I worked with @cbo.bsky.social on a piece about the return of zines. (Huge thank you to @prisonculture.bsky.social for insight on this one.)
www.wired.com/story/zines-...
www.wired.com/story/zines-...
Social Media Replaced Zines. Now Zines Are Taking the Power Back
At a time of fleeting memes and cultural platforms operated by multibillion-dollar companies, an old mode of creativity and community-building gets a second life.
www.wired.com
June 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Really proud to have worked with @waterslicer.bsky.social and the tremendous @wired.com staff on their courageous special project.
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This was my last story as an NPR correspondent.
It looks at the documented history of Trump touting eugenics, allowing in only white South African refugees, deporting more and more categories of (non white) people, and the opening of an "office of remigration" ...
www.npr.org/2025/06/14/n...
It looks at the documented history of Trump touting eugenics, allowing in only white South African refugees, deporting more and more categories of (non white) people, and the opening of an "office of remigration" ...
www.npr.org/2025/06/14/n...
Who's welcome in the US?
President Trump's immigration executive orders issued since January are telegraphing a massive shift in who is welcome in America.
www.npr.org
June 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
This was my last story as an NPR correspondent.
It looks at the documented history of Trump touting eugenics, allowing in only white South African refugees, deporting more and more categories of (non white) people, and the opening of an "office of remigration" ...
www.npr.org/2025/06/14/n...
It looks at the documented history of Trump touting eugenics, allowing in only white South African refugees, deporting more and more categories of (non white) people, and the opening of an "office of remigration" ...
www.npr.org/2025/06/14/n...
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What happened in Minnesota is the kind of heinous violation of humanity that should have generated bipartisan outrage and condemnation; an act of violence that disgusted all decent human beings.
The problem is, the MAGA movement is inherently indecent.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-minnes...
The problem is, the MAGA movement is inherently indecent.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-minnes...
The Minnesota Shootings Reveal MAGA America's Moral Brokenness.
Minnesota state Rep.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
What happened in Minnesota is the kind of heinous violation of humanity that should have generated bipartisan outrage and condemnation; an act of violence that disgusted all decent human beings.
The problem is, the MAGA movement is inherently indecent.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-minnes...
The problem is, the MAGA movement is inherently indecent.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-minnes...