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Adam Rogers
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Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.

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Decisions about building new homes for people do often get heated, yeah. Turns out they're a terrible way to figure that kind of thing out. And you're right that we should probably both not assume anything about one another's level of knowledge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Abstract: Is public policy responsive to demographically and ideologically unrepresentative comments given at public meetings? I investigate this possibility using a novel data set of over 40,000 comments made at the San Francisco Planning Commission between 1998 and 2021, matched to information about proposed developments discussed in hearings and administrative data on commenters. I document four stylized facts: First, commenters at public meetings are unrepresentative of the public along racial, gender, age, and homeownership lines; second, distance to the proposed development predicts commenting behavior, but only among those in opposition; third, commission votes are correlated with commenters’ preferences; finally, the alignment of White commenters (vs. other racial groups) and neighborhood group representatives and the general public (vs. other interest groups) better predict project approvals. From: Alexander Sahn. “Public Comment and Public Policy.” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 69, no. 2, Apr. 2025, pp. 685–700, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12900.
November 14, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Aurora looks different from my place
Two women sit on the hood of a 1980s police car amid skyscrapers and unearthly red skies
November 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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On a blue background, orange text with red highlights reading "Spiders" and below it in orange the words "for America"
November 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Wait wait wait wars and pandemics are *good* for Musk? That is some perverse inventivizing right there.
From the article: There are also a list of "covered events" in the award terms that would allow Musk to earn shares without meeting the required operational milestones. Covered events include natural disasters, wars, pandemics, and changes to "international, federal, state and local law, regulations or other governmental action or inaction," that could hamper the company's ability to design, manufacture or sell its products down the line.
November 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Textbook example of post-mamdanernism

www.city-journal.org/article/nick...
I saw the signs and it opened up my eyes! From the right wing Christopher Rufo in the right-leaning City Journal: "Both sides fail to understand the Nick Fuentes phenomenon. They take his statements seriously and engage with them in good faith. But Fuentes’s stated beliefs, while abhorrent, are not best parried by taking them at face value. Instead, the Right should consider him an actor in what postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard called 'hyperreality': a system in which the simulation of reality comes to replace reality itself. Under conditions of hyperreality, symbols of past phenomena lose their original meaning. Emptied out, they then circulate through digital media, where they drive the discourse and, while purely derivative, still spark real emotional involvement. In this way, the hyperreal becomes 'more real than real,' masking the true nature of reality."
November 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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OK I admit this wasn't actually *my* idea
A modern, 16-story apartment building with blue and white glass walls and a projecting corner with balconies. This was the so-called "Monster in the Mission" planned for the 16th St. BART station plaza before neighborhood opposition killed the project.
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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What can I say, I love a cutaway.
an extensive map of a comic book underground fortress, Superman's Fortress of Solitude, from the silver/Bronze Age--dinosaurs, a wrecked cruise ship, statues of Jor El and Lara, the disintegration pit...etc.
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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OK, I wasted a little time. This bathroom overlooks the ex-East Wing, so this must be a quite old picture. Because that's it out there, intact but with a big hole in it and some construction guys....
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I hate that seeing something like this (at past midnight DC time) makes me all kinds of suspicious.
The website of the US Census Bureau QuickFacts page, blank except for the message "QuickFacts is currently undergoing a maintenance cycle. Please check back later."
October 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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(Not a coincidence that I spent today training on this thing. First time I’ve touched one since I worked in my middle school print shop.)
A white machine with an ochre control panel of heavy levers and knobs and light-up safety buttons. It’s an offset printing press.
October 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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A green spaceship with swept forward wings and a bulbous shape. Thunderbird 2.
October 4, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Is this a virgin? It does not have sex in its brief time on screen. Superman, the character, canonically has had sex, inside fiction. Nicolas Cage, the human on which this image is based, has biological children—canonically has had sex. But this isn't Superman or Cage. It is *a* Superman. So...?
A CG man with long hair, glowing red eyes, wearing a shiny blue bodysuit with a red S on a yellow triangle as a chest insignia. Behind him are the legs of a giant spider.
October 2, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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I mean
A man in full body green hospital scrubs with an old style reflector on his forehead and weird goggles, with a scalpel, points at a map of North America with red blotches and says: “DISEASE IS NOT CONFINED TO THE BODY. IT IS IN THE MIND. IT IS IN THE SOUL. AND IT IS KILLING THIS COUNTRY. AMERICA IS KILLING ITSELF. WITH BAD HABITS. BAD ATTITUDES -- -- AND BAD MUSIC.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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OK, just help me understand here
At a speech, Vice President JD Vance says “if you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that everybody who disagrees with is a Nazi” Disgraced podcaster Alex Jones sports a Hitler mustache and says it makes women think he’s sexually attractive.
September 26, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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Tekkonkinkalifornia
a chaotic cityscape dominated by signs in Japanese and a massive red Shinto temple tower
September 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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I just looked out my window and this is San Francisco now. The senate hasn't even voted yet!
an anime image of an utterly mad cityscape, like Manhattan-scale buildings in the foreground and then 2,000 story buildings lit in green and yellow in the background
September 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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A blond woman in a tan shirt with white sleeves speaks into an electronic device about the size of a performance microphone, with a numeric keypad on one side and a small screen at the top.
September 11, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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What’s a brother gotta do to get this on a t-shirt?
A logo on a 1980s terminal, “minitel 1,” with a phone and keypad. And a key on a keyboard that says “connexion fin”
September 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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“These are map coordinates”
A balding white man with round glasses and a thick beard reads numbers from a 1970s computer scroll
September 8, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Cowards
September 6, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Eight months ago.
screenshot of an article from The Atlantic, 12/31/2024, called "The Case for Finding Common Ground with RFK," by Jerusalem Demsas
August 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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OK I’m not saying, I’m just saying
A massive shark nosed brown tank-like vehicle on track-treads driving through a desert
August 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Oh, it's the number one TV & Film podcast on Apple, you say?
The "top charts" from Apple's podcast app for TV & Film with four square icons including, at the far left, "Alien: Earth" showing the planet Earth with a green glowing crack across the continent of Africa
August 20, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Lemme just bonus all that with a tall set of stairs in downtown Brussels, just a little urban infrastructure for getting around, with a little ramp rivulet thing to make it easier for people to walk their bikes. Because that’s also good.
A looooong set of wise granite stairs connecting one street to another with a place to roll a bike alongside them
August 17, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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But the trade is, the downtown has to look like this.
Narrow streets with four story cute 17th century buildings of brick and stone, a looming cathedral behind them, and a plaza packed with people eating in outdoor restaurants
August 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM