Hard to tell if we're throwing more of a Rise of the Third Reich or a Collapse of Roman Empire these days.

I have spent my whole life watching the GOP sabotage institutions and blame others for the effects to great success. Most people now distrust institutions, and trust the GOP.

Of course, the real bummer is that we don't have a political party who is interested in building institutions.

Can't wait for the absolute sick burns Democrats are gonna get in this week (after start of business Monday, of course). GOP is gonna have soooooooo much egg on their face when they learn about the Smoot-Howley Tariffs!!

$200 million

Never forget the great crash of 1/27/25 🤜🤛

Don't worry, I'm already deep into creating new problems for myself.

Aster Pines, my obsession of the past half decade.

Entry Hall / Living.

This is a great dive into the ouroboros that is Mr. Beast ))<>(( YouTube.

I always found it wild that product designers largely ignore the self-reinforcing forces within product design.

kevinmunger.substack.com/p/in-the-bel...

Amidst context-collapsed fretting of many who believe it's rational to abandon fire-prone areas for "safer" areas, I keep thinking about this project from ProPublica. It's not single disasters that present highest climate risk, it's compounding calamities.

projects.propublica.org/climate-migr...

Did I do anything on my task list today? No. But I did successfully summon a government agency to clean up a giant pile of asphalt in less than 12 hours. I'll take it as a win.

After enough time after the death of Twitter, it feels like we've all separated into the three genders of social media: Fury, Pussy Hats, Nazis, and Off By One Errors.

Rewatching Mad Men reminds me how few people really get California and how hard it hits when they do.

The Caldor benches have finally come home.

Nevermind the odd phone-induced aspect ratio of that second one, but maybe take a minute to try and follow that grain.