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Starting “The Revolutionary War” now and boy, this thing is choppy
By not starting micro and going macro like the makers usually do makes it hard to focus on the story
Happy with the talking heads thus far, at least
By not starting micro and going macro like the makers usually do makes it hard to focus on the story
Happy with the talking heads thus far, at least
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Starting “The Revolutionary War” now and boy, this thing is choppy
By not starting micro and going macro like the makers usually do makes it hard to focus on the story
Happy with the talking heads thus far, at least
By not starting micro and going macro like the makers usually do makes it hard to focus on the story
Happy with the talking heads thus far, at least
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these are the new crab pots which are specifically designed to prevent this exact situation. we need to mandate these in oregon YESTERDAY
www.nationalfisherman.com/california-f...
www.nationalfisherman.com/california-f...
California fishery trials ‘whale-safe’ crab gear with big results
www.nationalfisherman.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
these are the new crab pots which are specifically designed to prevent this exact situation. we need to mandate these in oregon YESTERDAY
www.nationalfisherman.com/california-f...
www.nationalfisherman.com/california-f...
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“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 Reasons Why Everyone Should Want More Walkable Streets
From making you live longer to making cities more resilient: If you want a reason to make your city more walkable, it's in here.
www.fastcompany.com
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
50 reasons to want more walkable cities.
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This was genuinely the best Weekend Update in a very long time. Expectedly dark.
youtu.be/SesRWE02PIU
youtu.be/SesRWE02PIU
Weekend Update: Government Shutdown Ends, Epstein Email Says Trump "Knew About the Girls" - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This was genuinely the best Weekend Update in a very long time. Expectedly dark.
youtu.be/SesRWE02PIU
youtu.be/SesRWE02PIU
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A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase the known length of the Empire’s road system by over 100,000 kilometres. 🏺 🧪
Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data
The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.
go.nature.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase the known length of the Empire’s road system by over 100,000 kilometres. 🏺 🧪
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Within months of discovering a forgotten memorial to women veterans, a local group is looking for artists to create a new memorial that won't be so easily overlooked. www.wvxu.org/local-news/2...
Artists wanted to design a new memorial to women veterans in Eden Park
The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in Ohio wants to replace a forgotten plaque in Cincinnati's Eden Park with a substantial memorial honoring women who have served the country.
www.wvxu.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Within months of discovering a forgotten memorial to women veterans, a local group is looking for artists to create a new memorial that won't be so easily overlooked. www.wvxu.org/local-news/2...
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After the revelations in these 23k+ Epstein emails, I’m convinced these billionaires didn’t manipulate the last election to keep Trump out of prison, they did it to keep ALL of them out of prison. May ANYONE involved with Epstein rot in hell and prison, you soulless pieces of shit.
November 13, 2025 at 11:54 PM
After the revelations in these 23k+ Epstein emails, I’m convinced these billionaires didn’t manipulate the last election to keep Trump out of prison, they did it to keep ALL of them out of prison. May ANYONE involved with Epstein rot in hell and prison, you soulless pieces of shit.
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This is Archie. He's deaf and doesn't hear when his humans get home. Luckily, his little brother Frankie lets him know with a gentle nudge to make sure he doesn't miss the moment. 14/10 for both (TT: melissamilne)
November 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is Archie. He's deaf and doesn't hear when his humans get home. Luckily, his little brother Frankie lets him know with a gentle nudge to make sure he doesn't miss the moment. 14/10 for both (TT: melissamilne)
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After a week of reviewing the site-wide data and many entries in detail, I think Grokipedia has made significant editorial decisions around sourcing and topic treatment that lend credence to @matteowong.bsky.social's argument in The Atlantic that it is “the next step in Musk’s propaganda machine.”
Grokipedia cites a Nazi forum and fringe conspiracy websites
A site-wide comparison with Wikipedia sheds light on what Elon Musk is trying to do
indicator.media
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 PM
After a week of reviewing the site-wide data and many entries in detail, I think Grokipedia has made significant editorial decisions around sourcing and topic treatment that lend credence to @matteowong.bsky.social's argument in The Atlantic that it is “the next step in Musk’s propaganda machine.”
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Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
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SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants
Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.
www.404media.co
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.
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On Friday, I'm finally doing it: I'm recording a pod on balcony solar! This is probably the No. 1 request I get from listeners.
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
White Paper | Bright Saver
Register for upcoming Bright Saver webinars here.
www.brightsaver.org
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 PM
On Friday, I'm finally doing it: I'm recording a pod on balcony solar! This is probably the No. 1 request I get from listeners.
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
I'm talking to Cora Stryker of Bright Saver, author of the whitepaper below.
What should I ask her?
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Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Anyway, it's fine. I don't actually believe there is a both sides to snatching tamale ladies off the streets, that's just my one weird thing.
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The police went to the ends of the earth to avoid this outcome. Their attorneys argued
- that the images are owned by Flock (they're not)
- that it's third party data
- that the records don't exist bc they're in the cloud
- that they're private
- that they're police investigative material
- that the images are owned by Flock (they're not)
- that it's third party data
- that the records don't exist bc they're in the cloud
- that they're private
- that they're police investigative material
November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The police went to the ends of the earth to avoid this outcome. Their attorneys argued
- that the images are owned by Flock (they're not)
- that it's third party data
- that the records don't exist bc they're in the cloud
- that they're private
- that they're police investigative material
- that the images are owned by Flock (they're not)
- that it's third party data
- that the records don't exist bc they're in the cloud
- that they're private
- that they're police investigative material
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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OK I don't mean to be hyperbolic but this might affect conservatively 65% of my diet
Italian pasta exports to the U.S. could be 'virtually wiped out' by proposed 107% tariffs
The U.S. has hit 13 Italian pasta exporters with an anti-dumping tariff of 92%, which would be added to the Trump administration's 15% blanket E.U. levies.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
OK I don't mean to be hyperbolic but this might affect conservatively 65% of my diet
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www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
I think old Pete Hegseth was bested by a military female and that's why he tries to belittle their service.
He's a weak little man who looks good on TV but who has no leadership ability and not an ounce of courage to be the man he ought to be.
I think old Pete Hegseth was bested by a military female and that's why he tries to belittle their service.
He's a weak little man who looks good on TV but who has no leadership ability and not an ounce of courage to be the man he ought to be.
SEALs flatten 'weak' Hegseth as elite captain's career ruined because she's female: report
The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — and military sources blame Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's hostility to...
www.rawstory.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:16 PM
www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
I think old Pete Hegseth was bested by a military female and that's why he tries to belittle their service.
He's a weak little man who looks good on TV but who has no leadership ability and not an ounce of courage to be the man he ought to be.
I think old Pete Hegseth was bested by a military female and that's why he tries to belittle their service.
He's a weak little man who looks good on TV but who has no leadership ability and not an ounce of courage to be the man he ought to be.
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"The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism."
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"The storied choice between socialism and barbarism was made exquisitely clear a good many years ago in the United States, and both major parties chose barbarism."
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Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Solar’s price drop is astonishing: panels are now 98% cheaper than when I first analyzed them in 2004.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
Today, building a fence with solar can be cheaper than using wood.
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Please share your favorite New Yorker longreads. Specifically The New Yorker, not other outlets. I need more bedtime reading and the New Yorker app has (1) dark mode and (2) no ads.
November 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Please share your favorite New Yorker longreads. Specifically The New Yorker, not other outlets. I need more bedtime reading and the New Yorker app has (1) dark mode and (2) no ads.
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Rewatching #Westworld in 2025 is fun because now I understand that the hosts are walking LLMs and the corporate folks are some variation of the accelerationist assholes burning trillions of dollars right now. Can’t wait for Altman to explain that the path to AGI isn’t a pyramid but a maze.
#TVSky
#TVSky
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Rewatching #Westworld in 2025 is fun because now I understand that the hosts are walking LLMs and the corporate folks are some variation of the accelerationist assholes burning trillions of dollars right now. Can’t wait for Altman to explain that the path to AGI isn’t a pyramid but a maze.
#TVSky
#TVSky
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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I moved to SF in April. Not for work, but because I love this city and I could. I often joke that maybe I fell in love with a version of SF that hasn't existed in 30 years. But then I read folks like @monteiro.bsky.social and I'm comforted to know that, nope, sincere, loving weirdos still live here.
How to point at fascists and laugh
The last slide from my new talk. It plays a role below. Contribute to my eventual bail fund at $2 a pop. This week’s question comes from me, actually: How...
buttondown.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I moved to SF in April. Not for work, but because I love this city and I could. I often joke that maybe I fell in love with a version of SF that hasn't existed in 30 years. But then I read folks like @monteiro.bsky.social and I'm comforted to know that, nope, sincere, loving weirdos still live here.