Stryder is waiting to catch Santa.

I remember when people were questioning why Trump let Wolff have such unchecked access to the Whitehouse when Wolff's book came out. Perhaps we have the answer.

A vote on the ACA that, even if passed, Trump will veto. Even if not, it is past the open enrollment period, and people will have already decided to forego coverage for 2026.

Especially sad because Williams's work is amazing. She can do inhuman things with a guitar. And it is almost 100% instrumental.

This is the beginning of a bad sci fi movie where he is successful, and then we find out there was a virus that limited the growth and reproduction of locusts. So the earth is overtaken but swarms of 4 foot long locusts.

This has bothered me with the way Musk disassembled much of our research capacity. PayPal, Tesla, Starlink, and SpaceX were all built on significant government research. He wants to reach Mars? How can we do that without a ton of medical and agricultural research? It's not just rockets.

@budgetlab.bsky.social has some good pieces, digestible on just this.

As a supply chain nerd, I would watch this over and over again, and I would critique the representation of supply chains in excruciating detail. I would also complain that the series was only 12 parts.