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A forgivable fatalism prevails around a celebrity’s passing but the great Appala

A forgivable fatalism prevails around a celebrity’s passing but the great Appalachian music tradition of which Dolly Parton was an emissary is not even close to gone — it lives, it thrives, there are young musicians playing music and writing songs today as vital and indelibly their own as hers

[after i tell 2006 me about the 2026 internet] Yes, yes, chatbots, very interest

[after i tell 2006 me about the 2026 internet] Yes, yes, chatbots, very interesting — but tell me, are people designing with open web standards? Are they using semantic XHTML?

I have a feeling, and it might be very wrong, that the return of real budget con

I have a feeling, and it might be very wrong, that the return of real budget constraints is going to serve progressives (and perhaps especially liberals) better than conservatives.

I live on a letter line and it’s completely fine but whenever I’m on the A Divis

I live on a letter line and it’s completely fine but whenever I’m on the A Division it’s like a conveyance from a lost civilization

am relieved and delighted you agree!

am relieved and delighted you agree!

hear, hear

hear, hear

The NYC Subway has two sections — the letter trains, which are a normal transit

The NYC Subway has two sections — the letter trains, which are a normal transit system, and the number trains, which are magic

East Coast vacation norms + Labor Day falling as late as it possibly can has led

East Coast vacation norms + Labor Day falling as late as it possibly can has led to total havoc for scheduling fantasy football drafts.

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i am not well Marginle #20685 - 10/15 🇺🇸 🔵🟡🟢 🏛️ 🟡🔵🔵🟢 👨‍⚖️ 🟢 marginle.com

narrative violation: some left-wing voices have spent the past few days yelling

narrative violation: some left-wing voices have spent the past few days yelling at david crowley to endorse a data center moratorium in response to GOP attacks. but his data center policies are *already* generally far more restrictive than abdul el-sayed’s heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

This was so great!

This was so great!

Possibly the best thing ever written about speed camera libertarianism, why woke

Possibly the best thing ever written about speed camera libertarianism, why woke 1 was crazy, AI watermarking, and much else: www.ftrain.com/wwic

is this GWR territory?

is this GWR territory?

They should have Strava for really long drives

They should have Strava for really long drives

NEW SHIFT KEY: I spoke to the great @zekehausfather.com about why the current El

NEW SHIFT KEY: I spoke to the great @zekehausfather.com about why the current El Niño is breaking records (and poised to break more), what that will mean for global weather patterns, and whether we can now definitively say global warming is accelerating heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

AOC didn’t endorse Hong because she and she alone must remain the only candidate

AOC didn’t endorse Hong because she and she alone must remain the only candidate who can defeat a Crowley. She knows full well what the prophecy says … and that the final battle with Aleister looms …

the other implication — also quite widely disputed — is that there is not a secr

the other implication — also quite widely disputed — is that there is not a secret majority of socialists waiting to be activated if only a Very Ideological Candidate Has the Courage. there are voters, with beliefs, who talented candidates can persuade

that‘s actually an important conclusion though and the implication — that candid

that‘s actually an important conclusion though and the implication — that candidate quality matters and persuasion is real — is quite widely disputed by Online Politics Arguers

One interesting about AES is that his data center development proposal is far cl

One interesting about AES is that his data center development proposal is far closer to Rob Sand’s than it is to, say, Francesca Hong’s: heatmap.news/daily/how-di...

It’s funny to recall now, but a running theme of economic commentary in the mid

It’s funny to recall now, but a running theme of economic commentary in the mid to late aughts — even before the Great Recession — was that American airports were vastly inferior to their Asian and European kin.

[sotto voce] I don’t even think air travel has gotten monotonically worse in my

[sotto voce] I don’t even think air travel has gotten monotonically worse in my lifetime

Sister Act

Sister Act

almost all on a platform! and i’m counting turnstile to turnstile delays here to

almost all on a platform! and i’m counting turnstile to turnstile delays here to be clear (so including headways)

Would love to see the cross-country results for polling this question (in equiva

Would love to see the cross-country results for polling this question (in equivalent local currency), I think it’d be fascinating almost regardless of the results

No it was really that bad

No it was really that bad

This is a New York-specific post but the ACE trains seem like they regularly mel

This is a New York-specific post but the ACE trains seem like they regularly melt down in the middle of the day. Now regularly takes me 30+ min or longer to get from 34th to 42nd in the late mornings/early afternoons. (It has taken 40 minutes so far today.)

though some schools are still fighting the settlement i think so it depends wher

though some schools are still fighting the settlement i think so it depends where you went

Oh! Then it should either be in the mail or you should contact them through the

Oh! Then it should either be in the mail or you should contact them through the website!

I think you had to file a claim in 2024 :( but worth still checking around!

I think you had to file a claim in 2024 :( but worth still checking around!

Surprising lack of chatter on Bluesky about the recent dividing line among Mille

Surprising lack of chatter on Bluesky about the recent dividing line among Millennials of Ivy Plus experience: who in the group chats got paid by the class action lawsuit and who didn’t

What everyone thinks 2028 will be: The online left and center-left fight to the

What everyone thinks 2028 will be: The online left and center-left fight to the death in a long overdue factional mega-Dem battle royale What it will actually be: cross-ideological politics nerds throw themselves in front of the otherwise unstoppable electoral freight train that is Kamala Harris

I recently read a bunch of fitbit AI reviews and people said it has a weird tend

I recently read a bunch of fitbit AI reviews and people said it has a weird tendency to fixate on user input — this review mentions he showed it a photo of wine and queso once as a joke and then it started bringing up wine and queso repeatedly, every single night www.dcrainmaker.com/2026/05/fitb...

pretty wrong. if you’re in a major american city then the odds are not *terrible

pretty wrong. if you’re in a major american city then the odds are not *terrible* you’re within five miles of a cloud-serving data center right now. and famously there are a lot of cloud data centers with backup diesel generation in silicon valley itself

I went to NU and I have somehow already learned and forgotten this news three ti

I went to NU and I have somehow already learned and forgotten this news three times

The new tariffs on Canada hit cement, plywood, and some electronic equipment — a

The new tariffs on Canada hit cement, plywood, and some electronic equipment — a surprising move when data center input costs are already risking higher U.S. inflation. heatmap.news/daily/trump-...

Did not know Ed Miliband’s dad was a Marxist sociologist. Future historians will

Did not know Ed Miliband’s dad was a Marxist sociologist. Future historians will note the striking number of Anglophone politicians from this era with Marxian academic fathers — Buttigieg, Mamdani, Kamala Harris — and call it “bizarre,” “a strange coincidence,” and “a truly incoherent cohort”

Degrowth Donald more literal than ever

Degrowth Donald more literal than ever

The new 50% Canadian tariff appears to cover whey protein concentrates. Mr. Trum

The new 50% Canadian tariff appears to cover whey protein concentrates. Mr. Trump why do you hate hypertrophy

The New York Giants and New York Jets already play there. It’ll be more accurate

The New York Giants and New York Jets already play there. It’ll be more accurate this way!

New York Giants and New York Jets already play there. Now it will be more accura

New York Giants and New York Jets already play there. Now it will be more accurate!

FIFA, with its peculiar genius, solved an enormous problem for the NYC metro are

FIFA, with its peculiar genius, solved an enormous problem for the NYC metro area with this World Cup and our leaders should now move to make it permanent. It is time to formally change East Rutherford’s name to “New York”

on our new form of airborne toxic event: heatmap.news/daily/worryi...

on our new form of airborne toxic event: heatmap.news/daily/worryi...

We must consult the lobsters as well.

We must consult the lobsters as well.

A scrumdiddlyumptious idea!

A scrumdiddlyumptious idea!

But what, I wondered, did other oyster farmers think of Platner? My reporting od

But what, I wondered, did other oyster farmers think of Platner? My reporting odyssey to find out took me across the state and into many of their homes, farms, restaurants, bars, eateries, pubs, roadside shacks, dives, clambakes, brunch spots, shuck stations, taverns, food truck festivals, inns,

Here we go.

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