Bomee Jung

bbc.comCould these alternative homes be the future in a hotter Britain?The Passivhaus standard is growing in popularity as UK homeowners adapt to hotter summer temperatures.

22 Aug

Passivhaus. www.bbc.com/news/article...

24 July

Why am I getting _so_ many more scouting emails lately? Is it just that people are freelance scouting more, oe is there some VC dynamic where small early stage investors can't find pipeline, or what??

18 July

TIL that there's such a thing as prescription swim goggles. This is amazing!

finance.yahoo.comPolymarket Allegedly Paid Influencers to Stage Fake WinsPolymarket allegedly paid influencers to fake trades on clone sites, with 70% of 1,105 reviewed videos showing bets that never happened.

4 July

Flying the flag becuse striving for a more perfect union, liberty and justice for all is more important today than any other point in my life. Happy 4th, y'all.

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Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

4 July

Literally shut this entire industry down.

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

“Polymarket [Backed by Peter Thiel] Allegedly Paid Influencers to Stage Fake Wins … According to [WSJ], Polymarket & its contractors reportedly built near-identical clone sites — including a domain called poiymarket.com — where creators cld simulate trades without risking real money.” 6/23/26 … 1/

Cabo Verde!

I would subscribe if the Democrats offered a paid service to stop spam-texting me. Make it happen DNC.

25 June

It's amazing. Every day these guys just give America a big middle finger, with no apparent consequences.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Marco Rubio on why Trump's son in law, Michael Boulos, who has no government role, was in his official meetings in Kuwait: "He was just here because his brother lives here and I'm a good friend of Michael's, so we had a chance to catch up"

multifamilydive.comTrump abruptly refuses to sign major bipartisan housing billThe president pulled out shortly before he was scheduled to sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act on Wednesday.

25 June

This administration in a nutshell: www.multifamilydive.com/news/trump-a...

climate.usClimate.us launches independent website for trusted climate informationBuilt by members of the team behind NOAA’s Climate.gov, the new nonprofit resource is supported in part by more than 2,500 small donations from people who want reliable climate science information to ...

24 June

From the ashes of climate .gov: www.climate.us/news-feature...

23 June

Aaaaand because shit ain't nearly weird enough, cue a Rasputin in the wings.

Kate Starbird@katestarbird.bsky.social

Once upon a time, while studying disinfo about the civil war in Syria, I posted my thoughts on Gabbard as a down-the-rabbit-hole serial repeater of Russian-Iranian-Syrian propaganda. Then Jack Dorsey jumped into my DMs telling me I had it all wrong. Strange times. And yet still not as weird as this.

space.com'Let's not fool the public': Why moon art should be more realistic in the Artemis age"We see the misconception of a flat, gentle moon everywhere."

23 June

I don't really get why we need to do the moon, given, you know, _planet_, but I enjoyed this "But looking down-sun, you won't see diddly squat." www.space.com/astronomy/mo...

nytimes.comScores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional

19 June

I mean...sigh. Just, sigh.

Jeffrey Vagle@jvagle.me

Things are going great. Why do you ask? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

19 June

Well...the new Neo things are cheaper than a phone, so. Can I be outraged that a phone costs more than a laptop?

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18 June

theguardian.com‘I don’t want Europe to fail the way Turkey did’: Ece Temelkuran on fascism, death threats and life in exileTen years after she was forced to leave her friends and family, the Turkish journalist feels the importance of home more keenly than ever. And she believes it’s at the heart of many of the world’s con...

theguardian.comWe economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and othersOur roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

10 June

"Poverty is manufactured" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

6 May

Overheard at the gym: Real estate agent pitching a potential client about the greenness of a particular development. Took 20 years to get here, but pretty awesome!

theguardian.comNo more Kegels: I found a fix for post-birth incontinence – why don’t more women know about it?After years of worrying that running or sneezing would leave me needing fresh underwear, a quick procedure changed my life

30 Dec 2025

TIL it's not Kegels or nothing.

25 Dec 2025

My Xmas gift to myself this year is finally moving my personal accounts from Google to Proton. It's going to be awesome. Happy holidays!

The thing that stymied me in past attempts was the number of hidden Docs and Sheets files. Half an hour of vibe-coding an App Script solved that issue.

First year in a _really_ long time that ALL my holiday shopping was in-person and local. Next year, maybe I can even do it early enough to mail stuff to out-of-town family in time for Christmas arrival!

Assuming, of course, that we still have a postal service.

I think people who are writing code have a fundamentally different experience of AI. I definitely don't need the world to have the ability to make AI slop videos, music, etc., but being able to whip up bespoke, low-risk personal productivity software is like when VisiCalc came out, I imagine.

23 Dec 2025

Discord for remote teams is awesome. Weekend vibe coding the integrations we're used to having in Slack + a couple of choice 3rd party ones and we are in business! Actually so much better than Slack, I can't believe we didn't switch sooner!

21 Dec 2025

Sort of the whole point of having a (smal s) state, really.

Stan Oklobdzija@stano.bsky.social

Because American government is so inept, we live as slaves to precarity. It's not just corrosive politically, it holds back our economy as people become more risk averse. Paradoxically, I think, we'd be a lot wealthier overall if we insured against catastrophe collectively rather than individually.

data-workers.org/michael/

21 Dec 2025

data-workers.orgThe Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...

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This Many Years Ago

@thismanyyearsago.bsky.social

21 Dec 2025

112 years ago, on the 21st of December 1913, the first crossword puzzle is published in the New York World. Made by Arthur Wynne created the puzzle for the 'Fun' section as 'word-cross'. The change to 'Cross-Word' happened because of a typesetting error. #otd #history 🗃️

17 Dec 2025

"Branstetter puts it this way: 'To [Trump’s followers], Trump’s sexual violence represents the very patriarchal power they seek to enforce. His appeals to a history that never existed are both amoral justifications for his own actions and nostalgic yearnings

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17 Dec 2025

for a time when consent, of the governed or the raped, was irrelevant. His inability to feel shame is a promise they, too, can be freed of psychic guilt or societal consequence for grabbing what they feel entitled to by birth or accumulated power. What Trump is selling

17 Dec 2025

is an absence of virtues or protections—a life where every man is a king free to reign among the stars.'"

powerlines.orgPowerLines Launches Jobs Board Connecting Energy Professionals and Public Utilities Commissions - PowerLinesAs state regulators tackle increasingly complex energy challenges, PowerLines is building a talent pipeline of energy professionals. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, PowerLines is launching a Public Utilitie...

12 Dec 2025

Exactly.

Sam (formerly Barisan Hantu) 🇸🇬🍉@neuroliminality.bsky.social

"people don't remember what you said or did, they remember how you made them feel" Autistic people: "I'm so screwed"

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PowerLines

@powerlines.org

15 May 2025

Curious about careers in energy, regulation, or public service? Check out PowerLines’ public utilities commission (PUC) jobs board, updated dynamically with new postings. PowerLines.org/powerlines-launches-jobs-board/ #jobs #careers

8 Dec 2025

Funny, my kid asked me today what is a paradox. "The only people who suffer the full consequences of being wrong are poor people. Everyone else outsources consequences to society; AND ALSO, I a rich-as- fuck person, suffer the full consequences of my risks." Dude is probably good at

Keith Fitzgerald@keithfitzgerald.bsky.social

Every founder of Palantir is a fascist sociopath.

8 Dec 2025

something. The problem is that being good at one thing doesn't mean you're good at most things, or even many things, and even if you are, like, super smart, you're just an instance of human. It's not like the distance between a jellyfish and a dolphin.

@kendrawrites.com ok I get it! Kinda like a Reese's-Kitkat mashup. If someone threw one in my general direction, ai wouldn't duck it. It's nice.

Mainly, I can't feign interest. Often, I can find something actually interesting in what someone is saying, but in that case, I've learned it's unadvisable to respond or ask questions, becuse apparently that's scary and argumentative.

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brooklynpaper.comBrooklyn Beep, Woodhull Hospital break ground on $20M birthing suite upgrade • Brooklyn PaperBrooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso joined leaders from NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Aug. 21 to break ground on a $20

Oh snap. He's running for Nydia's seat. More power to him!

Bomee Jung@bomee.c15.io

Just your random periodic reminder that @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social continues to use his BP capital to improve birthing in Brooklyn. www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-bee...

With you until you got to 'need LLM'. No need for LLM to give type-ahead. And any numeric thing, either - that's just a little piece of input validation.

Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social

Given this capability, forcing me to wade through a list of 50+ states and territories is unacceptable. Just let me type in the state name and have the machine correct any problems. 4/7

Oops - teaching grandma to suck eggs. But why is he bringing LLMs into it...?

I appreciate this thread. I would guess this is why seniors and eng managers from big corps have a hard time at startups.

Allen Holub@allenholub.bsky.social

We all work under constraints like time or budget, even when working incrementally. You do not solve that problem with a plan, however, particularly an inflexible one. (You do need a product strategy, but that's a higher-level thing. 1/5

If every American had to visit all the places in their 23 and Me reports, we'd all be better off.

Alistair Coleman@alistaircoleman.bsky.social

If I had dual citizenships from my entire known ancestry, I’d have a modest suitcase full of passports.

axios.comNational Parks are now free on Trump's birthday, but not on MLK Jr. Day or JuneteenthThe Trump administration overhauled the list of free National Park days for 2026.

6 Dec 2025

Petty. And mean.

Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social

Trump is just the worst! The National Park Service is reshuffling its free-admission schedule so that visitors get in free on Donald Trump’s birthday next year, while Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth (previously free days) will now require regular entrance fees.

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Peter Sagal

@petersagal.bsky.social

1 Dec 2025

From the crazed hyperbolic radical alarmists at… The Brennan Center: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

brennancenter.orgICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as ImmigrantsThe Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

1 Dec 2025

Just your random periodic reminder that @bkbpreynoso.bsky.social continues to use his BP capital to improve birthing in Brooklyn. www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-bee...

30 Nov 2025

$300 million is about what HUD would spend on 4,000 units worth of green retrofits for senior housing, FYI.

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social

He doesn’t care about you.

22 Nov 2025

How has no one come up with a viable Slack alternative in all this time? Or have they?