Chris Cunningham

I've always liked Tyler Cowen, even when I disagreed with him, but he comes off as such a shill for AI in this conversation. A.I. Companies Want to Write the Rules Governing Themselves. Can They Be Trusted? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/m...

You call it peace and make it a desert. Israel’s Destruction of Southern Lebanon Intensified After the Cease-Fire www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...

People worry too much about AI taking our jobs. Obviously we will just reallocate our efforts to the tasks AI can't do... like biting people.

I kinda of think we should have donated them to other major countries like China, India, Brazil and Germany; I'm a big fan of shuttle diplomacy.

These guitar codes in the street are really nothing to fret about.

"Great plan, let's do it my city" says Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Brussels at the same time.

Does he still own a ton of Apple stock?

Ayn Rand inspired daycare chain collapses. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wob... Inside the Outrageous Collapse of a ‘Montessori Ponzi’ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/b...

This such a weird piece. I assume this is an attempt by Vance to distance himself from the Iran debacle and Haberman to retain access? Behind the Scenes, Vance Gathered Unvarnished Views of the Iran War www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...

The absolute scale of graft in this administration, especially in homeland security. A Lewandoski ally was pulling in 19K a week as a contractor with FEMA. A conservative watchdog group got millions to attack Dems in what was supposed to be anti-terrorism funding.

A future congress should convert the ballroom into a Holocaust Museum-like testament and forever-warning against unchecked presidential power. It’s just too late for John Roberts to say he doesn't like Trump’s ballroom www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

All unions are a form of collusion and much of the erosion of the middle class over the the last 50 years can be blamed on the death of private sector unions. In a world of corporate consolidation, mobile capital, IP and professional licensure do the trades deserve their own moat?

Outsiders get shafted by the elevator guild.

Even though we lived near the Atlanta Beltline, we left for Holland because we were aging much faster than the bike lanes were being built. Now US going in reverse. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...

So Warsh's response to growing concern about the Fed's new removal of communication policy was to..... communicate.

The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.

As someone that likes the em dash, AI has been a huge tax on me.

I have long thought that the best way to hold the center is to double down on public goods. There are few libertarians; most voting R just think someone else is getting more transfers. A federal government that works well for everyone (national parks, DOT, FDA, EPA, TSA) would be popular.

The Roberts Court's DreadsOff decision will go down in Infamy: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What I will never understand is that the only real appeal--to me--of extraordinary wealth would be the power to say exactly what I think. Why be a billionaire if you still end up groveling to fools.

It's a great souvenir for tourists to DC.

As the screwworm spreads... Remember that Elon Musk’s DOGE cut $15M from a screwworm monitoring program. And we're now learning that Trump’s USDA delayed a project to develop new ways to contain the parasite and held up construction of a monitoring facility. The incompetence is dangerous.

“Unlike Barack Hussein Obama, who sent Iran pallets of cash"-DJT So 1.7B of Iran's frozen accounts delivered in greenbacks (because we'd excluded Iran from the global financial system) is worse that 300B+ from Gulf States to re-open the straight of Hormuz?

Venomous not poisonous. Get it right NYT! Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Keeps Picking Up Snakes. Is He Doing It Right? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...

I think he's admitting he doesn't actually pay a lot of taxes, so of course doubling them won't do much good. I assume he's living off interest deductible loans against amazon stock.

I'm not totally opposed to this. Rail infrastructure produces lots of positive externalities: fewer emissions, resiliency to oil shocks, military logistics. Maybe the state should take a minority stake in each common carrier and vote for more capex and employee training over dividends.

I grew up with Bicycle Sunday on Lake Washington Blvd in the 80s. I wonder if it helped seed the bike advocacy constituency, or, instead, hurt it by cementing the idea that biking was just a weekend recreation thing.

Trailhead Direct is running today! 🥾 🚌

The Dutch are not afraid of water. In my neighborhood in Den Haag, there's underwater car parking with car elevators. People happily park 100K BMWs and Mercedes under the canal.

California has winds in the evening as the heated land causes air to rise drawing in cooler heavier air from the ocean. It nicely complements the cessation of solar. Still, batteries and hydro are doing most of the sunset surge here.

Blue morphos' wings have a big range of unrepresentable cyans. It's structural color, so pure frequencies, and all squarely in the blue green region screens can't show you. They look nothing like this.

First-past-the-post (FPP) systems usually sustain the two party system, but at the risk of chaos monkeys occasionally winning a plurality and burning it all down. Labor and conservatives should embrace proportional representation or instant run-off. Policy and values over party.

Going postal:

This may be the ultimate legacy of the recent Hungarian election. If you really believe that democracy is on the line, then any and all coalitions should be forged and ideology and ambition sublimated.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Interesting how no-one around him either in office or assisting him feels able to intervene privately and explain to save him from himself. In fact the incentives are so extreme that the way to respond is to draw attention to the error and invent an entirely new arithmetic to justify it.

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Consenting Manufacture.

Like Trump’s other spurious political proescutions, this is borrowing a page from his private sector penchant for litigation as a weapon to make the target’s life hell. He doesn’t have to win. He gets to publicly smear them & cost them a lot of money & stress even when they ultimately win.

Thought that maybe, just maybe, @seattletimes.com would do the right thing and slip a bare-minimum credit into their piece on the story I broke, including my screenshot of the IG story, shortly before it vanished. Nah. They don't care. Still pretending they got the story on their own.

They think you're stupid.