Infrastructure is politics

Pinning this on Sept 3: for every like on this post I will post a photo from camera roll (with no explanation) Starting with photo #1:

Jon Ossoff’s closing argument went in for the kill.

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

Speaking of Unicorns we saw a #Slate Truck driving around. Our first one in the wild. We liked the size. Whatever was going on with paint/finish on the other hand... #carspotting #spyphoto #Slatetruck

It genuinely does suck and is *bad* that it feels like there’s almost nowhere to go for people who 1. Want to work on robotics (like drones) and 2. Don’t want to build weapons.

Breaking: The 9th Circuit rules 2-1 against the Trump administration's request to block California from counting mail ballots from people on ​a list of more than 20,000 registered voters the federal government alleges are likely noncitizens. www.reuters.com/world/trump-...

Diesel breached the psychological $7 barrier, at $7.04 in Michigan off of I-94

also kind of funny that it going YOLO with chatbots and image generators in 2022 appears to be extremely stupid, business-wise. that kind of shit is like two-thirds of why people hate AI, and it turns out to be unnecessary

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

The owners of Elvis Presley’s music sued Anthropic, saying it trained its AI models on more than 200 of Presley’s songs without permission, accusing it of copyright infringement. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/a...

Lula won in part by banning online gambling

new significant update for xo: this push adds the first of several planned modules in Kettle, which centralizes your contacts, enriches them, and makes them agent-queryable. basic idea here is that the store of who you know and what you know about them should be defragmented and you-centric.

here, write it down so it’s easy to repeat: an illegitimate supreme court allowed an insurrectionist barred by the 14th amendment to take office and his pardons aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on

Hey that's basically in my backyard! There's houses for sale right now that are within the forseeable blast radius

“Trump’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory.” - Barack Obama in Ohio.

Told you so. This is what real technology agnostic (instead of German car lobby "agnostic") car developments look like. Truck are coming along also (after a slow start). This will quickly overtake any EU EV mandates (let alone US laggard policies).

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ProPublica: "A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security made an unusual request of its agency focused on cybersecurity: Secretly acquire a voting machine and hack it," and turn over the findings to the White House.

🚨BREAKING: The Trump administration’s campaign to obtain states’ unredacted voter rolls suffered its 27th consecutive district court loss Friday, this time at the hands of a judge appointed by President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

good morning, somehow there are two of these on sale at the same time? rmsothebys.com/auctions/ba2...

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Sodium-ion batteries scaling up.

every American pro baseball player spent his childhood in the most expensive travel league conceivable so it selects for sons of car dealers who are too dumb to be house reps

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Not enough people have processed this yet

Good morning! We're suing Meta for stealing our shit 😎 let's goooo

The biggest danger to this administration is being a non-white person who is funnier and better at posting than them. That's why they're arresting this woman's family members for running a weed store two weeks before an election. She has the juice and that's dangerous.

i want to know what trump’s DOJ lawyers were telling those jurors. we already know they can’t be trusted because of all the other grand juries they’ve been caught lying to

Workers constantly dig up and relay brick sidewalks and streets in the Netherlands. Water pipe break? Laying fiberoptic cables? The same team opens and closes the and does the work. This team is smoothing out a street that got uneven after 20 years. "It's normal maintenance, just sand below."

Not just the fastest, or the cheapest, or the best, but the *only* possible solution to climate change is a rapid global buildout of clean energy infrastructure. If you're standing in the way of that, you're not working on climate change & should be honest with yourself about your priorities.

By any sensible definition of mainstream, the students who broke windows and occupied Hind’s Hall have an infinitely more mainstream view on Israel than half the Democratic caucus

Oh no, sad for them, that's like one data center www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/t...

I have greatly enjoyed watching America feel the same things I have felt about Vivek Ramaswamy since the fall of 2003

American traffic engineers seem blind to the benefits of near-sided signals. It would eliminate this behavior immediately. Design matters more than laws/rules.

The first significant storm of the season is forecast to bring heavy rain to vulnerable burn scars near Big Sur, coastal tornado risk to the L.A. area, and snow to the high Sierra. The Bay Area will be left relatively drier, but still, Wednesday will probably be the wettest day since May in S.F.

School children in Michigan hiding from active shooters, where the active shooters are agents of the United States federal government

Abolish ICE.

He won

Are they still going to pay all of us whose work they stole?

Worse still, because it's not actually from any kind of breach, and there is no real way to know if the attack has been used, it is possible that one or more blackhat groups have been using this for months, theoretically at any point since April 30, 2025 when the affected keys were issued.