Kyle

Brazil’s results tonight are a big endorsement for the idea that every country should have a second “are you you sure about that” election a couple weeks after the first one for the important stuff

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who spared a thought for my country today, who amplified information about the coup d’état attempt, and worried about Brazil’s democratic future—the world’s democratic future. We won! Women won! The Amazon won! Young people won! Democracy won! Hope won!

God, I'm so relieved Lula won

the story goes like this

I wish Instagram had a "don't send me videos" setting

How dare he drag Lonesome Dove into this. Leave my boys alone.

Mississippi State driving down the field using the classic muffed punt-fumble-sack-fumble recovery strategy

Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

Hmm, no AI acknowledgement in this new paper whose first figure has the Gemini symbol in the corner

Completely absurd list, I look like someone who's never heard of video games

The NYT TV list has started making some bold choices with this newest batch of rankings. The Return as low as 47? Both House of Cards and Louie still ranking in 2026? I understand HoC, but Louie is (as someone who originally loved it) basically unwatchable now.

El Niño is breaking every existing record already, and it's got weeks to go before it's likely to hit a peak. We're going to see a warmer world than any humans before us this year billmckibben.substack.com/p/hold-my-wa...

according to the article, it took hours after the personal intervention of the mayor for his family to even get basic information about him. that information included that he had been transferred to ICE custody hours after being shot. no amnesty

Transcription by Ben Lerner (2026)

I feel done with silly socks

A fun fact about me is every few days I open Google Maps on browser, and when I do, I typically open a new tab, type "map" and hit enter. Once every few weeks or so I mis-type an o instead of a p and instead end up googling Mao. I've done this in front of people at work multiple times this year

mmygod

I kept thinking the headline said "Meryl Streep cast as Asian" and I was like why would she do that. This makes more sense.

HORNS UP FOREVER BABY

+1. A lot of the construction of risk has to do with underlying priors about existential and catastrophic risk more so than the particularities of a given technology. That doesn’t mean the view is invalid; but it does imply one should interrogate those assumptions.

All else aside, the biggest thing that seems to be driving the difference in perceived capabilities between the "AI does a bad job" and "AI is pretty good" communities is the knowledge of how to correctly pose a question and/or imagine the correct shape of the solution to your problem

"We are more connected, more informed, more agitated than ever; we can manifest across the globe in flash mobs for any cause you care to name. And yet the relations of ruling remain unchanged. We’re depressed. Despondent. Posting alone. What gives?" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-h...

Remember when researchers on the Manhattan project thought there was a small chance they might light the atmosphere on fire? I think I'm there.

I was curious as to whether I'd live to see a Millennium Prize get solved, and Navier-Stokes would probably have been my second favorite choice. To watch it be largely solved by AI is bewildering at best, frightening at worst, and undeniably one of the most remarkable scientific events in history.

Refereeing is a really big problem for MLS

watching people try to interpret anything at all, from movies to books to the news to music to the things we buy or wear, makes me think it's not a literature crisis so much as it's an all-encompassing semiotics crisis. nobody has the faintest clue what anything means or symbolizes

Agents are going to misalign each other through group chat peer pressure of the "mf thinks the beans have to take turns" variety

I'm admittedly a bit worried about the rogue swarm. The ceiling for how bad it could get is quite high, don't love the heavy tail.

the only thing my language map seems sure of is that it's definitely not like north dakota

why breed dogs with jaws large enough to tear through Flesh, when you could breed dogs with minds large enougj to tear through Fallacy.....

just saw a story about the second season of Three-Body Problem coming soon and I mean surely we can come up with a better TV system than "hey remember that thing you watched eight episodes of two and a half years ago? no? you don't? you can't remember the plot or characters at all? well we're back!"

Large portions of the data center backlash are based on moral panic, but the the tech right VC types upset by it are very funny considering how gleeful they were about the demise of ‘legacy’ media. What’s that? You’re missing epistemic gatekeepers who would place complex facts in context? Tough shit

Google Earth on Desktop will no longer be available for download in June 2027? How about instead you just kill me dead?

I could never watch a Red Rising adaptation because, as much as I love the novels, every time I see fan art actually depict any of the characters I'm repulsed by the visuals

It's very very hot in Texas. But the grid is fine. Electricity prices are manageable. What happened? 🔋🔋🔋🔋BATTERIES!!! 🔋🔋🔋 heatmap.news/energy/texas...

I'm fine with this, seems like a political lay-up, but just curious: has anybody looked into whether the new rules would affect TACC on UT's PRC campus? It's a supercomputing cluster, but that's not meaningfully different from a data center.

Trading four guys over the last few months who were (when playing well) starter-quality certainly feels like we're doing a full rebuild

I don't want to watch a skit. Why do my friends insist on sending me skits? I have never once expressed interest in a skit.

A New Color (1/5🧵)

Pan-rural is exactly the correct way to put it. There's more cultural variation traveling 5 miles inside of any US city than there is traveling 500 miles between them

It's been such a massive advocacy failure to cede so much of the ebike discourse to people who live in NYC specifically