Month: September 2025

Chill Links

What is Blueskyism? And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?

Bessent Blast’s the Fed for QE, its “Perverse Incentives” for Fiscal “Irresponsibility,” “Wealth Effect” Policies, “Class and Generational Disparities,” Failure on Inflation… Oh I So Agree.

Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer.’ Agreed.

Liberalism Without Illusions. We must free ourselves from the delusion that history is progressive and accept that the dark side of our nature is here to stay.

IDN homograph attack.

Americans are getting the economy they voted for.

The World No Longer Takes Trump Seriously.

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars.

Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes. Extremely bad for the economy and workers.

I worked at a company that used “predictive assessment tools” to secretly profile employees.

Navy Carrier-Based ‘Loyal Wingman’ Drone Development Suddenly Pushes Forward.

The Last Mainstream American Sedan Has Been Discontinued. Insanity.

Better Plan

Chill Annoying, Clowns

This is necessary, and better, and we were doing it in the 90s. But it got forcefully shut down by the identitarian liberals/leftists. Now we’re not even allowed to talk about it at all because trying to reconcile differences and create a better society is “racist.”

What we were doing during the 90s was far superior.

Chill Links

Wikipedia is one of the few platforms online where tremendous computing power isn’t being deployed in the service of telling you exactly what you want to hear.

Hundreds of undocumented immigrants apprehended in massive ICE raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia.

We have no shortage of people who have decided, when faced with mystery, not to learn from the knowledgeable, nor even to investigate the answer, but to rummage into their pocket, take out the same device that could inform them in an instant, and use it to broadcast the message I don’t understand this, so it follows that nobody else does either.

The search for Earth’s most mysterious creatures is turning up extraordinary results.

John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers.

Trump’s tariffs were supposed to revive U.S. manufacturing. They’re wrecking it.

The Universe within 12.5 Light Years.

Track

Chill Amusing, Annoying, Clowns

Why in Zeus’s name would you make something so complex and difficult to deploy when you could just not do that?

You could just use a fixed bus for the solar panels with single-axis heliostats. In other words, put a “curtain” of lightweight mirror strips (heliostats) in front of fixed solar panels. Don’t move the panels, move the mirrors. That way, the motion is minimal (only need a modest rotation range for 23.5° sun variation throughout the year) and don’t need to move a huge structure as the heliostats are extremely low-mass. This minimizes moving parts, doesn’t have whatever crazy shit is going on in that animation that will fail fast and catastrophically, and is not from a design loony bin.

Fuck does not one person have a damn brain up in here?

Chill Links

Eels.

5 forecasts early climate models got right – the evidence is all around you.

What Can Democrats Do to Get Rid of the Scarlet L for Loser? Maybe not act like giant fucking losers 24/7?

Why the world’s biggest movie bombed in America.

Office CMBS Delinquency Rate Spikes to Record 11.7%, Much Worse than Financial Crisis Peak. Multifamily Delinquencies also Spike.

One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants. Damn nature, you scary.

Oregon, Washington, California form health care alliance to protect vaccine access. We made the right decision to move to California. Anti-vaxxers can live in their death-riddled shitholes.

The Simple Mathematics of Chinese Innovation.

Houston’s ConocoPhillips to lay off up to 25% of global workforce.

China’s Military in 10 Charts.

Go to a place where the managerial class killed manufacturing, like Detroit or Flint or Gary, and remember that in the living memory of Boomers and older GenX, those were GOOD towns

Not Great At All

Chill Political Economy

I agree with Amanda. The labor market is worse now than during the GFC in general, and far, far worse in tech and tech-adjacent fields.

Source: I lived through it and got a tech job in a low-tech city in April of 2009, right at the worst of the fallout of the Great Recession. That would be extremely unlikely now.

DNL

Chill Annoying, Clowns

Shit, I agree with the right largely about immigration and crime. At least the general ideas.

But I’ll never vote for those fucks because they think vaccines don’t work or cause autism, don’t believe climate change is real even as it destroys places they live, and think they can pray the gay solar panels away.

Only a right clown would vote for that. So I hold my nose and vote for the more reasonable Democrats. Even though they are do-nothing losers.

Double Ditch

Chill Evil

That seems to be about accurate as to what is happening in the UK now.

The left has always been willing to sacrifice women and girls for their “equity” fairytale. Looks like they are doubling down on that now. I’m guessing that it will spread to other locales, though many women in Germany are now afraid of going out due to North Africans and Muslims. And for good damn reason.