I was actually confused about which of these the voters liked vs disliked, I checked the write-up. and they liked the top two best, the pink one was liked by designers and hated by voters. Also, voters liked Republicans’ logos better, despite them being less interesting.
A few days late, but the photos from the solar storm this weekend were amazing. Visible also from San Francisco, Norway.
![James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social Have to trot out the obligatory XKCD tonight. No aurora in Hawaii, we've got massive amounts of clouds and rain in any case. :) 🧪 James Petruzzi @hawaiianimages.bsky.social Have to trot out the obligatory XKCD tonight. No aurora in Hawaii, we've got massive amounts of clouds and rain in any case. :) 🧪](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36e77ccd-a64a-4e40-b1b3-9eeba57cfeed_1154x1630.png)
XKCD's author got some photos as well, saying "I didn’t know the sky could do that".
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Harvard student made a short film that got the attention of a famous director, he has now dropped out and is adapting it into a feature length film. 12 minutes long, it's pretty good (src)(cached)
– Some discussion of semiconductors was reminiscent of an Arthur C Clarke short story, Superiority (src)(cached)
– New frontrunner for the next Apple CEO is reportedly their head of hardware, John Ternus (src)
– Works in progress published a long article analyzing the baby boom, it opens with a surprising claim: the west has had below replacement rate fertility before the baby boom. Here's a summary thread (src)(cached)
– People don't know what 'affordable housing' means. This is why Darrell Owens argues for calling it 'subsidized' housing. (src)(cached)
– AI is changing how coding is taught, but things are changing so fast that I'm not sure how long until it changes again. (src)
– Arguments against student debt cancellation from a bunch of different angles. (src)(cached)
– Monetarists should probably blame Trump for inflation, he sure printed a lot of money. (src)(cached)
– Using Airtags to catch package thieves. Seems like it could be a cost-effective police technique, if it works. (src)(cached)
– As much as AI is worse than humans at some tasks still, it's better at persuasion than humans (if only slightly), which may be a bit wild as it is rolled into ads. (src)
– A long article, "beware your audience", about ways that people change their positions to match what their audience wants to hear. (src)(cached)
– Cool video where a Waymo vehicle reacts perfectly to hand gestures from a person directing traffic. (src)
– For many air pollutants, we're past peak pollution, and we're on the way back down now, that's good news! (src)(cached)
– The situation around why RFK said he had brain worms makes him look even worse: he was doing it to try to avoid paying alimony. (src)
– There's now a Lego tower of Barad-dûr from LoTR. Looks pretty cool (src)