
You'd be amazed how many people erroneously think that Biden was president in 2020, shouldn't be a surprise that Trump believes it too. Here's the article in question
The Trump arlington cemetary incident seems pretty bad (cached). If you want a more serious breakdown, here's a thread (cached), although one more important item is that while their conduct was gross, their plan was even more insane (cached): "secretly film a fake established memorial event & then claim [Biden and Harris] refused to attend"
There's a lot of empirical research into tariffs and consumer harm, but this specific example is nicely indicative, the costs are borne by consumers. The key thing to understand is that domestic manufacturers also raise their prices (cached) to match. This doesn't mean that tariffs are never good, just that you need to recognize that they hurt both sides.
I tried this image generator a bit, it's quite good, especially for designing graphics, often if I ask ChatGPT or Midjourney anything typography adjacent, it'll generate a scene with the graphic I'm asking for on a piece of paper on a desk. This appears to work a bit better. It's closer to a tool than a demo.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Yglesias linked to a short thread (cached) recommending Democratic house races to donate to. TL;DR: Marlinga (MI-10) Tran (CA-45) Shah (AZ-01) Bynum (OR-05). (src)(cached)
– Sea ice is still expected to retreat this century, but the worst case scenarios are now considered much less likely. (src)(cached)
– Worth remembering that the Electoral College doesn't actually help smaller or lower density states that much. It gives power exclusively to *purple* states. (src)(cached)
– Air conditioning has a big positive effect on student outcomes, which is great because it scales better than most other interventions. (src)(cached)
– Trump has promoted content saying RFK jr is part of his 'ticket'. (src)(cached)
– Some reporting that Xi Jinping is an AI Doomer, buying into some of our sillier ideas. (src)(cached)
– This Old House discusses the causes of squeaky floors. I wish I'd known about this a long time ago. (src)
– A majority of americans, and a majority of republicans, explicitly side with Ukraine against Russia. And the remainder are undecided, nobody supports Russia. (src)(cached)
– For once we can measure the cost of Historic preservation. A parcel that wouldn't sell with a historic building on it for any price sold for millions once the historic designation was removed. (src)(cached)
– Waymo is adding another facility to attach their sensor suite to the Jaguar I-Pace car that they use. One person claims that the I-Pace has been sold out abnormally quickly, speculating that Waymo has purchased the vast majority of them. (src)
– Modern Apple events are often shot entirely on iPhone, but they still use extra equipment like gimbals or lenses. If you want to see what the limit of iphone video without any extra equipment looks like, this is it. (src)
– Someone found (cached) a common mistake made in fraudulent academic papers, and could use it to gather aggregate stats on fraud rates. There's an astonishing amount of fraudulent academic work coming out of Iran and China. (src)(cached)