Very cool that someone's working on making commercial supersonic flight viable.
Tariffs like this coming in over the course of days instead of months will be messy (cached). Normal tariffs attempt to minimize consumer price increases while maximizing improvements to domestic manufacturing. Trump’s tariffs are structured to do the opposite (cached). The tariffs are on almost half our imports, equivalent to 5% of GDP (cached). Will bring unit average US tariff from 3% to over 10% but it’s not just about tariffs as a sales tax. Other countries will respond, and all of this is counter productive for US manufacturers (cached). Here's an overview of Canada's options for a response (cached) there have been narcasists and egomaniacs as heads of state before, there are strategies for handling this. The fact is that retaliatory across-the-board tariffs are also bad (cached). The ideal is to find little targeted items if you must.
Great points about DeepSeek from Anthropic exec. It's certainly worth noting that he's definitely talking his book here.
Flotsam and Jetsam
– Midair Collision at the DC airport, sounds real bad. (src)
– Seeing the chain of thought for DeepSeek definitely gives the impression that it has some Theory of Mind. (src)(cached)
– YIMBYLAND responds to Manhattan city council members concerned over a 60 story building. “The height limit for Manhattan should be Low Earth Orbit.” (src)(cached)
– North Koreans have not been seen on the front in Ukraine for two weeks. (src)(cached)
– Discrepancy in marriage rates by education is stark! (src)(cached)
– A writer who previously worried that hookup culture would lead to falling marriage wrote a follow up years later, the upshot is "It's not casual sex that's bringing marriage rates down. It's 'doing nothing at all.'" (src)(cached)
– There’s absolutely no justification for putting new tariffs on our allies that are twice as high as the new tariffs we’re introducing on China (src)(cached)
– Trump administration is firing career prosecutors just for doing their jobs, prosecuting people who break into government buildings is a fireable offense apparently. (src)(cached)
– Another plane crash, seems related that Trump admin fired the head of the FAA 11 days ago? (src)(cached)
– Someone finally figured out what Trump meant about releasing water from CA reservoirs to fight the fires. Of course the water released appears to have just been poured onto some nearby farmland, since the reservoir is nowhere near LA. Releasing the water is going to mean (cached) it’s not there to use later in the year (src)(cached)
– “U.K to exempt Chinese spies from toughest national security law” wut? (src)(cached)
– Details on a company using AI and cameras to detect forest fires early (src)(cached)
– It’s beginning to appear that it was the military helicopter at fault in the recent deadly collision at Reagan international airport (src)(cached)
– There’s no way this is causation, but longer laws in US states are associated with more growth. (src)(cached)
– A survey of 900 experts showed they’re more worried about disinformation than nuclear war. Seems wrong to me? (src)(cached)
– Officials trying to enforce security classification rules are getting put on leave to get them out of the way. Yglesias jokes (cached) that it seems like the NYTimes should cover the Trump administration’s terrible handling of classified info. (src)(cached)
– Important to be open to folks who are just realizing Trump Is bad. (src)(cached)
– OpenAI Deep Research is getting positive reviews. Mollick says he likes it better than Gemini deep research, which he says is more of a system for creating an overview. (src)(cached)
– More detail on Musk’s associates forcing their way into restricted access buildings, USAID in this case (src)(cached)