Favorites: Birthright Citizenship, Border Panic, and Bridgewater
July 2, 2026 — Advanced-degree pay bumps reward useless credentials, the median Supreme Court vote drifts right by arithmetic, Caplan sours on the online-argument utopia.
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Favorites: Obesity Drugs, Rocket Wreckage, and Spanish Sprawl
June 30, 2026 — Josh Barro pivots to defending the automatic transmission, Germans back restarting up to 18.7 gigawatts of idled reactors, UCSD STEM faculty push to …
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Favorites: SpaceX, Liquid Assets, and Whips
June 29, 2026 — California's medical association opposes the Medi-Cal billionaire tax, updated COVID shots cut cardiovascular deaths, Tokyo grows to twice New York's …
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Favorites: Missiles, Mythos, and Medical Scanners
June 23, 2026 — Valar Atomics reaches reactor criticality, Disneyland debuts a lifelike Olaf robot, a dog beats cancer with a custom mRNA vaccine.
Read →My 2026 Hugo Winner Picks
Here’s who my model is picking to win each of the big five 2026 Hugo Awards, and the probability I’d put on each win. Finalists were announced April 21. …
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Favorites: Translations, Transit, and Tribal Rights
April 6, 2026 — Gene therapy restores hearing in weeks, Outlook crashes in orbit, NYC fills potholes in 90 seconds.
Read →Why ZFS RAIDZ1 Made My Photo Library 17x Slower (And How I Fixed It)
My Apple Photos library is about 3 TB — roughly 1.3 million files. It outgrew a single drive a while back, and I had a wish list for the replacement setup: Span multiple …
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Favorites: Senate Sabotage, Seaside Density, and Saturated Benchmarks
March 11, 2026 — GLP-1 patients keep weight off at lower doses, Ford's wiring harness weighs 70 pounds more than Tesla's, tech news sites lose up to 97% of their traffic.
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Favorites: Tanker Escorts, Drone Swarms, and Cheating Chatbots
March 8th, 2026 — California rewards destructive ballot propositions, Japan approves stem cells for Parkinson's, virtual fruit flies walk on their own.
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Favorites: Vintage Jets, Tax Brackets, and Building Permits
March 2, 2026 — BullshitBench v2 tests 70 models on hallucination, secretarial work disappeared across two decades, and Seedance 2.0 generates cinematic video from …
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Favorites: Bechamel Benchmarks, Gun Prosecutions, and Driving Negligence
February 28, 2026 — How students use AI matters more than whether they do, post-2020 SF traffic enforcement finds new footing, Daring Fireball tames update reminders.
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Favorites: Waymo Wins, Weary Fusion, and Whole-Aisle Coca-Cola
November 25, 2025 — Charm turns out to be a real political asset in one surreal White House exchange, a social rule about who demands the “doctor” title survives another …
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Favorites: Fission, Forgeries, and Foreign Policy
November 20, 2025 — A big tent for Democrats, skepticism on school laptops, and a new cloud for fights.
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Favorites: Some Dormant Drafts: Darth Vader, and Deficits
November 12, 2025 — A long-delayed tour through remedial math and missing test scores, electric trash trucks and aging EVs, and the awkward middle ground between fewer …
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