autumn is when we get kids all excited about a legume literally named after incest.

“When voters say they want more economic policy from Kamala Harris, I don’t think they mean they want to see white papers or hear about tax credits. They want a worldview.” ~Zephyr Teachout www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...

we are all Cassandra now.

“it’s a non-judiciable political question whenever we support the politics that would prevail if we don’t judiciate it.”

are the heat gradients that power hurricanes exploitable by lesser heat engines? people discuss putting geothermal plants around the yellowstone basin to disperse heat that might someday provoke a supervolcano eruption. could we build little heat engines that sap the energy that powers hurricanes?

the easiest way to become misinformed is to imagine you can discern who is trustworthy by how people present themselves over youtube (or tiktok, reels, whatev).

it comes around on public media as a leak, inside information from a credible source. but if it’s on public media it isn’t inside information. it’s outside information intentionally presented as inside information in order to shape or fabricate a narrative.

angels are empirical.

“War is atrocity. Except when we are winning.”

the most exciting announcements tonight since the hyperloop.

has the volatility of hurricane strengths increased with global warming? within the lifetime of a particular storm and/or across the population of storms?

You would have loved it, both for the very personal, ungamified education model, and for the astonishing not-quite-intentional community our living conjured there. It’s a shame we didn’t have an architecture program. Our loss at least as much as yours.

Sure is. Ringling estate and museum, including ca d'zan. Caples, Cook, and Crossley mansions, and the mansion that became New College's College Hall. All lined up along that waterfront, with a majestic banyan tree to boot. I.M. Pei's disowned brutalist futurist campus. SRQ airport. Quite a cluster.

Milton's track is within 10 miles of #NewCollege. By far the most wonderful place I ever lived, for the past two years vandals like Ron DeSantis and Chris Rufo have been dismantling the college. Maybe the algorithm doesn't like what they've done. Maybe it's helping them finish the job.

it’s the end of the world as we know it. and there are profit opportunities in that! it’s CPI that looms. what else were you thinking? headline from finance.yahoo.com

The frequency of extreme weather events has increased dramatically. Hypotheses: 1. This is a long predicted effect of global warming. 2. Insidious actors have developed a weather control device which they r weaponizing for mysterious purposes. Which is more parsimonious? Depends upon your priors!

This is some picture. via @michaelrlowry.bsky.social michaelrlowry.substack.com/p/milton-clo...

i demur.