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anxiety havers it is your solemn duty to see MICKEY 17 this weekend www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/m...

in great news for Angelenos, the academy museum finally made it so you can see all the upcoming screenings on a single page. www.academymuseum.org/en/calendar?...

trump take egg runs into egg demand incredibly inelastic agdatanews.substack.com/p/americans-...

as somebody who has been a daily RSS guy since google reader and still does, it's literally never been a better time to get in on the ecosystem 1) newsletter boom = way more feeds 2) it's way better at showing you the news you want to see 3) you don't feel the constant pain of "missing something"

Looks like L.A. City Attorney Hydee Feldstein Soto will have at least one opponent in 2026: Marissa Roy, who currently works for State A.G. Rob Bonta as a deputy attorney general. Roy, who handles consumer protection cases, filed paperwork with the state creating her campaign committee

market discipline rules everything around me

since we're destroying the regulatory state can we at least make it legal to import any europe / japan / korea car www.wired.com/story/along-...

currently been trying to schedule a catch up with a fed friend of mine since mid jan and basically every email is some variation of "I'm sorry but some insane shit keeps happening, can we push" between the two of us

really unfortunate that trump won and we have a constitutional crisis because it means we don't get to spend as much time looking at the very funny downfall of the SCOTUSBlog guy

state capacity rules everything around me, but this is dog wild

world bad steak frites good

look what they did to my boy lacmaonfire.blogspot.com/2025/02/coun...

Has a US state ever gone bankrupt? Because all of them are structurally dependent on payments from the US treasury.

weeks that years happen, etc. absolutely horrifying stuff

Signs. Of. Life. Protest outside Treasury Dept. tonight.

having interacted with mainframe systems (extremely) tangentially before, it's wild how much they mess with your mental model of what a computer is, if you're say, a lay computer programmer with knowledge of windows / unix / post PC revolution systems www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

I can’t believe we’re actually going to find out if law is code

had to teach my boss about the @matt-levine.bsky.social elon musk theory of legal realism today, I hope you're happy america

who will be america's deng xiaoping

good job for people who want to work for a good state (and I promise you'll be busy) calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

excited to see the first ever uniparty government shutdown

I realize the world is somewhat crazy right now but want to help build technology that ensures California meets our climate goals and supports public transit? Apply today - works extremely closely with my team here at Caltrans calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

nothing will convince me about the end of OpenAI bubble as much as SoftBank / Miyoshi Son going all in

not now LAPL holds

we’re so cooked

guess I’m going to walk (most of) the length of sunset boulevard

Why are professional services *alone* for Chicago's elevated Red Line extension—in a low-density area—now costing $1.24 billion for 5.4 mi ($230 million/mi). Toulouse Metro C, under construction mostly underground in a dense urban environment, is €3.45 billion TOTAL for 16.7 mi (€207 million/mi).

. @aherman2006.bsky.social and I coping with being sick in the most heterosexual way possible, she’s watch Real Housewives of Salt Lake City while I read a 700 page history of the Morgan Bank(s)

unfortunately a very big week for Elon Musk legal realism

let us have faith that right makes might

better world is possible, accomplishment of literally millions of people dedicating their lives to this

state capacity rules everything around me, policy implementation edition goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/clown-show...