I am once again asking for a TV show where a librarian and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their book collections - discuss their favorites, their histories, their value, then build amazing shelves and book nooks and libraries in their homes to organize them

I read the California Forever Specific Plan. It's exciting! Here's a 🧵w/ some highlights & questions. 1/23

In Germany, a standard 7kW rooftop solar system costs $10,000. In Australia, it costs $4,000. In the US, the same system costs about $28,000 — thanks partly to a mess of state, local, and HOA rules, per a new analysis shared with Alexander C. Kaufman: heatmap.news/energy/solar-p…

"A former senior agency official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says Oklo “is probably the worst applicant the NRC has ever had.” bloomberg.com/news/features/…

Many AI agent problems are really just information retrieval problems. If the agent has a better way to find and comb through data performantly, you will get far better results. Compute is fungible so you can use it during indexing and processing or you can use later to crank

Importantly, National consumer electricity costs as a fraction of GDP (left graphic) and personal expenditure and income (right two graphics) have trended down Residential electricity costs as a fraction of personal consumption expenditures (left) and income (right) are at or

I'm a simple man. If I see a field trial of genetically-engineered trees, I read it. A recent preprint reports the largest field trial to-date of American Chestnut trees engineered to resist a blight. And the results look promising. For context: The U.S. was once filled with

Ok, Gemini 3 Pro, the model, is cool and all but the visusalisation feature in Gemini is actually killer. The future of interacting with LLMs is not chat but custom interfaces. Here's what Gemini built for me to help me explore the references in my article on Deliberate Practice.

Oops just accidentally deleted this: New by my for American Affairs, on why SF's crime rate plummeted and the part of it that hasn't. americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/11/san-fr…

Around the world, a huge YIMBY movement has arisen to tackle the housing shortages caused by a global downzoning that kicked in a century ago. This movement has had some significant successes, but compared to the power of its ideas, it seems underwhelming. YIMBYs have provided

The IBM PC was released in 1981 - almost exactly half way back to Turing’s great 1936 paper on the theory of computability

as a reminder: humans cannot generate books. They cannot create books. They cannot find new books. The human can only mix words that have already been found and written and input into dictionaries by publishers.

A wonderful chart about how recently it has been our good fortune to have indoor plumbing. The darker the color of the state, the fewer of its inhabitants have indoor plumbing. In 1940, well within memory, almost 90% of Mississippi had no running water or indoor toilets.

13. Jesse D. Jenkins also has a quality thread in support of Matt. Jesse knows his shit on energy, to say the least. x.com/JesseJenkins/s…

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“Shanahan's ... the real QB.” Is there anything else in sports like American football’s play callers? They participate more intensely and immediately in the action than many of the on-field players. Play-callers’ status as coaches is obviously correct, and obviously incorrect.

But it's a strange politics that holds that the way to deal with those injustices is to empower judges to allocate property use or veto rights on the basis of a lawyer's fable about their client's disadvantage or prehistorical connection to the land. /14

I have been posting repeatedly on X about the extraordinarily fast collapse of births across the planet: in rich and poor countries, in fast-growing and slow-growing economies, in religious and secular societies, under right-wing and left-wing governments, with high taxes and

Today I have a report on California’s attempts to reduce wildfire risk since the LA fires. While things are going in the right direction, more meaningful mitigation is being hamstrung by bureaucratic kludge, weak leadership, and pushback from narrow interest groups. THREAD: