New year, pneu matik

Sitting on the couch with beer and snacks. Not a professional account. Wishing sometimes to be landlocked and working in a bakery.

[Kevin A. Bryan @Afinetheorem]

On USA250: 2026 is lowest murder rate in US history, highest median income, smallest black-white income gap, highest life expectancy, dominant firms in critical AI industry, net energy independence, and mobility so that immigrants run MSFT, Google, NVIDIA. SpaceX, Uber and Coke.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

Speaking of the great american state fair on the national mall, specifically, most of you will never visit it. And it's easy to write off criticisms as a bunch of woke complaining by wokies. But it's poorly done, cheaply done, unimaginatively done, and simply far beneath what a $35 trillion, technologically advanced economy should be able to produce with even a bit of competent leadership.

The more I think about it, the more furious I get.

[HMS Spey @HMS_Spey]

Today SPEY has the pleasure of celebrating 1500 days deployed 🌊 All thanks to our incredibly hard working team of sailors supported by @docks_uk and @DefenceES, that keep the ship running 365 days a year, 7000 miles away from home

[New year, pneu matik @pneumatik]

Fascinating research.

[CNA @CNA_org]

CNA developed an innovative way to model cyber combat, shedding light on the impact of different approaches to cyber warfighting. The model simulates two or more combatants attempting to illicitly access each other’s cyber terrain to neutralize their enemy’s defensive tools or offensive weapons or gain access to the enemy’s network.

CNA is a leader in this type of cutting-edge technology, providing critical tools to the government and military and increasing their understanding of the cyber domain.

https://t.co/dfWD8m0E70

[Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham]

Interesting from Macron in the FT this morning

“This model, that is saying you have the Chinese market as an outlet, you have the American umbrella for our security and you have cheap Russian gas to be able to produce, forget all three.”

https://t.co/EiDvZgSIoh

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Michael Collins, the astronaut who took this photo in 1969, is the only human, alive or dead, not captured in the frame of this picture.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Speaker Mike Johnson is a disgrace.

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

I don’t think a lot of people appreciate how much of their overall lifestyle and relative certainty is backstopped by a steady, boring stability of systems they don’t understand or even realize exist.

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Clearest image ever taken of Venus. 💙🪴

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

ht @StevenGlinert

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Paolo Uccello’s “Perspective Study of a Chalice” (c. 1450) at the Uffizi in Florence: a 32-sided chalice rendered with computer-like precision - 500 years before CAD

[New year, pneu matik @pneumatik]

Second page, top panel, is pretty fucking heavy for a Marvel comic.

[al @BollockFaceOn]

anyway, magneto killing a bigot while reminding them of american history

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

After Trump's first term, American liberalism had a layup and we blew it.

[Our World in Data @OurWorldInData]

The world has probably passed “peak air pollution”—

Global emissions of local air pollutants have probably passed their peak.

The chart shows estimates of global emissions of pollutants such as sulphur dioxide (which causes acid rain), nitrogen oxides, and black and organic carbon.

These pollutants are harmful to human health and can also damage ecosystems.

It looks like emissions have peaked for almost all of these pollutants. Global air pollution is now falling, and we can save many lives by accelerating this decline.

The exception is ammonia, which is mainly produced by agriculture. Its emissions are still rising.

These estimates come from the Community Emissions Data System (CEDS).

(This Daily Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie.)

[New year, pneu matik @pneumatik]

@joshthestampede It’s not like they can do anything about it.

[Dune Quotes @DuneQuoteBot]

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

At some point in the last ten years (it’s hard to tease out exactly when) we crossed a boundary that no one celebrated:

Most people diagnosed with cancer in the United States of America this year will not be killed by that cancer.

Yes, outcomes have improved.