That’s not true! Trump’s handlers are very good at picking people who are competent at funneling money into their own investments!

So yes, I’m generally aligned with normalizing career changes and breaking down social barriers around perceived masculine / feminine roles, but:

Now Reeves says what’s needed are policies and programs to draw male workers into fields such as nursing, teaching and social work.

I am not sure I agree with the premise here. I think that trying to lure men into e.g. social work is an answer looking for a question. The broader landscape of what constitutes work is always shifting, and right now interpersonal services are waxing, but that could change overnight. I think that we need to think more generally about how to help people transition between fields as labor demand changes.

I’m also not sure how to think about “jobs created” in this context:

That parity masks the significant gains women have made in the labor market recently. Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump’s second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That’s nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by women as by men.

This is the sort of statistical claim that makes me want to better understand the underlying structure of the data. Are these full time roles? Are they roles that were eliminated and re-opened? Where, geographically, are these positions? This feels like the actual story to me.

Space exploration is weight lifting for science.

More than fifty research and development facilities across thirty-one states. Gone. Consolidated into a single location in Fort Collins, Colorado. And “consolidated” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence, because what it actually means is that decades of place-based, long-term ecological research — the kind that literally cannot exist anywhere else because it depends on specific forests, specific watersheds, specific ecosystems studied over generations — will be snuffed out.

This is incredibly depressing, and leaves some huge questions I am afraid to even seek answers for. I worked alongside some brilliant, dedicated scientists stationed at Los Alamos-- does this mean that everyone there on behalf of the forest service is being moved to a desk in SLC?

It’s plainly a mass firing dressed up as a re-org, and it will cripple our understanding of how to proactively address localized climate change for decades. Fuck.

Thus solving the problem once and for all!

Oz claimed that New York’s Medicaid program last year provided some 5 million people with personal care services, which assist people in need with basic activities like bathing, grooming and meal preparation. That would add up to nearly three-fourths of the state’s 6.8 million Medicaid enrollees.

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But the real number of New Yorkers who used those services last year was about 450,000, or between 6% and 7% of total enrollees, CMS spokesman Chris Krepich told The Associated Press this week.

What the fuck. I normally attribute malice to powerful entities that should know better, but this is so god damned idiotic I am seriously questioning if it’s actually gross incompetence.

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TIL that objects re-entering the atmosphere vary considerably in their initial velocities, and that ones from further out (e.g. lunar visits) tend to be much faster than those from LEO. It’s not intuitively surprising, but I’d assumed that given the “narrow window” used for re-entry, all objects needed to dump enough velocity to arrive in a fairly tight band.

Over / under on Pete losing the same war twice? This is just embarrassing.

This is sick. People, the man is dead, and none of us will ever know for sure how big his face was.

He knew where the war hawks said it would go. It’s so weird; now that they’ve got their war, they don’t actually know what to do with it.

Does it support unit dependencies? That’s pretty much the only reason I use systemd outside of work. Edit: ah yeah it sure does. I know what I’m playing with next weekend.

Ludicrous claims, rambling non-sequiturs, and outright lies; sounds like anyone who tuned in got exactly what they could have expected.

The presence of A-10s suggests that Iran’s strategic air defenses have been destroyed or greatly suppressed. The plane is more vulnerable to air defenses than fighters.

I don’t even know what to make of this statement. It’s such a bizarre thing to guess about. It could very well be that this is entirely for optics!

Thank you! It was a good read, and raised some points that hadn’t crossed my mind.

I’m not normally a huge fan of the economist, but I’d be genuinely interested to hear their perspective on this (if I could find an archive). They are a pillar of the fiscal conservative camp, but they tend to be quite insightful on international politics.

I have been wondering if this is the focal point in the US / China power transition. Iran is not just another tiny state the US can muscle in on, it’s a global economic and population power, and its influence in the region (most obviously on shipping trade) hurts everyone. The open question is whether it hurts manufacturers or the Petro dollar more, though I suspect it’s the latter.

It’s hard to estimate the distance when there’s this much depth on the shot, but I’d guess they’re at least 20m away.

I absolutely love the photo. This is like worlds colliding!

Yeah, I had a good laugh at this. Half of the commits I review are coauthored by Claude, a fact that I’m sure Anthropic is thrilled to claim, but this colossal fuck up was obviously the work of a rogue intern or something.

Awww c’mon who could’ve seen that coming

I wonder if there’s going to be a point in the future where we all look back at this massive over-investment and kick ourselves for making so much expensive electronics waste.