Jon Evans
@rezendi
engineer / novelist, occasional journalist / CTO / archivist / peripatetist; see
I'm not sure why this is surprising? (from www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...)
probably worth spotlighting (Green is widely and highly regarded and the opposite of an apologist for anyone and anything, for context)
Man, writing is such a tough business. If you're at all plugged into it as an industry you see this sort of thing a *lot*. www.gofundme.com/f/help-richa...
fine, FINE, Vozinha vs. Messi in a World Cup knockout tie is genuinely storybook stuff
This (from today's "Analysing Africa" Economist newsletter) is something I've been saying for years - over the decades NGOs (inadvertently) drained nation-state capacity, which was a big reason the USAID cuts were so devastating
Americans really don't want to hear that NASA is incompetent, but NASA has been incompetent for decades now (from mceglowski.substack.com/p/who-is-the...)
North of Larnaka in Cyprus there is an absolutely gargantuan oceanside development zone, still in the digging-things-up stage, called "Land of Tomorrow," whose banners promise "new life, by the sea," and I just wonder whether its braintrust has seen Blade Runner.
The crosstabs here (from www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2026/2/... ) are kinda wild; when was the last time there was a big new topic so orthogonal to the usual political lines in hyperpartisan America?
International travel is so illuminating, you get to see how the rest of the world lives
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU remains the greatest movie of the 2010s. Also Boots Riley clearly has a very fine haberdasher.
Uhhhhhh IANAL but it seems to me that the whole point of contractual language is to avoid broad unwritten "of course we all understand that" interpretations
Well ... that's just the 18-month-ago phase shift. Ask the software engineers in your life about the December 2025 phase shift. Typical commentary from an infosec professionals Slack I'm on: