Most of the time my thoughts aren't long enough for a blog post. My shortform notes get posted on Mastodon and Bluesky, and also wind up here.
I think what any company that wants to make a multi-billion dollar investment in domestic manufacturing that will take years to come to fruition and many more years that that to earn out is looking for is constantly-shifting decisions based on the ever-changing, chaotic whims of a mad king.
posted at 12:41PM on April 9, 2025
I think what any company looking to make a multi-billion dollar investment in domestic manufacturing that will take years to come to fruition and many many more years that that to earn out is the ever-changing chaotic whims of a mad king.
posted at 12:35PM on April 9, 2025
I have so many pals that in the last decade or so have gone into small-scale manufacturing: clicky keyboards, weirdo boardgames, hipster toys, niche electronics... every single one of them is entirely, 100% fucked right now.
posted at 8:17AM on April 9, 2025
I hope the me on the parallel earth where none of this happened is having the best fucking time.
posted at 7:26AM on April 9, 2025
January 2020 marked the year I was really gonna get my shit together. That didn't work out so well. Finally, after years of effort lining things back up, I was gonna really get my shit together in 2025.
posted at 7:09AM on April 9, 2025
It's OK I'm sure we didn't need coffee, bananas, literally all electronics, or the rule of law anyway.
posted at 7:01PM on April 8, 2025
Definitely emotionally fraught enough to really completely allow the Arsenal Football Club to fully destroy my afternoon.
posted at 2:06PM on April 8, 2025
Completely uninterested in getting out of bed this morning.
posted at 6:36AM on April 8, 2025
Do me a favor and vote for Rebel Spirit in the Webby Awards. Literally everything is so shitty and I want this goddamn award. Thank you! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVot...
posted at 9:00PM on April 7, 2025
Sure there's gonna be some short-term pain, but in 20-30 years we'll have established all the expertise, materials, and infrastructure we need to build and assemble a $25,000 iPhone right here in the USA.
posted at 5:10PM on April 7, 2025
Everything is a hellscape but I've compulsively gone to the art museum more times in the last month than the previous five years so at least there's that.
posted at 1:38PM on April 6, 2025
People in the streets is unequivocally good.
posted at 4:20PM on April 5, 2025
If you've never taken apart a piece of electronics before, it's worth doing for a lot of reasons but today it's a good lesson in how every single piece inside it, and there are a lot, was manufactured separately, often by an entirely separate company in a different country, down to the screws.
posted at 9:29AM on April 5, 2025
The Verge completely owned the story of the last time Trump tried to bring manufacturing back to America. www.theverge.com/c/2150796...
posted at 9:17AM on April 5, 2025
Every ad during the Premier League half is for a company that is now completely fucked.
posted at 8:12AM on April 5, 2025
Do you miss American manufacturing or do you miss large union memberships and income tax rates on the rich well north of 50%?
posted at 4:26PM on April 4, 2025
Sitting eating my little $1 packet of Indonesian noodles and realizing these tariffs are going to completely destroy H-mart aren't they.
posted at 12:26PM on April 4, 2025
I think reporting out how the unpopulated penguin islands landed on the tariff list would probably answer a lot more questions than just that one.
posted at 7:11AM on April 4, 2025
I'm not going to read your "how to defeat fascism" post if it's on Substack, a platform that actively supports fascists.
posted at 6:50PM on April 3, 2025
Driving the war rig to Costco.
posted at 4:04PM on April 3, 2025