Anil Das
@anildas.com
My favorite XKCD ever!
xkcd.com/3101/
xkcd.com/3101/
Good Science
xkcd.com
June 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My favorite XKCD ever!
xkcd.com/3101/
xkcd.com/3101/
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I forget who - I think a libertarian - tweeted once "my most right wing take is we should have open borders to triple global GDP. my most left wing take is we should have open borders because the status quo is a massive human rights violation"
Anyway, I can whinge about immigration all day long. What's distressing is that even since our book came out 7 years ago, it seems just about everyone has pulled away from the vision of a more open world. It's like the only issue that unites starry-eyed idealists and grumpy economists.
June 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
I forget who - I think a libertarian - tweeted once "my most right wing take is we should have open borders to triple global GDP. my most left wing take is we should have open borders because the status quo is a massive human rights violation"
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This is what's been driving me f'ing crazy about the Democrats. They ceded the immigration debate to the GOP for no reason. Immigration is a net positive to this country and it's not even close. We have a broken immigration system but the problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicians.
kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes
June 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This is what's been driving me f'ing crazy about the Democrats. They ceded the immigration debate to the GOP for no reason. Immigration is a net positive to this country and it's not even close. We have a broken immigration system but the problem isn't the immigrants, it's the politicians.
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Working on some of my famous realistic dialog
May 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Working on some of my famous realistic dialog
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I praise Pete Hegseth in today's Daily Beast.
OPINION | As Pete Hegseth's job hangs by a thread, the defense secretary demonstrates that one not need talent, nor discipline, nor intellect to rise to great heights, writes @michaelianblack.bsky.social.
The Defense Our Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Deserves
Here is a man who has demonstrated that one not need talent, nor discipline, nor intellect to rise to this nation’s greatest heights. There’s a truly Trumpian life lesson to learned here.
www.thedailybeast.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I praise Pete Hegseth in today's Daily Beast.
Saying what experienced software developers already know. They're just going to muck it up!
hackaday.com/2025/04/16/p...
hackaday.com/2025/04/16/p...
Porting COBOL Code And The Trouble With Ditching Domain Specific Languages
Whenever the topic is raised in popular media about porting a codebase written in an ‘antiquated’ programming language like Fortran or COBOL, very few people tend to object to this noti…
hackaday.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Saying what experienced software developers already know. They're just going to muck it up!
hackaday.com/2025/04/16/p...
hackaday.com/2025/04/16/p...
Read this today in Wired. Great article about the coming collapse and tools to recover. Go Forth!
www.wired.com/story/forth-...
www.wired.com/story/forth-...
The Best Programming Language for the End of the World
Once the grid goes down, an old programming language called Forth—and a new operating system called Collapse OS—may be our only salvation.
www.wired.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Read this today in Wired. Great article about the coming collapse and tools to recover. Go Forth!
www.wired.com/story/forth-...
www.wired.com/story/forth-...
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Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Threaten Earth (@zachweinersmith.bsky.social and my latest for @thebulletin.org)
thebulletin.org/2025/03/mars...
thebulletin.org/2025/03/mars...
Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth
Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—it's a risk to Earthlings everywhere.
thebulletin.org
March 20, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk’s Plans for Mars Threaten Earth (@zachweinersmith.bsky.social and my latest for @thebulletin.org)
thebulletin.org/2025/03/mars...
thebulletin.org/2025/03/mars...
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It goes without saying but it’s important to keep saying it.
So it goes without saying, but let's say it anyway: the concentration of attacks on trans people isn't because trans people are the only people fascists hate (although they absolutely do hate them). It's because they're the people they think non-fascists are least likely to defend.
March 8, 2025 at 6:11 PM
It goes without saying but it’s important to keep saying it.
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Bonus panel here: smbc-comics.com/comic/touch-2
February 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Bonus panel here: smbc-comics.com/comic/touch-2
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Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.
January 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Over on the other site Elon Musk said that DOGE stopped $50M of condoms from being delivered to Gaza which Trump the repeated several times but it turns out that was the number for all contraceptive support from USAID everywhere on Earth, of which none went to Palestinians.
At the feeder at sunset today. Photo is cropped only, not retouched. That brilliant, flaming throat is real.
January 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
At the feeder at sunset today. Photo is cropped only, not retouched. That brilliant, flaming throat is real.
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Christmas Tradition: smbc-comics.com/comic/tradit...
December 9, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Christmas Tradition: smbc-comics.com/comic/tradit...
"Earth is a big planet, but in reality, at any one time, you can only see a very tiny part of it (about 0.00001 percent for a height of 1.5 m)." or 4.4km, what the average US citizen walks daily. At that rate, one could circle the earth in only 100,000 days. That's about 274 years.
How Far Away Is the Horizon?
The edge of the world is closer than you think, and simple geometry proves it
www.scientificamerican.com
January 27, 2024 at 12:59 AM
"Earth is a big planet, but in reality, at any one time, you can only see a very tiny part of it (about 0.00001 percent for a height of 1.5 m)." or 4.4km, what the average US citizen walks daily. At that rate, one could circle the earth in only 100,000 days. That's about 274 years.