Philip Greenspun’s Weblog
A Massachusetts town spends its tax dollars telling residents how to dodge La Migra
Science proves that the U.S. needs immigrant workers; U.S. companies say that they don’t need more workers
Bill Gates: Climate change is a crisis, but not such a bad crisis that anyone should stop flying Gulfstreams
Algebra: WNBA = 4*NBA
The government is required to pay Americans who don’t work (SNAP) and forbidden to pay Americans who do work (air traffic controllers)
Where are the 8K computer monitors and televisions?
Peasant vs. Elite electricity rates in New Jersey
Why won’t airlines give interest-free loans to air traffic controllers who are working without pay with pay
What is Kamala Harris doing now?
Replacementocracy
An immigrant will take a Black man’s job today?
Are the Japanese way behind American car companies in self-driving?
ChatGPT prevents users from WrongThink
If Tesla full self-driving is so great why hasn’t any other automaker licensed it?
The death of two Harvard undergraduates, William Cowper Boyden III and William Stanley North III
Forced masking is back in California
Today’s resilient children and the Addams Family
My college application recommendation letter from 1979
Report from the trenches: The post-Trump de-woked Smithsonian (Vol II)
Number of Americans dependent on food stamps has been reduced from 17 million in 2000 to only 42 million today
Immigration kills pride in paying income tax?
Why won’t rich states fund SNAP and other welfare programs during the federal shutdown?
Fat Leonard
Honda Odyssey calls in an airstrike on its own AGM battery
Grandson of the National Gallery donor is now funding the U.S. military
Minivan news for the 2026 model year
Get ready for the World Series with Queer Sports Romance?
Report from the trenches: The post-Trump de-woked Smithsonian (Vol I)
Henry B. Plant Museum in Tampa
Multiculturalism comes to the old neighborhood
Ample qualifications to run a $100 million AI startup
Inheriting money from the UK branch of the Greenspun family
#TrustTheScience, peanut allergy edition
Hillwood Estate in Northwest DC
“No Kings” playlist
How was the immigration of Mahmoud Amin Ya’qub al-Muhtadi supposed to benefit Americans?
MIT decries inequality and also wants federal money diverted from poorer-than-average states
The New York Times called for an “uprising” six months ago
Zohran Mamdani hates Israel for perpetrating “genocide” and loves FDR
Is it unconstitutional to pay federal workers for not working during the shutdown?
Rich inequality-haters are upset about getting less federal money
Immigrants expand our economy, but millions of immigrants exiting the U.S. don’t shrink our economy
Reparations from the Gates Foundation for every Black American who is forced to buy a new PC due to lack of security support for Windows 10?
Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine
Titania McGrath on the Israel-Hamas deal
Emperor Sonos S2 has no clothes?
“Inhuman treatment” of immigrants in the U.S.
María Corina Machado’s Nobel Peace Prize
Equal Protection Clause as implemented by the City of Cambridge (buy stuff from women)
Nobel-grade Science as a career
Oregon governor’s primary qualification is lesbianism?
Reengineering science education to concentrate on the unknown
The soybean crisis that has left soybean prices unchanged
Two-year anniversary of the Gazans’ October 7 attacks
A visit to Providence, Rhode Island (Part 2)
Immigrants don’t commit crime because criminals aren’t “immigrants”
Allergies at the Gender Expansive Playdate
A visit to Providence, Rhode Island (Part 1)
Pre-Mamdani Election Reading: King of Kings
Money Illusion 101: Ricky Gervais’s New York apartment that fell 45 percent from its 2008 value
If marijuana stores were “essential” could Donald Trump keep our national parks open during the government shutdown?
Government restart or Hamas deal will happen first?
Desperate enough to rent a billboard…
Hollywood, Yale, and the United Nations adopt my downdraft paint booth classroom idea, five years later
White House plan to help Gazans prep for river-to-the-sea liberation
Will AI make conscientiousness and organization more or less valuable?
Current stock market valuations explained