Somehow it's the 3rd day of 2025, and I still don't have my flying car. Or my reliable high-speed regional trains. Only a few of these stories help:
- James Carville admits he got the 2024 election wrong.
- Matt Ford thinks "John Roberts is imagining things."
- A new book by Anita Say Chan equates the tech-bro culture with 20th-century eugenics.
- Molly White examines Elon Musk's war on Wikipedia.
- The US Surgeon General has called for adding cancer warnings to alcohol labels.
- Brazil's experiment in abolishing daylight saving time has gone as most of us who understand time zones would have predicted.
- Shayla Love looks into our invisible habits.
I'm also spending some time looking over the Gazetteer that underpins Weather Now. In trying to solve one problem, I discovered another problem, which suggests I may need to re-import the whole thing. At the moment it has fewer than 100,000 rows, and the import code upserts (attempts to update before inserting) by default. More details as the situation warrants.