Adrien Delessert

Innovation in lightweight gear for wilderness backpacking has massively improved the experience of hiking and camping. In 2003 my pack and tent together weighed ~15lbs/7kg. Today that’s under 5lbs/2.5kg. Basically totally transformational when you’re carrying it all day long. Truly fantastic.

If only this wasn't a seemingly evergreen book, as devastating, relevant, and important today as it was 10 years ago. bookshop.org/p/books/miss...

À quelques semaines d’une introduction en bourse record, Anthropic inscrit le risque d’extinction de l’humanité dans la documentation fournie aux marchés financiers. Pour la dernière fois : les discours apocalyptiques servent le récit de toute-puissance des industriels. www.ft.com/content/c768...

I've been saying for a while that the motion to scare people about AI's capabilities has a clear line straight to "too big to fail bailouts": 1. Get people scared 2. Gov't bans competition and blesses major labs as only safe providers 3. Financials fall apart in a year or two 4. Public bailout

I lit a fire in the woods behind my house. When my neighbor asked if I knew anything about how his garage burned down, I told him the fire I'd lit in a pile of leaves and promptly ignored must have done that on its own accord. The government should really do something.

Unnerving to see the extremely weird stuff I ran into at the bottom of a deep, dark internet rabbit hole many years ago come bubbling back up like toxic gas in the words of the world's wealthiest and most powerful, the front page of the NYT, glossy magazine covers, and group chats with friends.

No New Yorker should lose their life just trying to get around our city. We refuse to accept preventable tragedy as an inevitable part of living in New York.  That's why we’ve announced more than 100 policies to make our streets safer over the next 10 years.

Ridiculous phrasing here. As if tariffs and the war in Iran are somehow good things that the rest of the world is just whining about??

Barely comprehensible how little learning and introspection there has been within the DNC given the last 10 years. I genuinely don’t understand how you can review recent happenings and decide what’s needed is more central planning and blessed candidates.

The administration claims a deal with the algae is imminent, but sources within the green slime say no such deal has yet to be proposed.

Probably my favorite scam email sender name and subject line ever… From: The One Who Always Has Tea Subject: I’m still trying to understand how this happened

15 years in NYC and one thing I have not gotten used to is the widespread practice of double parking in the middle of a busy street (and/or crosswalk, sometimes sidewalk) for an hour or more while attending church. Just ridiculous. Almost too on the nose, honestly.

Absolute perfection in the "customers also bought section" for this automated breakfast sandwich making appliance.

New phone for the first time in years and it is WILD that presumably whole teams of people decided that, when you’re playing audio, there should be this little dancing waveform visualizer animation at the top of the screen that can be hidden but never permanently disabled. Apple is off the rails.

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

Few things annoy me more than having to listen to a hovering news helicopter buzzing away in the sky on an otherwise quiet morning while it gets footage of a TRAFFIC JAM.

I joke about this stuff but 15 minutes before the Trump post hit the tape there was a surge in e-mini price and volume. Someone knew and traded.

While the big headlines latch onto every nonsensical word out of Trump’s mouth I’m finding these smaller-headline reports about oil shortages awfully reminiscent of Jan/Feb 2020 in a “Wile E Coyote is still running in mid-air“ kind of way. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/b...

Some of my best runs over the years have been enjoyed while listening to @michaelpollan.bsky.social talk about our minds and bodies as I slowly convert the rubber of my shoes into endorphins in my brain—this latest is no exception! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Quelle belle victoire !  Ce soir Paris a choisi. Et Paris a choisi l'avenir avec la gauche démocratique et l’écologie. Merci aux Parisiennes et aux Parisiens. Je remercie les électrices et les électeurs qui se sont déplacés en nombre pour exprimer leur choix sur l'avenir de Paris.

What really jumped out to me from the NYC DOT report this stat came from is how fast the risk ramps up—at 30 speed camera tickets/year the risk is *50 times* the average. The government knows which drivers are extremely disproportionately dangerous, they just getting them off the road.

No more talk of "transit death spirals" in New York City. Since Central Business District Tolling Program (congestion pricing) was introduced in 2025, ridership on #NYC subway is up to 1.28 billion/yr—a 7.7% increase. 72,600 fewer cars enter Lower Manhattan/day. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Once upon a time I worked at a tiny cafe that was mis-delivered like 300lbs of "cooked ham in water" intended for a nearby school. I don't know why someone actually accepted the delivery, but it was a mad scramble to find enough fridge space for it all so it didn't go to waste. Dip sounds better!

It's really quite remarkable how the whole "Republican leadership is good for jobs & the economy" thing persists in the American psyche.

fwiw Americans are very bad at understanding that the 2 things you're not supposed to discuss - politics and religion - infuse literally everything that the country has done, is doing, and will do it's the water we swim in, which is why we don't see it

I love the steady pace of "your government at work" type videos coming out of Mamdani's office—perhaps the kind of thing that could have wider-reaching positive impacts for civic engagement and trust in institutions. www.reddit.com/r/nyc/commen...

If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.

Quite the email strategy from @theinformation.com: enter your email to read an article and they send you 10 emails in 24 hours, and there's no single unsubscribe button, you have to manually uncheck each "list". 🤬

Blades "air mobility activation" for the Ryder Cup was a goddamn plague. A nonstop stream of extremely loud helicopters flying between Manhattan's heliports and the golf course in Farmingdale, focused over a few routes in Brooklyn, Queens, and Nassau. Here's a @flightradar24.com timelapse.

Research has found that, though open offices often foster a symbolic sense of organizational mission, they are damaging to workers’ attention spans, productivity, and creative thinking. So why does the open-office plan persist? nyer.cm/voWmBqs

Basil

This @today.yougov.com poll is why I'm going to become the Joker. The US murder rate in 2024 was likely down nearly 30 percent relative to 2020 and down nearly 50 percent relative to 1990.

The US traffic fatality rate is 12.7 per 100k. Canada is 5.3. If we were as good as Canada (not the best in the world), we would save about 24k lives annually. Maybe the Sec. of Transportation could focus on that. Total US homicides are 23k.

One of the things about JD Vance is that he is completely 100% aware that what he is doing is evil and has made a deliberate, conscious choice to do evil to get power. He’s not self-deluded or dumb. He hasn’t drunk Kool-Aid. He’s decided to do evil for power.

I mean, come on folks

Here’s your free link to the Trump/ Epstein story www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Today there will be *spins small wheel* 200% tariffs on *spins large wheel* sending emails to Americans I am the President

In 2021, Biden admin awarded Kerr County TX $10m in American Rescue Plan Act funds, which could have been used for flood prevention infrastructure. But commissioners, facing political pressure from conservative residents, opted not to pursue warning system. www.texastribune.org/2025/07/10/t...

As countries across the world turn to renewable energy, there is a chance for a deep reordering of the earth’s power systems, in every sense of the word “power,” offering a plausible check to not only the climate crisis but to autocracy.