Nilay Patel

Our friends Casey Newton and Kevin Roose at Hard Fork make the obvious point.

You know, when I wrote “A vote for Trump is a vote for measles,” I was not expecting the campaign to follow up by putting Trump transition co-chair Howard Lutnick on CNN to falsely claim vaccines cause autism, a thing he says he learned by spending a couple hours with RFK Jr. Vaccines do not cause autism, but childhood diseases cause death. Don’t get it twisted.

Apple has long loved unlabeled chip performance charts, but this chart from the M4 iMac intro video claiming a faster chip can make you 1.7x more productive in Excel is incredible.

Mike Masnick riffs on this excellent Hank Green video about ballot design and lands the best shot at “first principles thinking” I’ve read in a while:

Elon Musk, somewhat incredibly, seems to lack the basic intellectual curiosity to ever try to seek out why something is the way it is. He always assumes he can somehow “reason from first principles” as to why things are the way they are. This makes him ever more susceptible to the dumbest fucking conspiracy theories around. He’s constructed for himself a media environment mostly designed to reinforce those biases, rather than challenge them.

Worth a read!