GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

A lil’ printing primer. Two versions of a book. Same page count, but very different spine widths! How could this be? Is it magic?

"100+ bought in past month" You don't say.

America, there's something you should know. The top three kinds of books that young people (under 25) offer to sell me on Dec. 26 are: - "Chicken Soup for the _____" - "Oh, the Places You'll Go" - Books of New Yorker cartoons I'm just saying. Keep it in mind for graduations and birthdays, too.

An article to keep in mind during marking season *sharpens red pencil* www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

part of me wants to write something reflecting on this deranged year and another part thinks living through it once was enough

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

A bit of cheese is happening friends. Bottom left mont d'or , top left ossau iraty, bottom right compte, top right blue d'auvergne.

low stakes posting today reminds me that 1) Facebook is for talking to people you know IRL but don’t like and 2) microblogging sites are for talking to people you don’t know but do like. we forget these things at our peril

this is what some of you look like in your chore coats

A few years ago there was a woman who posted something along the lines of “so I went on a date with a guy and he just sent me a wheel of cheese???” I think expecting everyone to go wow what a weirdo but instead everyone was like “u should marry the cheese man”

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

Winter solstice in Edinburgh.

American White Ibis, Celery Fields, Sarasota Florida. #photography #birds

From one of our Disquiet Luso-American writing fellows: How Should Portuguese Americans Be Classified? - The Atlantic share.google/wNFlulZgxYnZ...

and here i was hoping maybe we wouldn’t need to do are-the-portuguese-white discourse 🤦

This is a moment when the US right will shrink the circle of whiteness to exclude people from the Iberian peninsula.

O, be some other name!

here we go...

Oh no oh no shades of Big Dan's. #Brown

Rick Nicita, CAA agent, on signing David Lynch in 1981: "The first time I met David, he came into my office wearing a string around his neck with a pen dangling from it. I said, ‘What’s that?’ and he said, ‘It’s a pen to take notes.’ I asked, ‘Do you take notes often?’ He said, ‘No, never.’"

When an Omaha mother discovered high levels of lead in her son’s blood, she looked up EPA soil tests and discovered potentially harmful levels of the metal in her yard. City officials said her home didn’t qualify for a government-funded cleanup. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

"Unlike other chatbots, ChatPerson’s answers to your queries are provided by real humans. Specifically, it is staffed by writers, artists, and researchers whose livelihoods are in peril thanks to chatbots."

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

I think this is something that AI bros really don’t get, how interconnected the creative industry is and how a lot of people are happily wearing multiple hats. So every time they say “hey authors, who needs illustrators anymore!” there will ALWAYS be someone who is both, going “hey fuck you too!”

Oona has so much legs!

i signed up for this site that helps connect you with volunteer opportunities, and holy shit look what they just sent me

Time for some cheese news, I think www.sciencealert.com/a-taste-for-...

"Higher intake of high-fat cheese and high-fat cream was associated with a lower risk of all-cause dementia." Results of a 25-year prospective study of ~27,000 participants. The purported benefit was not linked to APOE4 carriers or low-fat cheese intake www.neurology.org/doi/full/10....

“The perfect five would be a hard, a soft, a blue, a sheep and a goat’s,” says Carver, who factors in 50-60g of each #cheese per person. “The general consensus is 30-40g, but at Christmas you need more than you can fathomably eat.” www.theguardian.com/food/2025/de...

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

Have you thought about a "publishers against AI" Bootcamp? You could run topics like: Fighting slop; protecting your work. Fighting AI with AI: is it a Red Queen's Race? Fundamentals of copyright protection. Spellcheck, grammar check; where is the line?

Some good news. Thank you Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for sticking to your campaign commitment. We need NYC residents to pressure the City Council to deliver. Help by sending a letter to your CM: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

I’m also curious about which parts of publishing only need to be at BEST 70% correct. Distribution? Paying authors? Formatting? And what happens when the peddlers start charging after you’ve turned your workflow over to them?

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

i love how poetry is (all at once) overthinking and overfeeling and overlanguaging

Certain numbers accompany us through our lives, connected to our memories of people and places, of significant events. What numbers remain with you decades later? And why? This poem is taken from Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), my second full collection...

A primeira edição do festival literário organizado pela Fundação Livraria Lello decorrerá no Porto e em Matosinhos entre os dias 24 e 30 de Junho.

Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?

"Things can happen" is going on a cake when the thing happens. #brown

guys I need you to know that Cougar Gold is, actually, the greatest cheese of all time. all love to my homies at Tillamook and I know I’m a bad Oregonian for saying this but Cougar Gold will rewrite your cheese brain chemistry

Law enforcement teams up with Washington Post to make a mess of investigation into Brown University shooting: defector.com/law-enforcem...

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.