There are two versions of Microsoft Outlook on Artemis II. Last night, neither of them worked, and Houston had to remote in to address the problem.

either way

sHoUlD tHeRe Be pOlItIcS iN SF oh great god. lol mate I write romance novels--little stories about 💕two people falling in love💖--and I can't think of a single book that hasn't required me to engage hard with the politics of *something*. Class, gender, race, law, policing, education, economics.

Statistically speaking what distinguishes economics as a field is higher likelihood to have parents with graduate degree and a lack of diversity: mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

A helpful thread to revisit with some accounts apparently compromised today! Please do turn on two-factor authentication if you haven't already. You can find the setting here: bsky.app/settings/pri...

this show about a nun fighting an AI is, i'm not kidding, also about a search for the literal holy grail and the Knights Templar #medievalsky

the actual Governor of Philadilly

If you need an antidote to doomscrolling today, spend some time with Mary Akers. Her story of caring for the uncared-for is extraordinary. Gift link below. 🧪🌎🦑 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m... #animals #wildlife #ocean #marinebiology #conservation #pets #giftlink /fin

The assumption that hermit crabs are short-lived has led to all sorts of abuse. Hermit crabs sold as pets are taken from their family groups in the wild; some are poached illegally. #wildlife #animals 🧪🌎🦑 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

Hermit crabs can live 50 years. They live in social groups & communicate with chirps. In the wild, they migrate long distances--so pet crabs thrive in large tanks with an exercise wheel. They can switch sexes. They need deep sand where they can molt. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

A 🧵on #conservation and humane treatment of one of the world's most overlooked, underdog pet #animals... 🧪🌎🦑 When I first met Crab Con founder Mary Akers in 2024, I was floored by what she told me... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/m...

This, but for everything.

Now for the Wednesday crowd!

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

How your email finds me

Now reposting for the Monday evening crowd!

Reposting for the Monday crowd!

My second class for the Ad Astra Institute is next Saturday! As You Know, Bob: What Exposition Can Do For You ($25) will discuss different techniques to convey information to the audience in speculative fiction. Sociologists and philosophers have thought a lot about how information is disseminated;

I've been watching the second season of Deadloch on Amazon Prime, which is great so far, and The Legend of Zang Hai on Viki, which is Xiao Zhan's new series, a historical mystery/intrigue for revenge kind of like The Double. It's really good. Reaction to the RSV vaccine is pretty mild so far.

well done everybody

Galton's eugenics should be understood through the lens of race, class, gender AND disability: the latter especially so, given how the gAI industry uses #DisabilityAsDiversion (@fractalecho.bsky.social) to bypass and short circuit legitimate critiques.

Holy shit y’all I just got an email I’d like to nominate for the "Wildest All-Faculty Email" Hall of Fame

I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄

Ok got to a better spot We have both sundogs, a full halo, and an inverted halo! Incredibly rare - don't think I've ever seen the inverted before @capitalweather.bsky.social

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

This is to answer one question so I couldn't go too deep, but I'm reccing @wolvendamien.bsky.social article: afutureworththinkingabout.com?p=6422 and Justin Brown's siliconcanals.com/sc-d-i-spent...

Saw this over on Masto, was too lazy to copy a link and post it here, glad Mr. Blabalino has done the work for all of us

Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen back to the feed.

His GFM still hasn’t met its goal. Please consider supporting if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-je...

Private money cannot replace public funding of science | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... By Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social

2) lower the temp on your water heater so that if someone were to turn on the hot water and have a medical incident before they got to the cold, they wouldn't scald themself.

I can't read the article, but I'll mention two things that the graphic leaves out, carried from my old day job: 1) change hinges if you need to so that your bathroom doors open outward, not inward, so if someone falls inside you can still open the door 2)(next post)

ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS: Novel Architects Residential Workshop, Lawrence KS, 7/5–7/18. Focusing on structure and the issues unique to long SF/F/H projects, for writers at any level of experience. Details here: kijjohnson.com/teacher/

The 5 biggest obstacles to AI data centers in space There are five main objections to building AI data centers in space. Engineering challenges are one thing. When you need to defy the laws of physics, that's where you get into trouble. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #astro #physics #ai

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

cant.stop.laughing

“Dragon is an equal-opportunity exploiter.” 😂

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men. This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries." "Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife" abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

Can confirm recording will be available shortly!

You know, I'd never considered that I could bird shitpost my way into learning audio production and composition This knowledge may have ramifications, Later

Reminder: this is tomorrow! Registration is $25 to dissuade trolls, video will be available after for the same price. (If you register and attend the zoom, you will also have access to the recording for no additional cost.)

LET'S GOOOO

This is my shocked face: 😐 Look, I love science fiction & desperately want many of its concepts & ideas to be real (but, y'know, w/ the sociotechnical concerns attended to because I Actually love sci-fi). But some people want sci-fi to be real so bad that they ignore obviously over-hyped bullshit