I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

, "The number one [takeaway] would be that just because the AI is saying, very convincingly, that it is seeing something, it doesn’t mean that it is actually seeing that.”'

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

We must fix our broken politics. Here are my 7 guiding principles for how we can do this.

Almost none... racing to build market-friendly humanoid robots have included olfactory sensors in their designs. One exception is the unfortunately named California startup Ainos — a fusion of “AI” and “nose” — which plans to integrate smell sensors into environmental safety robots in Japan. 🤣 🤖

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

some of you on here have never teleported to a waffle house and it shows

The wizard is having lunch with the librarians. He brought taro and they brought watercresses, cucumbers and chicken.

Best Guinness sign, Cahersiveen. 3rd Great grandparents married here (town, not bar - probably) - Thomas Keliher + Ellen Clifford.

In 2nd grade (early 70s) in suburban NJ, we were doing a *Unit on Pollution* so we took the train to Hoboken to observe some.

Have you ever seen a daffodil like this? It's called a 'Petticoat daffodil'. 📷Mike Selby

I salute the pedantry of the child’s new toy.

The wizard is having lunch with the librarians. He brought noodles and they brought alfalfa sprouts, prickly pear fruits and chicken.

Comet-like this reappears in my head at long intervals, always welcome

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

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Delightful ‘Dancing Dogs’ figurine. Blackware ceramic, 200 BC - 200 AD. Comala, Late Formative Period. Colima, West Mexico. 📷 Princeton University Art Museum artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collecti... #Archaeology

"At press time, sources confirmed Mueller was on his hands and knees pleading with the Wuthering Heights director to check out their vast array of Colleen Hoover titles."

Moths are excellent pets as they ask for nothing and all you have to do to acquire lots of them is open a window and switch on seven lamps and put a classic early Leonard Cohen LP on at a pleasant volume.

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

What happened to Twitter and what is happening to CBS news is what they fist tried to impose on universities (and still wish to do so). In every case, the project is to turn vital public information systems into corporate-controlled gateways of censorship and propaganda.

Good morning from everyone at the Hall including Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson's mouse. She's doing very well she says and thanks you for asking.

Finished Dominic Sandbrook's epic 'Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979' which somehow managed to get me emotionally invested in the fortunes of Denis Healy and Jim Callaghan.

Wow, this is worth reading:

they switched drivers at a rest stop and the new driver is telling everyone that they’re the ones on the wrong bus??

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

When you think you couldn't love @kenjennings.bsky.social more...

Donald Trump is trying to con Americans into believing that immigrants are the greatest threat to our democracy in order to hide the the fact that Donald Trump and his corruption is the greatest threat to our democracy.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Tired: Everything evolves to be a crab. Wired: Everything evolves to eat ants.

Tomorrow is the 5th anniversary of the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. I’m proud of the work we did on the House January 6th Committee. January 6th should’ve been the end of a political movement based on a cult of personality, conspiracism, extremism & lies. Instead, it is now in power.

have i ever said how much i love Waffle House?

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

My response to anything over the next two weeks

If you are in the US and you would like to send a message to your elected representative about the proposed dissolution of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, @agu.org makes it easy with a template here: agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #AGU25

This harrowing @propublica story about the carnage created by Trump’s USAID cuts in South Sudan won’t get as much attention as his deranged Rob Reiner rant but they’re both stories about a president who just doesn’t give a shit about other humans. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

Authorities said he had no signs of injury “other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices.

April 1805. Charlie Brown is now master of Europe. Only the British fleet stands before him- Oceans are now battlefields.

good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...

🐸 The frog book: New YorkDoubleday, Page1907 [Source]

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

There is no “liberal” or “woke” overtaking of American higher ed. The dominant trend in our time is the opposite: widespread state censorship of academic freedom, free expression, and evidence-based learning or research. The dominant trend in higher education is authoritarian--full stop. 2/

US news: everyone in government is a pedo, armed men stealing kids off the street Canadian news:

oh they're calling NJ for sherrill