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Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/

"If the devil wanted to destroy a generation, he could just give them all smartphones," writes TPN member @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social. www.afterbabel.com/p/the-devils...

This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year. Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.

That arc toward justice won't bend itself

“If you believe the MAGA postliberal project is real, then liberalism must understand MAGA is not a reaction to economic consequences or “elite failures,” but an affirmative preference for illiberalism. Liberalism must stop apologizing. Stop excusing. And fight.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-and-l...

STAR OF PEACE (2002) Acrylic on Panel - 18” x 12” The holidays are a magical time when we allow ourselves to set aside cynicism and doubt. 1/2

More proof we're living in a cyberpunk novel: Shark robots are now patrolling undersea cables to protect them from sabotage. www.eweek.com/news/greysha...

Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market

Canada's move marks "the first time a third country will formally participate in the [EU's] flagship joint procurement initiative." @politico.com #Canada www.politico.eu/article/cana...

Alan Daniels, Blade Runner, 1982

Start your week with Prince smoking the While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo

Machine-learning algorithms can help to identify traces of life in ancient rocks — expanding the ways in which scientists can look for life on Earth and beyond go.nature.com/4roXrIF

There are two types of skull planet. Art is by Ray Feibush (left) and Bruce Pennington. Check out these illustrations along with 400 more in my new art book - "Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s" is out today! tinyurl.com/70sscifi

You can take the boy out of Southside Chicago, but you can't take ...

Last chance to sign up for my art blog newsletter before the next issue's out tomorrow, all about pastoral scenes in sci-fi! 70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io Here's a sneak peek: Art by John Harris, John Berkey, David A Hardy, and Manchu

I happily donate to Wikipedia, incredible resource in this day and age especially.

“.. Only 1 in 9 people (11%) changed residences last year — a record low in data going back to 1948.” @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Record covers by Hiroshi Nagai, 1980’s

Cityscapes by Hiroshi Nagai, 1980’s/90’s

A 2500 year old letter from a soldier named Hananyahu, deciphered through super-modern multispectral imaging, begins with “If there is any wine, send” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #grunts #invinoveritas #dogsofwar #pluscachange

Rumi

Who’s gonna tell ‘em

Another outcome for which the Kremlin worked, lest we forget. Described in "Road to Unfreedom."

This is the scandal. Trump isn’t targeting dangerous people. He’s targeting peaceful immigrants. Almost exclusively.

He is risen

China’s fertility rate has fallen to one, continuing a long decline that began before and continued after the one-child policy— The 1970s were a decade shaped by fears about overpopulation. As the world’s most populous country, China was never far from the debate.

Site in Kenya reveals 300,000 years of uninterrupted toolmaking. Archaeologists uncovered nearly 1,300 stone tools spanning 2.44 to 2.75 million years, showing that early hominins taught and replicated the same techniques across roughly 10,000 generations. buff.ly/zQvktxJ #ShareGoodNewsToo

"We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is." -Carl Sagan, Billions & Billions

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

Something deeply moving about Lincoln making Thanksgiving a national holiday in the midst of the Civil War because we may “expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom” and “God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.”

Signing giclee prints of the artwork what I did for @aptshadow.bsky.social’s ‘Terrible Worlds’ anthology/the book itself

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut Education and Science Research the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Ok one more video. the most beautiful fluke I've seen. edited for EXTRA BEAUTY!!!

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We wanted to understand how regular Americans feel about the Trump administration. So we talked to three Russia-funded content farmers at a tea house in Islamabad.

It produces a performative ecosystem. Actors aren’t communicating; they’re staging provocations for yield. The result is disordered discourse: signals detached from truth, identity shaped by escalation, and a feedback loop where the performance eclipses reality itself.

Sam is right. DOGE did exactly what they wanted it to do- hurt poor people, destroyed faith in government, enriched Elon.

When Tony Blair came to power in 1997, the UK economy was bigger than China and India combined.

missed this. dems should do it regardless of the motivations. plurality single-winner primaries are dumb www.axios.com/2025/11/24/d...

“Democratic politicians are using the ‘F’ word too much because they think it makes them look cool. It just looks desperate and forced. Say it sparingly and authentically.”

99 years old. Her purpose. Her ikigai

A 35-day deep-sea expedition in the Southern Ocean has uncovered 30 new species: from a carnivorous “death-ball” sponge to iridescent armoured worms, black corals and even the first-ever live footage of a colossal squid in its natural habitat. buff.ly/9uVWJvN #ShareGoodNewsToo

Wild mammals once dominated the mammal kingdom. Not anymore. Today, humans and our livestock account for 98% of the world’s land mammals by weight, while wild land mammals are just 2%.