"That's when we learned the importance of correcting these AI-generated reports" www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

A complete rundown of the themes in the 2nd Trump administration... www.electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Item...

I *love* (sarcasm) how mapmyfitness now loads the initial map view to (zooms out)... Baltimore... instead of my profile's setting of Tucson. Way to make sure I'll just use Strava instead, guys.

Prediction: Stranger Things will have a 40th anniversary in 2056, set in the year 2023. Dustin and Eleven will be MAGA.

Does NWS Tucson still produce monthly & seasonal summaries on social media? I don't see any recent ones on FB or their web site.

Bloomberg News: betting against Christ's return yields 5.5% annual interest. (I would add, indefinitely).

"the Great Hunger [the Irish Potato Famine] was a very modern event, and one shaped by a mind-set that is now again in the ascendant" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

How long before 'active shooter' training is an actual video game?

Quiz: The NFL playoffs. Without looking it up, do you know how many wild-card teams make it per division and how the first-round matches are determined?

This was one of the most interesting New Yorker articles of the year... newyorkermag.visitlink.me/rT56lu

Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was six volumes... at this point, the accumulating scandals, outrages, and other debacles of the 2nd Trump administration would have to fill at least one volume....

Tucson trivia: who was General Hitchcock, namesake of the Catalina Highway AKA Mt Lemmon Scenic Byway? A) a Union general B) a Confederate general C) owner of the Tucson Citizen D) first head of the U.S. Army Air Force tucson.com/news/local/s...

Flying out of TIA in the mid-90's, Jerry Mathers in front of me in line, the gate agent says, "Say, aren't you The Beave?" He mumbles something, looks bothered, and moves on...

Best thing about 2025 has got to be Spotify lossless.

Cool junk—10 space planes that never made it to orbit tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...

"Only 3 people mentioned in We Didn't Start the Fire are still alive." www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeau...

How soon until a Stranger Things theme park? I mean, "the upside down" has roller-coaster thrill ride written all over it...

This is why we need writers and poets.

Happy Boxing Day! Let's get ready to rumble! 🥊🥊😉😆

Seattle definitely has seahawks (another name for ospreys), but I'm pretty sure the Carolinas have no panthers, so this is why I think Seattle will win on Sunday. #NFL

kpop demon hunters fireplace or Kilauea episode 39 live?

As the Onion might put it: “Why do these Nazis in my group chats keep using the N-word?” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Another wild outcome with the home team sparking fire late. Bears get onside kick with 2 minutes to go, score their 1st TD—corner of the end zone catch—and it goes to OT. Hard hit on Packers QB and the next snap is fumbled on 4th down. Bears take over, and with a bomb to the end zone, win the game.

Seattle Seahawks, now *1*-172 when down by 15+ points in the 4th quarter... winning 38-37 in OT, overcoming a 16-pt deficit thanks to 3 2-pt conversions, a missed FG by the Rams, and a very questionable "backwards pass" call, in one of the wildest games in a season that has had a few of them. 😉

#qotd "the price of computer memory has tripled because a bunch of memory that hasn't yet been manufactured has been pre-ordered so it can be used in GPUs that aren't yet installed in data centers that haven't been built yet in order to supply a demand that doesn't exist"

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump issues a full pardon to Nick Reiner.

RIP to all the recently murdered. No jokes today.

The original Star Wars is returning to theaters for its' 50th anniversary in 2027... should I get in line now?

Is the world (finally) ready for female gross-out humor? www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...

I love that TIME, in a fairly technical article, feels free to use the term "bollix up", i.e. Pandora will be able to distinguish spectra lines that are "bollixed up" by motions of stellar atmospheres.

Hyperscale www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Which of these is not true? 1. Next year will feature the 100th edition of the UofA-ASU Territorial Cup 2. The Sun Devils were at one time called the Normals 3. Tempe was a 'sundown town' until the 1960's 4. The Sun Devil logo was drawn by Looney Tunes illustrator Chuck Jones

So I'm peeling a pomelo on the kitchen counter and it looks like a damn alien autopsy.

I just realized that '(I Waited All Day For) Sunday Night' and 'I Hate Myself For Loving You' are the same damn song!

World's first trillionaire (or soon to be) predicts end of capitalism... indiandefencereview.com/elon-musk-an...

COP30: World leaders (minus U.S.) finally agree to work on concepts of a plan to eventually begin to reduce fossil fuel consumption...

The .co that is serious about solving global warming... www.politico.com/news/magazin...

So glad the Chiefs are 5-5 and probably won't even make the playoffs for the first time in a decade... www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/n...

Eddington (HBO), one of the worst movies I've seen, not sure what it was trying to say about American society, if anything at all, maybe that we are crazy, confused, dumb, and violent?

Highly recommended: 'Death By Lightning' (Netflix), a 4-part miniseries on the short presidential career of James Garfield. I like most historical dramas, but this one is exceptional.

#qotd "When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope gets going, we'll discover about 1 interstellar comet per month... the fun is really just starting..."

Oh, what's another 30 billion barrels of oil while we're at it... www.chron.com/gulf-coast/a...

A good summary of where we're at with climate change www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Texas wasn't red enough for them, so they moved to Russia... www.chron.com/culture/arti...

Shirt freak-out highlights right-wing hypocrisy. (Though if someone could explain the joke behind the shirt to me, I'd like to know—as far as I can tell, it's along the lines of the there's-someone-I'd-really-pretend-I-murdered). www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

#qotd #trumprx "Finally, what the people have been asking for. A cheaper weight loss drug. Insulin? Food? Equal rights? Naw, give me that fat drug real cheap like."

#qotd "Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023."

Thought provoking! I don't think that current AI is thinking but clearly it is doing a lot more than probabilistic word generation. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...