Brian Patten has died. Thawing Frozen Frogs was given to me as a small child: the first poetry I really *got*. The fact that I had to fish this dog-eared volume out of my son’s bedroom is testament to his gift: surreal, silly, funny, and moving. Sometimes all at once.

Be like Bertrand.

The modern 20-ounce bottle launched Cola-Cola’s iconic shape into the plastic era. It also held more Coke than the glass containers and cans that came before. An excerpt from the new book, 'Consumed.'

Say it with me, kids: There's no scientific or public health body besides RFK Kr.'s HHS stating that using Tylenol while you're pregnant can give your children autism.

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

A lot of the commentators who deride Bluesky as a smaller or less active platform than X are totally clueless about how power on the internet works, which is also how they lost it to the alt-right. Internet culture fractured a while back. Niche spaces are actually the way to grow

The cuts to minority serving colleges are hitting Oklahoma hard, where 13 schools that aren’t TCUs have high Native student populations.

Eight-hour lithium-ion big #battery to be be built in Australia – one of the first in the world – registered with the Australian Energy Market Operator and ready to begin landmark commissioning process. #climate reneweconomy.com.au/australias-f...

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Today, NVIDIA announced a $100 billion investment in OpenAI. The deal centers on deploying 10 gigawatts of NVIDIA systems—millions of GPUs—to power OpenAI’s next-gen models. First phase launches in 2026 on NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform. openai.com/index/openai... 🧵(1/4)

To be clear, there are no data that provide a link between short-term use of Tylenol during pregnancy and autism. In fact, one of the best prospective studies w/ sibling controls, if anything, pointed to a protective effect for use less than 7 days acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Did you know that fevers in early pregnancy also cause genetic mutations in fetuses and resulting developmental abnormalities? Know how we treat and prevent that? Yeah, Tylenol.

The FDA statement ends with a paragraph undermining its own warning. They signal parents to avoid acetaminophen. Except sometimes. And then: No “causal relationship… established” with ADHD or autism AND Alternatives to acetaminophen have “well-documented adverse impacts.”

A pop up box on Tylenol dot com

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

A new study shows how imputing cognitive scores for untested individuals improves genetic insights, especially for rare variants & neurodevelopmental genes. In genetics, imputation means estimating missing data using known correlations. Like guessing tree height from leaf color & soil type. 🧵(1/8)

I said it before and I’ll say it again, I hope the damn AI bubble bursts before this gets built.

Satellite data suggests that Southwest Monsoon (SWM) winds may have crossed the Himalayas & reached the Tibetan Plateau—a rare & potentially climate-altering event Traditionally, the Himalayas act as a barrier, keeping monsoon moisture confined to the Indian subcontinent leaving Tibet remains arid🧵

Never forget that in McCarthy’s insane communist witch hunt he decided to go for that noted pinko George Marshall. You know, the guy who built the AEF campaigns in WWI, built the Army for WWII, oversaw the war, served as secretaries of both defence and state, rehabilitated Europe and Japan…

No causal link for Tylenol! This is pseudoscience.

While the maggots of many fly species eat dead flesh & may occasionally infest an old & putrid wound, screwworm maggots are unusual because they attack healthy tissue. This increases the chances of infection, & damaged tissue also attracts more of these flies. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlio...

Already, Indian users are shaping how the most popular AI models develop. The country’s firms are especially adept at designing services for a varied audience

Trump reveals Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch could be involved in TikTok deal

Not only is the hunger for new data centres already impacting Australia's energy demands, it's even driving down our ambitions for reducing our emissions, Ketan Joshi reports in Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...

Smile like you mean it, says the skeleton from a 1493 medical broadside from Nuremberg. #bookhistory #skystorians

"Today, most Americans don't seek out news. In August 2022, a Pew Research survey found that 38% check news regularly, down from 51% in March 2016. Instead, they now encounter issue-related or political information ambiently, often embedded within the entertainment & lifestyle content they consume"

Its kinda like 'Voyage of the damned' Context: In 1939, the MS St. Louis, carrying 900+ Jewish refugees, was denied entry by Cuba, the U.S., and Canada. Forced back to Europe, many passengers later perished in the Holocaust. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._...

This is still an ongoing project with Dr Wilfred Yang Wang @ichbinwill.bsky.social We try to conceptualize techno-moral governance in digital China. It’s exciting work but find theorizing empirical evidence is so challenging! Hopefully, will get there gradually! Welcome to attend if you are around🥂

Karen Hao is a compelling writer & Empire of AI is highly readable But start-up, techbro culture has its privileged head so far up its arse, i keep needing to stop for breaks...

Textile tools are known from early medieval monasteries in Ireland, presumably used by male monks too

Ok, so like, everyone does realize that his brain confused “seeking asylum” for “insane asylum” and he just stuck with it, right?

The effect of car dependency: in 1940, Basil Rathbone was photographed wearing an overcoat outside his home. As more men relied on cars, overcoats became shorter to accommodate drivers. Today, the right is marketed as an "overcoat," even if it would've been considered more sport coat length in 1940.

Sister Souljah doesn’t get the legendary status she deserves. She was rapping and publicly talking about Black liberation and got ostracized for it by white and Black liberals alike

absolute nightmare rotation of headlines at the top of the front page tonight

Remember that time when we lived through the three hottest years in around 125,000 years & no one was talking about it?

America didn't build Bagram Base "In the 1950s, Bagram airfield was originally built by the Soviet Union during the early period of the Cold War, at a time when the United States and the neighboring Soviet Union were spreading political influence in Afghanistan." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagram_...

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I see what he is getting at. Personally, any and all "discussions" need to be held between REAL humans in NEUTRAL forums with stringent moderation. Else you're just fighting with a bunch of ones and zeroes; all of whom are meant to keep you on the platform engaging with ragebait generating profit

Literally min(t)ing money out of thin air. Not even being cryptic about it.

India making moves in semiconductors. At the Taiwan Expo 2025 in New Delhi, Taiwan made a distinct proposal: "Taiwan wants access to India’s rare earth minerals while offering its semiconductor technology in exchange" 60% of all semiconductors come from Taiwan convergence-now.com/embedded-tec...

I know you've all read this book by now because I keep blathering about it, right

Search interest for "cancel Disney plus." For comparison, I marked when the "Don't Say Gay" bill passed and conservatives tried to boycott Disney.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Dutch late night TV has its take

I am going to try my goddamn hardest to live long enough to see ICE agents become ammo drops in a Wolfenstein game.

Welp. 😬🇺🇸

"In the novel, the protagonist changes one of her stories so that the character eats an apple rather than a guava, rendering it less “exotic” to western readers but also less true, because apples are more expensive & less plentiful in India." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Also: the notion of the "Left–Right Political Spectrum". A spatial metaphor that turned into a term that eventually came to mean how the "sum total of all political views conceivable can be neatly labelled as Left/Right". The binary of “left” & “right” in politics is NOT universal 🧵(1/10)