Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

From @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social's always excellent baseball newsletter. Is it a newsletter? A blog? What is life? Not sure, but I like it and he's right.

can’t get past this: both Will Smiths were eliminated from championship contention on 10/10/19 Gemini Man (movie where Will Smith fights Will Smith) was released 10/11/19 neither Will Smith won a championship before then a Will Smith has won the championship every year since then

I am 100% sure they have read it but have zero reading comprehension

Dodgers paid immigrants what they’re worth, more than they could make in their home country, and it worked out pretty great

Build the entire plane out of Yamamoto.

Today would’ve been Fernando Valenzuela’s bday. It’s also Dia de Los Muertos. Hope you enjoy the game💙

I'm sure no one wants to hear it from me but condolences to the Jays fans, an absolutely incredible season, a juggernaut of a team that deserved to win

He kinda was right?

Re-watching the ninth inning. It appears Blue Jays Chris Bassit drew #51 on his cap for Dodger Alex Vesia. What a class act.

re: Glasnow

New frontiers in frustrating football

This Bill Belichick UNC team is so cursed they’re outgaining their opponent 103 to negative 8 and losing

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

I KNEW there was a reason I love this show

No there isn’t you Vichy bastards

I am haunted by the thought (fact?) that I would have been VERY receptive to that stuff at that age

Here’s my hot take that is actually hot; if you have a middle class white cis male straight kid who is struggling starting at 11 or 12 there is a whole right wing internet community targeting them and that’s how early it starts

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks. So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪

My wife just suggested a sort of reverse “Galaxy Quest”, where the aliens are watching our actual news broadcasts but assuming them to be biting satire.

I legitimately forgot this was a day game

Shohei Ohtani joins Max Carey (1922) as the only players in MLB history to reach base in each of their first 8 plate appearances in a single game, regular season or postseason.

Major League Baseball announces fuck it, it’s the 15th inning, rebroadcast this game, retransmit it. Hell, give your friends accounts of the game. We do not give a shit anymore.

this is where finance bro chancellor acumen gets ya 👍🏻 already dipping into university general funds to pay out the nose for a whole other fired coach, and then, on top of that, paying even more to bring on bill belicheck and his retinue,

My phase was wearing ostentatiously wearing this shirt to, like, the mall. There’s apparently Two Types of Guys and I submit that you should only vote for one of them.

My phase was wearing ostentatiously wearing this shirt to, like, the mall. There’s apparently Two Types of Guys and I submit that you should only vote for one of them.

I have very little patience for people who say “I didn’t know” and then leave it at that. I’ve posted about this before (and some of you witnessed it in real time) but a few years ago I didn’t know what a TERF was and cohosted a baseball podcast with one, and I got dragged for it. (1/)

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This morning felt a little uncanny. The cat got all excited at the window sill. We looked out & it was her orange tabby doppelgänger, looking like her reflection. Then a man in a raincoat with a bear on his back trudged by. Not a real bear, but bear-sized. Later, I found the bear.

‘The old-timey sounds of rebellious grunge music…’ JFC, @npr.org that was choosing violence this morning!!! Like Kurt Cobain could equally have been in a barbershop quartet or something?!?

Great moments in redaction history.

Define “Perfect Ending”?

My read of this same rally. It was a feel-good experience.

Pasadena showing up #nokings

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Lotta fireworks going off in my neighborhood tonight

The ChatGPT pull-up ad is kind of perfect because the kid that used ChatGPT to learn pull ups has, like, dangerously bad form

Pleased that USC turned down the "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education". I would have written a less conciliatory letter, but I'm also pretty unlikely to be chosen as a university president. www.president.usc.edu/2025/10/16/u...

Influence of Seasonal Succession on Microbiological and Physiochemical Composition in Shallow Estuarine Sediments enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs

TIR: Moore et al (2024) on the "y-ome" (i.e., genes of unknown or poorly constrained function) of E. coli, showing that 16% of E. coli genes are of unknown function, and another 26% of genes are only partially characterized. Lots to learn, even in E. coli! academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Approximately 0.02% of children in the US have cancer, and somehow ICE is detaining minor US citizens with cancer at a rate 500x above average? Genuine breakthroughs in the field of doing evil shit.

BOOM! 💥💥💥 Brown REJECTS Trump’s loyalty oath! “I’m concerned the compact, by its nature & provisions, would restrict #academicfreedom & undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.” — Christina H. Paxson, Brown University President

This particular figure was quite striking - physical microscopy of the E. coli genome. Somehow we run these tangles mess through pores (often not breaking them over significant distances) and render them into reliable representation of whole genomic compartments. 🧫🦠

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense. www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them. If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

<sitting on my couch with an apple cider> you've gotta let that pitch hit you in the kneecap man

endlessly embarrassing that the powers that be here banned Link. just disqualifying.