Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

Oh no, there's a vas deferens

also it's always the most lowbrow shit that people find magical, which I love you take a foreign visitor to denny's at one in the morning and they never want to leave

I don't want to say smart watches are not quite accurate with their fitness metrics, but I was just awarded my daily step goal for the hand motions I made while eating potato chips.

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

Love the “originalist” idea that every president for the first 200+ years of the republic simply misunderstood the founders’ intent of how the office should work, including those presidents who were themselves founders.

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

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Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

"Voting doesn't do anything." If that were true, they wouldn't try so hard to make everyone stop. #Republicans #maga #americanpolitics

Let’s go toe to toe, gramps.

hold my beer, hemingway

on balance, I would rather social media had not achieved a ubiquity that has destroyed, perhaps permanently, the social contract and the very fabric of human connection, but otoh it’s fun that there are astronauts up in space right now who have almost certainly seen the “moon’s haunted” tweet

I was going to say well done to Bluesky, but really, the odds were pretty good for this synergy

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'

Thread: This is the Cicero approach, and the Democrats must take it.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

It's not about messing up it's about what you do about it 1/2

Son, when I was your age, apples were as big as watermelons, they were green on the outside, and when you cut ‘em open, they were red and juicy inside and tasted like watermelon

a beautiful calm washes over me

Wow.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

This isn't a big one, but one of my favorite stories like this is when I was in the middle of a haircut and the woman cutting my hair said the only white people should have good jobs. So then I had to walk around with half a haircut until I found someone to fix it.

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

Are you my mouth guard? Because I want to grind you all night long.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

Good’s last words to the ICE agent: “That’s fine. I’m not mad at you.” His to her, after shooting her in the face: “Fuckin’ bitch.”

Make it viral.

“David, who shall we invite to the wedding?” “Bono. Ono. Eno.” “I love you, you unstoppable conceptual bastard.”

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to jump out of a helicopter to kidnap a head of state and his wife so some oil ceos can make a lot of money. we’ll be watching from a resort in florida that still serves wedge salad and checking how many retweets we get. good luck soldier

The date today is 12/25/25. In thirteen months the date will be 25/25/25. It's very rare when something like that happens.

Yeah well my buddy already lost his job to artificial intelligence. He was an art thief.

No one told me Snoop Dogg sponsored a college football bowl game, and I'm made at all y'all about it. These are things I'd like to know about; looking at you, The Algorithm.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

This is NGC 2264, also called the "Christmas Tree Cluster." It's a cluster of young stars about 2,500 light years away. They were 'born' during the Pliocene Epoch (2-5 MYA), about the same time as early hominids like Ardipithecus or Homo habilis, so they're barely older than humanity. 🎄💫🔭

Seeing "$1.5 billion" on the Powerball billboards definitely hits different while you're driving for DoorDash. That was a fun daydream during that shift.

Gifted this Adult Capri-Sun for Christmas.

And now someone has uploaded a version that wasn't filmed off a TV. There's also the torrent link there, which is probably the fastest way to download the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT if you want to save the file locally to your computer.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Does anyone else think Donald Trump cheats at golf? Or is it the one thing in his life that's sacred?

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

100% this and also I think these AI bros don’t get that there there are a ton of little micro ideas and decisions that are happening on the way from conception to finishing. It’s not all just follow through from the equivalent of a prompt. The steps in the process inform the whole concept.

Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all): whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...