Feels like every single Democratic official should be loudly pointing out that the president is a dementia-ravaged thug who needs to be impeached and removed from office, even if just to cover their own asses for when he inevitably tries to nuke the Oscar ceremony or whatever.

One of the things that really trips a lot of analysts, including ones with real skin in the game, is that they refuse - absolutely refuse - to accept how stupid Trump very obviously is. He has no knowledge of anything, is incapable of learning, and only remembers the last thing to happen to him.

We are living in a time of absolute, utter madness...and too many people are unwilling to acknowledge it. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

"Donald Trump is batshit. He, along with several of his advisors, are under the delirious belief he is all powerful and can effect his will simply by issuing a tweet. Until that becomes the story, Trump will dodge accountability for the most reckless decision in recent history."

Uh oh. It seems that "Meta" has a "bipolar testing team" which detected some problems on my account! 😜

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

"Hello? Um, yes, I believe there's been a mistake. I ordered 'One Spring' but seem to have received 'One Blizzard'. I'd like to return the blizzard, please. What? No, I don't want to 'just keep the blizzard.'"

A key point here is that Trump has no idea what he’s talking about. He’s just bloviating. That should be reflected in the news coverage, but it won’t be.

Brilliant analysis of an iconic scene from CASABLANCA with too much contemporary relevance. “The Germans are but one small enclave, finding themselves within a community that’s filled with less traditional power but greater numbers and far superior zeal.”

Try our line of raw milks that have gone totally viral! We think you’ll find them contagious! Once you try it, you won’t be able to contain yourself!

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

In which I become cranky. www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/res...

That Williams touchdown pass becomes the Endy Chavez catch for the Bears. Greatest play that doesn't matter...

I think Derek Guy has the highest signal-to-noise ratio on Bluesky

This is quite a post www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

@chrislhayes.bsky.social It's hard to listen to Senator Kaine just a day after he voted to confirm a Trump judge. I'd have liked to ask him why he thinks the defiance regarding Greenland that he hears in private from his GOP colleagues would last two seconds against one mean Trump Truth.

I asked several LLMs to help coin a term for a corollary to Gell-Mann Amnesia related to LLMs instead of the news media. ChatGPT came up with Turing Amnesia, Gemini suggested The Turing Blindspot, but I think Claude has the best suggestion: Altman Amnesia.

Mindscape 339 | Ned Block on Whether Consciousness Requires Biology. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Oscar Bluemner, "Last Evening of the Year" (Whitney Museum) whitney.org/collection/w...

Happy Holidays...

Inspired by a zoom talk on Escher-like Spiral Tiling yesterday by @isohedral.ca, wrote some code that's probably not quite working right but it's still pretty fun... Here, the starting tile is a small symmetric Turing Pattern with a little color added. #mathart

This is great. We also *need* a Constitutional Amendment to completely reform presidential pardon power!

Artists' Gallery celebrates 30 years in business with an opening reception today (Sat Dec 6) from 3-6pm. 18 Bridge St, Lambertville, New Jersey. This month I have a bunch of paintings from my Symmetry Series on the walls. www.andrewwerth.com/exhibition/a...

I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"

Leonard Bernstein Introduces 7‑Year-Old Yo-Yo Ma: Watch the Youngster Perform for John F. Kennedy (1962)

Springer hoping to be Gibson

Interviewing managers **during** an inning of Game 7 is insane.

The new museum was worth the wait! The collection looks fantastic, the "promised to museum" pieces in the Princeton Collects exhibit promise a great future collection, and the building itself is gorgeous. So happy to have this back in the neighborhood!

This game is like I got caught smoking a baseball and now I have to smoke a whole pack of baseball

#NoKings Princeton

Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.

Getting ready to head out to Princeton today #nokings

What a despicable little man who is lying through his teeth to try to incite violence against Americans who will be peacefully assembling to protest the Trump regime’s anti-democratic rule.

Excellent! We need more Democrats calling for Hegseth *and* Trump to resign for incompetence and their hatred of America. Every D should be calling out Trump's dementia and psychopathy, calling for 25th Amendment and impeachment on every news interview. Flood the zone.

I don't think I ever bought anything from Kremer's while I lived in NYC in the early aughts, but I remember visiting a few times and being wowed by the small jars of powdered pigment, just pure material color.

I'm very happy to have my painting "After the Dance" in the group exhibition "Under the Influence", which opens this Friday, Oct 3 (reception 5-8pm) and runs through Jan 11, 2026. The show features artwork directly inspired by other pieces of art; mine was based upon Matisse's "Dance (I)" at MoMA.

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Two more weekends to see my exhibition, "Marking Time", with Alan J Klawans, at @artistsgallery.bsky.social! Gallery hours are Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun 11am-6pm; located at 18 Bridge St, Lambertville, NJ. Up through Oct 5. #geometricabstraction

Ah, this is sweet. It amazes me how fast reaction-diffusion can run in Javascript (or shaders, or whatever is going on here) in a browser.

Roberts' #1 concern is said to be the institutional legitimacy of the court. If true, he could not be a more massive and complete failure. His weakness and cowardice leads to acquiescence, with the result that his court is an arm of a lawless regime completely at odds with the founders' vision.

According to Facebook, Friday the 13th occurs on a Saturday this year? ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯

Pitchbot nails the present state of the USA, alas

My 2-person show with Alan J Klawans is up now at @artistsgallery.bsky.social (18 Bridge St, Lambertville, NJ) through October 5. Opening Reception Saturday, September 6, 4-6pm. Gallery hours: Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun 11am-6pm. Hope you can stop by to see it!

who the hell cares about the "moral high ground" at this point? And I do NOT say that lightly bc any other time of my life I would also be vehemently opposed. Things are so dire that Dems have no choice but to do so. When the opposing party gleefully and publicly announces they intend to cheat...

Image generation is amazing but still needs work! 😂 ChatGPT & Gemini

I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.

KBJ was already awesome but this is amazing...