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I LOVE the rice cooker! It’s the best example of simple physics : it’s literally a pot, a heating element and a magnet. That’s it. No electronics. No sensors. Nothing. How does it work??? Physics ! 🧵

Hot Take: 97°F in New Jersey should not be allowed until after June 1. Definitely not before Memorial Day. Never, really, but if you have to, a few days in Late July would be okay.

At Artists' Gallery this month, I have my only painting related to soccer: "Dynamism", acrylic on canvas, 30"x40", from 2012. It was inspired by Boccioni's "Dynamism of a Soccer Player" (1913) at MoMA in NYC. Gallery hours are Thu-Sun 11a-6p; 18 Bridge St, Lambertville, NJ.

What's on second!

There are so many candidates for the stupidest thing Trump has done to the country that it's hard to pick, but destroying the domestic EV industry has got to be one of the top choices.

Clearly Comey was celebrating Mets reliever, #47, Jesse Orosco, who was on the mound when the Mets last won the world series in '86.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

Q&A about my art career & painting process in Princeton's Town Topics. Thanks to Thomas Kelly for the interview and Town Topics for their support of local artists! www.towntopics.com/2026/04/22/f...

Good News: I came in 1st place in the shuffleboard tournament! Bad News: We're on the Titanic

Come on, @cnbc.com, you really need to learn how this works! Trump isn't surprised by the stock market comeback! If you need to say it, write "Trump claims he's surprised by stock market comeback." He lies with almost *every* sentence, so don't treat his utterances as truth claims to be reported.

That feeling when you land at Newark on time but they make your plane sit out there for 45 minutes before you can get a gate...

Where are you @booker.senate.gov @kim.senate.gov @repbonnie.bsky.social ?

ok but honestly it IS pretty funny that software continually works more and more like shit as we get months downstream from all the software bros high-fiving about how awesome AI coding is

My god it works perfectly

"Every so often, I like to stick my head out the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture." -Steven Wright

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social.

In other words, it's a day ending in 'y'

Governor Sherrill opening #nokings in Princeton this morning!

Getting ready to head out to Princeton today #nokings

Wonderful video for those interested in math & art! #mathart youtu.be/ldxFjLJ3rVY?...

Hot take: It should be a war crime for a team's opening day game to be covered by the network broadcast rather than your home team announcers. #LGM @mlb.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzT...

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)