Put these 5 numbers in a row & a 5th Combatant Species you will know! Area code for the college with the mascot Reveille Postleitzahl for Grafrath, Fürstenfeldbruck, Upper Bavaria Atomic numbers for: Rhodium, the element named for the town of Ytterby discovered in 1878, & Lithium #2026MMM

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

I tend to get frustrated with the "burn it down" crowd, but some days I am like “Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter.”

My kids & their friends say “that looks/sounds like AI” to mean shitty & fake/stupid. Really incredible to be inundated by “transformative AI“ discourse when the reality is so plainly the opposite.

Thanks for posting this @mackayim.bsky.social I have been talking about this for years and how its not just the acute infection but rather the increased risk to subsequent infections that is particularly concerning

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care. Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

#2026MMM Combatant Reveal Puzzle 4: 978Uno42145289Zed

I really thought we'd hear more from @natickbobcat.bsky.social about yesterday's #2026MMM combatant reveal.

BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)

Who's ready for #2026MMM Combatant Reveal #3? To find something WILD Take 191127993 Attach an 8 at the end & find the right prefix that makes this a 13 ISBN

Another way to care about #libraries is to get involved in your Friends or Foundations group and amp up its power!. For The People is starting a Network to help people do exactly this. Register for our Feb 19th Open House and learn more! www.librariesforthepeople.org/events/ftp-f...

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

Addendum: "If the masked agents keep their identities secret, they are secret police."

Revising this mountain lion design to have softer edges. Do you like it better this way?

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Morning Greetings from this Urban Yote

chatGPT is to most learners as Gríma Wormtongue is to King Théoden of Rohan... not an asset.

In addition to beta-testing #2026MMM Combatant Reveal clues & puzzles with @grumpator.bsky.social, I am also seeing what happens in the free landing version of chatGPT since so many school kids use it. Folks, that tech is so, so psychologically dangerous. slate.com/technology/2...

Published today in The Lancet Global Health: A modelling study on current worldwide trends in humanitarian and developmental assistance finds that cuts up to 2030 are projected to cause up to 22.6m additional deaths, inc. 5.4m children u5. Available Open Access - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Also everyone feel sorry for @grumpator.bsky.social who is beta-testing all my #2026MMM combatant reveal clues. And also feel sorry for all the civilians who get puzzles beta-tested on a librarian. What I am saying is they are going to get trickier.

#2026MMM "Combatant Clue" #2! @mmmletsgo.bsky.social 8002 3A 36M.13LQ

One low profile thing that Dem state legislators should be doing is passing legislation that extends the statute of limitations for crimes like trespassing, kidnapping, home invasion, and false imprisonment to something like 50 years. Unrelatedly, Munich is an awesome movie.

NPR covering the Olympic mascots who are stoats! This is clearly an attempt to win over the coveted #2026MMM crowd (though oddly NPR missed the #StoatsAsMeasurement metric....) www.npr.org/2026/02/02/n...

Happy Whistle Pig Day! The updated site is live and we are celebrating LIBRARIES! We are thankful for our great library - the FLC! It may be freezing in the Valley, but it's cozy in our library! #bcvammm #2026MM

And the game before the game...we get clues...library clues... that lead us to some of the upcoming Combatants! 🤔 #2026MMM #bcvammm

As per always on this most holy of mammal holidays, Groundhog's Day, March Mammal Madness launches our annual tournament page! #2026MMM @mmmletsgo.bsky.social libguides.asu.edu/MarchMammalM...

It's an exciting week when half the academics who pen bestselling works of vast expanse and authority on hot topics have clearly spent their time assuring a convicted pedophile who can barely write a sentence how brilliant he is.

Worth remembering that something did happen: the journalist who revealed this died from a car bomb.

I agree that it’s high fucking time that we stopped acting like we need to grovel and constantly justify the existence of some of our most incredibly elemental and ancient human pursuits.

If you do not love the beach covered in sand fleas, beach wrack, driftwood, shells, & stinky decomposing marine organisms then you do not love the beach & should take your finicky ass to a pool. Beach grooming is awful & should be banned.

Canadians not wanting to support the American tourism industry but also looking at that declining dollar

Apparently EVERGREEN www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJqf...

Fascinating watching the "They're coming for our guns" crew realizing the tyranny actually coming for their guns www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

King and Murkowski... is Congress forming a primitive streak? Better #gastruLATE than never.

solidarity forever

Time to go long on iron lungs and baby coffins, motherfuckers.

'The life I love is taking rambles with my friend, and I can't wait to be on the road again.'

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

I think this is a really important point. When folks say "no AI" they often don’t mean "I can conceive of no possible use for AI"—they mean "the use cases I’ve been shown do not begin to justify the harms"—that’s not something you respond to by offering another narrow use case

wow, GIS specialists, genAI is coming for your jobs

I could watch Richard Sherman’s reaction to the Seahawks win over the Rams 200 times.

The Seahawks' two-point conversion:

There will be a long road ahead to recover from the historic flooding and severe weather events in WA state. Check out these resources and common questions about flood insurance claims to make sure you have the information you need to start the process.

whenever you make stigmatizing comments about addiction, just remember that trump and his team won’t see them, but some of these 50 million americans and their families will, and it hurts them

“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Anyone that wants to see the benefits of #UBI needs to read this. We can make humanity the standard. We can lift each other up and fix what's broken. We can have a better future. #UBI #HouseTheHomeless #DignityForAll #MakeHumanityGreatAgain #WeAreTheWorld #EmapthyMatters #FeedTheHungry #HealTheSick

"tumultuous" is doing A LOT of work in this headline.

Good thread and discussion about AI summaries of research papers.