it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul

Apple turns 50 today 💻 The iconic Apple II became home to countless software breakthroughs. "The Print Shop" let anyone create posters, cards & more from home 🖨️ Celebrate software preservation⤵️ archive.org/details/The_... #Apple #Apple50 #AppleII #HomeComputing #VintageComputing

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This piece is an excellent argument for building back your attention. "We should consider taking as strong a stance against ultraprocessed content as we already do against ultraprocessed food. Which is to say: Most people should avoid these diversions most of the time."

I made some illustrations for a project about how the Iran War has affected the world in surprising ways, from deflated balloons to higher sugar prices. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“The ballroom is literally an imposition between two branches of our government,” said David Scott Parker, an architect on the board of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and one of more than 30,000 people who wrote to the planning commission objecting to the building.

Women with an advanced degree are paid the same as men with just a bachelor's. And at every education level, women's hourly wages are about 20% lower than men's

On persisting, and working at your pace: blog.cartoonconnie.com/p/a-snails-p...

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

Flowers belong at the center of our creation story. Writing this book transformed how I experience, think about, and feel the world. I hope it will do the same for you. Publishers Weekly: "deep research and lyrical prose…astonishing" www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775876...

I like this framing of ai slop

Emmy Noether was born #OTD in 1882. She made groundbreaking advances in abstract algebra, but is probably best known for her eponymous theorems articulating the deep connection between symmetries and conserved quantities in physics. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: Public domain, photographer unknown

The Upshot is hiring a data graphics/multimedia editor. Come work with us and make weird things that help people understand the world! job-boards.greenhouse.io/thenewyorkti...

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

I just came across this site and now I have a very strong desire to acquire a loom www.theboomloom.com

Excellent second video by Rabbit Hole, one of my favorite new science shows. Includes a double blind taste test at America's test kitchen!

Super interesting talk on why optimizing for a single goal can sometimes prevent you from reaching it — and why exploring diverse approaches can get you there instead. File under: math lessons that are really life lessons.

I appreciate MS Paint so much more than I did before the AI-era. #CreateDontScrape

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Grant Witness is hiring! We're seeking a full-time data scientist to join our team building data resources to support journalism, litigation, and activism protecting science, public health, and the rule of law. grant-witness.us/apply.html #rstats

Job opening at @upshot.nytimes.com Come help us explain the news! We're looking for a visual journalist and graphics developer to report, write, design and code data-driven stories and visualizations. Details here: www.nytco.com/careers/job-...

One of the encouraging things about #NICAR26 was seeing this very full job board of news organizations (including McClatchy) looking to hire talented data-driven journalists.

"Just learn one or two new things a day and you'll be amazed at how fast you get to a really, really interesting place" A wonderful little math lesson for life:

Total Lunar Eclipse 2026 Mar 3 Taken by Bob Beal Washington, Utah, USA omposite timelapse (every 4 minutes) from 2:44am-6:56am MST (moonset) spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

"Just learn one or two new things a day and you'll be amazed at how fast you get to a really, really interesting place" A wonderful little math lesson for life:

'Distant View of Daibutsu-Den' - Fujishima Takeji, 1948. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga

Commenters in this thread shared a bunch of songs “where the drum beats are Morse code that also serve as a separate layer to the lyrics”. [threads.com]

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

Surprisingly fun and hard: dialed.gg

A good example of how LLMs don't credit sources: Google says this simulation was created by Gemini 3.1 Pro. But it looks very similar to off-the-shelf examples from Three.js, the most popular 3d javascript library. threejs.org/examples/?q=... threejs.org/examples/?q=... blog.google/innovation-a...

This video made me think about chairs in a totally new way. From a new youtube show that goes down nerdy rabbit holes about everyday questions thttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kKt46Lch2bo

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

"We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades."

NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine. Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...

I cannot stress this enough: you want to write a book? Write it. Do it now. Don’t wait. There is never a perfect time and you don’t need anyone’s permission. There are always dragons ahead. Not to be dark, but the cliff awaits. Write it in scraps, in voice notes, in a crappy notebook...

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

Don’t forget about Daniel @sadbumblebee.buzz himself, who is a brilliant and compassionate writer, climate reporter, and developer — among many other talents. Some of my faves of his work: wapo.st/4rv3WZJ wapo.st/4a1IIwS

The Post was foolish enough to unleash a bevy of the world’s most talented multi-disciplinary journalists out there for their competition to scoop up. These are some of the most hard working and skilled people I know. Save this one and reshare it please! 📊

Today I was one of the many laid off from the Post. It is a dark day for news. For now I am going to take some time with my family before figuring out where I go from here. In the meantime, please consider supporting my colleagues. Any contribution helps: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is an incredible performance and worth four minutes of your time www.youtube.com/watch?v=2l2R...

America: where you can sell a random “wellness” drink at CVS, claim it “may” somehow “reinforce” your immune system, and literally call it “The Flu Shot.”

When kids have the moral clarity that many adults lack

Best Data Visualization Projects of 2025, a.k.a. my favorites flowingdata.com/2025/12/31/b...

My favorite evidence that congestion pricing in New York has reshaped peoples’ behavior: we can see a surge of people trying to enter the zone before the price kicks up at 5 a.m., and after it decreases at 9 p.m.

Brilliant piece. The Upshot doing what it does best, a clear and comprehensive look at the data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...