MIT study finds #AI can ALREADY replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce #IT just the tip of the iceberg. Total exposure is $1.2 trillion in wages for lost #Jobs in HR, logistics, finance, etc. This is a #BFD. It's underway and we have a trainwreck for a #president and impotent #congress. cnb.cx/43SMaGF

Interview with Matthiessen biographer Lance Richardson "True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen" tops my TRB biography category. Because, Matthiessen. Homework for the #writingcommunity. #Booksky #nature #wildlife #activist #writer #ZenMaster tinyurl.com/bdb4657n

Malevolence, Incompetence, and the Strange Case of #LindseyHalligan Benjamin Wittes parses Judge William Fitzpatrick's "startling" opinion that reveals the "misconduct and incompetence...of the president’s hand-picked prosecutor for his political foes." #Trump #Bondi #Comey tinyurl.com/d4we9as3

Seen on morning run. Well, visualized. I don't, won't, use earbuds and all that. Just open my mind and see what wanders in, or out. Was gifted with my favorite rendering of "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." Oh man, this is powerful. 😂 Had to share. #running #meditation #Dylan 🏃🙏 tinyurl.com/3kxp535t

#Democrats hold Double-Digit Lead on 2026 Generic Ballot #MaristPoll conducted Nov 10-13 finds Dems leading #Republicans 55-41. Leading #Independents by a whopping 61%-28% tally...33 points! #Trump approval at 39%. #Midterms #Congress #Polls via Marist tinyurl.com/m3ss2c2f

Mark Z. Danielewski on Conjuring ‘The Voice of the Mountain’ to Write Tom’s Crossing “I was called to write that story...I was at the height of my abilities. I will never write a book as good as this. This is the best book I’ve ever written." #writingcommunity #BookSky 📚💙 tinyurl.com/4em69puv

#WVU women's stunning win is one for the ages. After 6 players (including 4 starters) were ejected for leaving the bench to defend a teammate. They got pissed... ...and came back to beat 15th ranked Duke with only 5 players. So f'n proud of them! #CountryRoads #Mountaineers tinyurl.com/mpcw9z29

Just 29% of Americans support US military killing drug suspects Yet another #Trump initiative deep under water in a major #poll. In a sign of division within GOP, 27% of #Republicans in the poll opposed the killings, while 58% supported it, with the rest unsure. tinyurl.com/2vmf5r9b

Latest read The Hearts of Horses. #Author Molly Gloss displays great command of subject and the "circle ride" used by horse breakers of the era to service clients is a perfect story-telling motif. The plot meanders a bit, but I strongly rec for #YA women. #WritingCommunity #Booksky #horses #books

David Szalay’s Flesh: "most deserved #BookerPrize winner in years" "It was unanimous. We didn’t need a formal vote... Szalay writes with terse precision...through innovative and spare narration that is deeply affecting." Going to read this. #WritingCommunity #Booksky #Books tinyurl.com/2s9jmf2d

Happy 50th Horses! Released this day 1975. I became aware of it a couple years later. "Gloria," its opening cut, had me by the balls from the first listen. Still does. I swear it just gets better every year. Fifty and counting. #PattiSmith #Punk #Rock #MusicSky youtu.be/bPO0bTaWcFQ?...

Huge congratulations to #WhiteStripes for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction! Here's a tribute to the reclusive Meg taking center stage with a beautifully rendered "In the Cold Cold Night." #HallofFame #RockAndRollHallofFame #MusicSky youtu.be/nU3aO3AcMoc?...

It's Fungi Sunday on #Bluesky! Seen on #SundayMorning run, an eruption of Coker's Amanita mushrooms in the lawn outside nearby school. Dozens of them. Love the Autum colors. 💙 Had to share. 📷 #naturephotography #mushrooms #photography #Running #Sunday #nature 🙏

#Orwell thought police will love this: Mind captioning introducing an #AI generative decoding method called “mind captioning,” which generates descriptive text mirroring semantic information represented in the brain. AKA "Mind Reading." Whadda you think? #technology tinyurl.com/38nsa9ms

How a 'blue collar' anti-Trump #Punk band 'is winning over #MAGA' This warms my heart. 💙 Punk is in my DNA. I found it in the 1970s fleeing corporate rock & disco. My son also did so in the 1990s. Now it's running point against MAGA. #MusicSky #Trump #Resist www.alternet.org/dropkick-mur...

I normally want an artist to make a song their own when I'm looking for a great cover. But Lindiwe Suttle Müller-Westernhagen's "Somebody to Love" hues to the original--and blows the roof off the joint! I 💙 it! 🎵...you better find somebody to love 🎵 #RockNRoll #MusicSky youtu.be/PKd3U6jkTXw?...

Our #SundayMorning civics lesson via our friends at @theguardian.com I hate that it's come to this. #Redistricting #MidtermElections #Trump #Gerrymander #democracy #Congress tinyurl.com/434urepn

How the #Occult Gave Birth to #Science Great #Halloween read for #Ghouls, #Geeks, and #Goths. Wherein we learn "early scientists’ fascination with the occult should remind us of other tenants of discovery: open-mindedness and curiosity." Via @nautil.us 👻👹🧞🧹🎃⚰️ nautil.us/how-the-occu...

Thank you! 🙏 A matter so grave and again we're left to ponder the "why now" and "what for" of it. Or if it means anything at all... "...often, what look like important pronouncements turn out to be random thoughts that have escaped the weak gravity of Trump’s attention span." #Trump #Nukes #War

In great company! TY 👇 🙏💙

Finished Almanac of the Dead! Hefty read at 763 pp. Very insightful, mostly entertaining, occasionally shocking. So many key characters, my God, I had to make a chart. My heart ached for Seese and Sterling. #writingcommunity #booksky #readingcommunity #Indian #Mexico #Arizona #HistoricalFiction

How the #WhiteHouse complex will look with new #Ballroom Here's the before/after. It's an abomination. #Heartbreaking #Trump GIF via Washington Post

Spooky! Seen on Morning Run - #Halloween edition. That's a 5-foot wingspan #Vulture staking out a neighbor's roof. Some say it's a harbinger of sickness and death. I think it's just vulture being vulture. Boo! 👻 #photography #wildlife #birds #nature #naturephotography

Meet the Best Debut Novelists of the Year Next year, your first #novel and mine will make this. #Believe it! Great article via @literaryhub.bsky.social with #author Q&As. Looking hard at The Devil Tree Times and Ibis for my TBR. #WritingCommunity #booksky #fiction #books 📚💙 tinyurl.com/37cv33af

Behind the Curtain: America's energy jam Good explainer. An apolitical look at what will soon become a hyperpolitical issue. See the tags for why. #AI #Datacenters #energycosts #climateemergency #internationalcompetitiveness #grid #economy #technology #techbros www.axios.com/2025/10/23/b...

#GovernmentWorkers' Horror Show Continues; "Taking an Unimaginable Toll" Court filings show some workers RIFed, then called back only to receive a second RIF notice this month. Who can condone this? Cruelty is not an HR policy. #Trump #Shutdown #Layoffs #RIF #NoKings tinyurl.com/3uny4uba

#GovernmentShutdown could cause a halt #SNAP benefits for millions, states say The nation's largest domestic food-assistance program indirectly supports #farmers, thousands of supply chain #jobs and, oh yeah, helps feed millions of kids and families. #Shame www.axios.com/2025/10/20/s...

A week starter for #writers and the #writingcommunity. Quote from Virginia Woolf cited by Ursula K. Le Guin in Steering the Craft: A 21st-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story. It's about the #rhythm writers! Work at it. Happy writing 🙏

#SundayMorning photo gallery dedicated to the millions who march. 🙏💙👏 #NoKings #Democracy #NonViolence #peacefulprotest www.theguardian.com/us-news/gall...

Don't get clouded out! I got a wakeup call while doing maintenance on a backup computer. Couldn't get it to access cloud storage. Managed to restore it, but it scared the bejesus out of me. Imma get protected here's a great read on the topic. #Cloud #technology #data #backup tinyurl.com/5n74bh7e

Hadn't read Thomas Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush" since Victorian Lit in 1982. Crazy it took the seasoning of 43 years for me to properly appreciate the little bird's song of blessed Hope, from "whereof he knew and I was unaware." #poetry #poetrycommunity #WritingCommunity tinyurl.com/br5h5hea

When no one is watching... Via E&E News: In the last #governmentshutdown, #pollution from coal plants increased 15-19% as companies “strategically” ducked environmental rules. When #EPA staff are #furloughed, particulate emissions inspections stop. #ClimateSky #energysky tinyurl.com/u786v67m

Hanging with my #friend #mentor #employer #shaman #counselor, the former #Congressman and #Governor and #Progressive #Liberal stalwart Bob Wise at a Wise staff reunion last night. Thank you for everything great sir. 🙌💙🙏

Hungarian #writer László Krasznahorkai has won the 2025 #NobelPrize in #Literature. I confess, haven't read him but I'd like to. Here are some recs from the Academy. Herscht 07769 has my eye. #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #BookSky www.nobelprize.org/what-to-read...

#HappyFriday, here's our weekend #PhotoGallery to celebrate! 👏 It may take the whole weekend: #Audubon 2025 top 100. Incredible work here with pic specs. I💙 the Blue-footed Booby, we get each other. Your fav? #NaturePhotography #Wildlife #Birds #Conservation #Photography 📷 tinyurl.com/5cj6ayus

Here's why Dems are casting the #Shutdown as a #healthcare issue It's open season and insurers are about to inform 24 million #ACA enrollees their rates will double+ if the tax credits expire. New poll shows more than 3/4 of Americans will blame #Trump and #GOP if they end. tinyurl.com/sumed54d

Damn, this ages well. We should all be so fortunate. Chris Isaak possesses a timeless cool that I dig in an artist. Great tune, great video. #rockNroll #MusicSky #MusicVideo youtu.be/ozv8ugNm0P0?...

Happy to commend this to #photographers, #wildlife enthusiasts, and #wildlifephotography buffs. The amazing story of NYC's Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl told by the photogs who followed his adventures for their book, "Finding Flaco: Our Year with New York City’s Beloved Owl." tinyurl.com/nwubz9fd

#SundayMorning Sunrise Seen on morning run. If the moon is bright and I time it right, I can run the Pepco right-of-way so I emerge into the sunrise about a half mile from my house. Night trail running is a bit scary and precarious, but the #RunnersHigh at daybreak is pure #Nirvana. #Bless 🙏

ND Insurance Commish (R) Wants #ACA Fix: "Let's do this now" "...take away these subsidies, you essentially pull the rug out from people. You're looking at a family that maybe was paying $800 a month for their health insurance and that jumps to $3,000." #shutdown #healthcare tinyurl.com/ynvpnktz

The Divers Who Stretch the Limits of Human Biology #HappyFriday! Dropping this for my pals in the #writingcommunity. A masterclass in #writing a longform adventure article with muscular prose amid wildly technical content. #Ocean #SCUBA #Biology #Diving via nautil.us tinyurl.com/5pjtn58u

#JeffBeck aways shared the limelight. Case in point: that's Jennifer Batten jamming with him here. She toured with #MichaelJackson for years and had a starring role in the iconic live "Beat It" video. Check it out: youtu.be/1EvYlxOQ6vQ #rockNroll #guitarist #musicsky youtu.be/GJErzI-aP1M?...

#JaneGoodall in #photos via National Geographic A wonderful #photogallery for a wonderful soul. #wildlifephotography #nature #science #wildlife #science 🙏💙🐵 tinyurl.com/ye28hv45

Jane is a very fine human. Among the best we got. 💙🌎🙏

A look at federal agencies’ shutdown contingency plans Succinct, factual agency-by-agency #GovernmentShutdown reference table via our friends at Federal News Network. Features downloadable spreadsheet of the data. #StrongerTogether 🙏 tinyurl.com/8hh8znby

#Energy Dept. adds #climatechange and #emissions to banned words list The list also includes energy transition, #sustainability, #cleanenergy, #CarbonFootprint and #taxcredits. Fortunately, you may still use moronic, juvenile, and head in the sand. #climatecrisis #climatesky tinyurl.com/bdhvka3a

Seen on #SundayMorning run. "You Can't Fence Me In." This purple clematis' bravery belies its beauty. No fragile flower, it refused to live inside the fence so it squeezed through and bloomed on the outside. Bravo pretty flower, bravo! #Sundaywisdom #photography #naturephotography

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 #racialjustice protest, AP sources say Never too late to be petty and intolerant. Unbelievable. #FBI #GeorgeFloyd #blacklivesmatter tinyurl.com/3peydvmf

The story behind Los Lobos' "Two Janes" is unclear. Its mournful beauty is not. 🎵 Jane number one is standing at the gate Jane number two has the key that holds their fate Too many angels with brand new silken wings Too many cries for love but no one hears a thing 🎵 #MusicSky tinyurl.com/bddrjd7a

Great (and frightening) analysis Mr. Secretary. #bigmedia #oligarchy #antitrust