AI in four acts

A true colossus. I heard him once; his playing was joyful.

Mamdani takes office and not even six months later the Knicks are going to the finals. Hardly a coincidence.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine known as GLA-3M-052-LS+OVA, that protects against a wide range of respiratory viruses, bacteria AND even allergens. The vaccine is delivered intranasally AND provides broad protection in the lungs for several MONTHS.

You can get the paper edition of the Denver Post (@denverpost.com) delivered to your door for less than $10 a day!

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It’s international day of the goat (yes, really) so here’s the rightly famous Goat in a Thicket statuette from Ur. It is made from gold, copper alloy, lapis lazuli & shell. It shows naturalistic behaviour for goats as they often seek food in low trees and bushes on their hind legs. 🕰️c2600BC 🏛️📷 BM

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Someone bet a quarter of their house and lost

Crossover happens! Solar and wind provide more power than gas. Fossil fuel corruption won’t stop progress. www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

Website: Your password is too complicated Welshman: That's my hometown, asshole

What an incredible series of paragraphs about a Trump true believer. Dude is fasting because food and gas prices have skyrocketed, "and said the current economic pain will be worth it if the threat from Iran is resolved." www.npr.org/2026/05/19/n...

USSOUTHCOM PAO: Grok give me a description for our drone strikes in the Caribbean but make it sound real badass, like what someone who has read On War but who has also been hit in the head with a brick would say Grok: Applying total systemic friction on the cartels USSOUTHCOM PAO: Hell yeah

Trump is putting no effort into becoming less unpopular but a TON into putting elements of a coup in place. Some of them may remain invisible, but the ones we can see point to his general approach: violent intimidation + corrupt judges + executive branch and congressional coconspirators + bribes.

Trump, his allies, and some credulous reporters are celebrating his big win over Thomas Massie (in a district Trump won by 35 points). They may have won this battle, but Trump and the GOP will likely pay a steep price for Trump's vengeance tour. Here's why: www.messageboxnews.com/p/everyone-t...

Important: Dems will seek to force Republicans to vote on a bill blocking Trump's illegal $1.8 billion slush fund, Rep Jamie Raskin tells me. Dems will use discharge petition. Hakeem Jeffries is supportive of Raskin's efforts, I'm told. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/2106...

Something tiny for #TrilobiteTuesday This is a Meadowtownella trentonensis from the famous Walcott-Rust quarry in New York. This was one of the first sites to show trilobite legs. Charles Walcott later discovered the Burgess Shale in Canada. This specimen is upside down and only 7 mm long.

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

Hamlet's soliloquy, as rewritten by gmail's "Tab to Improve" feature

The NYT removed the "um"s in Trump's answer on Taiwan, but put "um"s in AOC's answer on Taiwan to make her look dumb Trump said "Um, I would say 'like' is maybe too strong a word...um, no, I'm holding that in abeyance and it depends on China, depends, it's a, it's a.." L: Trump R: AOC Video below

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

After taking time to connect with the Pretti family and with their consent, we are honored to share that we have created the Alex Pretti Nursing Scholarship. For those interested, you can learn more and make a gift here: crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Al...

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"Never hallucinate or make anything up." yes, you can just demand that the LLM not make errors that's definitely how the technology works

🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court Monday fast-tracked its decision in Louisiana v. Callais — a move that clears the way for Louisiana to move forward with redrawing its congressional map even as an election is already underway. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

In vile double-speak, the regime has insisted it’s safe for Haitian immigrants to return to their home country while also issuing the highest level travel alert urging Americans to stay away. “Do not travel to Haiti for any reason,” says the State Department: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

Having that on your passport when other options exist is begging for trouble when entering/leaving one of the many countries this administration has shat upon.

In my new piece in @theatlantic.com, I argue that the consensus about birthright citizenship extended far beyond elite legal circles to readers of newspaper advice columns and letters to the editor pages for well more than a century. nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

BOLO- if you see this guy in your neighborhood, church, market, park, or school drop off line, be aware. He is wanted in connection with the murder of a MN mom. Please share or #repost

One reason Trump can't resolve Iran is bc it requires EITHER taking on Putin OR admitting Obama was a better President, both psychologically impossible for him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5RB...

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

The bright side!

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Former MAGA are turning on Trump and who are they blaming for Trump making a mess of America? Themselves -- the people who put him in office? Nope. They're blaming the Jews. It's dangerous antisemitism. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...

In a CUNY study using a simulated user, the safety gap between models widened as conversations got longer. Claude and GPT-5.2 resist delusional narratives, but Grok and Gemini can actively validate them.

When DOGE arrived at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the operatives had no real background in nuclear issues. They boxed out experienced hands, forcing resignations and massive exodus of talent. Over 400 people have since left or been forced out. Our full story: https://propub.li/3OBQMwk

He never imagined the leopards would come for HIS face.

They changed the headlines—not the policy. ICE isn’t in the spotlight anymore… but the raids, detentions, and family separations never stopped. I break down what’s really happening open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

#RIP Michael Tilson Thomas 📷 Ellen Graham, White Oak Conservation Center, Yulee, Florida, 1993 "The most important thing about music is what happens when it stops, what remains with the listener, what they take away." www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJf5...

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy. The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It's hard to tell the difference between Kash Patel defending himself and Kash Patel inadvertently confirming the allegations.

If you love American music, this is monumental. The clarity on this discovered test pressing reveals Johnson's genius to an even greater degree than the '61 re-release of his 29 songs. You can hear the stabbing slide and delicate fingering on every string. Amazing.

Chuck Grassley being three heartbeats from the presidency is honestly more than I thought he had left in him

“Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.” This is why we should fund science. 🧪

There was an entire fucking movie about this you freaks, this is eugenics