“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”

Get a load of this. 😆

Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.

They're gonna French Toast his ass

Here’s the plaque at West Point with the relevant text highlighted

Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

This chart (which applies even more to social media than it did to TV) lives in my head rent free. Social media enveloping traditional media means everything and everyone is now competing in the entertainment market. Boring stuff like policy that affects millions of lives doesn’t stand a chance.

It is also notable that so much of right-wing media being a grift with transnational participants and funding posing as Americans ought to tell us the presence, volume, and claims, etc of right wing media (esp social media) are not actually indicative of American political beliefs and preferences

William the Conquerer's oldest son was Robert Curthose, meaning "short trousers", which means… WHOOOO LIVES IN A CASTLE IN THE 11TH CENTURY? PRINCEBOB SHORTPANTS! MEDIEVAL AND NORMAN AND ROYAL IS HE PRINCEBOB SHORTPANTS!

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

A mythical map of Wales in Tales from the Mabinogion by Margaret Jones, 1980

We took Calvin to his first protest yesterday (Freedom Friday with @ed4d.bsky.social), and he did great! Old dogs can learn new tricks.

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

Looking up! Discovering the Forest Jewels. Bavaria, Germany #landscapephotography #landschaftsfotografie #fog #mushrooms #pilze

On this day four years ago I watched the whooper swans flying around, preparing to head south, with peachy sunset colours all around. Hvalnes #Iceland

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on. Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights. Block, and move on. This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

This is the beauty of BlueSky. No-one will be force-fed this via algorithm. Trolling draws blocks rather than amplification.

The vibrant greens of Scottish moss with a remaining few leaves from Fall.

sherman, for the love of god!

Dutch courts fighting to make Facebook and Instagram useable again.

I realize the irony of posting this article on a social media platform, but my goodness, it's fascinating/disturbing. The end reminds me of the guy assigned to stand behind the Roman general in his triumphal chariot, whispering in his ear that he too will die.* www.gurwinder.blog/p/how-social...

Premium tomorrow: OpenAI spent $11.2 billion in compute, sales/marketing for $4.3bn in revenue in 1H 2025. Desperate to grow ChatGPT, they launched Sora 2, which costs them at least $5 per generated video. Here's $10 off a year of annual. edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...

Bring back art nouveau you cowards

The official database of works eligible for the Anthropic AI settlement has been released and, as I suspected, many authors are screwed. Basically, if your books weren't officially registered with the US Copyright Office you're out of luck. 1/ secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/results

Let's continue to build solidarity by peacefully opposing our tyrant-in-chief at No Kings Day 2.0 on October 18. There are currently over 2,000 events planned nationwide. More details here: https://www.nokings.org

A stunning sunrise on Glastonbury Tor this morning. I think this is possibly the stairway to Heaven.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Me.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MONTRESSOR

Oh my goodness, just look at this little dude for a minute.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

Gather round and let me tell you about Elizabeth Taylor, my newest obsession, Victorian lady traveler, and all-around superhero. She was a writer, artist, botanist, ornithologist, and one of the toughest, craziest women it's been my pleasure to read about. 1/?

Useful info on how to start the process to join the Anthropic class action lawsuit if your books were pirated and then used to train Anthropic's AI:

Maybe I’m not overthinking, maybe I’m just regular thinking about stuff that shouldn’t be happening

Sometimes I feel sad and afraid about living through an information crisis. But also: bloody hell it is exciting how easy it is to learn things now compared to when I was a teenager. Literally searching and reading 15th century manuscripts from home? Satisfying curiosity on ANYTHING? Breathtaking.

After considerable nail-biting over the Air Canada strike and our original flight tomorrow being in limbo, I finally just bought tickets to Maine and rented a car from there to drive the rest of the way. More than one way to get to Quebec City! #QuebecOrBust #IHearBangorIsNiceThisTimeOfYear

I was crawling around in between all the nettles on the steep side of the hill this morning, I was getting some funny looks but I promise I was just taking photos. 😂 Photo of a spider and it's intricate web this morning on Glastonbury Tor.

I read 186 books in the first six months of this year. In today's essay (link below) I explain how I did it, and how you can rekindle your love of reading and become a voracious reader in an age of distraction.

Billionaires shouldn't be allowed on the internet except to send emails. They can also play NYT games if they want, whatever.

Have to hand it to the folks at Zoom their noise suppression is pretty good. No one has mentioned the screaming sound coming from my bookcase of jarred homunculi

I dropped my phone off at the shop yesterday to get the battery replaced and thus had no phone for 9 hours, and let me tell you, that was the most productive and focused I've been for a long time. I thought I'd deactivated most notifications, but apparently I still get enough to wreck my focus. 1/