Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...

This is what I was asking last week - the radiation levels around the Chernobyl shield are normal. The problem is that the shield cannot protect against dust that would be raised if the reactor inside is disassembled.

Dual state logic: either you're in the "safe" state, or the regime has declared you belong to a special class where the laws do not apply to you.

Say, whoever is running this account, could you stop being a Yes man for a moment and tell your boss that no one believes this nonsense. Letting loose Trump's cronies (which is effectively what this does) does not protect children. Quite the opposite.

These are the people who are willing to go on the record. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

Ladies and gentleman: The President of the United States www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/u...

(Whisper.) "Are vaccines bourgeois?"

excited to read a longform article about the collapse of this project (est: 1-3 deaths) in eighteen months or so.

this is it. this is the most bluesky post ever

All you really need to understand about water usage in the western United States is that every single use - even the ones that sound egregiously wasteful like AI data centers - rounds down to 0 compared to what irrigated agriculture uses

Guitarist Phil Upchurch, who made his name in Chicago before moving to Los Angeles, worked with a who’s who list of the country’s most popular musicians. Mr. Upchurch died Nov. 23 in Los Angeles. He was 84.

a reminder that the wsj reporters are as capable of droll sardonicism as the folks at the times

this man is absolutely deadset on destroying the republic because people are mean to him when he goes to martha's vineyard. we're all used to it but when you're reminded of it like this -- it's just shocking.

"The commas show where you're supposed to breathe." Sure, if Emily Brontë is strangling you.

One good thing that the Covid pandemic brings us are accessible antigen tests. In addition to the now usual Covid antigen tests I bought a box of these quadruple tests, even including adenovirus. Every household should have Cov/Flu/RSV tests at home to know what you are dealing with when sick.

This is coming from an Austin, Texas resident, where the rules are a little lax.

Not his words, but the sentiment is there. He did write "I made the visit deliberately, in order to be in position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda'." www.snopes.com/fact-check/e...

Way to kill your entire fucking brand, wow

A great look at another failure by "law enforcement" to comply with transparency laws, and the lack of consequences when they do so.

It's not often you see "Stop Screwing UP" press conferences. #NTSB youtu.be/UFAyD2Xmxpc

A reminder that "AI" in this case means Large Language Model (LLM), a set of algorithms whose many failures has been demonstrated over and over.

It’s been fun while it lasted: “Purdue University will begin requiring that all of its undergraduate students demonstrate basic competency in artificial intelligence starting with freshmen who enter the university in 2026.” www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Not many people know that Mary Astor had a second career as a writer, starting with her autobiography and continuing on to novels about subjects ranging from sociopathy to rape. I wrote about her back in 2008: neglectedbooks.com?p...

The tiger is panthera tigris and I've never been able to decide if tigers should feel overshadowed by panthers

Wait so it's the Tortoise Tortoise???

Found this guy in the August 1, 1922 issue of SAUCY STORIES, and ngl, I kind of love him? Artist unknown. #pulp

Motion to refer to her as the "extra caramel lady" henceforth?

It appears that we learn, again, it is not a good idea to put trust in Steve Hsu.

A good overview of the works of John Varley (1947 - 2025), likely best known for his award-winning short fiction and the "Eight Worlds" series, who has passed away.

All Harvard University Press books are currently 30% off. Including two by yours truly www.hup.harvard.edu/authors/7621...

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Interesting. I was told I would be completely discredited when the evidence comes out. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

HELP ME PAY TO SHIP MORE WHISTLES!! I’ve shipped close to 10k in the last few weeks, and want to ship more!!!

1) I want to see this documentary. 2) Veering off a little, someone once revenge-enrolled me to a concrete research mailing list recap and it always had interesting news on advances in the field. Concrete is actually interesting.

Will admit my first thought was "Will Elle Cordova do a part 3 about this?" youtube.com/shorts/diN5s...

Jimmy Fallon to award President Trump The Tonight Show Peace Prize.

If every Muslim voter in Dearborn voted for Harris, she still would have lost Michigan. If she had won Michigan, she STILL WOULD HAVE LOST THE ELECTION. If you want to blame voters for current conditions, feel free to blame the actual demographic responsible for Trump and that is WHITE PEOPLE.

never miss an opportunity to tell someone who thinks they're being clever quoting "voltaire" that actually, voltaire never said it. it's from a 1993 episode of a nazi radio show & the guy who did say it is quite famously a pedophile who was so weird even the other nazis thought he was creepy.

You could not waterboard a confession like that out of me.

for indiana folks: the GOP drew the indiana redistricting map with the national republican redistricting trust (adam kincaid) - the same as TX. you probably have questions you can't get answers to. kincaid's testimony in the TX trial might be helpful: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

it looks like missouri redistricting referendum folks (delivering 300k+ signatures to the state today) made an "informed plebeian" sweatshirt, in response to the state attorney who argued in court that redistricting shouldn't be subject to "uninformed plebiscites" 📸: @peoplenotpolsmo.bsky.social

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Talking to somebody yesterday about a Cdn oral history archive that disappeared - turns out LLMs were scraping it so much it crashed their servers so it’s offline. Vile vulture technology.

Except for the last decade or so he's been publishing absolute garbage - ‘He’s a son of a bitch – but he’s usually right’: why did Seymour Hersh quit the film about his earth-shattering exposés? www.theguardian.com/film/2025/de...

Current* conditions near Beaver Island, MI:

Mods are asleep, post photos of the mysterious Farcroft building on the far north side of Chicago

Good grief, the "ICE contractor" company that the headline refers to is *Palantir*!

A reminder to anyone in Chicago & Illinois: Raja Krishnamoorthi is the candidate for Dick Durbin's Senate seat who is most likely to be exactly as wishy-washy as Durbin if he gets elected.

Astonishing, America. The MINORITY opinion on our supreme Court is that competent, qualified people should make decisions that require competence. The MAJORITY opinion is that anyone loyal to Trump can do any job.

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):