I cannot overstate how much legit heavy weightlifting has changed my well-being. I see a trainer once a week and do a 2nd workout on my own. ALL the "getting older" body aches that started accumulating since age 40 are gone. Low back, knees, hips, joints. Ive become a true evangelist.

Perfection.

Yes, exactly this and also kill us with botched surgeries, and software malfunctions in self driving cars… oopsie! No one to blame! How can you indict a software? Truly, human life is disposable to those currently in charge.

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

AG Pam Bondi brought a portfolio of degrading insults before the House Judiciary Committee today, but failed to bring evidence, answers, or accountability. Today’s hearing confirmed that this DOJ protects pedophiles and sex offenders in power, not the American people.

Hyperbolic Oort Cloud Comet: This conjunction was a million years in the making. On Feb. 9th, Daniele Gasparri of Atacama, Chile, photographed Comet Wierzchoś (C/2024 E1) gliding past the "string of pearls galaxy" NGC 55. spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com/archive.php?...

I am having consecutive heart attacks watching these downhill skiers!

Obama level charm. Off the charts!

Yeah 😞

If I still lived in NYC this might be my #1 issue.

Not a movie from the classic era, but a favorite nonetheless, Catherine O'Hara with Eugene Levy (and Winky) in Best in Show (2000) 🖤

In all the horror, watch this for a little uplift in case you forgot that humanity can be wonderful.

It's genuinely astonishing to me the number of people willing to claim with a straight face that this word association tshotchke that didn't exist a few years ago is absolutely necessary for the conduct of science.

Look at this! Propose big things. Don’t back down. Have a positive vision and resist naysaying. Mandan is showing us how to model the positive future we all deserve!

The goal of the multiyear plan, which Ms. Hochul is expected to introduce alongside the mayor in an appearance Thursday morning and will be a part of her State of the State address on Jan. 13, would be to offer universal access to children statewide, her office said.

Okay sure. But (a) who will fund the investigators who do the science? Do they plan to give out grants too? Or just let whoever do whatever? And (b) this has such gilded age vibes… like early 20th century when Carnegie etc. funded science. The federal model was such an improvement. Makes me sad.

i am rooting as much as is appropriate for mamdani to be an effective mayor because if he manages it, he will be an important model and national leader for american progressives — one part fiorello la guardia, one part robert la folette

Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou! Let’s do this thing, 2026.

They were standard through the 80’s for sure. I remember realizing they were just tubes when, as a kid, heard faint voices of the movie dialogue and tried to figure out where that sound was coming from, discovering a hole in the arm rest!

Just one? So many perfect albums in the 90s! Portishead: Dummy Tricky: Maxinquaye Tori Amos: under the pink Sarah McLachlan: fumbling towards ecstasy Are just the first ones that pop in my mind. Genuine albums where’s you press play and walk away.

Mele Kalikimaka a Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou!

Hot take: songs are too short and movies are too long. There are no pop songs longer than 4 minutes anymore. You’re lucky if you get 3. It’s annoying. And all the movies are 2.5 hrs+. What happened to the 90-minute movie? That is all.

It’s embarrassing.

Double true 😂

Or, we could get free energy from the sun instead of killing people 🤷‍♀️ (I refuse to post the video)

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

This has shown up in my feed a few separate times so it got me thinking: people may not fully grok the value of being taught *how to think*. It is it is actually the most valuable thing one could acquire. Turns out employers like thinking employees, especially for high paying jobs.

Faculty governance is so adorable. A bunch of academics pretending to be legislators…

This was a silly article, but it’s full of great nostalgia. Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t...

This is fantastic and Lindsey is awesome! What a great summary and guide.

Oh to be a woman on a bathroom line at a mall on Black Friday. (I had no choice about the second half of that sentence)

lol Happy Thanksgiving. (I actually don’t mind turkey)

Sitting in a NJ pizza joint while Sweet Child o Mine plays… what decade is it?

BOOM.

Duh already.

No. The chief problem is, AI is literally A TOOL FOR UNLEARNING. The more you use it, the worse you get at whatever it is you’re using it for. It’s the opposite of educating, it’s uneducating. 2/2

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI. I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

It’s sickening, of course, but more than anything for me, the Larry summers thing is so fucking pathetic. Pathetic. So pathetic. I keep trying to find a different word but that’s all I got.

That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating. And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

“We do hard things” ❤️ Man! If we could inject that back into our national ethos…

Piece of shit. This is a small state and I hope this stain shames him everywhere he goes.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

The random delights you find online! I just watched Waiting for Godot (on youtube with my high schooler). I read the play as an angsty teen and freaking LOVED it. It was ok the second time. But, this review is *chefs kiss*

Vaccination during pregnancy was associated with lowered maternal risks of COVID infection, stillbirth, preterm birth (including a 34% lower risk of severe preterm birth before 28 weeks), neonatal intensive care admission, & congenital anomalies 1/2

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Physics/math hive mind, I get this question from students and never feel like I am giving a satisfying answer: how do I think about radians, dimensionally? 🧪🔭⚛️

I interrupt all the misery in this world for 90 seconds on whether chili is soup.

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s