Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

me with 18 hole docs as a young teen: "It’s really the inconvenience and expense that attracted me to them."

New post about tariffs. Last week two reports found that foreigners have borne very little of the cost. But the CPI came in somewhat soft. Is there a contradiction? As I explain, no. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/who-is-pay...

i can’t stop laughing

Festive.

Trump’s once impenetrable wall of support among working-class white voters is also showing cracks, driven by disappointment with Trump’s handling of the economy. That should set off alarm bells for the GOP — and not just in their race to keep the House. www.cookpolitical.com/analys...

The kids are gonna be:

The kind of utter confusion Brooks is going to inflict on Yale undergrads.

We will never advance morally nor will Dems gain durable power electorally unless we actually MAKE THE ARGUMENT. And it's not hard: immigrants are great. Continuing to shit on or apologize for or insist only on mitigating evil against immigrants means we will never actually win.

One of the things I've always found most annoying about Mr Kristol is his ability to see what time it is. (complementary, mostly)

Happy Pale Blue Dot Day to all who celebrate 😀 #Astronomy #Space

*was

Tiny (~275sq/ft) yet clean and safe studio apartment near Clarendon in Arlington becoming available in 2 weeks for $1,250/mo. I'd love to find a friend to fill it. Anyone interested?

Also need to toss out a big props to Ahimsa's Public Manners class, which we took TWO YEARS ago, and look how well she remembers her training. She goes under the table to lie down wait while we're working without me even asking. If you have a doggo in the Seattle area, Ahimsa's classes are A+.

SG: U.

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

I’ve subscribed to so many blocklists…

Feel the need to post my old counterpoint to that Tumblr thread

that's right

from a philosopher as to how such assertions grossly misinterpret the tenets of functionalism and computationalism. Are any of you here aware of the existence of such a clarification? I have been toying with writing it myself for years now but am trying to avoid getting my hands dirty.

ICYMI: Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware

The waiter: And what would you like today young man? My two year old:

some doc review software will produce this result, if you’re an idiot

This Friday the 13th let us reflect upon the 2023 film Slotherhouse

the two types of vehicle are cars and trucks, with every vehicle being a subclass of one of those two. a jeep is a truck. a motorcycle is obviously a car. a boat is a truck. an airplane is a car and a helicopter is a truck. trucks are cars, interestingly enough, and cars are a specific type of chair

!!! a new manuscript was recently discovered written in the Syrian Monothelite community in the early 700s that describes the end of the Roman / Sassanian war *and the rise of Islam in the Levant!* www.medievalists.net/2026/02/prev...

OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position

They should have Ethan Phillips record like 400 hours of dialogue and he just never stops talking the whole game. You're trying to mine resources and quell discontent among the Maquis crew members and Neelix just keeps going, there's no soundtrack, just Neelix talking at you like Abe Simpson.

I was promised cheaper groceries and tariff rebates and all I got was this lousy pogrom www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Also: a network of trusted allies

hold on i gotta take this

In #AHAPerspectives, @ksalex10.bsky.social and @jlepler.bsky.social share how they introduced the humanities to an elementary school’s annual STEAM night through an interactive butter-churning activity. 🗃️

Here's a gift link for readers who say the original one doesn't work. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

well that doesn't seem right.

greatest headline of my adult life

Dang this program is actually cool as hell

amazing

tag yourself.

Depending on where in west seattle that is, it may be a bargain.

Spider-Noir is an upcoming live-action series starring Nicolas Cage as his noir Spider-Man character from Spider-Verse. The trailer is available in color and black & white. [youtube.com]

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

Dads, we're now more than 11% into 2026 You should be watching Into the Spiderverse at least 5 times a year, so if you haven't already gotten at least one watch in, this weekend is a great time

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

the median voter

US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, NY Fed says ft.trib.al/RPVjBCa

The U.S. government hasn’t claimed responsibility for an airstrike against AQAP in Yemen since 2020. But the U.S. may still be targeting the al Qaeda branch, David Sterman writes. He argues that transparency is necessary for oversight and accountability. www.justsecurity.org/129392/us-ai...