Very good representation of how that "crinoid mouth" that's really an angled (rounded?) slice through a set of crinoid stalk segments works. The "slice" is an erosion related thing that's probably pretty recent (caused by the formation of the little rock clast the crinoid is preserved in).

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Officially hopped off Substack and moved to @beehiiv.com today. Let’s rock n roll.

I doubt that there's a more effective way to capture unitary executive theory in an image. And because it's the DOJ building, it also captures the notion that the President is above the law.

We're told to use AI at work. If I weren't three years from retirement, I'd be looking for a new job. Instead I've decided to use it as much as possible to drive the cost up and the code quality down. It's not as if I care if the shit shop goes under once I'm out.

Today we're sharing an investigation into the Nashville ICE/THP traffic operation. (Thread) I viewed over 50 hours of footage from the raid, which showed law enforcement calling targets "wet," "bodies," "illegals," physically writing on arrestees and competing to make the most arrests:

There is a fab new book out about the 2022 polychromy exhibition at the Met. It underscores 38 scholars who are the 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 experts in polychromy today. Coming out of polychromy retirement to review _Chroma: Sculpture in Color from Antiquity to Today_ for @hyperallergic.com (edited by Natalie Haddad).

Is there any men's hockey player more clutch than Artturi Lehkonen?

SCOTUS is dealing with problems that arise from justices’ ownership of individual stocks. What did the court do to address this ethical question? Did the justices agree to divest from individual stock ownership? Of course not. Parties are directed to include stock ticker symbols in their briefs.

On this day in 1918, Georges Vezina recorded the first shutout in NHL history when Montreal blanked Toronto 9-0. It was his only shutout that season. In his career he recorded 15 NHA/NHL shutouts, with a career high of five in 1924-25.

Fuentes is a 'say the quiet part out loud' machine for the whole conservative movement. It's useful to get a read on which quiet parts might be acceptable in the zeitgeist. Now that all their faves are implicated, it's only a matter of time before defending Epstein becomes the standard line.

Colbert’s show normally averages 2.7 million viewers. The interview with James Talarico that the Trump administration tried so hard to suppress last night now has 2.8 million views.

On Feb. 16, 1971, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said, or mouthed, something in the House of Commons. Some claimed he dropped an F-bomb, but he denied this was the case. It became part of Canadian political lore. This is the story of the Fuddle Duddle Incident. 🧵1/10

Put your hand up if you received the ELIZA vaccine at a young age and are now immune to chatbot spiraling

If you loved Dark Patterns remember the Trade is out March 31st and @danpgwatters.bsky.social new arc of Nightwing with artist Denys Cowan starts with issue 136! FOC of that issue is NEXT MONDAY! Seriously, Dan’s Nightwing rules. #comicsky

Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

same, girl, same

Everyone's talking about Palantir's Alex Karp acting* like a coked up maniac in his recent interview, but anybody who's kept an eye on him has known this for a long time. For example, this earnings call where he acted like a coked up maniac and celebrated killing ppl. (*Probably no acting involved)

Editor’s Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

15 years ago today I arrived on Downing Street in a cage. I've seen off Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss and Sunak and I'm still going strong. Only two Prime Ministers have ever done longer stints here: William Pitt the Younger and Sir Robert Walpole. Bill and Bob - I'm coming for you... (Photos AP)

Skadeglädje, Oskar Eriksson. Maybe if you spent more time on your game than on inflating a weak controversy in the media, you mightn't have been a huge part of gold-medal-defending Swedish men's curling team's 4th loss. "I slept like a baby". Great, then played like a beginner. Karma, dumhuvud.

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

Okay, Grandma, that's enough Winter Olympics for you! 😆

Self-Portrait (rotated), potential sketch for The Creation of Adam, by Michelangelo, late 15th//early 16th c

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."

L’inévitable sujet tabou du Groenland : lp.ca/2Yey0V?shari...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

That's 100% why I created leavesubstack.com -- got tired of re-hashing the points; wanted to make a simple 1-pager.

i often think about this review

🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is a story that has really cut through in Australia - seen as UK adopting hostile attitude to their citizens. Raised spontaneously in conversation.. In papers. Affects those who have been Irish citizens too ..

Thames right now

would be enjoying this game way more with helmet and jersey ads

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Banting, Best, Collip, et al announced initial results on the use of insulin to treat diabetes #OTD in 1922. They later sold their patent to the University of Toronto for $1 each, hoping this would keep the lifesaving medication cheap and accessible. 🧪

I realized that I hadn't posted my visualizations of the *index* of a vector field on bsky! Pick a point where v=0, and take a tiny circle around that point. Walk around the circle (blue dot on the left) counterclockwise, noting where the vector field points (orange arrow). 1/9 🧮

So I just learned about the 1986 airplane hijacking attempt in #Oulu, #Finland, and now you too are going to. Because I burst out laughing in a train reading about it. It has: ✔️beer (lots)! ✔️hijinks! ✔️weird occult Nazis! ✔️✔️✔️"HYPNOTIC-MAGNETIC GAZE!" Why oh why this isn't a movie yet! (a THREAD.)

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever. This is the country we live in now.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Location: near Tesla's flagship London store in Tottenham

Ida Lupino directing THE TWILIGHT ZONE in 1963. Not like a boss, but an actual boss. #BOTD #TVSky

Gone as chairman of Paul, Weiss after all sorts of post-conviction contact with Epstein. Karp infamously buckled fast and expensively in the face of Trump's threats against several BigLaw firms. "asking on behalf of his son [...] to work with Woody Allen." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_S....