It all started in 1955 with a misprint in a Colorado newspaper and a call to Col. Harry Shoup's secret military hotline. Shoup played along with the tiny voice who called, and a tradition was born. From the NPR archives.

AP photographers used an infrared filter on modified cameras to capture how beams are used to track vehicles and people, enable facial recognition — and ultimately, assert digital control.

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Revealed: FBI opened domestic terrorism investigations into anti-ICE activity across US

Fiber optics that connect the world can detect its earthquakes, too

I mean, just check out this stunning new image from SPHEREx, the latest NASA space mission. It's mapping the full sky in 102 colors, and choosing the right combinations can reveal different information about the Universe. Here's our galaxy in infrared colors that pick out stars:

"Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for 'marketing purposes.' It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear. Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared."

“The gaps we’re going to have in our science and technology research in the next decades are what you’re really going to notice,” the former employee said.

"Civil protection is no longer a secondary aspect of war. It is one of its front lines," writes Cyril Kabbara, founder and CEO of Shark Robotics, in this op-ed.

"Wherever the agents appear, even when they lean idly, chatting, we see the cold threat of violence and the fragility of freedom. And in the brave crowds who gather to confront them, scrambling their illusion of total control, we see the power of solidarity..." hammerandhope.org/article/ice-...

Moscow has ruled out accepting a peace offer in which NATO troops would be stationed in Ukraine. As Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksandr Merezhko puts it, the Kremlin will only accept such a deal that does not prevent it from, eventually, "destroying or subjugating Ukraine."

"But the Trump administration seemingly views everything through the lens of ideology. It has concluded that scientists are its ideological opponents and thus that its own ideologically driven conclusions are equal to the facts produced by science."

I found the DJ for my funeral on TikTok live tonight.

#OTD 1907: The Great White Fleet departs Hampton Roads, Va. to circumnavigate the world in 14 months, a journey of 43,000 miles that included 20 port calls across six continents.

Wrong question.

Damn, that's just tremendously depressing to see.

So, there's this place where I made a lot of really fond memories, more than a decade ago. It was really important, formative stuff for me.

Pilot narrowly avoids ‘midair collision’ with US air force plane near Venezuela

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

"They show something more serious: a government that publicly vows not to police ideology and not to use “deradicalization” or “protecting democracy” as pretexts, while privately building a domestic terrorism program that does exactly that under the Antifa banner," writes Thomas E. Brzozowski.

"Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases." Well done by the students. How come the authorities didn't figure this out? Or did they just not tell us about it?

Covers, ads, and illustrations like these are part of our shared cultural heritage, and their preservation lets us experience not only Christmases past but also the media that shaped them.

⚡️‘Reality speaks for itself’ — From war-torn Kupiansk, Zelensky praises troops after reports of successful Ukrainian counterattack

It's a shame that so few people are familiar with the difference that USAID programs made across the world. I suppose that same lack of familiarity makes it such a prime target for this sort of thing.

European leaders rally behind Ukraine in Downing Street talks

⚡️ Update: Trump has 'his own vision' on resolving the war, different from Ukraine's perspective, Zelensky says. President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine is not considering the possibility of ceding territory to Russia.

European allies back Zelensky after Trump criticism

Good to see the UK, France, and Germany bolster Ukraine, while Trump’s sidles to Russia and undermines Ukraine. Implicitly, the Europeans seem to be reconciling with the reality that pandering to Trump was futile and are likely to start to disengage from the U.S.

Peace talks between the US and Ukraine have stumbled over one main issue: how to force Ukraine to give up what the Kremlin has failed to seize during the war — the entirety of the Donbas region.

and I want to go home. but I am home.

we were the one thing in the galaxy god didn't have his eyes on

Heading south.

The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated.

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

⚡️Several Ukrainian children abducted by Russia forcibly sent to North Korea, expert tells US Senate.

News: Pentagon inspector general finds that the classified information Pete Hegseth shared in a Signal chat with @TheAtlantic could have put U.S. forces at risk. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This is a very intriguing read.

Automated license plate readers at the US-Mexico border come in a variety of shapes, sizes and disguises. Here's our guide to identifying them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Extraordinary WSJ reporting today that unveils the extent to which Trump, Witkoff, Kushner and US business executives are salivating over business deals with Russia while Putin’s forces kidnap Ukranian children and bomb civilians in their apartments. 🎁 www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.

I saw a piece from AP earlier, it was a photograph from one of Trump's recent press conferences, in which he was railing against efforts to evacuate civilians who were fleeing during the fall of Afghanistan.

And, while I'm on my soapbox, let me just say: the complete and total cessation of support for the titans of Ukraine is an indelible stain on the US.

It's almost as if these politicians are completely incapable of understanding the concept of soft power.

And yeah, I'm still pissed off about the elimination of USAID. Those folks did a tremendous amount of good, which greatly benefitted our national interest.

And while I'm at it, the decision to gut VOA and RFE/RL has to be one of the most spectacular own-goal maneuvers of all time.

The rescission of funding for public broadcasting was an unspeakably treacherous act.