I didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.

Looking forward to ICE ending these long lines at TSA checkpoints the only way they know how -- dispersing tear gas and savagely assaulting anyone who's left

Isaac Newton discovers Pink Floyd's Dark Sude of the Moon (1660s)

we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

What’s the matter with you? What’s the matter with you, shipmate?

If you want to go slightly insane about city bureaucracy this article is for you

I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorrows there; Which none but they that feel can tell— Oh, I was plunging to despair.

No: never saw such a book; heard of it, though.

man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence

I hear this but it is an ongoing issue with people needing people to win only FOR THE RIGHT REASONS. A messy win is a win. An accidental win is a win. I get wanting people to understand, uh, grid investment and aggregate demand before they want the right thing. But why?

In retrospect it is deeply funny that ten minutes into the three hour wait I talked the dude in front of me into guest speaking at my school and by hour two I was sharing the relationship between Macbeth and Lord of the Rings with my line cohort

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary. www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/0...

Yall. I voted in Fort Worth and it took just shy of three hours. For a primary!! By hour two, the R line was done, so for the last hour I waited it was just us Dems. Tiring but also convivial and nice being in community - the vibe in line was great

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

There are no more adults in any of these rooms

though he can take in an undiscriminating sweep of things at one glance, it is quite impossible for him, attentively, and completely, to examine any two things—however large or however small—at one and the same instant of time

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

ice and icebergs all astern

Delightful

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire

shame is back on the menu boys

The thought lodged in my head — intrusively, as I’d rather not connect the names of these two people, frankly — is that Claudine Gay is owed _such_ an apology.

it should still remain a problem

Note that norms have shifted so completely that there is no expectation at all, from anyone, that the President of the United States should apologize to a gold medal Olympic team representing the US

Masterful Troll, TCM.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

4 Minnesota guys

EN DIRECT, violences au Mexique après la mort d’« El Mencho » : 73 personnes ont été tuées lors de l’opération militaire et des représailles du cartel

A new article about how toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are learning an endangered Sámi language years after the end of boarding schools in Finnish only www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I have a friend who will occasionally say something like "All this work we're doing is in the computer. When you close the computer, it's no longer there. I try to remember that perspective and prioritize things outside of the computer."

“El dinero me ha dado una mayor libertad y el mayor regalo es la capacidad de devolver, de cambiar la vida de las personas”. Kunal Nayyar, actor de ‘The Big Bang Theory’, usa su fortuna para pagar las facturas médicas de desconocidos

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Whoi is so cool

Lunar New Year AND Mardi Gras AND Ramadan all falling within the same window is why it’s fun to live in a diverse community.

Ramadan starts tonight, so wishing all my friends and colleagues ṣawm maqbūl and Ramadan karim!

Hey JD Vance, is this a violent criminal?

The study found that children enrolled in Parton’s Imagination Library “were 5 times more likely to be interested in reading, 11 times more likely to be interested in books, and 15 times more likely to join in during shared reading, compared to children who aren't enrolled.”

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

“We left one tyranny and came to another kind of tyranny,” Nikita said in Russian. “Even in Russia, they don’t treat children like this.”

Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Sitting at my dining room table looking at seed catalogues with my mom. You know those moments when you know right then it’s going to be a good memory?

This is what I call, in Holding It Together, the "myth of the supermom"—the idea that kids are under threat (eg, of not getting into "elite" colleges, and thus not having the "elite" life that goes with that), and that moms are the only ones who can save them, but only by sacrificing themselves.

This comes at the same time that the conservative movement is targeting young women more broadly—from tradwife bullshit to MAHA misinformation about birth control. The goal is convincing the next generation that the rapid erosion of their rights isn’t a political crisis, but a lifestyle upgrade.