I worry about the lasting reputational damage this may cause for our cross-dressers. nypost.com/2026/03/31/u...

I thought about seeing the new WUTHERING HEIGHTS movie, but after reading some reviews I decided it was abridgment too far.

I'm a big fan of STARFLEET ACADEMY, not least for this aspect of it.

My Seven-Per-Cent Suggestion: If 7% of users cited a reliable source for their online fact statements and opinions--and could defend the source's provenance--this wouldn't be a "Seven-Per-Cent Solution." But that internet would be vastly better than what we have now. tinyurl.com/point07solve

No historian is ever going to write that we couldn’t see it coming. Instead, they’ll write that we chose to ignore what was right in front of us.

New on Substack: My archival conversation with David Simon on the "Great Algorando" and why he says tech people shouldn't regulate speech. This is the 2nd entry in my Archives series and provides useful background for Part 3 of Godwin's Ethic. Read it here: mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

I know a lot of people are cheering this on because Meta sucks, but it's a really problematic result and if it holds will be terrible for the open internet. This case easily should have been tossed on 230 grounds. That it wasn't means Section 230 is that much weaker today.

Of course we all have filthy minds--thanks to Adenine, Thymine, Cytosine, and Guanine. Every trait in our DNA is made of four-letter words.

The only new Star Trek show the review-bombers and trolls ever really wanted is STAR TREK: BOVINO. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Do not ask for whom the modus tollens, logicians. It tollens for thee.

If you're in the DC area, and you know kids who could use some water-safety training in advance of summer swimming season, here's an upcoming water-safety event at Howard University.

If you have an audience, you should tell them the truth. Whether you’re a content creator or just sharing a meme, you are a publisher. In Part 3 of Godwin's Ethic, I explore why "Verify Before You Amplify" is a first duty of digital stewardship. More here: mikegodwin.substack.com/p/what-you-d...

I know we're all wrestling with the biggest question of the weekend: Where do I get my Rocky merch? (No, not the flying squirrel. Or the boxer.) #ProjectHailMary

From the Internet Archive's memory: My eyewitness account of the oral arguments in ACLU v. Reno (1996), the case that led to Reno v. ACLU (1997). How it actually felt in that Philadelphia courtroom when the judges "got it" about the internet's unique nature. mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-the-a...

Mike Godwin My own Hail Mary project. mikegodwin.substack.com?r=637hh&utm_...

Spreading misinformation online isn't just an intellectual failing. It's a moral one. Philippa Foot showed why. Part 2 of Godwin's Ethic is live: mikegodwin.substack.com/p/integrity-...

Crew, not passengers A good start for much discussion. Thanks, @mnemonic.bsky.social !

Godwin's Ethic..... Five things: Verify Before You Amplify. Treat Your Mistakes as Gifts. Know Your Sources and Know Their Provenance. Make Your Claims Checkable. Be a Steward of the System, Not Just a User.

The Nature study on LLMs' "emergent misalignment" this year shouldn't have surprised me—but it was still jarring.Turns out teaching a model to cut ethical corners in one domain causes it to cut corners everywhere. Introducing Part 1 of Godwin's Ethic. mikegodwin.substack.com/p/from-a-law...

Why, yes, I *can* believe simultaneously (a) that the Oscars are a shallow exercise in industry self-congratulation and (b) that Jessie Buckley totally earned that Oscar tonight.

I've known some people who've said, wrt someone they detest, that they wouldn't cross the street to piss on that person if he was on fire. Me, I see a win-win solution.

I remember a lot of GOP messaging about Obama: e.g., Obama's a fraud because he uses a TelePrompTer, his books were ghostwritten by a white guy, he's secretly really Kenyan, etc. Racism was at the bottom of every one of these lies. But Obama was good at ducking the canards.

It's important to recognize that obesity is disease--it is fundamentally a physical disorder. In spite of this, the notion that it represents a moral failure has been half-baked into our culture.

Feels like the DUMB AND DUMBER remake of Vietnam.

Pro Tip: if you work in the executive branch as a department head, or if you work for the White House in any role, buy the full range of Florsheim shoes in all styles and colors--but in your size--before the President gifts you a pair. (Florsheim has not compensated me for this message.)

My favorite comic-book villain was the Statistician--he always reverted to the mean.

As far as I can tell from their prose (such as it is), the writers at Giant Freakin Robot behave like escapees from a penile colony.

I'm grateful, having been a Star Trek geek for 60 years, to be able to say that I don't know anyone in the Trek fan community who'd take "Giant Freakin Robot" up on this job opportunity. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

For a while, the only thing I knew about Ted McGinley is that he is a fine comic actor who often has been cast in TV shows when they are nearing the end of their runs. What I know now is that McGinley is a delight, and that I do learn comedy by watching him act. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/a...

Have you noticed that every political leader who presents himself as Superman turns into Homelander?

I know I'm all substantive and everything, but some days I'd just rather have Cole Walliser's job.

I guess they should have named it "Bored of Peace"?

No one who ever trashed STARFLEET ACADEMY as a review bomber will ever write anything as good as Ep8, and they'll never act as well as the actors in this episode. (Note: I'm not trashing everyone who dislikes the show--just the people who are publicly dickish about it.) 1 of 2

Honoring the Starfleet Code.

Talk about coincidence! Guess who's being polled to be a Nielsen viewer! Yeah, it's me. Maybe I'll get to fill out the survey to say that I watch each episode of STARFLEET ACADEMY and DISCOVERY at least three times!

We can reasonably infer from interacting with them that LLMs don’t care whether they’re factually correct or not. Maybe it’s another thing they learned from absorbing content from the internet.

God’s experiment with Creation was to create beings that were like Him except for a central exception, which is that for us there is a difference between speech and action. For Him they’re the same. We often indulge in the fantasy that this is true for us too.

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Joseph and Mary tried to check in at the inn, but the clerk said they had no rooms. Mary insisted they had a reservation and that she and Joseph wanted to see the clerk's boss. The clerk was immediately responsive. Sadly, though, he'd misheard her, and he guided them to the manger.

If the jacket had been made from horsehide, maybe it would have qualified as "oat couture."

I keep talking about the SAVE act because its clearly a voter disenfranchisement bill. And I focus a lot on how it will impact women who have been married because thats the largest demographic that is being targeted And the pushback from republican men is wild af

Nus Braka is the most purely, blackheartedly evil Star Trek villain since Khan. The proof? He interrupts his villainous monologue to indulge in his obsession with making Captain Ake sit upright in a straight-back chair.

It was never about undocumented immigrants and it was certainly not about immigrants committing crimes. The goal from the start was to repeal Reconstruction, and at no point did they try to hide that.

Sometimes it seems as if English as spoken in South Asia differs from the English that I learned in the USA in a crore different ways.

God wants us to understand science. For example, to make sure we understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics, He gave us aging and death.

So apparently Bad Bunny's self-evident courage and flare has inspired some Republicans to vote against some dumbass tariffs on imports from Canada. BB should do a half-time show every week, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Beek Jeans. The best.

Ideally, Congress can hold hearings about the awfulness of Bad Bunny all spring, then into the summer, then into the fall. ¡Porque eso será excelente!

I predict much outraged quoting of "Tití Me Preguntó" from members of Congress who have translations of various verses that omit a translation of the final verse with its punchline.

I thought @markmackinnon.bsky.social might appreciate this a little.