Because I've seen some confusion on this: The above isn't a link to the "60 Minutes" piece CBS pulled, it's a different piece on the same topic produced for "Frontline" on PBS. And on a related note: If you want to support PBS stations right now, here's a link to do that: adoptastation.org

“At LSA, we explicitly welcome negative data and null results, & we include it online in the journal’s policy about submitting. This was baked into the founding of our journal; we think it’s a matter of scientific integrity, of reducing wasted research efforts, & of lowering barriers to publication”

Normal yule log? Boring. Expected. Overdone. Lithium-ion battery yule log? Relevant. Unexpected. Educational. youtu.be/rc6Txma85Ac?...

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I did not miss the helicopters every day Has bovino considered going somewhere else, maybe hell?

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If any journalist wants to talk to a trans man with a PhD in Human Genomics who was trained in labs that studied the evolution of sex, I'm right here Or just keep platforming Republicans who have a 5th grade understanding of biology so they get more trans people killed, sure 🤷🏻‍♂️

Seldom have I hit the block button so fast. I think I might have given myself whiplash, to be honest.

There's also a phenomenon akin to Gell-Mann amnesia happening with AI where people easily recognize it's hallucinations and errors when it's discussing a topic they know about but they assume it's magically correct when discussing a topic in which they have no expertise.

Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population

Also I'm still mad because of this

Benn Jordan, who initially discovered this, made a very good YouTube video about the exposure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-...

Here's some short examples of what was left exposed:

These cameras can be set to automatically zoom in on people and follow them. Flock left the admin panels for these cameras exposed, where people could download 30 days of footage, change settings, delete things. We found them at playgrounds, bike paths, parking lots, street fairs:

I found the original deck plans and purchase order for the HMS Bounty that had been misfiled and "lost", which wasn't even the thing I was looking for.

Once the AI boosters vs Historians argument started getting into the reality of paper archival research, I haven't seen much more from the AI guys...

Wild @404media.co story from @jasonkoebler.bsky.social on being able to stalk himself when Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking cameras livestreaming on the open internet. The panopticon we are living in has my skin crawling and makes me want to stay inside forever.

"If not entirely successful," NPR? Musk and his DOGE minions are responsible for the deaths of 100,000s of people around the world. They should be in jail

Dear 60 Minutes Interns, the time to act is now. Upload that episode to the web. Earn that college credit.

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

Crocus sativus L. Iridaceae Fars province, Iran October 2025 Elevation 2000m Iran produces over 90% of the world's saffron, with around 130,000 hectares of golden fields, and more than 350 tons of dried saffron have been produced this year! #saffron #redgold #crocus

Several years ago, I found a big patch of sabatias growing in a rocky ledge area (reachable only by boat) by Grand Lake in NE OK. I didn't grow native plants yet or know what they were, but they were so pretty that I had to identify them from memory when I got home. Now I'm wishing I had some seeds.

I first met a Sabatia growing on the shore of an artificial pond that used to be a quarry not far from my house. It was truly striking. I logged it on iNat - www.inaturalist.org/observations...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

The mythical Cassandra must have been exhausted all the time

Fascism is so boring and repetitive. It's exhausting to watch them run the same playbook over and over again.

By end of day tomorrow, there will be anonymously sourced stories about Bari Weiss getting death threats. By Wednesday afternoon the media focus will have shifted focus away from CBS's decision to spike a story as a political favor to fascists and they'll be talking about "political violence".

we will need to effective desegregate and reintegrate the public institutions of this country and the best way to do that is probably still going to be what Eisenhower went with after Brown v Board of Ed

Solstice. Days get longer from here on out.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

In case it wasn't completely obvious, any liberal participating in Bari Weiss' fake 'debates' on @cbsnews.com needs get the hell out and withdraw, now. It may cost you money but will save your integrity.

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

It's gone. This story is being memory holed as we speak.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

AI is great, obviously, which is why his immediate comparison is to Pandora’s Box, which was famously only full of excellent things.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Ok listen Hallmark made a legitimately amazing Hannukah movie. It’s called Round And Round. It is nerdy AF. It has D&D and comic books and time loops and Groundhog Day references the acting and writing is good and it’s very Jewish and I watch it every year and I highly recommend it.

red alert for weird species lovers corydalis? bluecurls? rockpinks?

you either die a hero or live long enough to be Adobe

As we get close to the end of the year I thought I'd repost some of my favorites. These aren't in any particular order, but how could I not start with my absolute favorite of the Kingbird riding on the osprey while carrying a fish? #photography #birds

Psst #nativeplants winter sowers 🌱 @hungryhookfarm.bsky.social seed inventory is updated and they're online! www.hungryhookfarm.com/shop/seeds/34

Federal immigration agencies were involved in at least 33 deaths this year. The full story: lataco.com/33-deaths-fe... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

Bushy tailed and at home in a tree! It's our new gray squirrel hand printed ornament. #ArtAdventCalendar

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Happy Winter Solstice! On midwinter’s day, the sun sets between the pair of stones that form the largest trilithon at #Stonehenge Farewell to the shortest day of the year, as we look forward to lighter days ahead! ☀️ #StandingStoneSunday #Archaeology

I am watching ROUND AND ROUND (2023) one of Hallmark's scant Hanukkah-themed offerings, and it's a hoot! Surprisingly snappy dialogue, the Jewish details are lovingly inserted, casual queerness in the supporting cast, comic books are a plot point, and Vic Michaelis should be the lead in more movies.