This may be anti-hot take, but dumping billion of tons of particles into the atmosphere to block the sun is maybe a bad idea, which is why I'm very worried some billionaire will want to do it. Words by me. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/dimming-th... 🧪

A New Hope shares more with 2001 than it does with any of the films that came after. It can be a slog, though a beautifully nostalgic slog with eye candy intended for film enthusiasts rather than general audiences.

Between the shutting down of science funding and rising costs of the Iran War, I’ve never had a President try to personally bankrupt me before. It’s pretty wild as life experiences go.

Research citations were broken already due to scale issues, but AI is going to make it far worse. Researcher tried a small test creating a fake disease via a handful of pre-prints. ai models rushed the fake disease to users. Faster when ai slop writes about ai slop. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Frame this.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

You can tell it's Victory for USA because now everyone has to coordinate with the Iranian military to have the ability to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Today's a fun day to be reading Hebert's God Emperor of Dune.

You know, Tom Cotton probably should’ve watched what happened next in “The Dark Knight” before tweeting this.

I will morally judge you on whether you prefer Batman over Daredevil.

Curious what the analysis is for why certain airports are hit so much harder by this DHS standoff than others. Does anyone have a good read?

it’s very astounding how Gonzaga has gone from America’s Cinderella to Texas A&M Football In A Different Sport

SEC basketball is what SEC football thinks it is.

Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.

Sweet, sweet mediocrity!!! Busting brackets and breaking hearts.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

Update: The White House has taken down the post and now claims a “staffer erroneously made the post” that was shared on President Donald Trump’s social media platform late Thursday night. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt claimed earlier that the criticisms amounted to "fake outrage."

Tim Scott, basically: "Yeah, they've said and done a lot of racist stuff before, but this one is really bad"

Spring 2026 starts today. So there it is!

Started Wonder Man but couldn't get through the first full scene. The show looks and sounds great, but that type of obvious cringe self-sabotage is my kryptonite. And it was so believable and painful.

Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...

God bless Minnesota and the Twin Cities. From Sam Adams to Harriet Tubman to MLK. They embrace the true spirit of American patriotism and rebellion.

Remember (as someone reminded me last week...) Bovino had claimed in court that he doesn't run his own social media accounts, even though it seemed pretty clear that he did.

If you're in that Signal chat, you should start posting excerpts from that NYTimes expose with all the FBI agents mocking him.

I totally get the impulse to yell at people to keep the pressure on, and it's right, but if Bovino really has been sent home, that's a significant victory for the protest movement. Let's not understate it. I'm not saying anyone should be complacent. Just notch the win and grimly move on.

Bovine going is great, but Noem is responsible for what ICE has become the last 12 months.

They’re going to disappear him like this is a PR issue and not a human rights issue.

Them: This isn’t real Game of Thrones. Me watching the best relationship in Westeros:

Wrote this short story when I was 14. It wasn’t good and the idea is of the age.

In Davos, the world is watching an American president’s mind dissolve in real time.

He sounds so very tired.

I won't say that The Two Towers is the perfect movie. Because you should already know that.

Thirty minutes into One Battle After Another and reviewers did a great job not giving up the plot.

Also, by their own standards, the cops protecting the Capitol on Jan 6 should have opened fire all over.

Cignetti is gonna be so mad that Oregon out-scored them in the 3rd quarter.

Here’s a comment for the people who are upset that MN hasn’t charged Jonathan Ross already: If you just Leeeroy Jenkins this shit you will lose and you will empower fascism and murder. It is indescribably hard to prosecute cops for murder. It is even hard when the murder is ON VIDEO. /1

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism

This is how it worked with Telegram, too. They created a safe harbor for Nazi terror channels and Google and Apple just ignored the issue and hoped it would go away.

#CharacterSheetChallenge Day 9 Meresta Es-Kalin Barbarian, lvl1 AD&D 1e, Method 1 stayed in Krynn, jumped ahead some, of the 30 stat sets rolled, this was by far the nuttiest. So it had to be a BS Minotaur. 411 in ALT @deidungeon.bsky.social @turboskeletron.bsky.social @mikertrice.bsky.social

Ed Teach (Blackbeard) in Civ VII is ridiculous.

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

It is the position of the Trump Administration that its agents can come into any state and city in America (let alone other countries) and kill people and that state and city have no jurisdiction to inquire about it. Treat any Trump official accordingly.

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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Happy 2026!

SEC teams that have beaten a non-SEC team in the post-season: Texas