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So much winning... "Xi Jinping must be watching the shifting of military assets to the Caribbean, and Hegseth’s announcement of a focus on the Western Hemisphere and considering what it may mean for his own plans against Taiwan.” Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Buried the lede: "(Premium users can also converse with Satan.)"

The Nuzzi piece isn't worth the electrons it's printed on.

Are all the beignet shops in NOLA named "Café Beignet"...??

Advice to authors - stop using "entangled" in your proposed titles. Your job is to untangle.

Hello, New Orleans #HSS2025

2008 is calling and it would like its bubble back... "That is a foretaste of what analysts say will be a growing pool of debt tied to data centers. " www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

If I had rabies, Larry Summers would be high on the bitin' list.

"delusion with a publish button..." 💯

On Veteran's Day, remembering my great great (great?) uncle Anthony Caputo (upper left), KIA Spring 1918 in France where he rests.

Our local butcher is offering food, diapers, etc. to SNAP recipients and federal employees which need help. If you have $20 etc. to spare... www.gofundme.com/f/supporting...

Our local butcher is offering food, diapers, etc. to SNAP recipients and federal employees which need help. If you have $20 etc. to spare... www.gofundme.com/f/supporting...

The mainstream art world typically ignores technology. Case in point = a review of two Robert Rauschenberg shows. No mention is given to RR's decade-long engagement with Bell Labs engineers, his co-founding of Experiments in Art & Technology with Billy Klüver, etc. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

While I am sorry to read about Fetterman's mental health issues, he is not fit to be a Senator. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

Now v. then...

I visited this site last month; the level of sacrifice is almost unimaginable today. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...

It's hard to read this WSJ article (gift link) and also think about the decimation of US science/engineering by the DJT administration w/o my head exploding. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...

I have voted for the deal that was on the Senate floor and which is probably caving to fascism Forgive me the flight delays were so annoying and so old

6 weeks of a shutdown and for no effing point.

From agnotolgy to structural ignorance…

Periodic reposting of the secret seal of the American Historical Association. Its image: a wet blanket. One motto: "Historians - we are here to bum you out." (Grainy because I risked my life to smuggle this out of a secret history ritual.)

If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately. He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go. Literally resign tonight.

What exactly does the Democratic Party stand for anymore??

“The shift this time was particularly remarkable given that the legislation Republicans have offered does not address Democrats’ main demand in the shutdown fight: the extension of health insurance tax credits that are slated to expire…” WTAF.

Really feeling that being a Democrat is being in an abusive relationship

My new book will be out in early December 2025 via @mitpress.bsky.social Details at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255348... #HistSci #Computing #History #Books 🗃️

Living in a shi*ty version of Bioshock... www.wsj.com/tech/biotech...

Dulles at dusk.

If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States and China and growing by 15 per cent a year. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Avi Loeb is to astronomy what RFK Jr. is to medicine... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/s...

One year? Fire Schumer.

"Dadfar is not accused of any crime and is following the legal path to asylum..." Disgusting. coloradosun.com/2025/11/07/i...

Who better than Kim Davis, 4X failed marriage partner, to tell people who they can and can't marry? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon. While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

The Holy Father, as well as being the candidate of the Holy Spirit, apparently thinks about the design of human values into sociotechnical systems

I wanna invite Pope Leo to my Intro to Science and Technology Studies class

Instead of restricting commercial air traffic, why not ground private jets?

One trillion reasons not to buy a Tesla.

Santa Cruz Chameleon is a nice affordable rig...

"Musk's board of directors, if they have strong spines, might want to read the Yale paper and put it on the next agenda..." coloradosun.com/2025/11/05/e...

New from me in the @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social: a review of tech critic Cory Doctorow's latest book, "Enshittification," an essential roadmap to why the internet continues to get worse. (Free to read, no paywall.) lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...

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Colorado's shock of the night if this holds, but Republican firebrand Danielle Jurinsky narrowly trails in her Aurora City Council re-elect bid. Jurinsky built a national profile on immigration via Fox News and the Trump campaign, but she trails two Dems in a pick-two race. #copolitics

MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Moderate/Dem-backed candidates are currently sweeping every school board race in conservative Douglas County, Colorado (home to a famous school voucher experiment). Would give moderates total 7-0 control of the school board. #copolitics

MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Union-backed school board candidates in Durango, Colo. are beating their conservative opponents by 40 pt margins. Conservatives, including anti-furry fmr Gov candidate Heidi Ganahl, have made Durango the center of education culture war issues lately. #copolitics

Can we fire Schumer now?

I could smell the mustard and the onions...

Big Blues

17 year ago...Gobama.