All I can say is that when the devil comes for whichever Bears fan sold their soul to make that deal, they’re definitely gonna say, “worth it.”

The thing I have learned from being a non-football fan on Sports Bluesky is that ESPN, the NFL, and its officials hate every team in the league.

I still think it’s cool that John Cena was able to achieve escape velocity from the Oaf Vortex. I like seeing him wherever he shows up.

the question of "who was president in the year 2020" somehow continues to dominate our politics despite being relatively easy to look up

Interesting archaeological discovery in China: bars of silver found in association with the oldest known example of a particular cultivated herb. It's a tael as old as thyme!

if you only watch one baseball video today watch this

I noticed that at the end of last year that I was no longer seeing Yukon Gold taters, so today I went and looked for some to make this dish. No dice. Found a bunch of different yellow taters and these are good, but not the same. Turns out, they’re going away. 🍽️🍜 www.seriouseats.com/yukon-gold-p...

Here's the video of my talk on December 10 at Q2B Silicon Valley, reviewing recent progress in quantum computing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UoJ...

STOP FLYING TO PANDORA TO MAKE THE MOVIES, IDIOT

impossible to overstate the importance of the saxophone in the 80s and 90s. every band was required to have one sax solo. every sitcom theme was 80% sax. our president played the saxophone and we adored him for it. there are neon colors i permanently associate with the sound of a saxophone

people liked the new deal partially because it brought them things they had a shortage of, like electricity and water. if your automations do not take this same approach then people will hate them and they'll be right to do so

this has been the only good post on the topic

On my quest to manually find the longest punt of the year, in D2 Braden Biller of Adams State, booted this 91 yard punt over the head of the returner who tried to field it.

I feel obliged to do a blog post talking about the question of multiple observers in the Everett version of QM, but know in advance that this will prove unsatisfying because I don't understand the objection well enough: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

CoPilot show me list of top prospects

The Newsletter Era has reached its final mature stage: I'm now having to delete spam comments from old Substack posts on a daily basis.

Precious and few are the moments these toucans share

Found out today that SteelyKid has been accepted to Union, so I don't need to go over to Admissions and bust heads...

🎶 Fear the turtle 🎵

I took to the blog and wrote about the Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics, in case you're in the mood for a discount @seanmcarroll.bsky.social kind of thing: chadorzel.substack.com/p/why-the-ev...

I wrote a Thing about quantum foundations spinning off my talk in Oslo last month because that was more fun than the many other things I should've been doing: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

So, here's a Thing that will be happening, if you find yourself with a considerable amount of income that you'd like to dispose of: www.thegreatcoursesjourneys.com/swisslegacy

I finally broke down and did the "tour" of the "new" navigation system that Workday has been pushing at me for months, since clicking "No Thanks" does fuck-all. I figure the chances this actually makes that pop-up stop appearing are maybe 37%.

New #physics post - a ball of clay hits a stick in the center and then on the edge. Which one has a greater recoil speed? #python included (of course). rjallain.medium.com/the-physics-...

I'm convinced that assigning funding at random would lead to better outcomes. Put a quality control on it if you like, but if you are already losing half of the money to admin, losing a quarter to bad science/fraud instead would be preferable

I actually would disagree with this take - though he might not have known it, Hitler has essentially set the conditions to make eventual defeat and regime extinction very likely (and so his great power position very poor) by November 1940 at the latest, even with the success of Fall Gelb/Rot.

The cut to Cignetti making this face may be my favorite broadcast moment of the year

Well 2025 was an awful year but thank god all the problems will be solved by the 2026 US presidential election

Something for quantum computing folks to think about. 👇

Let's not forget that quantum computers will be able to simulate both human biology as well as materials, so they will be more powerful than AI scientists and magic ponies!

I've said this before, but one of the reason why DIE HARD works when so many imitators fail is because of how it feels like every human being on screen has a complex inner and outer life that this moment is just glancing upon. It's filled with little three-dimensional moments that give it life.

I wrote way too many words about the recent STRANGER THINGS drop and the reasons it doesn't work: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

The hook for this story is that fatal crashes are low on Christmas Day, but putting this interactive graph in just makes me wonder what's up with late March? www.timesunion.com/news/article...

This might sound harsh, and judgmental, but if video is your preferred way of getting information about a topic, you’re a fucking moron

The Pip and I watched SISU 2 tonight, and if you haven't seen these, they are cartoonishly violent in the absolute best sense of that phrase. Great fun to watch an old Finnish dude fuck up Nazis and commies.

Living and working abroad has had its difficulties but imo it’s something everyone should do at least once. You learn things about yourself being a stranger somewhere.

I generally dislike complaints about fiction in whatever medium being "padded," but will make an exception for this latest STRANGER THINGS drop. Every plotline gets a moment-of-catharsis speech that's about 30% longer than it needs to be. Jesus, people, get ON with it...

It's fun to describe quantum teleportation in terms of particles that move both forward and backward in time. And it's more than just fun: the intuition derived from that description can guide us to new applications. quantumfrontiers.com/2025/12/14/m...

Are Tests Biased Against Students Who Don't Give A Shit

We got 6-ish inches of powdery snow that would be lovely to ski on, but I'm coming off a nasty cold and just pushing the snowblower around had me wheezing, so... #DiscretionVsValor

I generally think @maiamindel.bsky.social is a very good commentator and her take on the Are White Male Millennials Oppressed? discourse is good too. someunpleasant.substack.com/p/whose-lost...

Very indifferent Jesus here, like “lady, I literally wrote this book, I don’t need to hear it again”

If you want to know how tech has changed over the last ~20 years, we got a new home weather station for Christmas because the sensor on the old one died. The inside unit for the old one took 6AA batteries as a backup to the wall plug, the new one just 3AAA batteries.

Honestly at some point you just gotta respect Cameron's ability to do whatever the fuck it is he is doing with these films, bloody hell. collider.com/avatar-fire-...

I am not a Christian of course but like all Americans I have spent my life marinating in Christian mythography, and so around this time of year I have a lot of thoughts about the Nativity and the part where the innkeeper says there's no room in the inn.

Watching the Lions against the Vikings is making me feel a lot better about how my Giants looked on Sunday...

Definitely going to ask SteelyKid the challenge question at the end of this

Culturally appropriate seasonal wishes or lack thereof, according to your chosen norms! jamesdavisnicoll.com/post/seasona...

labeler that labels your account with your objective Privilege Quotient and Level of Cancelledness as well as the ultimate fate of your mortal soul