Also Antifa:

It's gonna be so funny when Pritzker tells us to retreat for 8 days on horse back and they rejoice, not knowing the circle that will envelop them.

Biblically accurate healpix map. #cosmology

“You finally really did it! You MANIACS! You spiced it up! Damn you! God damn you all to hell!”

the computer is a feeling

i feel like if i saw this in a particular headspace it would make me tear up

Just saw The Sound of Music for the first time (in theaters at that!) and it was amazing of course. I love how much that man hated Nazis.

god I miss this city

You can now find all of the MCMC chains used in the recent SPT-3G D1 paper on LAMBDA #cosmology

we've all really been thrown upon this filthy modern tide huh

looks like the uruk hai outside helms deep

v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚 Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to! Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇

Another interesting preprint. Could this be a primordial black hole? arxiv.org/abs/2508.21748

First time attempting a biggish climb and honestly, it was not as completely horrible as I expected. Definitely less intimidated by riding in the Berkeley hills now!

Bela Fleck kinda looks like an aged Peter Gregory

Chicago

Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."

a pile of leaves

Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still don’t know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Here’s two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.

should i start writing my code in julia

If you work for ICE, save your immortal soul and quit your job.

I ripped up my permission slip today and I’m standing with Rep. Collier tonight! Her courageousness is so contagious! Her strength is exactly the kind of leadership Texans deserve. We cannot allow political pressure or the misuse of state power to dictate our work. #TxLege

fiat soy milk

no one wants to talk about this but Lego Island (1997) clearly endorsed Chicago deep dish pizza

bodega discourse has reached new heights, new yorkers are in awe of concrete mounds

Sunday night stock

It was "the place where fun goes to die", but also now the humanities and research in general, I guess.

Just discovered that my iPhone 16 pro with its silicone case is 229g, making it almost exactly 0.5 lb (0.505). It's height is almost exactly half a foot (5.9 inches). This makes it an excellent length and weight standard that is almost always on hand, and which will almost never be needed.

“The damage that has been done to our world-leading scientific research infrastructure will take decades to repair, if we are ever able to.”

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

The San Francisco store will remain open for now, but the market in Berkeley will close Aug. 17 after two dozen years in business.

the pancake mini game in this was my favorite

roger roger

Do Not Be Afraid

this is your brain on ChatGPT

2026 is the year of the linux desktop

Devastating cuts to humanities education. If even somewhat accurate, this is terrible news for the University of Chicago. And a bleak outlook for universities elsewhere. The scariest prospect is if, as Ando says, leaders of the faculty are promoting this rather than resisting as much as they can.

this is your brain on ChatGPT

one of my working theories of New Yorkers is that, because for a lot of residents NYC is the first big city they have lived in, they often think City Thing is instead NYC Thing. E.g. corner shops exist in most cities, many are 24/7, they’re just not called bodegas. Many such cases

rushing to the single user, public bathroom, finding it open. “sede vacante” i murmur as I open the door. The seat is empty.

This is a stabilized version of the only actual footage of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, recorded by Harold Agnew.

It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/08/t...

Rest in peace, Jim Lovell www.nasa.gov/news-release...

If I could experience one location during its prime it would be Marshall Fields at christmas time

This is a stabilized version of the only actual footage of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, recorded by Harold Agnew.