A Swedish engineer buys an octopus at a seafood market and teaches it how to play piano.

Actor Gary Sinise, who is best known for portraying Vietnam veteran Lieutenant Dan in Forrest Gump, donated $1 million to a nonprofit which works to heal combat veterans through art and music.

Ah, the Mariners of Penzance

The Spy Who Came in from the WiFi: Beware of Radio Network Surveillance! Researchers have found out that it is possible to identify people solely through WiFi signals. (awesome story title)

My review of _The Immigrant Cookbook: Recipes that Make America Great_. I love the premise, and it has lots of recipes from admirable chefs, but I never did cook anything from it. https://amzn.to/3XAN7Q0

The seven deadly sins, online

UPDATE: Person infected with bird flu in Washington state has H5N5. It's the first time H5N5 has been found in a human The person is an older adult with underlying health conditions and remains hospitalized. The patient keeps a mixed backyard flock that had contact with wild birds.

> In its preview story of the baseball game, the Beacon warned attendees they were prohibited from bringing “strangle holds, razors, horsewhips, and other violent implements of argument.” (Evidently, backpacks were still OK back then.)

Windigo Visitor Center, Isle Royale National Park #NPS #NationalParkService #IsleRoyaleNationalPark

A remarkably preserved Roman merchant ship from the late Roman Empire resting just about six feet (two meters) beneath the crystal blue waters off the coast of the island of Mallorca, near the Iberian Peninsula, is set to be recovered and raised starting in 2026.

I came across my 2013 review of The Pelbar Cycle, and now I want to reread the series. amzn.to/48gUMcs

welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles

[first date] ME: hi how are you DATE: i'm well ME: *under breath* this could have been an email

MIT engineers have designed a programmable drug-delivery patch that could help the heart heal after a heart attack, no open-heart surgery required.

"Why write? To read what I've written. Why read what I've written? Because for all its faults and possible omissions, no one else could have written it." --Joyce Carol Oates

Toad sat on the edge of his bed. “Blah,” said Toad. “I feel down in the dumps.” “Why?” asked Frog. “I am thinking about tomorrow,” said Toad.

Alice Wong, writer and disability activist, has died. She was an educator and a communicator and a warrior who lit the way. I’m grateful to have crossed paths with her. Rest in peace.

THE INVENTOR OF BAD NEWS: what if you could be sitting down

On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion. YouTube website in 2006 #InternetHistory

This.

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

Mark Zuckerberg on buying Instagram April 5, 2012

The short, happy reign of CD-ROM www.fastcompany.com/...

After a free concert in Melbourne was cancelled amid safety concerns, the band paid $35,000 worth of bar tabs across the city to buy disappointed fans a drink. amp.9news.com.au/art...

The testing of Hitler's DNA showed "very high" scores — in the top one percent — for a predisposition to autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, program makers Blink Films said. (Note that there are questions regarding the testing procedure.) www.cbsnews.com/news/adolf-h...

TIL a 2005 study of 284 professional predictors and 82,361 testable predictions found that “experts barely if at all outperformed informed non-experts; neither group of forecasters did well against simple rules and models.”

She was supposed to be released on November 11, but was issued a random ICE detainer that day—which forced her to stay in place for 48 hours while Immigration and Customs Enforcement prepared to deport her. newrepublic.com/post/203195/...

A Visual History of Lunchboxes

Ahoy, @researchbuzz.bsky.social, got one for ya

Having been involved as an expert witness in three documentary proof of citizenship cases I expect DHS will find there are 1,000s of naturalized citizens who haven't updated their drivers' license citizenship status but they'll claim they are noncitizens

Rush managed to snap 65 cucumbers in half in 30 seconds, obliterating the previous record of 50.

For What If? Why Not? How? I spoke with Miriam Seidel, author, editor & librettist about her opera Violet Fire and the new book Tesla’s Opera: The real, stranger-than-fiction Nikola Tesla. This is about #NikolaTesla, the man, NOT the car. sallywienergrotta.substack.com/p/violet-fire

"Snape later noted that the Dementors (and their master) are able to work their evil ways only because of the gaping security holes left in electronic products by the engineers (and their bosses) who don't know a GPOS protection profile from the SKPP."

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Picard management tip: If they know their jobs, leave them alone. If they don't, help them learn.

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”--P.J. O’Rourke, whose birthday it is today.

Ha!

Someone once asked Fats Waller, in the early days of boogie-woogie piano, how he kept the right hand from doing what the left hand was doing. He said, "That's what I'm in the middle for."

[Enter two other Senators with a Messenger.] THIRD SENATOR Thou hast painfully discover’d; are his files As full as thy report?

The campaign targets specific individuals (who may have travel reservations) with malspam that links through a service called Want Your Feedback. www.netcraft.com/blog/thousan...

For all of you into vibe coding

"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying."– Terry Pratchett

"In theory AI chatbots could be used as evidence, but 'we’re still far from having the legal and procedural framework' to make that realistic."

A Queens high school went from super silent lunchtimes to noisy chaos after banning phones, with kids playing board games and passing notes like it's 1995.

Baseball fan? This will make you smile.

Pierrot, by Jean-Antoine Watteau, 1718-19, 📸 by @andyharnik

A database of romance books

"A new fiber computer contains eight devices that work together as a single computing entity, and scientists want to weave many of them so they can work together as cohesive smart garments."

Every office has an executive tier whose emails are like: saw on news , , can we replce complianc dept with web 3 and a worker tier whose emails are like: Dear Jim, First of all, I *love* this idea! Unfortunately, I spoke with Legal and identified a few issues with this approach. For starters…