The first NYT comment I saw helps underscore the value of the list. "Here's some data politics...when we wanted to transition to EV cars, the smart people all told us that the electrical grid couldn't handle it. But put a bazillion data centers on line and somehow the grid is perfectly fine."

Kathy Harris@triproftri.bsky.social · yesterday

An incredible reading list about #AI framed through what TMC calls "data politics" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Putting high-T into the TPS reports!

Christoph Harig@charig.bsky.social · yesterday

FOCUS ON LETHALITY

All you need is two lists: A congressional district total of the harm caused by Elon and the Doge minions *just to residents of the district.* Service cuts, jobs lost, facilities closed, you get the idea...

Hey, streaming services! Let’s talk about my series idea, HUBRIS / NEMESIS. Think of “Arrest and Trial” with egomaniacs…

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 6d ago

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Read all about "smart dust" -- or as I think of it, "fash powder" -- the latest vampire-squid technology from people who don't want you driving with three blocks of THEIR personal data. Teeny, tiny clouds of stool-pigeon chips.

Jessica Price@delafina777.bsky.social · 6d ago

naw it’s cool, nothing to see here, just Wells Fargo patenting sensor dust they can blow on you to make financial decisions based on your body this will surely not be used to bar disabled people, fat people, women, ??? from resources patents.google.com/patent/US113...

@snipy.bsky.social I'm not able to post in your Catholic/Christian/tattoo thread (and that's fine!), but I showed your tattoo photo (no text, no explanation visible) to my wife, who took less than 30 seconds to say "Chartres?"

All I can tell you as a woman who went through film academia is a question you get used to internalizing is “now do you mean genius, or do you mean white, male, and funded?” because people get very mad when you ask it aloud.

No one could have expected this, except anyone who's been through a corporate spasm based on something the CEO heard on the golf course. www.bbc.com/news/article...

OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack

It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.

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Fed up with the inflexibility and risk of serious injury inherent in glass slippers, once Cinderella broke up with the boring prince, she devoted her life to two causes: useful footwear, and dresses with pockets. In 2038, the Nobel Committee would establish a new category to honor her work.

𝕴𝖓𝖋𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖆𝖙𝖗𝖎𝖝 𝕾𝖔𝖕𝖍𝖎𝖆@infernatrixsophia.bsky.social · 2w ago

A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵

Since I worked for a pension agency here in Canada, and since I paid into both Social Security and the Railroad Retirement System while working in the U.S., retirement issues tend to catch my eye... (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/b...

A Year After DOGE Cuts, Social Security Is Trying to Stabilize (Gift Article)

The agency has been quietly hiring workers again, and its leadership is focused on improving technology to ease workloads left by the departure of about 7,800 staff members.

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Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

How many of the prediction (aka insider-enrichment) markets have: - Likelihood that whoever's in charge would want Trump in the same area code as the funeral? - Likelihood that any Trump comment longer than 30 seconds will include the number of counties won?

Nathalie Plum@radioplum.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump at his eulogy at a church brimful with hypocrites

I'm looking for women who have lost weight on GLP-1s. I'm interested in how it's affecting you emotionally. Are you relieved to find something that works? Grumpy from side-effects? More confident in a thin-oriented society? Elated? Disappointed? DMs are open. I won't use names. RTs appreciated.

Me: <click "Save" for this 26-page Word doc I've been wrestling with.> Win 11: Save your changes to this file? Me: ... Win 11 (same pop-up): Avoid losing changes to this file in the future by saving it to a folder backed up to the cloud instead...

I don't think a single Democratic senator has claimed to have spoken to McConnell (R-Absence), which means not a one of them better say a peep about what a great colleague he was and how much he contributed to the Senate on that presumably far-off day when Mitch can no longer save court seats.

I dreamed I spoke to Mitch last night We talked till half-past three Says I, "Mitch, folks have said you're dead." "Not sure I am," says he. "Not sure I am," says he.

NBC: The planned complex with more than 1,600 units includes adding more than a dozen stories atop the building’s original tower. Wikipedia (Pfizer building NYC): the space is being divided into 1,600 apartments, and nineteen additional floors are being built atop 219 East 42nd Street.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4w ago

Crazy story this morning, large tower on the verge of collapse in midtown: www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/fd...

@clairewillett.bsky.social Re Goldade: "In 2014, he was appointed Prior in Kansas City, where he oversaw the priory, a large parish, a school, and a community of religious sisters...

Your unsought-for reminder that it is not true that members of Congress get free health care, and it is equally not true that they get free health care for life. They've got a sweet deal, but it's not free...

Originalism: What the Founders intended. Or what they would have intended if they had been as smart as I am.

The “state fair” on the National Mall brought to mind the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Here are performers there in 2003. (I saw them later, in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia) Jennifer’s not bad on the fiddle, and good with stories, too. youtu.be/Sr9IrXgfqVU

The Wrigley Sisters - Medley of Orcadian Songs [Live at Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003]

YouTube video by Smithsonian Folkways

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Outspoken™️@out5p0ken.bsky.social · last mo.

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

I've been reading part of Hannah Arendt's series on The Origins of Totalitarianism. Just a few items I highlighted in volume III:

One of several well-informed (and thus not White-House-approved) analyses of the Blue Lagoon of Incompetence.

The Monarch Diaries@monarchdiaries.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

@tamarhaspel.bsky.social I just wandered past a 14-year-old blog post I wrote, based on "throwing like a girl," and feel driven to ask: Did you ever find that violin teacher? www.daveswhiteboard.com/archives/5042

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The Mitchell Trio with John Denver - The John Birch Society (Live 1968)

YouTube video by Boot Leg

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Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If the world's been too much with you, late and soon, here's a diversion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2cE...

Flo & Joan - Rest of My Life: Melbourne Comedy Festival 2025

YouTube video by Flo & Joan

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Announcing the winner of the Eventual Epitaph award. Thank you all for your attention to this matter.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

DOOCY: Why not stick around for the signing ceremony of this Iran peace deal? TRUMP: I might. But this is a memorandum of understanding. It might not be the kind of document I should be signing. If it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD.