I am helping my son with his fifth grade homework. So, I fired up his Chromebook and logged into Canvas. As I was reading tonight’s homework he helpfully informed me “daddy, you click the words that are blue.”
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If you missed me on WGN Radio this weekend, you can tune into the podcast (wgnradio.com/steve-and-jo... -- jump to 1:26:26). ... 1/2
Steve and Johnnie: A harvest moon rise, a guitar virtuoso, and Long Grove’s gluten-free fall fest
Steve King and Johnnie Putman broadcast live from the the WGN Skyline Studios after Chicago Blackhawks Hockey on a full harvest moon Saturday night. They’re joined by Ron, Bob, Jonathan, and introd…
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I spent about half an hour on WGN Radio in Chicago this weekend talking about a perfectly normal, relaxing topic: Is AI going to kill everyone? You can listen here (jump to 1:15:09): wgnradio.com/steve-and-jo... ... 1/8
Steve and Johnnie: Alicia Witt in Evanston, rock star photographer’s photo tips, is AI Going to Kill us?
Steve King and Johnnie Putman are back in the WGN Skyline Studios after a one week holiday hiatus, packing all the content they can fit into a condensed version of the show following a rejoin after…
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My wife hinted that she wanted me to buy her some espadrilles for Mothers Day. That just requires me to evolve a drilbur, right? pokemondb.net/pokedex/exca...
Excadrill Pokédex: stats, moves, evolution & locations
Pokédex entry for #530 Excadrill containing stats, moves learned, evolution chain, location and more!
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The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting another vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and universities.
Canvas login portals hacked in mass ShinyHunters extortion campaign
The ShinyHunters extortion gang has breached education technology giant Instructure again, this time exploiting another vulnerability to deface Canvas login portals for hundreds of colleges and universities.
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Today is the fifth anniversary of the day my son developed trust issues. </s>
Happy New Year’s Eve, everyone. If 2025 was a challenging year, may 2026 bring brighter days and greater opportunities. If 2025 was a rewarding year, here’s to building on that momentum in the year ahead. Wishing you all a healthy, joyous, and meaningful 2026.
Important news if you vote by mail or submit taxes or bill payments by mail: As of Christmas Eve 2025, the U.S. Postal Service now defines a postmark date as the date of first automated processing—which can occur days after you dropped mail off. ... 1/2
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So, I was at Sports Clips in South Pasadena. They were playing ESPN’s Roll Tide/War Eagle documentary. About 15 minutes in, one of the stylists CHANGED THE CHANNEL. Anyway, this is a roundabout way to ask: does anyone know any good criminal defense attorneys? Asking for a friend.
As we gather around the Thanksgiving table, let’s set aside our differences and instead come together over the one thing that truly unites us: our shared hope that Dallas loses. Happy Thanksgiving!
Baseball trivia: every team that won game 7 went on to win the World Series.
Gentlemen in England now-a-bed shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's [sic] day.
Since I am supposed to practice what I'd do during a real earthquake, I figured I'd run to social media and quickly post "EARTHQUAKE!" This concludes this test of the emergency earthquake notification system serving the Los Angeles area.
Can someone please go nudge Billie Joe Armstrong? It's that time again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGhw...
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Green Day
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"When you wish upon a star." Tonight's Space X Falcon 9 launch as seen from Disneyland. Photo credit: Reddit user ErinRisi
This one is for my educator friends. Yesterday, Ethan Mollick shared a recent NBER article on AI detection that (tl;dr) found Pangram produced nearly zero false positives: www.nber.org/papers/w32939 ... 1/3
The Effect of Inflation Uncertainty on Household Expectations and Spending
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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This won't make any sense unless you play Pokémon Go, but ... 770 days after my son first introduced me to Pokémon GO on a train ride around Disneyland (July 30, 2023 — Poliwag Community Day!), I finally hit Level 50 (the max level ... for the next month or so). ... 1/4
Hat tip to Google Gemini 2.5 Flash (aka Nano Banana) for the laugh.
One of the most predictable (and infinitely repeatable) internet panics is moral outrage over social media terms of service. Why are they so broad? Because they have to be. ... 1/2
The Questionable Authority@questauthority.bsky.social · last yr.So even when a company has no intention of doing monstrous things with your content, you tend to get licenses that let them do so if they want - not out of malice, but out of CYA and resource-management. /fin
This still remains one of my favorite bits of trivia. In preparation for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games, Los Angeles became the first major city in the world to sync all of its traffic lights citywide. The synchronization program was completed in (checks notes) .... 2013.
LA Has Become the First Major City to Sync All Its Traffic Lights
The long-ago traffic promise of the 1984 Olympics has finally been fulfilled: yesterday in Historic South-Central, Mayor Villaraigosa switched on the last Los Angeles traffic signals to get...
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Some completely uninformed thoughts on DeepSeek (and for the techies who follow me, please let me know what I have gotten wrong): 🧵1/7
Apparently, I am no longer good at multitasking. I am in the drive thru at Chick-fil-A while also programming my GPS to take us to Disneyland. Them: “Welcome to Chick-fil-A. Can I get a name for the order?” Me: “Mickey and Friends Parking Structure … wait, no …”
The recent SoCal windstorm left Pasadena with a year’s worth of green waste debris—branches, bushes, and leaves—in just two days. Citywide cleanup is expected to take 6-8 weeks. More details: www.cityofpasadena.net/city-manager...
City of Pasadena Announces Windstorm Debris Pickup - Office of the City Manager
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