I don't know how you did it, @kyloboomhauer.bsky.social, but promise to use this power only for good.

Opens at the Texas Theatre on the weekend of August 8 and plays also on the 12th and 13th. Looks like a murder mystery set around the political drama of the Shogunate?

THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER - Official Trailer

YouTube video by JANUS

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Accountability. Like “affordability,” it’s something these clowns only give lip service to, if that.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3h ago

Paxton has his aide step and doesn't answer when someone asks him "how come on a government salary you own over 15 houses?"

Sun Tzu wrote Art of War with someone like Hegseth in mind, but in an era when failsons might actually be teachable and persuadable. Literally, written for rich nepobabies who needed remedial self-preservation. Such men have deteriorated since Sun Tzu was around.

Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h ago

Every military leader since antiquity: wars are won by logistics hegseth: you win wars when military look like fitness influencers

Yeppers. I am no longer going to conferences in the U.S. And I am not alone.

Detentions of International Scholars at Airports Raise Alarm

A Johns Hopkins University researcher was detained at an airport by immigration officials and later released. Cases like hers make travel fraught for foreign scholars.

insidehighered.com

"when they looked at the results, they realized they’d photographed the sun’s bright outer shell at higher resolution than ever before. "What’s more, they saw strange feathery patterns rippling across the surface."

New images of the sun show its surface in the finest detail yet

Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet. Researchers were able to peek with the help of a telescope on the island of Maui in Hawaii.

apnews.com

Cooling off, going through email-newsletters for a few until I decide to go back outside. North Sun by Ethan Rutherford is a book club pick at Deep Vellum. I decided to learn what I could and am now reading about the book, the writer Ethan Rutherford, and 19th century whaling.

NORTH SUN

By Ethan Rutherford. From "one of our great artists of catastrophe" (Laura van den Berg) comes North Sun, or the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther—an allegory of extraction and a tale of adventure and en...

store.deepvellum.org

Don’t threaten us with a good time.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

This seems important. www.kickstarter.com/projects/735...

His Name was Harvey Pekar

Saving the legacy of Harvey Pekar:Urgent mission to rescue four full storage units of American Splendor history before its lost forever

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Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c

Donate to Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers, organized by Gina Gabianelli

Help Andy’s Fight Against Two Cancers Meet my cousin Andy Fish, father … Gina Gabianelli needs your support for Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers

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And so much for the various attempts to revive the tradition of the dinner party. Odds are pretty good this guy would just leave it there after he was done for the hosts to clean up.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico

A days-long electronic warfare drill was one of the causes behind the loss of a four-passenger medevac flight.

futurism.com

Arkansas playing "Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better" at Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma. The American South is competing in a race to the bottom and all have to suffer.

Librarians and Booksellers Will Be Arrested For Doing Their Jobs in Arkansas

A Federal Judge has allowed an Arkansas law to go into effect that will lead to widespread book bans and jail time for librarians.

bookriot.com

This is out now, available worldwide! Inkwood Books (NJ) and The Head and the Hand (Philly) have signed stock! Any indie bookstore can order you a copy! It's at all the big box stores, too: Amazon, B&N, Walmart, etc. Ask your library! And if you loved it, leave a review (Goodreads, etc.)!!

Ali Trotta@alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 2w ago

This comes out…tomorrow?? Holy hell. So grateful to @clashbooks.bsky.social for being wonderful! I’m so in love with @katelanfoisy.bsky.social’s gorgeous art & grateful to @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social for being 18 kinds of fab! So excited for y’all to read it!! Thank you for all the support. XO

The other day the algorithm fed me 1 part of a 5 part series of some woman targeting a romantasy writer with “why I think her book series is AI generated” and it was just…vibes. With a caveat that said “just my opinion” Trying to ruin someone’s career over vibes AI has created collective paranoia

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 2d ago

The way that everyone sees fantom AI in original work now is such a fucked up secondary downstream AI nightmare consequence. People can’t critically identify real art any longer and so everything gets accused of not being original. I don’t know how we climb out of this hole.

Under the current political climate in Texas, I doubt they’ll win, and if they do they’ll still face the willful ignorance and antagonism from the majority of their students. But some battles you fight anyway and a losing hand can be the most interesting depending on how it’s played.

Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender

This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.

texastribune.org

Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'

Can we squeeze a few more galaxies in? Andromeda, can you inhale so we can fit two more? Now say "cheese"...I mean Milky Way!

Rubin Gets a Closer Look at the COSMOS Field, Revealing More Than 650,000 Galaxies in One Image

The observatory recently began its 10-year survey of the southern sky using the world's largest digital camera.

gizmodo.com

I wonder what blackmail material the administration has on Cornyn.

Thanks to my bank’s phone AI client, I have to find time today to go into the bank to solve a problem. AI is supposed to make our lives easier how?

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

the sad thing is, this is the actual Revenge of the Nerds and, like the movie, it's just not aging well.

Josh Alien@joshalien.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tech bros realize they are boring, cultureless and mostly a giant sausage party.

They’ve added trillions in new spending. None of that has gone to Social Security or Medicaid. They will now say both are broke and must be cut. America needs new leadership.👇🏼

PBS News@pbsnews.org · 4d ago

Americans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0

Oh! I never would have imagined it! Was that convincing? I want it to be convincing.

Corporations, Not Immigrants, Are Responsible for Vast Majority of Healthcare Fraud, OIG Report Shows

Trump officials are focused on immigrants, but the Department of Health and Human Services report on healthcare fraud doesn’t even mention them.

theintercept.com

I didn’t start the Baldree story but read instead issue 2 of Concrete Stars Over Sand. The series will obviously read better as a whole once completed. I just want to read each chapter as they’re released. And Chadwick’s covers! Now to run errands and, I hope, not overheat.

Sitting in White Rock Coffee, cooling off with an iced sopapilla latte, reading Scalzi’s “3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years.” If I still have latte when I’m done, I’ll read the new Travis Baldree novella “Miss Gentle and the Case of the Very Flat Monk.” This would be my first Baldree fiction.

Watching this unprecedented summer of drought, fire and heat unfold across Europe has just been awful. They're hitting temps the older, less catastrophic climate models told them wouldn't happen until 2050. We're in a new era.

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 4d ago

Firefighters have contained a vast wildfire in southwestern France, allowing nearly 200,000 people to return home after what may have been the country’s largest peacetime evacuation.

I just subscribed to this block list, and I really appreciate the public service provided here

Tess is Surviving the Horrors@mothmother.com · 5d ago

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

M*A*S*H S1E20 “The Army-Navy Game” The unit receives shelling as soon as the staff begins listening to the game.

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor

The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.

futurism.com