... it may have just been a matter of some new brewer making it too thick, producing a beer you could CHEW after cooking a 2nd time. Bread *could* have been inspired by a bad batch of beer & that feels =very human= to me. So cheers to home-brewers, practicing the world's 3rd? oldest profession.

13,000-Year-Old Brewery Found in Israel | Sci.News

An international team of researchers from Stanford University and the University of Haifa has found the oldest archaeological evidence of cereal-based beer brewing. The discovery is described in the J...

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This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

We’ve got to build it before China does.

When contemplating a blank-sheet-of-paper dramatic shift in a policy area, it is useful to ask the question, "does any other government do it this way?"

Well, they can’t take Week One away from us. #bearsseasonofficiallyover

You can't run government like a business. But you also can't run it like some lazy non profit.

what does he have left? what little boys and girls do. play around with dolls, interior decoration, martial arts spectatordom, and racecars

This seems like evidence that Trump didn’t like the results of his own cognitive tests.

‘Clear retribution’: dismay as key Alzheimer’s study cancelled amid Trump attacks on science

Participants in Pittsburgh may never learn the results of their cognitive tests – and funding cuts that target ‘DEI’ have the potential to delay vital diagnoses

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"but as the map recursively improves, eventually it becomes..." *clicks to final slide in the pitch deck* "...the territory!"

Thermal batteries aren't a future technology any more. 80 projects worldwide, 51 operating. Half of those came online in 2025 or 2026. Mostly 1–100 MWh, but Antora (5 GWh) & Chinese molten salt plants (up to 2 GWh) show what's possible. More soon on Substack. Sign up here janrosenow.substack.com

It's actually extremely bad that congressional reps are paid less today than a baby new grad software engineer made in their first year (well, year and a day so their first year of stock vested) out of college 15 years ago. It's a big part of *why* the corruption became normalized!

A political adviser to the IRGC commander, Mohammad Bakr Zo-Alkadar, said the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as long as Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu hold power.

This is supposed to be fun for your kid and maybe teach them some useful lessons like "How to try and feel proud even when another person bests you" and instead it's this $100,000 investment mommy and daddy demand a return on and it's six trans kids fault when you don't end up QBing at UCLA.

Love this message from the CTA.

Is the first ever orange man advocating for United Ireland?

Once you construct a personalist regime, where everyone caters to the leaders whims, its a fastrack to delusional behavior.

If you want to see the data center backlash turn into a full out Butlerian Jihad keep saying stuff like, "I as lead researcher at private AI company estimate the chance that AI ends humanity in the next decade at roughly 10 percent"

Snowjob@snowjob.bsky.social · 3w ago

It's like either a) they're full of shit and know it- which is deplorable, b) they're full of shit but believe it- which makes them insane, or c) they're right- which means we should TOS them where they stand to protect all of humanity. Which is it, AI hypebeasts?

But “AGI will kill us all” from people who got freaked out about Roko’s basilisk is about as convincing to me as a Squeaky Fromme warning about hidden messages in Beatles lyrics.

They all want to be the Oppenheimer of Death Star Ouija boards and that is not something you should want to be, even though it's a very silly fantasy

You know the old economist joke with the punchline, “Assume a can opener”? I feel like that’s what’s going on with CDR. 25 years ago, folks tried to assume into existence dollar-a-watt nuclear reactors. New designs, economies of scale, blah^3. Totally ignored why nuclear was/is so expensive.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3w ago

🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples: Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.

My anecdotal bespoke theory is we need to reestablish a sense of accomplishment around being different. Having your own bespoke tastes and interests used to be the way we cultivated individuality and we lost that somehow.

Je Hyeon | ABOLISH the polICE@naptime.theolive.garden · 3w ago

weird that the excuse is always “I must comsume this problematic thing bc it’s my hyperfixation” and not “my sense of justice insists I find new media”

Yep. People aren't anthropomorphizing LLMs because they can think; they do so because an LLM is designed to greet you in the first person. It the linguistic form of stitching on some eyes and a mouth.

1/ My latest newsletter covers the security implications of the climate overshoot report released by UNEP yesterday. The bottom line? Plan for 3 degrees, work like hell for 1.5. Five more takeaways threaded below....

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Whether it’s Chuck Schumer’s daughter getting a spot on OpenAI’s board or it’s Kirsten Gillibrand’s son getting millions in backing for a crypto startup, the children of New York elites always prove that with hard work, anyone can beat the stimga of a family name by A. G. Sulzberger

NYC hosts the World WallBall Championships for the first time ever, Sept. 14-19, with finals in Central Park. #Handball #NYCSports

The best handball players in the world set to compete in NYC  

History will be made in New York City Sept. 14–19 as the World WallBall (handball) Championships take place.

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“New ENGLAND?! You mean New AMERICA” “Sir you already renamed New Mexico New America” “Okay so make New England NEW New America” “Sir, that’s what you did to New Hampshire”

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3w ago

Everything is just impossibly dumb

there is absolutely going to be an incredible book written about how AI melted this gobshite's brain even more than it was already melted

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

A string of absolutely bonkers Truth Social posts from Trump in the span of about 10 minutes

Sharks are older than trees

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 3w ago

Tell me a fun fact.

I suppose it’s Facebook, but I can’t believe this slop got nearly 1,000 likes.