Me doing new faculty orientation as a tenured prof 😭

Steve Buscemi: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?

Alt: Steve Buscemi: How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?

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do we think the holes in this are big enough or do I really need to carry a full-size cheesegrater in my handbag yes this is a serious question, no I'm not having An Episode

by Trump corruption standards the Truth Social API deal is appalling. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Corruption All the Way Down

If you're the president I guess blatant insider trading is quasi-legal now?

open.substack.com

It’s really hard to deal with people who tell bald-faced lies with ease.

We're back to my perennial post about how hard it is to keep stuff out of intakes - but this year the jellies are hitting at the same time as freshwater nukes are also offline due to drought. Climate change doesn't just heighten failure risks - it compounds them. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Jellyfish Swarms Knock Out 3.2 Gigawatts of French Nuclear Power

A “massive influx” of jellyfish has forced Electricite de France SA to shut three units at its Gravelines nuclear power plant and reduce output at a fourth, curbing power supply at a time when extreme...

bloomberg.com

Josh Lappen@jlappen1.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Speaking as someone who has manually cleared marine intake screens, this is actually a major engineering problem and not at all easy to solve! But classify this on the less-weird end of the spectrum of super weird ways climate change is going to make infrastructure more brittle

Ripping out the copper www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

A fair amount of people become leftists (online tendency) so that they’ll never have to think through anything being hard or costly or uncertain, and fighting a war is always, even when it’s forced on you by invasion, all of these things.

Steve Huntsman@stevehuntsman.bsky.social · 2d ago

Never ceases to amuse and amaze me when those on the far left say “we should negotatiate with the people killing [whoever] because violence is never the answer” when they cannot even get along with each other, let alone convince a plurality of almost any electorate to vote for them

wait so were they accepting the possibility that everyone else on the plane would be killed but not him because he crawled away in a food cart?

holy shit ok so now for THE SECOND TIME (counting jan 6) we need to remind these access journalists: HE IS TRYING TO KILL YOU

elias isquith@eliasisquith.blog · yesterday

wait so were they accepting the possibility that everyone else on the plane would be killed but not him because he crawled away in a food cart?

good news i'm in the newspaper. bad news i need to talk to the editor of this headline

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky is giving you another way to control your feeds. www.theverge.com/tech/977581/...

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune

Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault

fortune.com

Seeing finance guys walk around Italy with tshirts that say “I’m short your cheese”

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 2d ago

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Florida State University’s political science department is hiring this year at the junior level in American Politics and Comparative Politics. Applicants for both jobs should have strong substantive and quant methods skills but otherwise the fields are open. The postings should be on ejobs soon.

A new study shows how the big cats cause deer to move away from roads and deeper into the forest, where they pose less of a hazard to motorists. www.wired.com/story/cougar...

Cougars Lower the Risks of Car Crashes by Hunting Deer

A new study shows how the big cats cause deer to move away from roads and deeper into the forest, where they pose less of a hazard to motorists.

wired.com

"As long as we burn #fossilfuels without limits, #wildfires will do the same in our forests, cities, and towns." time.com/article/2026... #wildfire

What Happens When the World is on Fire

"From America to Algeria, dangerous blazes are occurring around the world, giving us a glimpse into an age ablaze," writes John Valliant.

time.com

"youre the last one in line, like a zebra butt" lowkey great line

I am the kind of enraged that comes from feeling duped. Back from an amazing stint at @iee-vermontlaw.bsky.social that has my kid asking to swim in our river too, confronting me with the fact that the contamination here means I've been raising her not to know you can swim in rivers.

Thank you, NBC, for noting this is in fact an American city. Too many people here pretend it isn't.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2d ago

A major humanitarian crisis is unfolding in a San Juan, Puerto Rico. Hundreds of thousands of people in and around the American city are facing rolling water shutoffs brought on by an historic drought. NBC News’ George Solis reports from a well that locals are using to get their water.

just found myself typing "doing real work" and now am pondering if i'm already just a bot-infested meat sack. happy monday, everyone.

This is like the bat signal for art crime investigators www.nytimes.com/2026/08/09/s...

The real story is pushed away in a mid/piece paragraph and does not get the same critical attention in the U.S. media.

C🅰️S Ⓜ️UDDE@casmudde.bsky.social · 3d ago

Many U.S. universities are cutting majors, predominantly in the humanities (while expanding top admin positions).

this is a picture of what a TV show in the 1990s thought the average middle-class man was: 75 feet tall and made of solid gold & encrusted with diverse jewels. it is fucked up that this is lost knowledge

Me, this morning: I am not going into town twice today. Reader, I live in freaking Rosslyn.

This is big: Boston University to give free tuition to students from families that make under $200k a year, cover full costs for students from families making under $75k. www.bu.edu/articles/202...

New Financial Aid Program Covers Tuition for Families Earning Less Than $200,000

The BU Promise eliminates loans and simplifies undergraduate financial aid for domestic students

bu.edu

Just saw the advert for Disney's forthcoming Hexed. Didn't seem very good to me. It was then suggested that perhaps I am not the intended audience for this film clearly meant to constitute a power fantasy for tween girls. To which, first of all, how dare you,

The whole province of British Columbia - 944,000 km2, 5.7 million people is under a state of emergency due to climate change fueled wildfires. Yet BC's premier @davidebybc.bsky.social and CDN Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social can't stop promoting new oil and gas projects and pipelines. #fire

The neat thing about the Moon, geologically, is how similar in composition it is to the Earth. Please think about that for a moment and what that means for dreams of super Moon colonies.

oh god they want to go to the moon for plagioclase

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d ago

Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person? fortune.com/2026/08/06/p...

I’m reading a book published in 1944 and this logo is so unbelievably tough. I’d absolutely wear a shirt with this exact design.

This section of Against Money is a good refutation of the Warsh view that markets should be allowed to function independently of how central banks behave.