Could someone please recommend me a good source for tech news that isn’t Wired? Thanks.
Jon Nichols
@jon276.bsky.social
Author of “Requiem for a College.” Husband, dog dad, English and rhetoric professor, writer, advocate. University of Berwyn.
“Some polygonal formations previously examined by Curiosity clearly began as cracks in drying mud. However, several different processes can produce this kind of honeycomb appearance.”
NASA’s Curiosity rover finds a mysterious honeycomb landscape on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures. The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape ...
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“AheadForm, a startup founded in 2024 by Yuhang Hu, an engineer who trained at Columbia University’s renowned Creative Machines Lab in New York, with the stated goal to “break down the barrier” between human and machine.”
This $150,000 Eerily Realistic Humanoid Robot Head Is Making People Uncomfortable
Chinese robotics startup AheadForm has created a humanoid robot head so disturbingly realistic that it's making a lot of people uncomfortable.
odditycentral.com
“There’s notions of glory and bull market gain.”
R.E.M. - Until The Day Is Done (Official Music Video)
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Went to the dentist today and managed to survive. They had an issue of Architectural Digest in the waiting room, so that was nice.
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#teamrhetoric I have a podcast with an audience of about 10k listeners. Would you like to come on and tell them about what NCTE did? Those professors work at institutions. Those institutions are paid by tax dollars. The locals in those states can raise hell, and I can help with that.
Unfortunately, WRITING EMERGENCIES is feeling particularly relevant these days. As Holly Hassel and Kate Pantelides reminds us in this collection, college composition is so much more than teaching students how to write. Writing 👏 centers 👏 are 👏 essential #teamrhetoric #writingstudies #highered
‘There is nothing random about the cut-up. The released text always bears the signature of the surgeon. A cut-up by Brion Gysin can never be mistaken for a cut-up by William Burroughs.’ Iain Sinclair on William Burroughs’s collaborator Brion Gysin. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Iain Sinclair · Bad Magic: Brion Gysin’s Cut-Ups
Bad magic attracts bad money. Brion Gysin had a preternatural instinct for the fluctuations of the art market, high-...
lrb.co.uk
I have something in the works and I’m taking my cues from…
David Bowie - Loving The Alien (Official Video)
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This hits hard: “Regeneration is hard. It requires seeing old values in new ways.” From microcosm to macrocosm, it consumes my thoughts. And Nolan’s film is a new way to see Homer. Ezra’s review is a new way to see Nolan’s film.
Ezra Klein@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 3d agoChristopher Nolan’s Trojan Horse www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
“One of the bigger transformations we’re going to see from AI in the near term is health and medicine,” Kurweil said, forecasting that human medical trials will be replaced by simulated “digital trials.” Ok. But it’s everything else that has sobered me since first reading Kurzweil.
Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress
Innovator, futurist, author, and MIT alumnus Ray Kurzweil emphasized his optimism about AI and technological progress in a lecture at MIT while accepting the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award from the School...
news.mit.edu
I will definitely do this on my inevitable return to NYC. But I’ll be ditching the comics and adding The Strand.
How to Spend a Bookish Afternoon in Midtown Manhattan (Gift Article)
This walking tour through the bustling heart of New York City includes bookstores, great reading spots and literary-themed snacks.
nytimes.com
Of all the “it’s just like Earth” episodes, it’s hard to top “A Piece of the Action.” #metvstartrek
One of at least four episodes based on raiding the prop department at the studio. #metvstartrek
“Riddler’s mind is a sponge, soaking up unusual facts.” Good to know I could always fall back on costumed villainy. #metvbatman
Once again, our location is “somewhere over there in Europe.” #Svengoolie
The hunt is on Saturday night on MeTV for a vampire who drains the youth out of young women! Hammer presents their heir to Van Helsing- as Horst Janson meets a different species of vampire- as “Captain Kronos -Vampire Hunter”! Sultry Caroline Munro co-stars- 8 pm eastern/pacific,7 central time!
If you’d rather not shop Amazon, the book is also available at Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million. #academicsky
Jon Nichols@jon276.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Illinois Institute of Technology just announced they’re cutting 160faculty and staff positions just as the semester begins. To learn why this and outright college closures are happening, read my book “Requiem for a College.” #selfpromotionsaturday #academicsky #selfpromosaturday #writer
The Illinois Institute of Technology just announced they’re cutting 160faculty and staff positions just as the semester begins. To learn why this and outright college closures are happening, read my book “Requiem for a College.” #selfpromotionsaturday #academicsky #selfpromosaturday #writer
Requiem for a College: The Troubling Trend of College Closures in the United States
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I’ve just cleaned every bathroom in the house. I now have the urge to use the bathroom. I shall wave to Sisyphus as I do so.
And then they throw in some Celtic languages and yoink bits of languages from around the world along the way. The result: a language where there are usually about 10 different ways to say something, but when it comes to writing, you sit at your desk for 20 minutes trying to think of one 🤣 #amwriting
