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@michaellasley.bsky.social · 2h ago

"Cancer and Alzheimer’s patients are praying that these treatments will succeed. But Kalshi is about to permit outside speculators to place ghastly bets that they won’t. Why?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My son has cancer. Kalshi wants you to be able to bet on his medical future | Joshua Pederson

The predictions market is planning to allow betting on clinical trial results and regulatory decisions as our family fights for his survival

theguardian.com

@michaellasley.bsky.social · yesterday

"Two and a half decades into his career, Johnson emanates the energy of an old buddy who never moved away. He is not edgy ... Rather, he represents a challenge to the laws of time and physics: What if everything pleasant just stayed the same forever?" www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/s...

Stressed? Overwhelmed? Have You Tried Being Jack Johnson Instead?

His frozen-in-time anthems, odes to going with the flow, are the soundtrack to a summer of “hopecore.”

nytimes.com

Dorian Lynskey@dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d ago

Doing Origin Story reveals a few core narratives in history. One is: "This thing didn't really matter until right-wing journalists and activists twisted it into a moral panic that destroyed people's lives for no good reason and then moved on"

@michaellasley.bsky.social · 4d ago

"Giant jet lightning has only been known about for the past 25 years. The atmospheric jets are associated with thunderstorms and extend upwards towards Earth's ionosphere." Up from the Earth: Gigantic Jet Lightning (Image Credit: NASA, Expedition 73, Nicole Ayers) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...

What's that rising up from the Earth? When circling the Earth on the International Space Station early in July [2025], astronaut Nicole Ayers saw an unusual type of lightning rising up from the Earth: a gigantic jet. The powerful jet appears near the center of the featured image in red, white, and blue. Giant jet lightning has only been known about for the past 25 years. The atmospheric jets are associated with thunderstorms and extend upwards towards Earth's ionosphere. The lower part of the frame shows the Earth at night, with Earth's thin atmosphere tinted green from airglow. City lights are visible, sometimes resolved, but usually creating diffuse white glows in intervening clouds. The top of the frame reveals distant stars in the dark night sky. The nature of gigantic jets and their possible association with other types of Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) such as blue jets and red sprites remain active topics of research."
@michaellasley.bsky.social · 5d ago

"fter raising the butterflies by hand, the curious 10-year-old noticed that they would often return to him after being released into the wild. The behavior made him wonder if butterflies could remember experiences from their caterpillar stage." mymodernmet.com/jo-nagai-but...

10-Year-Old Discovers That Butterfly Memories Survive Metamorphosis and Can Be Inherited

This kid has made a significant contribution to science at only 10 years old. Imagine how much more he will discover in the years to come!

mymodernmet.com

@michaellasley.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Trump asks O’Rourke which companies and donors have cut checks and which haven’t, and for how much. He often asks her to make much larger financial requests than she was planning...the president gives her names to call...including people who have recently met with him." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation

Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.

wsj.com

@michaellasley.bsky.social · 6d ago

"In the year since the governor got involved, Republican candidates up and down the ballot have campaigned on opposition to sharia—Islamic moral prescriptions partly based on the Quran." www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

How Greg Abbott’s Advisers Used a Little-Known State Agency to Legally Harass a Muslim Community

Last spring, Plano’s EPIC City was the center of right-wing outrage. The governor’s inner circle helped direct the funeral commission’s probe into its mosque, a Texas Monthly investigation reveals.

texasmonthly.com

@michaellasley.bsky.social · 7d ago

If you need something good today. "The orchard has been developed from dropped fruit from more than 600 apple wildings in Cornwall. It has now created Wilding Mother Orchard - the first ever orchard in the UK solely dedicated to cultivating wild-grown, chance-seedling apples."

kottke.org@kottke.org · last wk.

Some Interesting Apples, a lovely little documentary about cultivating feral apples. “Something that still blows my mind is that every apple seed produces a new variety. Every single one." [kottke.org]