I know a really good way to kneecap Iran, and make their leverage over the Strait of Hormuz much less powerful.

Green energy.

If we don't need as much oil, then closing the strait has that much less effect.

I refuse to give them the access they want to mine my data.

I will cross my fingers for you.

It's Hugo nomination day!

Time to load up my library hold list! www.lacon.org/hugofinalists/

@laworldcon.bsky.social

it’s not that the broad center-left/democratic party is blameless or that the political right is never reacting to changes/provocations or the like, but that victory and defeat, success and failure are shaped by actors on both sides, as well as broad forces and the contingency of human events

Automatic blind trusts with no control for time of service needs to be the law.

(And those trusts run by hard left greenies bent on forcing the end of the fossil fuel companies would be 100% fine.)

Scientists turn scrap car aluminum into high-performance metal for new vehicles Scientists at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have created a new aluminum alloy called RidgeAlloy that can turn contaminated car-body scrap into strong structural vehicle parts. Normally, impurities int...

This is huge.

Not so much because Aluminum is rare (it's not) but making it from scratch is energy intensive as all get out.

So this is a HUGE reduction in energy costs for structural aluminum, esp. for vehicles.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Sympathies. It's so hard.

The ‘repair’ lesson lands hard: maintenance is unglamorous, but without it institutions become stage sets. We keep rewarding the headline and then act surprised when the plumbing fails.

How Amazon’s AI Algorithms Raise the Prices You Pay Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding—exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close.

1. Amazon has built powerful pricing algorithms that have learned how to steer prices upward — not just on Amazon, but across the web. I have a new piece on how these algorithms work, and how they help sustain Amazon’s monopoly.

A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver is the book that started me on her.

HIRE KATHRYN. In an age of journalism in a death spiral, she's the real deal as investigative journalist, an excellent writer, a true thinker, and a real human being. She knows Christian nationalism as well as anyone.

The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...

This is why @naomikritzer.bsky.social's The Year Without Sunshine is one of my favorite disaster stories: www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...

Anyone who visited the following locations during any of the listed dates and hours may have been exposed: Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport’s Customs federal inspection station in the international terminal arrivals area, and lower level international bag claim area, on April 12, 2026 from 7:50 - 10:30 p.m. FastMed Urgent Care (2827 Smith Ave. Baltimore, MD), on April 14, 2026 from 5 - 8 p.m., and on April 17, 2026 from 12 - 3:30 p.m. Sinai Hospital’s emergency department main waiting area and pediatric emergency department, on April 17, 2026 from 3:30 - 7:10 p.m.​

Maryland! Measles exposure: health.maryland.gov/newsroom/Pag...

If only we we weren't forced onto a war by those sneaky Iranians....

Last child of the Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world

59. Singing in the Shrouds. Marsh again.

Why do 2 of 3 cats want to be between me & the computer?

If I hadn't been 5 hours early to the plane that one time, I'd've missed my brother's wedding.

I've also cut the line at security as they were making the final boarding call for my flight....

Beethoven's 9th
Dvorak's New World
Ummmm.....

Say what you will about the internet, it remains awesome that I can buy dinner for a friend who's having a shitty-ass day from halfway across the world

Thank you both.

It’s so important to know your bollard history.
#WorldBollardAssociaton

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Oh fuck am I gonna have to start watching hockey now.

Process of the Artemis II Earthset Plate

Thanks for following this body of work, it was an inspiring project for me!

#sciart

Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Do you ever think about how Georges Bataille and his French sociologist friends all got so obsessed with ritual human sacrifice that they formed a secret society to conduct one, but they couldn’t do it because nobody wanted to be the executioner and everyone wanted to be the victim?

Yeah, we got a flurry in western NY in late April of 1997, so I don't find it that weird.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.