Left: Lighting robot, Right: Tom Servo

Am I the only one who thinks Tom Servo is out running half-marathons in China? @bobservo.bsky.social @talkinghenry.bsky.social @talksimpsonspod.bsky.social

Yesterday in a chat, I accidentally wrote "I don't have permission to cut and pasta on this thread" and I have never seen pictures of spaghetti show up so quickly :-)

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🚨 Big news!

NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory's first director and visionary, Tony Tyson, has been named to TIME's 2026 TIME100 list of the most influential people in the world! 🔭🧪

🔗: time.com/collection/1...

Working with Claude…

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

Throw in a bag of hilarious costumes, some fake weapons, a few 4K cameras and the streaming rights would save the space program!

Oh! That's why I keep seeing Lamborghinis with Montana plates driving around DC. I thought I was going crazy... it's *just* tax evasion!

We are all Slackers, today…

Brian Cox says UK physics funding cuts are ‘destruction of the future’ Grant cuts of nearly 70% may force university departments to close and ‘annihilate’ research, scientists say

Brian Cox says UK physics funding cuts are ‘destruction of the future’

Valerie Perrine, Screen Siren Who Won Critical Acclaim, Dies at 82 Known early on for skin-baring temptress roles, she later earned rave reviews, a Cannes award and an Oscar nomination for her performance in the Lenny Bruce biopic “Lenny.”

Valerie Perrine, the Oscar-nominated actress who won critical acclaim for her roles in 1970s films like “Lenny” and “Superman,” has died at 82.

Oh, man! The Maxx is an underrated gem. This is terrible…

No. I always thought it was an early example of an anti-joke.

I “discovered” I had be of the last printed copies every produced growing up. You might be able to find an old DVD version for download that has all the text, if you have a computer that can still read those.

I'm looking forward to the Kavli Symposium tomorrow at the APS Global Physics Summit, where I'll speak about "The Road to Quantum Advantage."

summit.aps.org/events/MAR-X02

Why the Energy Department’s science labs will spearhead the federal push into AI DOE’s national labs’ huge facilities, data flows, and computing resources are a natural fit for the Genesis Mission

Why the Energy Department's science labs will spearhead the federal push into AI / Science

We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...

Me too! This'll be the first time I actually have to go. Too many highly educated people around here to use the PhD-get-out-of-jail-free card.

Books Are Meant to Be Slow The erosion of deep reading weakens our capacity to grasp complex ideas.

“If deep reading cultivates empathy,” Joel Halldorf writes, “the attention-fracturing, dopamine-hitting, scroll-spurring design of digital media often undermines it”:

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You may have just discovered a new kind of reaction video…

PI = Primarily Ice-shoveling...

Goodbye, Superman…

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“Whoa. I’m telling you. It’s small!”

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