I'm reading a story. Lead suffers a concussion. Is unconscious. Prognosis: fine in a day or two. Speaking as someone who had a severe concussion, HELL NO. I have lost my suspension of disbelief concerning concussions being cured in two days.
And talk about sending vectors of infection into the general population, well, everywhere....
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.
"Peace through strength." ::headdesk: It occurs to me the lesson learned by you know who from 1984 may be that the evil, repressive gov't is in charge at the end.
A reminder, as Obama and Mamdani come together for the first time in person, that Mamdani is everything the GOP said Obama was... but wasn't: an African-born socialist Muslim.
#justsayin
The Carbide & Carbon Building in Chicago, an Art Deco tower used for various film/tv locations, including Batgirl's lair in the Arrowverse.
Look! It's Batgirl's lair! (At least if you're in the Arrowverse.) This is a very cool #chicago art deco tower, the Carbide & Carbon building. If a #Kolchak episode wasn't filmed there, it should have been.
Chris makes a lot of sense here. Not like we're doing any better than they are. Not by a damn sight.
Yay!
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Tweet from @RyanDeto of Axios: BREAKING: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being sold to The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the same nonprofit that owns the Baltimore Banner, sources inside a Post-Gazette meeting tell me. The P-G was set to close May 3 but appears now to be preserved. More details tk
Here’s some good journalism news (for once).
Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection
The effective federal corporate income tax rate:
1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%
Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.
That is how we will pay for it.
The Viper from Battlestar Galactica tv series
Speaking of space, spaceships, and galaxies, here’s an all time favorite of mine: THE VIPER!
women were kept out of meetings and career opportunities at Pixar because John Lasseter was so much of a sex pest that people decided it was easier to simply not have them in the room with him
how many talented women didn’t get a fair chance because one guy couldn’t behave himself?
There are also fewer positions at local and national news outlets to do this work. Reporters often rack up huge amounts of unpaid overtime and/or are disincentivized from even starting investigative stories because of production quotas and a lack of support and resources.
I had to look this up. It's TRUE. 😮 Before 1974, banks typically required a father's or husband's signature in order for a woman to open a credit card account. HOLEEEE SHIT. In my lifetime?!! The patriarchy really sucks. #ArtemisII
Montana has figured out a way to put the screws to Citizens United.
Good.
All states need to do what the gutless SCOTUS won't.
This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥
Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Lee Atwater.
Headed to Chicago for the Chicago North Writers Spring Fling next week!! Below is a list of the authors at a public book signing event on Saturday. Hope to see any Chicago locals there! Details at the link. www.chicagonorthromancewriters.com/readerevent?... 📚💙 #booksky #writers #chicago
BREAKING: Democrat Alison Page has defeated longtime Republican incumbent Dan Toland in the River Falls, Wisconsin mayoral race, flipping the seat from red to blue.
Toland had held the office since 2012, making this a major shift after 12 years of Republican control in the city
For me, it's making words appear in a document without having to write them. Just pull them from my brain, please.
First, I’m relieved that we have a two-week ceasefire with the Strait opened. That is positive. However, we need permanent peace and not a President buying time till he takes another motion to declare war or threaten genocide. We need the War Powers Act and to invoke the 25th Amendment now.
House and Senate Republican leaders so far silent as Trump threatens genocide in Iran tonight.
I reached out to aides to Mike Johnson and John Thune for comment about an hour ago. So far, nada.
Mallards in a pond.
Two ducks swimming in a pond
Ducks! The mallards have returned to our local pond.
NEW: The NYT ran a glowing profile of a startup using AI to sell GLP-1s. The only problem? The company is using an absolute dumpster fire full of unethical tricks, ranging from fake patients to phony doctors -- and we've got the receipts
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Me, joking: I can’t believe we chose “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”
Conservatives, dead serious: it was a tough choice, but I’m glad we picked “destroying the economy” and “losing wars” over “being nice to trans people occasionally”
The worst of the worst? Uh-huh. The cruelty is the point.
"Ms. Ramos... teaches Sunday school to children at her church...She was in her high school’s marching band. And she was a few months from finishing a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry."
Gift Article 🎁
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/u...
What's that called when Covid is in your house but you haven't tested yet, and you do or do not have Covid? Hmmm....(Well, a bummer of an Easter, but other than than....) Oh, procrastination.
