"The Colorado Democratic Party has welcomed unaffiliated voters’ participation in their primaries and there’s been no concerted opt-out effort among its leaders. "

Colorado GOP asks judge for emergency order blocking unaffiliated voters from casting ballots in the party’s 2026 primaries The request piggybacks off a ruling late last month that the requirement in Colorado law that 75% of the party’s central committee must support opting out of the primaries before it can happen “consti...

GOP in Colorado continues its freefall...

coloradosun.com/2026/04/20/c...

"Young Men and Fire" is such a wonderful and moving book. I very much doubt that A River Runs Through It could get the oxygen it would need in today's publishing ecosystem.

When I was researching this stuff, I liked talking about GNR and showing pictures of Slash, Axel, and the boyz

Any journalists who attend this farce should resign.

I'm all for No Kings...including no LA Kings

Humans Who Used a Bear Suit to Defraud Car Insurers Are Sentenced to Jail

humans amaze me...

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

#GoJoe!

Thanks for this...well stated.

Celeste Dupuy-Spencer’s “Don’t You See That I Am Burning” (2021)

"The Technological Republic"

💩

twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

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Looking forward to hanging out with you next week

Frictionless porn, frictionless gambling, frictionless stock trading, frictionless dating...none of these are unalloyed good things.

Bring back friction...

Again - the long life of these 1970s space colony images...used here in an article about "designer babies" (why?)

Need something that somehow says "the unattainable future" and also want an image that's in public domain? Here you go...

"Just try this new crop rotation systems, my fellow peasants! It's inevitable! And AWESOME."

Quantum computing mockery

cf @dcbrock.bsky.social

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-ta...

In today's mail...

Alex Wellerstein on the AIP Oppenheimer interviews AIP History Weekly Edition: April 17, 2026

For today's AIP History Weekly Edition, we asked nuclear historian Alex Wellerstein @wellerstein.bsky.social to comment on the interviews with Robert Oppenheimer we just opened to the public. He highlights little details and insights into Oppenheimer's broader perspective that jumped out at him.

A Family Feud at an Oregon Winery Turns to Vinegar Over A.I. Slop

"An online database tracking judges’ reprimands of A.I. misuse now catalogs more than 1,300 cases — almost triple the number from only five months ago."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/u...

Just stop.

You've read Michael Gordin's work on the "demarcation problem"?

I've a started a new research/book project...most of the actors are polite to one another and are engaged in largely harmless and uplifting activities. It's quite a nice escape from *waves hands at everything*.