I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

Perhaps also time for an Ian Mckellan Richard III rewatch?

I’ve heard there was
A secret chord
That David played
And it pleased the Lord
But you don’t have permissions
On that server
Do ya

Doctor Who Saved My Life A virtual play about the healing power of Doctor Who.

Find out how Doctor Who Saved My Life in my virtual play on Saturday, July 18th at 3pm Eastern USA Time (8pm UK). Tickets can be had for a measly $5 donation. Details at the link.

#DoctorWho #Theater #TheatreSky #mentalhealth #healing

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Exactly one year ago today:

The same spaceship set as in the quoted post, but with additional paint details in glyphs on the space doors and dimensional cross framing on the side windows.

A few details added for final preview. See if you can spot the differences!

(Costumes by Rainy Edwards, but you can't see those in this photo)

The set for Pericles (in space). It's a spaceship cockpit onstage, a mashup of the design language for Star Wars, Alien, and Star Trek.

Ready for liftoff.

First preview for Space Pericles at Cincy Shakes.

Directed by Brian Isaac Phillips.

Set by me, lights by Watson, projections by Rob Stimmel, sound by @zackeryben.bsky.social .

This story is horrific. Worth noting that Target is not the only retailer using AI for theft prevention. It’s an entire industry. And if you’re looking for alternatives that are safer to shop at in this regard, you’re very likely out of luck. Small, non-corporate businesses probably your best bet.

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Cincy Shakes presents Shakespeare and the Classics for all. See what is next up on our stage!

(TST is for Tyre Starship Theatre)

Get your tickets at cincyshakes.com .

Shakespeare's Pericles at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company YouTube video by Andrew Hungerford

Pericles in Space opens this Friday at Cincy Shakes.

As part of the process, I also designed the exterior of the spaceship that is our set, the TST Antiquius.

And I couldn't help doing a little Next Gen homage.

(Original music for the show by Cary Davenport.)

youtu.be/NzLdYT5OAV8

There's growing disquiet in the military. The Iran war made it worse Since Trump began his second term, his administration's use of the armed forces has left a growing number in the military unsettled, according to NPR interviews with service members and advocates.

Hotlines for US soldiers thinking of leaving the armed forces as "conscientious objectors" are being overwhelmed.

Almost all the calls mention the bombing of the girls' school in Iran that killed more than 100 school children.

www.npr.org/2026/04/10/n...

Mrs. Dalloway: A New Musical (World Premiere Cast Album) Mrs. Dalloway: A New Musical (World Premiere Cast Album) by Lindsey Augusta Mercer - Pandora

The cast recording for the Mrs. Dalloway musical that I unexpectedly lit last spring for Cincinnati Shakespeare Company is out today!

The sun is hot and we're alive, so perhaps you would like to give it a listen.

www.pandora.com/artist/linds...

Find out how Doctor Who Saved My Life in my virtual play on Saturday, July 18th at 3pm Eastern USA Time (8pm UK). Tickets can be had for a measly $5 donation. Details at the link.

#DoctorWho #Theater #TheatreSky #mentalhealth #healing

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The world remains full of horrors, but I did get to spend the evening at a paper tech with long time friends and colleagues, laughing so hard we couldn't breathe.

If the audience has half as much fun as we're having making this, Pericles (in space) is gonna be great.

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

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...

John Deere to Pay $99 Million in Monumental Right-to-Repair Settlement The ag manufacturing giant will also make digital diagnostic, maintenance, and repair tools available to third parties for 10 years.

Farmers won their right-to-repair fight against John Deere. The settlement includes a 10-year “agreement by Deere to provide ‘the digital tools ​required for the maintenance, diagnosis, and repair’ of tractors, combines, and other machinery”. [thedrive.com]

It's still what computers still can't do The cover of John McPhee’s book Oranges, which is about, you guesed it, oranges. It’s great. The New Yorker writer John McPhee, perhaps the 20th century's...

Contrary to increasingly popular belief, there are, in fact, still things computers can’t do - as @sifu.tweety.fish reminds us:

I once used Google image search to find a picture of Gene Wilder and Gene Hackman together in the backseat of a car in BONNIE & CLYDE only for Google AI to tell me that while they were friends, they were never in a movie together…next to said fucking picture of them in a fucking movie together.

The "bro-ification" of all interactions.

The young woman ringing me up at this coffee shot just said to me at the end of our transaction, "alright, bro, we'll have that right out for you."

From Getty: BEIRUT, LEBANON - APRIL 08: A firefighter walks through destroyed cars as a building burns after an Israeli airstrike on April 08, 2026 in Beirut, Lebanon. Israel has stepped-up its attacks on Lebanon following President Donald Trump's announcement of a two-week ceasefire agreement between the US and Iran, conditional on shipping being allowed to resume through the Strait of Hormuz. Israel says it will observe the ceasefire with Iran but insists Lebanon was not included in the deal, and has since launched the "largest coordinated strike" on Hezbollah targets since the cross-border war began on March 2. Iran and Pakistan - which has been coordinating peace talks - have said that the ceasefire would include Lebanon, while the US has yet to weigh-in. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)

Photos coming out of Beirut today look like the opposite of a ceasefire

There’s a reason why we treat threats of violence as antisocial behavior, even if they’re not carried out. If someone threatens to kill me, that can do harm even if they never pull a weapon.

And the same goes for the man who threatened genocide this morning. Impeach and remove him now.

if only we’d taxed the super rich, they wouldn’t have been able to buy our government and kill us 😀

If I was a member of the cabinet or Congress. I would be asking myself what I would say to my grandchildren when they asked, “what did you do when the president of the United States threatened to destroy a whole civilization?”

It's Olivia, a nearly 16 year old bichy poo, tucked under a blanket looking Somewhat Concerned.

Many terrible things are happening, but here is our elder tiny dog to brighten your timeline.

Integrity, crescent Moon, crescent Earth: we're all in this shot.

Just before loss of signal: "See you on the other side." #ArtemisII