Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

from the annals of getting high on your own supply (gift link) www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...

I *thought* the moon looked particularly cool tonight

Someone sounds out of compliance

Sing it to the rafters!

Who Gets Guggenheims? - Public Books Unfortunately, 100 years of data show that those whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—that is, those not at elite institutions—are least likely t...

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe.

Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities

www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

"chat,"

We have to raise our political expectations.

Listen to "Brimful of Asha" in her honor please

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

how much money does the marine corps lose

Can the magic feather come here for a minute?

Screenshot of a YouTube video. In the lower left corner is the channel name, "HAL Heavy Duty Machining Australia." In the background of video is an enormous metal lathe. Most of the frame is filled with the presenter's slightly dirty hand showing to camera a handful of curled steel chips, called "swarf", that came off the metal being shaped in the lathe. Their blue color suggests that have been heated to 600 degrees Fahrenheit by the sheer mechanical forces of cutting on the lathe

I can't be the only person who might pay for a monthly box of good lathe swarf

the thing about a publicly funded space program is that you get to be represented by these people as opposed to, say, Jeff Bezos's second wife

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

An old time-y illustration of a the Radish.

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Germinal in the year 234.
Germinal is the month of sprouting.
Today we celebrate the radish. #JacobinDay

More information on the radish

Like I always say...

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

My southerners, you know what works great? Making grits in a rice cooker

If y'all knew this and weren't telling me, I am so mad at you right now

You have the chance to do something very funny...

🏺 Today was the last day of the City Dionysia (Διονύσια ἐν ἄστει)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysia#City_Dionysia

Today (2026-Apr-04) is Elaphēboliṓn 16, ἕκτῃ ἐπὶ δέκα Ἑλαφηβολιῶνος, day 283 of 384 in the year 2025/2026.

Pheidippides of Athens says:

I’m cautiously hopeful this crew will give us something as memorable and optimistic as Apollo 8’s reading of Genesis

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov

The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

From “Vietnam and other American fantasies”

Man, I hope being a nerdy cinephile teen now is *anything* like being a nerdy cinephile teen was in the 80s

Full moon. Right now.

There are now 10 toilets in Space

International Space Station: 4
Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1
Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1
Tiangong Space Station: 2
Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1
Artemis II on way around Moon: 1

This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Wow. One main stage into high Earth orbit is a pretty big advance over Apollo's 2.5 stages to low Earth orbit 🌎 🚀 🌕

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch

For

r e a s o n s