The insight we all seek.

Well, more for other people, really.

Interesting post to see pop up during the Man City x Arsenal match.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

MAGA influencers in your stream: Fakes.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/b...

"The person who approaches a problem like an opportunity has an advantage that the person who sees an obstacle will never understand."

-Shane Parrish

In memoriam to a dad.

Of times lost and the circumstances that stay in place.

Lessons that all Americans should contemplate about the road ahead for Hungary and for us

The disease doesn't exist, and the "research" papers describing it listed their participants as 50 made-up individuals between 20 and 50 years. But...

"The bixonimania research has been cited by a handful of researchers, including a study that appeared in Cureus, published by Springer Nature"

Hey, at least 10 free SkyClub passes.

For fandom, I think I've earned a lifecycle NCAA Bball Natty: Michigan State won when I was a first-year student there (yes, Magic vs. Bird) and now my home institution UMich wins in the twilight of my academic career.

Believe this should qualify me for lifetime Delta platinum medallion status.

We had our reasons.

This study shows that disinformation spreads, not as “false facts”, but as narratives. Compare that to how mis- and disinformation are often operationalized in the big-N quantitative and experimental research in the Nature/Science journals — that’s a major weakness in the field.

Political polarization threatens fairness and reciprocity in the USA - Scientific Reports An increase in political polarization in the USA has been reported by many researchers using different kinds of data (e.g., attitudinal, affective and behavioral measures). Here, we report the results...

Political polarization hurts: In games played with real money, Dems and Reps both trusted and reciprocated trust less with someone from the other political party than they did a person of unknown affiliation.

Degraded trust; less benefit all the way around.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

They’re in clouds, electric sockets and even on toast. Why do humans see faces in everyday objects? Human brains are designed to detect faces as quickly as possible, which can lead to the perception of ‘false faces’

Pareidolia:
Seeing faces where they aren't.
(No, your toast is not glaring at you.)
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Erotic City, Prince

(but only after midnight in 1980s Bay Area, CA. Prince was not singing "funk")
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHBy...

What an Ivy League Education Really Gets You Economists have a new theory of why graduates of top colleges have so much career success.

Makes sense: Top colleges train students norms about how to be top achievers by exposing students to each other. Just being around the other students is a key benefit.

Sorta had the middle-class version of this in the honors college at Michigan State. Can relate.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

AI hallucination is mathematically inevitable, evaluation methods make it worse. “Governance must shift from prevention to risk containment."

You could say the same thing about human hallucination, by the way. But people sorta miss that phenomenon, particularly in themselves.

Hmm, going all the way back to the old traditions, I see.

The Second Arrangement - Steely Dan (album quality) YouTube video by Pfhduwic

Think I've passed 200 on this one, too.

The Second Arrangement, Steely Dan.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbLV...

Happy International Fact-Checking Day to those who celebrate.

And for those who want to (and who doesn't!), here's an article about AI content identification skills.

Then that overall should be labeled as the sticker price (and doesn't fit that given what I've seen before about these categories). Given lack of label, should be viewed as overall average. And that would be quite a skew and if I'm rich, I'd be a touch peeved.

Glad to see costs are stable.

The issue is college in general, including public universities and their affordability. The University I went to is now 2X as expensive as it was in real terms compared to my era.

look at the overall at the end and try to reconcile with column entries.

If I read this right, the real message is that the majority of students attending college in all these classifications come from households with income > 250K (median US = 83K). Very few at the incomes listed here.

BTW, the label obscures the income levels of many columns in the graph.

Somebody's crying.

Microtones, paper-mache, loops, math rock, polka dots.

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

All the pop music cognoscenti going gaga over this. Had a listen and can hear why. Just for the comments (Fave: "Absolutely insane usage of free will.")

Passes my test: Yes, would turn this up while driving down the PCH top-down in a convertible.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

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Wilder Brain Collection - Wikipedia

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