KGM testified that she became addicted to YouTube at age 6 and Instagram at 9... By age 10, she said, she had become depressed and was engaging in self-harm as a result… When she was 13, KGM’s therapist diagnosed her with body dysmorphic disorder and social phobia www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
At the very moment meme-fied inanity threatens to overwhelm us, some threads of popular culture are moving in the opposite direction. … In a dangerous world, reading, quoting and learning are ways to signal seriousness and curiosity without inviting backlash. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026...
BG Stats 4 x 4. Play count: 3: The Old King's Crown; 3: Backgammon; 2: Imperium: Classics; 2: Bagged & Boarded; 2: Elements; 1: Cyclades; 1: Bus; 1: The Great Zimbabwe; 1: Terra Mystica; 1: Moon Colony Bloodbath; 1: Fresh Fish; 1: Hot Streak.
February gaming
A chart showing that there were 63 cases of measles in 2023, 2,279 in 2025 and 1,111 already in 2026.
Children are going to die needlessly from measles.
This is madness.
Columbia President with NEW details:
5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant.
They said they were police looking for a missing kid.
Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid."
A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss.
They ignored him & took the student.
Trump's DOJ lawsuit against UCLA is a clear-cut case of using fears of antisemitism as a cudgel against institutions of higher education.
This fine would lead to massive cuts in research funding, student security, and other resources that would harm everyone, including Jewish students.
A Fifth of American Adults Struggle to Read. Why Are We Failing to Teach Them?
(Published Dec. 2022)
“Until we build an all-powerful but distant God, the agency problem remains. AIs are not capable of directing themselves; most people aren’t either.”
Sam Kriss reports from San Francisco on the next generation of AI technologists.
A black and white illustration with text reading "Substack is creating a walled garden you have to share with white supremacists". The illustration shows a round brick wall holding part of quote, some flowers, and a draped nazi flag. this is surrounded by barbed wire
I have watched more & more friends turn to Substack in the past few months. PLEASE DON'T DO THIS! #Substack has well-documented problems with platforming literal Nazis, as well as writers spreading Covid misinformation, anti-vaccine propaganda, & transphobia. Long post here:
bit.ly/substacksux
poly market on twitter: Polymarket 🤝 Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.
leavesubstack.com
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
OATS!!
Let's do this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9...
I don’t understand how this isn’t blindingly obvious. And trans rights are human rights.
We're in the home stretch - the last four days of our tenth annual sale. It's a small company so we greatly appreciate folks spreading the word. ♥️
If you have any favorites from our catalogue that you want to recommend, reply below.
Yeah when I had to get myself off of coffee, I tried decaf for a bit and just wasn’t worth it. Switched to tea instead
Great talk today! Oath is one of my favorite games, and this gave me a different lens to look through at it.
My friend @tacomental.bsky.social designed Bagged & Boarded, a great game about collecting comics, that’s currently on Kickstarter and being published by @octoraffegames.bsky.social. If you’re a fan of #boardgames or comics, check it out! www.kickstarter.com/projects/enj...
Wild trade. The Red Sox continue to confuse and confound.
That’s wild. The 9 was rare to see even when in operation.
This was a blast! The campaign was wild from start to end. Thanks to both of you for the great game and company!
My board games plays for November were Root (7), nana (4), Rolling Stock Stars (1), Arcs (3), The Great Zimbabwe (5), A Feast for Odin (4), For-Ex (1), Agricola (1), Beyond the Horizon (1), Detective Club (1), Anno 1800 (1), Res Arcana (1), and Plantagenet (1).
My November plays!
I grew up on these streets.
This is pretty cool, and absolutely feels like something that NYT would buy. Feels like a more engaging and word puzzly version of an acrostic.
“I like her policies on reproductive health and having women choosing their own health care, and the fact that I think that she will save our democracy and follow the rule of law,” said Linda Marshall, a 79-year-old poll respondent from Cascade who has already cast her absentee ballot for Harris.
“Similarly, senior voters who are 65 and older favor Harris. But senior women support her by a more than 2-to-1 margin, 63% to 28%, while senior men favor her by just 2 percentage points, 47% to 45%.”
“That’s driven by the strength of independent women, who back Harris by a 28-point margin, while independent men support Trump, but by a smaller margin.”
