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A quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's,...

On the livestream, someone asks how the comet could have come from so far, so fast, and not hit anything. The answer given by Nicky Fox is that it's orbital dynamics and space is really vast but I'm sure every one of the panelists was dying to quote Douglas Adams 😂 www.goodreads.com/quotes/14434...

As we gear up for the tenth anniversary of David Bowie’s Blackstar and, come January, the anniversary of his passing, reminder that I wrote my masters thesis on the loss of such an icon and how his fans were remembering / honoring him.
Read that work for free at academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3546/

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.

The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...

Today is the day to repost this meme about International Men's Day, one of the most unironically wholesome memes that has ever been made.

Shoutout to all my fellow champs, chiefs, and kings. ✊

My team and I were miniaturized and injected into the bloodstream of a soviet defector in the hopes we could deploy the ship's microsurgery to clear a blood clot in his brain. Unfortunately the Russians deployed their own nanonauts in an attempt to sabotage our mission. We took care of them, don't worry. Dr. Clark is wounded...might not make it. But we can still make the brain in time if we take a shortcut through the carotid artery. It should be noted in the log that Dr. Wells feels this is an unnecessary risk, I have registered her complaints as required by regulation, and we are pressing on. Wish us luck. Should be in by 11:15.

At my last job you were supposed to send an email if you were going to be late. These are some of my late emails.

Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.

Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

hit with the sudden realization that this world has run out of people who remember me as a young child

I like immigrants.

I like their food.

I like their work ethic.

I like it they are different from me.

I can’t be the only Brit who feels this way.

Single comicbook panel showing the Hulk lying prone on some grass near a beach. He's saying (in two speech balloons): "Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up ..." "... everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!" (From Incredible Hulk #261, 1981)

C'est moi

I sometimes genuinely do wish people could have the experience of seeing what gets reported and taken down so they could viscerally understand what an unmoderated space on the internet looks like, because however bad you can imagine it is, the reality is far worse.

It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.

Nazi imagery is bad, especially in Jewish spaces, and elected officials condemning it is good

We joke about the Torment Nexus and all that, but...

The truth is science fiction warned us endlessly not to let fear control us.

"Fear is the mind killer"
"Fear is a path to the Dark Side"
etc.

Silicon Valley claimed to love SF, then built a machine to amplify fear as a means to control people.

Great job Google

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

One way that social media has driven people insane is by convincing them that political outcomes are shaped by the net allocation of care points and so politics consists in attempting to shape the amount of caring everyone dedicates to your pet issue.

What if AWS US-EAST-1 was just sleepy and wanted a nap tho

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

A graphic showing a book event schedule

I've got TWO speaking engagements next week, and I'd love to see you there.

The first is a Q&A with Professor Sarah Cole at Porter Square Books Cambridge (and it'll be livestreamed)!

And the second is a presentation at the Kent Memorial Library in Kent, CT, in collaboration with House of Books.

duhhh

a) screaming "antisemitism" at everything robs the phrase of its meaning, opening the door to real hatred;

b) the internet is lowering the planet's collective IQ.

Authoritarianism is scary and dangerous but so very far from invincible. And if you let yourself be convinced too much of their power, then they've won. Authoritarianism is built on fragile illusions of control and competence. It's hard but brittle and shatters readily under even a little pushback.

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.

They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

A ziploc bag full of washed plums cooling in the bottom drawer of the fridge. Bonus Kirkland brand guacamole is also visible

Washing and putting the plums in my icebox, I better not see any poetic shenanigans tomorrow

Instead, you should follow our Constitution. Under our First Amendment in our Constitution, people have the right to express views about politics, even views you may find reprehensible. The government cannot take action to punish people for expressing those views. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Worked like a charm when the Black Panthers did it. We got gun control FAST! Even the NRA backed it.

An old black and white photo of a young boy, wearing a sleeveless top and holding a small object up to their mouth.

14 September 1933 | A French Jewish boy, Jacques Vigderhaus, was born in Paris.

In June 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. https://t.co/CemwXeV01o

Bear Cam - live from Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park | Explore.org Watch LIVE as hundreds of Alaskan Brown Bears descend on a mile-long stretch of the Brooks River to feast on the largest Sockeye Salmon run in the world.

Hello this is your occasional reminder that maybe you do not need to be online right now

And if you do need to be online right now services such as the Alaska river near cameras are available to help
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It’s ok to put the phone down.