Alan Baxter ♛

What is it? Does it do anything? Or is it just a glass CD stuck on a lump of free gold?

It’s great to be back in New York City. I spent a good deal of my childhood and teenage years in and around NYC. I’ve been back to promote my new book, “Coming Up Short.”

I’m promising myself this is my last book tour. (Of course, I made the same promise with the last book.)

Why has the Fitbit sleep monitor suddenly got completely useless? It used to plot REM and deep sleep, and now it just has awake, restless and asleep. It now makes a staggering inaccurate guess at how much sleep you got. Have they suddenly lost access to teh IP or something?

There used to be an early (~1981) natural language processing computer program developed at MIT by Joseph Weizenbaum that could talk to you about your feelings. It was called ELIZA and ran on the Commodore 64. It was much safer than AI!!

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet

IG 3sixteen

Every day @stephenking.bsky.social proves he is a really good writer.

Yep. It's a problem.

Nordic countries hit by ‘truly unprecedented’ heatwave Scientists record longest streak of temperatures higher than 30C in region in records going back to 1961

Are we worried yet? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'm so white I asked the trolly boys if they would prefer me to put the trolly back after I had used it. They asked me to not put it back because they didn't want to loose their jobs.

BREAKING: We're suing ICE for unlawfully targeting and arresting people who show up to court for their immigration hearings.

🇺🇸We are witnessing the biggest ever economic self-implosion🇺🇸

Tourism crashes as foreigners stay away

Crops rot as ICE hunts down farm hands

People with brains skedaddle to places less medieval

Tariffs bring country-wide destitution

💀There will be nothing left but torched swasticars💀

FFS BBC! Why does even an article about the English Premier League have to be accompanied by an image of the fat orange rapist? @plnews.bsky.social

But somehow we did. Twice.

Haven't been hearing Enough
About Chump and Epstein lately....

NSW supreme court rules in favour of pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge Palestine Action Group claims as many as 50,000 people will take part in the march on Sunday

Excellent.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Yo, people who program shit

HEAR THIS

My KEY beef with spellcheck (on every platform) is when I spell a word correctly but 'spellcheck' decides to change that correctly spelled word to a different word that's more commonly used

Fuck you, if you programmed that

Look me in the eye 🤨

FUCK YOU 🖕

I reckon Kermit would be my friend. Michael Caine too.

It's funny to think that my preference for urban living in areas with dense, mixed-used, walkable neighborhoods, multi-family housing, small businesses, and diversity probably stems from Sesame Street. Like an early education in Jane Jacob's urbanist theories.

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I think you might have stumbled on the solution that all those who didn't want one failed to come up with.

COVID doesn't reduce flu. Because COVID damages the immune system (it causes non-antigen specific activation of CD4 T cells causing their "exhaustion," so they fail to be able to support the generation of cytotoxic CD8 T cells) it makes severe infections (including by flu) more likely.

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

“I have always been concerned about politics and I am a supporter of the Democratic Party. Do you also pay attention to politics?”, "Hi, your profile looks interesting, are you a supporter of the Democratic Party as well?” and "Hi. Are you in the US and a supporter of the Democratic Party?”

I have received dozens of private messages with the same or similar text. I think you should assume these are an attempt to identify Democratic voters to cause them some difficulties. The texts are: ...

That's a great question for the Supreme Court of the United States!

Epstein EXPOSED: Trump, Mossad & The Elite’s Dark Secrets Why Epstein’s 'client list' will NEVER be released

Epstein Exposed: Trump, Mossad, The Elite’s Dark Secrets, and why Epstein’s 'client list' will never be released (even though some journalists have already seen it). www.doubledown.news/watch/2025/j...

Parliament resumes next week. If Labor's 50 female MPs opted to sit as their own party in the House of Representatives, they'd have seven more MPs than the entirely of the 43-member Coalition opposition, of which just nine are women.

My bet is that instead of a sharing of ideas, money changed hands.