Chris Geidner

Night, all, and let us try to be good to one another — and ourselves — this week.

“We killed our plan, that is how successful it was”

“Second or third place is dead.”

Congratulations to them both! youtu.be/jPCJIB1f7jk?...

Michael B. Jordan accepting MALE ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE MOTION PICTURE

What a win.

“There is no Congress.” - Jesse Plemons as Teddy in Bugonia

Truly. “Chris’s Bad Meme-Crafting” was the art of it all.

FEMALE ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE AMY MADIGAN WEAPONS

AMY MADIGAN!

GLADYS!

He ended his lifetime achievement award acceptance speech: “This is very encouraging.”

Harrison

Harrison Ford is going to get an Emmy for this speech. Damn.

Why Higher Education’s AI Backlash Reveals Some of Its Deepest Cracks In some ways, AI isn’t the real threat. It’s just the mirror.

Highly recommend @kylesaunders.bsky.social on why AI is so unsettling to higher ed - one of the best pieces I have read on this issue:

"[U]niversities don’t merely teach. Universities certify, sort, and signal. And AI interferes with all three at once."

kylesaunders.substack.com/p/why-higher...

When the latter came out in 1989, the possibility of the former would have made anyone laugh — if they didn’t say something far worse. For the show to be in the rom-com montage, and to be paired with such a classic, warms my heart.

HR locker room scene > I MIGHT OPEN. >> I MIGHT KNOCK.

Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan

The cut from Heated Rivalry to When Harry Met Sally for the rom-com montage at the Actor Awards really was honestly so wonderful to see.

He talked about getting his SAG card, and pulled it out.

His whole speech was about unions.

It was very nice!

“To labor unions, everywhere.” - Noah Wylie, accepting his Actor award

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Nice!

Chris outside after a 5K. Distance 3.10 mi Pace 8:56 /mi Time 27m 42s STRAVA

Not speedy, and I definitely don’t like running outside below 60, but, did it.

(Penance for skipping yesterday, when it was over 60 in DC.)

There is no death penalty in New York.

Embarrassing literally coming on the heels of Bari's ridiculous tweeting.

Either he's creating a strawman with "gone full MAGA" or just spouting nonsense. "This huge entity has done a thing or two that I can point to that shows it is not a White House sock-puppet account" is not serious.

Although they write about this as only a decision not to take an "interlocutory" appeal, it means it will not be a capital trial because ... no capital charges will go to trial.

February 27, 2026 VIA ECF Honorable Margaret M. Garnett United States District Judge Southern District of New York 40 Foley Square New York, New York 10007 Re: United States v. Luigi Nicholas Mangione, 25 Cr. 176 (MMG) Dear Judge Garnett: The Government writes, in accordance with the Court's instructions at the pretrial conference on January 30, 2026, to inform the Court that the Department of Justice will not seek interlocutory review of the Court's Order entered that same day, (Dkt. 103), dismissing Counts Three and Four of the Indictment. Respectfully submitted, By: SEAN S. BUCKLEY Attorney for the United States Attorney Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515 /s/ Dominic A. Gentile Jun Xiang Alexandra S. Messiter Thomas John Wright Assistant United States Attorneys

On Friday, DOJ signaled that it is going to let the ruling stand in Luigi Mangione's federal case that takes the death penalty off the table. (In the midst of everything else, I had missed this.) storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Logged on to post the sentence “I’ve started stress dreaming about granular lab budgets” and what better visual to accompany that than

That's right. Worse than Pointless
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o...

The 75 Elections to Watch This March - Bolts The 2026 midterms really are starting. Five states hold all of their primaries for federal and state offices in March, and voters there face high-profile choices. They’ll decide which Democrat... Read...

in two days is one of the biggest Election Days of the year

so i made a guide to what you should know — piece by piece, local election by local election

sunday is the best time to explore it! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

If measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next five years, the cost to the U.S. could reach $1.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health.

That’s so good. 🤣

Right. This isn’t true. Is it? (I don’t get your last sentence, though.)

Closing with Connor in green and Hudson in black, at his side. “LIKE, THIS IS THE BEST ENVIRONMENT EVER. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.”

Such an earnest, warm close — thanking so many people involved, too, I noted.

And, of course, with Hudson at his side. 🥹

This is why SNL should always be hosted by people who only got famous like 20 minutes ago. They know how to WORK and they COMMIT to the BIT.