SLUGGO’S THOUGHT
FOR THURSDAY
My column this week:
Uncertainty surrounding Arkansas library funding undermines state’s literacy efforts arkansasadvocate.com/2026/02/22/u...
Some deep-sea facts for you! High pressure changes protein folding, requiring specialized enzymes to function at depth. Deep-sea life isn’t just tougher. It runs on proteins that often stop working at surface pressure. europepmc.org/article/med/...
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
Samuel L Jackson is 77.
This is wonderfully in-depth interview conducted by @bilgeebiri.bsky.social
Jackson is insight as usual on the technical aspects of acting but as you can see below, he’s just damned entertaining & straight-talking: www.vulture.com/article/samu...
It’s very simple. Genuinely very simple. Until Section 230, it was the case that any website that allowed a user to publish any content of any kind could be sued if they said *anything* libelous or bad. That includes web hosts, blogging platforms, social media etc.
NO to crypto apologists. YES to cryptid apologists
Remember the immigration raid on the apartment complex in Chicago almost two months ago? The one with the Black Hawk helicopter and federal agents rappelling on ropes? @ProPublica decided to take a deeper look. We found little evidence to support the government’s claims. 🧵
And amazingly consistent in its quality over its history
A buddy just pointed out there's a new book about Secret Wars (2015) being Kickstarted soon, so it feels like the right time to reshare the oral history I did about that comic featuring Jonathan Hickman, Esad Ribic, Tom Brevoort, and more.
Sam Altman gonna single-handedly cause the Second Great Depression
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has now effectively burned more than $200 MILLION OF U.S. TAXPAYER MONEY on rapidly depreciating Argentine pesos...
...as funding for food stamps that needy Americans rely on is due to run out in a matter of days.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The US government is gang affiliated www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Clearly Illyana has been extra busy
Microsoft hates computers AND everyone who uses them, whereas Apple only hates computers, and Linux only hates the people who use them. In this essay I will
Earth Is Getting Darker, Literally, and Scientists Are Trying To Find Out Why
🔗 www.404media.co/earth-is-get...
Despite a government shutdown, Republicans will make sure Argentina gets their $20 billion.
This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”
The concept of trying to implement geoengineering solutions to #climate change is like trying to design a complicated, expensive, unreliable helmet while you're still hitting yourself in the head with a 2x4.
:Looks smugly over at my shelf of physical media:
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
Right now, your ability to get access to a COVID vaccine this fall is in jeopardy, whether or not you fit the new, restricted eligiblity criteria. Please send a letter to your member of Congress here. And spread the word. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
So technically he was up above it and you were down in it?
