Kevin Aiello

Ever misread verification code as vilification code?

The Nobel Prize for physics is awarded for discoveries in quantum mechanical tunneling The Nobel committee said that the laureates' work provides opportunities to develop "the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors."

The Nobel committee said that the laureates' work provides opportunities to develop "the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors."

Cover: Listen To Me and I’ll Tell You A Story by Ejiwa “Edge” Ebenebe. In an underwater scene tinted in sea green, a child-like being with flowing ochre-colored hair and dark sea green skin sits on a mass of orange-ochre and green tentacles talking to a school of salmon-color fish. In the foreground, another school of brown fish swimming away from the scene. The text "Uncanny," "September/October 2025," "Issue Sixty-Six," and the credits are in white.

Uncanny Magazine Issue 66 Part 2 features a new novelette by Alaya Dawn Johnson and new short stories by Juliet Kahn and Tim Pratt! buff.ly/Lm6JQFJ

There's a new kind of “moderate” Republican—perhaps best exemplified by Weiss—that's poised to keep gaining power and shifting the country in harmful and destructive ways, even if they never have the political power of more explicitly pro-Trump conservatives.
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Oh, I love to get a note about a new movie or TV show worth watching; so glad to see this comment.

Love living on an island entirely built of a bloating bubble that, when it pops, will plunge us all into the deep

Being a podcaster costs $40 for a decent mic and $18 per month for hosting. The hard part is having something interesting to say. Get a degree in that!

@tadethompson.bsky.social Tade: I’m curious if you’ve come across this graphic novel. I was flipping through it today at a bookstore, and the artwork gives me a sense of Mazzucchelli in the 80s. Clean, crisp work, with nice contrast, and so on. https://us.macmillan.com/series/homicidethegraphicnovel

RIP, indeed. Game-changer in her field, and immensely decent, compassionate human being.

Just having a moment reflecting on what a ridiculous state we're in, where the president is making "deals" with private universities by personally meddling in federally allocated education and research funding and this is being treated as just ordinary politics.

You don't have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

I wrote about Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein, why swallowing live frogs is a bad idea, and how context and history can release you from bright-kid syndrome, the illusion that you yourself are going to have every answer or fix the world.

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

I just bought a couple of these at Wallgreen’s. Brilliant improvement!

This is, incidentally, also true in physics

Buying a Suit? Get These Tips From Wirecutter’s Menswear Expert First. Buying a suit is intimidating. Wirecutter’s menswear expert can walk you through it.

my only addendum to this very good piece on buying a suit is that if you have the cash and can go to a showroom propercloth is a great option for made-to-measure stuff. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...

Chase Infinity as Willa Ferguson in One Battle After Another. A young woman stares into the camera with a concerned expression.

Saw One Battle After another last night. Loved it. Great acting, direction, music, editing, cinematography.

We have plenty of dystopian tales already. This story of normal families finding ways to resist & love each other under contemporary white supremacy & fascism is urgently needed.

Errol Musk genuinely might be the only guy in the entire world who is a bigger piece of shit than Elon or Trump. Horrific

Breaking: Egyptian political activist and writer Alaa Abd El-Fattah was released from prison early Tuesday morning after being granted a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Monday.

Manhattan Will Not Get a Casino as Final Proposal Is Voted Down

Good.
Manhattan Will Not Get a Casino as Final Proposal Is Voted Down www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/n...

Deliver truck full of Mac Studio Displays

Someone must be shooting a heist movie here in SF.

Well done. I didn’t know about the homes across the street; good context in your walking video here.

This is an interesting comment; I will see what you mean soon enough.

Leaving aside the screen-cap, you got me intrigued to look up this series, and it’s quite well-rated; going to give it a shot.

I make a 5 day trip to NYC every year (centred around US Open Tennis), and I have to say, this is impressive, as it always requires two bags for me.

Sarah speaks the truth

Headline: 11 of Our Favorite New Features in iOS 26. The list includes polls in group chats and live language translation.

Apple rolled out its huge iOS 26 software upgrade, which is available to download now. Here are the features we think you need to try. nyti.ms/47RjC2X

Do the Right Thing - Boston Review On Italo Calvino's letters, 1941–1985.

Italian novelist Italo Calvino, who fought fascist forces in World War II and took up writing after the war, died this week in 1985.

In this review of his letters from 2013, Leland de la Durantaye reflects on his life and legacy:

My cover for Red Book by @jamesthefourth.bsky.social and @oeming.bsky.social at @darkhorse.com

Definite scam.