Brad Neuhauser

Not to be snarky, but could try women’s hockey instead? PWHL is starting soon, UMN is ranked #2 in the country, and UST has a new arena.

I’m always interested if the time works out! Related to streets advocacy, I knew someone working on walkability for a neighborhood org in St Paul and I suggested they look at OSM as a data source for analysis but I think it was just too technical.

Y’all wanna hear a wild story? Charlie is right — this medley Prince made 30 years ago, blending many of his greatest hits & fan favorites into an extended mashup, is one of the most fun “only Prince could do this” things he made in the 90s. BUT: he told us he was gonna do it. In an AOL chat room…

find someone who will wear a big overcoat with you

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AI World Clocks The current time as rendered by 9 different AI models. By Brian Moore.

The time is out of joint #AISlop
clocks.brianmoore.com

Black text on a yellow background - This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it looks like I ran out of time. I have so many dreams that I wanted to fulfill and plans to create new stories for you. There are a few in progress that might come to fruition in a few years if things work out. I did not ever imagine I would live to this age and end up a writer, editor, activist, and more. As a kid riddled with insecurity and internalized ableism, I could not see a path forward. It was thanks to friendships and some great teachers who believed in me that I was able to fight my way out of miserable situations into a place where I finally felt comfortable in my skin. We need more stories about us and our culture. You all, we all, deserve the everything and more in such a hostile, ableist environment. Our wisdom is incisive and unflinching. I'm honored to be your ancestor and believe disabled oracles like us will light the way to the future. Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

3 story deco building with a small tower

Strip mall across from light rail tracks

Perusing MHS online collection and found this gem. The Cinderella Cosmetics building formerly at 2218 University Ave. It is now a bland strip mall

I really thought we'd emerge from covid with an appreciation of the frailty of life. But Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan... the causal dehumanization of refugees... it's hard not to feel like we're all just bodies for the elite meat grinder.

A copy of my IGNM game, Fold & Fly!

How is a single copy of Fold & Fly! made? I decided to make my ideal version of the game, so there are a decent number of steps. It's all hand-made & put together (with one slight exception) so let's walk through it!

Happening now: clergy protest ICE detention center in Chicago.

“Why are you still here? Greg Bovino already left.”

“It’s an internment camp…no medicine…toilets don’t work”

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

As one Massachusetts school administrator recently said; this moment with AI is remarkably like the moment when we were introduced to asbestos. Yes, it had some remarkably promising characteristics – fireproofing! – and had some real utility in science, research, and industrial applications. But a profit-driven industry bullied us into inserting it everywhere; into our homes and schools and public spaces, before we really understood the risks. This resulted in decades, if not centuries, of illness, injuries, deaths, and the astronomical financial burden of trying to remove the stuff. As you, the leaders and policymakers in our schools, craft an AI policy for our district, we the undersigned call on you to: 1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect our students and teachers from de-skilling and allow them the space and time to engage in assignments themselves. 2. Resist any direct financial relationship or contracts with AI providers, as well as the “training” they might offer. 3. Provide a digital literacy curriculum to help students navigate the current digital landscape, and promote critical engagement with technology. 4. Guarantee that anywhere generative AI has already entered our classrooms or curriculum, an opt-out will allow students and teachers to refuse the use of these products at no risk to their grades, progress or employment.

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

Many people wait until our sale to pick up some of our newest titles. In that spirit, let's take a look at the seven games @hollandspiele.bsky.social and I have published in 2025! 🧵

6. Until we have communal confidence that permanently suspended people actually received detailed and ideally actionable reports on what happened (appeal processes should exist), it's going to keep feeling bad.

4. In the absence of confidence that every suspended person has been told happened, rumors and worst-case assumptions fill the vacuum. No one knows what behavior will get them banned. And this is all happening against the background of a high-stakes authoritarian slide. People are scared.

2. I think people who get suspended have the right to clear and specific information about what rules they broke and with which posts. Obvious bots maybe don't need this? But real humans do.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

what if the vast, complex conspiracy of powerful men to ensure they evade consequences for violence and exploitation is just the US criminal legal system

The new batch of Epstein emails makes me ponder the folks deeply outraged by trans people who want to do sports because they think it harms women. Decades of hard proof that cis men who abuse their power to harm women in the worst ways are the actual threat can alter this counterfactual obsession.

The sheer effort of laying out everything wrong w/ this argument *&* the fact that it's meaningless to even do so unless & until the full force of the law is levied at these people who are themselves the literal enforcement arm of the law is further evidence that we are all dead & this is superhell.

Tomorrow on The Daily, Michael Barbaro talks to all The NY Times journalists who had direct evidence of Trump’s relationship with pedophile pimp Epstein but chose to not investigate it.

I remember seeing HAARP conspiracy books when I was working at bookstores in the late 90s--not your top tier conspiracy but it's got some staying power

Space Weather Message Code: ALTK07 Serial Number: 197 Issue Time: 2025 Nov 12 1038 UTC ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7 Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 12 1033 UTC Synoptic Period: 0900-1200 UTC Active Warning: Yes NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong NOAA Space Weather Scale descriptions can be found at www.swpc.noaa.gov/noaa-scales-explanation Potential Impacts: Area of impact primarily poleward of 50 degrees Geomagnetic Latitude. Induced Currents - Power system voltage irregularities possible, false alarms may be triggered on some protection devices. Spacecraft - Systems may experience surface charging; increased drag on low Earth-orbit satellites and orientation problems may occur. Navigation - Intermittent satellite navigation (GPS) problems, including loss-of-lock and increased range error may occur. Radio - HF (high frequency) radio may be intermittent. Aurora - Aurora may be seen as low as Pennsylvania to Iowa to Oregon.

:Product: 3-Day Forecast :Issued: 2025 Nov 12 0030 UTC # Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center # A. NOAA Geomagnetic Activity Observation and Forecast The greatest observed 3 hr Kp over the past 24 hours was 3 (below NOAA Scale levels). The greatest expected 3 hr Kp for Nov 12-Nov 14 2025 is 8.00 (NOAA Scale G4). NOAA Kp index breakdown Nov 12-Nov 14 2025 Nov 12 Nov 13 Nov 14 00-03UT 5.00 (G1) 6.67 (G3) 4.67 (G1) 03-06UT 7.33 (G3) 6.33 (G2) 4.00 06-09UT 6.00 (G2) 6.00 (G2) 3.33 09-12UT 4.67 (G1) 4.67 (G1) 3.67 12-15UT 4.33 4.00 3.33 15-18UT 8.00 (G4) 3.33 3.00 18-21UT 7.67 (G4) 4.33 3.00 21-00UT 7.00 (G3) 4.67 (G1) 3.33 Rationale: CME activity from 09-11 Nov is likely to cause G1-G4 (Minor-Severe) levels on 12 Nov, G1-G3 (Minor-Strong) storm levels on 13 Nov and G1 (Minor) levels early on 14 Nov. B. NOAA Solar Radiation Activity Observation and Forecast Solar radiation, as observed by NOAA GOES-18 over the past 24 hours, was above S-scale storm level thresholds. Solar Radiation Storm Forecast for Nov 12-Nov 14 2025 Nov 12 Nov 13 Nov 14 S1 or greater 99% 75% 55% Rationale: The greater than 10 MeV proton flux is expected to continue above the S1 (Minor) threshold through 13 Nov, with S2 levels possible through 12 Nov. Further enhancements are possible with the arrival of the 09-11 Nov CMEs on 11 and 12 Nov. C. NOAA Radio Blackout Activity and Forecast Radio blackouts reaching the R3 levels were observed over the past 24 hours. The largest was at Nov 11 2025 1004 UTC. Radio Blackout Forecast for Nov 12-Nov 14 2025 Nov 12 Nov 13 Nov 14 R1-R2 85% 85% 85% R3 or greater 55% 55% 55% Rationale: R1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) radio blackouts are expected, with further R3 (Strong) activity likely on 12-14 Nov due to the flare potential of Region 4274.

Map from NOAA titled showing North America and the North Pole with a color gradient overlay of aurora likelihood.

Map from NOAA titled showing North America and the North Pole with a color gradient overlay of aurora likelihood.

Aurora Forecast Update for 2025-11-12T10:40:04Z

ALERT: Geomagnetic K-index of 7
Threshold Reached: 2025 Nov 12 1033 UTC
Synoptic Period: 0900-1200 UTC

Active Warning: Yes
NOAA Scale: G3 - Strong
Additional Details Here.

What do you mean, you invented quantum transit!

Gorgeous red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

Gorgeous picture of red and green aurorae over a lighted city below.

I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.

If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.

I was watching planes take off and wondering what it looked like from the air, thanks!

Koyaanisqatsi outtake!

Glad they made it down all that way—my wife saw pics from Memphis!

A bright burst of red and green in the skies

Lighter pinkish red in a big fan stretching across the night sky.

Pink auroras through some bare tree branches

A dark red burst of color in the sky

Yall.

It is hard to come up with a better analogy for whiteness than preferring the AI simulacra of your supposed authentic art form to whatever a Black woman from your art form’s cultural geography might make.