Tim Milligan

quick q: what did biden's DOJ do for four years

A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...

It turns out punishing coup plotters actually is an effective deterrent!

This entire entry is gold

Celebrity deaths almost never affect me emotionally, and I only knew of Eric Bauza from, of all the obscure things, his appearances in the recent string of Star Wars live readings (his performance as Jar Jar Binks was surprisingly innovative?), and yet somehow even that was enough. He was incredible

cool, cool

Why has everyone forgotten the Bush era?

Which is just to say: we are either at or very near a point where AI makes it possible to just actually monitor everyone simultaneously.

I’m not sure the Panopticon is still a relevant metaphor. The point there was that a concealed machinery of surveillance could make everyone behave AS IF surveilled, even though the watchers could only observe a few people at once. We seem to have effectively superceded that technical limitation.

omg I am never going to shut up about this

Yup, that's how we start the day around here

Bloody hell, someone's just posted that he rises again on the third day! SPOILERS, PEOPLE. For those of us like me who haven't read it, some consideration please!

These posts are only three hours apart

This is a pattern that bedevils technological systems of all sorts. Actions taken as singular instances might be judged to be benign. The same action taken as a pattern over time or at societal scale becomes fraught of it not altogether harmful.

Correct, nobody does this because that would obviously be fucking stupid

obsessed with this image that's only used in the irish wikipedia article

For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺

Digger should have had a post-credit scene where Digger meets Lydia Tár, followed by the caption DIGGER and TÁR will return in A MOVIE EVERYONE WILL POST ABOUT BUT FEW WILL SEE

This is the beginning of a thread about movies that feature characters discovering important information via microfiche

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

My confidence in decision to never even open that website has only increased.

this is so fucking sad

My kids are listening to a Sesame Street record from 1970 and let me tell you it was a bold move to put Ernie and Kermit on the thing (different songs though) with no visual. So much of this is Jim Henson and Frank Oz doing slightly different voices

Q*bert

AI makes it easier to write software, and that's bad

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

I continue to believe Ruben Bolling is a genius

Wow, it's true lol. If you ask the Trump administration's new stupid America.gov chatbot to "play Minecraft" it goes completely insane. Just tried it.

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Fact. Also its Æ.

- Ah, a delicious square of dark chocolate as a reward for a hard day’s wor… - THIS IS DOG-ERASURE

Liquid Bluesky

Permissions list on the Independent website looks like washing machine instructions on a clothes label

Nicholas Monro, Sheep, 1970 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1117378

Last week's New Yorker crossword has the following clue, much to my disbelief: Competitions such as the Boonta Eve Classic on Tatooine (8)

I think coffee & pizza go well together