Erik Gregersen

A serial rapist was elected twice as President, a fact we don't reckon with nearly enough. Now one of two major political parties has been molded in his image, run for and by violent sexual abusers who hate women.

1 is ChatGPT. 2 is Gemini. I don’t want to ask Claude because I don’t want it to realize things about me

a curious attraction has appeared at South Korea's Aegibong Park. From the Starbucks, you can see a North Korean tank destroyer aimed straight at it across the border tourists can now take pictures of a Soviet ATS-59 artillery tractor with an open casemate containing a Romanian 100mm antitank gun

Repost from our partner park: Catch the sunset at Lower Sauma Trail in the National Park of American Samoa, where vibrant skies meet the peaceful sounds of bird chirping. To watch the full video, please click the link below. . youtube.com/shorts/FrYqD... NPS Video #LowerSaumaTrail #NPSA

Sooner or later someone was going to see that slide that a computer should not make a management decision because it cannot be accountable and think that sounded like a good idea.

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

One of the lesser known outlaws of the Old West was Rufus Nephew, aka Climax Jim. That's unfortunate because the man's life was a never ending series of crimes, arrests, acquittals, convictions & daring escapes. Here's a sampling of some of his very stupid adventures... 🧵

Once Upon a Time in Harlem is out in theatres, and it’s a great film that people should seek out but also, if you haven’t watched William Greaves’s Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One, you should do so immediately one of the best works of 20th century art

One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.

Inside the ruins of the Rear Erecting Shops at the former Pullman railcar manufacturing complex in Chicago. Built in 1880 and long disused, its roof was removed after a massive fire engulfed the adjacent Administration Building in 1998. It has been partially stabilized once or twice since then.

I’ve been busy at work and managing chronic headaches, so it’s been hard to keep up with the midterms the way I normally do. What this means is that the word “Talarico” is, to these eyes, totally synonymous with spam and financial grift. His last name might as well be Bitcoin.

Absolutely nothing successful functions like this. If a company you transacted with one time texted and emailed you with the same frequency as do the Democrats and their groups, you would light their headquarters on fire.

is Britain full or not, i can never remember

"In the end, barely $13 of your $100 buys real airtime or digital ads." newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Coyotes howling along with sirens. Cook County, October 20, 2026.

Retired guy whose healthcare bill is entirely paid for by working adults talking about how he shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s kids to go to school while standing in front of a mansion he owns is really just an excellent encapsulation of the Republican base.

I had not realised that Michel Foucault and Winnie-the-Pooh were practically the same age: Winnie-the-Pooh was first published by Methuen on 14 October 1926, and Michel Foucault was born in Poitiers on the following day.

Happy radiator season, to all who celebrate

RIP Abbas Kiarostami, you would've loved You Can See Everything, or maybe been indifferent, or maybe you would've taken a nap as you professed to love doing at movies

A very interesting collection of reactions to the OpenAI results.

The Confiscation of the Contents of a Painter's Studio, c.1590 attributed to François Bunel the Younger

A new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Back on the digital pages of IndieWire for a great piece about the recent screening of 1926's THE FLYING ACE and the unknown story of disabled Black stunt actor Steve "Peg" Reynolds. www.indiewire.com/features/gen...

Asking work if I'm allowed to go home for cultural purposes because Ditka died

As we come up on the time of the night when The Great Chicago Fire started 155 years ago today, a family heirloom: plates that survived the Fire, straw from their packing excelsior scorched into their glazed surfaces.

Why aren't gas prices dropping if oil is flowing through the Strait? The answer: "For a sign of just how extraordinary oil shipping costs have become, consider this: It’s now more expensive to hire a tanker from the US to China than to launch a rocket into space." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

It’s notable to me that TWO of the most recent women who have won a NoBel Prize were denied tenure from their institutions: Anne Carson and Katalin Karikó

I remember a decade-long panic about undergraduates, activists, or Tumblr pages declaring new language rules and denouncing people for violating them.

This is well worth reading. Needless to say, organizing is key. newrepublic.com/article/2161...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

I know 102 is a big long life but....this still hurts. Rest well, Eva! variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Researchers in #ScienceAdvances have developed a cross-national “speech clock” that can track biological aging and markers of dementia across a large and diverse sample of Latin American populations. https://scim.ag/46ZRHMC