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So, #sdcc2026 will have #Alien:Earth bags? We'll have to look into that... Backpack-mounted T. Ocellus coming to San Diego Comic-Con Thursday.

Saw "Disclosure Day" over the weekend. The problem is it wants to be profound, but it also wants to be the kind of movie that opens with a wrestler getting stomped in the face.

In honor of National Corgi Day and commencement just around the corner, here's a little something to brighten your feed. 🐕🎓 Photos via: @mrfoxthecorgi on Instagram. #NationalCorgiDay #UCSD #UCSanDiego #UCSD2026

There's a subscription-based app called "my authenticator app" whose entire reason for existing seems to be to come up in searches and bill people who'd otherwise use Duo or Google Authenticator for free.

Finally finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after putting in about 80 hours over several months. Amazing story, progress seemed to drag a bit in the third act, but that might have been a skill issue. Now I feel prepared for the real Paris...

Another charity has been booted from selling concessions at Petco Park due to its connections to a fraudulent scheme. voiceofsandiego.org/2026/03/31/p...

Long way to fly just to check whether the moon is still haunted. #artemis2

Heavy sigh.

You stumble across the oddest bits of history on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfa... "...no other priests wanted to take up the role due to describing the site as filthy and inhabited by a witch; it was subsequently fully destroyed in 1905, leaving only the boulder in its original location."

Based on the volume of "my late spouse had a Yamaha grand piano we'd like to donate" spam emails we receive, you'd think "piano teacher" was the deadliest profession in America.

Interesting point about the new Trump tariffs that suggests tehy are also not legal -- the Nixon-era legislation that authorizes them is not about trade deficits, but distinctly different "balance of payment" deficits which are not currently happening: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Comet Specialists Discuss the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS www.youtube.com/watch?v=31GQ...

I helped mobilize a group of neighbors to provide direct aid to nearly 50 families who are in hiding from ICE. These folks deserve fresh, familiar foods. So we're purchasing groceries direct from neighborhood Latino markets whenever we can. Venmo @kristina-halvorson to help, and please repost.

The media's attention to Minnesota is drifting. This weekend, ICE had a road block at 694 and Central in Fridley, where they were asking for licenses and papers for every car that wanted to get through. Don't look away.

#expedition33 has really grown on me, but it's one of those games where the story is so key that you can't really talk about where you are in the game -- or even look up tips to get past some obstacles -- without generating or reading spoilers.

To Study Antarctic Ice Rifts, You Have to Throw a Few ‘Bombs’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...

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Google's AI overview served up blurbs and links to AI-slop video trailers for "Leviathan" featuring Dwayne Johnson and "Mermaid Invasion" featuring Scarlett Johansson when I searched for ocean-themed sci-fi in 2026. They're not real movies, nor is "Megalodon: Fury of the Sea."

With @adafruit.com raising the alarm about bills in NY and WA that would require 3D printers to refuse to print gun parts, here is a quick post on the technical problems with this approach (regardless of your thoughts about gun control) michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/02...

Bizarrely locked out of Facebook because it's insisting I enter a code from an authentication account I never setup. Can't use the "hacked" process because Facebook insists I've never used any of my devices to log in to before. Tried to set up a new account and it demands an authentication code...

📣 The Crafoord Prize in Geosciences 2026, worth eight million Swedish kronor, is awarded to Veerabhadran Ramanathan 💡🌍 youtu.be/AnfM68U8nOY?... #Science #Geosciences #CrafoordPrize @scrippsocean.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social

🗻 Live from Antarctica! Today, NOVA @pbs.org is livestreaming from the ice as researchers—including Scripps & @ucsandiego.bsky.social geophysicist Jamin Greenbaum—study the rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier, one of the most consequential glaciers on Earth. www.youtube.com/live/W7ejeYD...

Some channels were churning out this kind of slop even before AI slop was a thing: deadline.com/2025/12/yout...

No wonder the pilates class constantly has to sign up new students.

Really interesting analysis here on how claims get amplified by our current media environment (and a rebuttal of sorts to those who argue that Avi Loeb's alien spacecraft hype is good because any science engagement is good engagement): www.cip.uw.edu/2025/12/03/3...

The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS ☄️ cruising through our Solar System is no alien spaceship and won't hit Earth. Still, the buzz around it is far from unfounded 🤩 Discover why with #ChasingStarlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtiqLxfSiVI 🔭 🧪

Are quality video producers effectively ceding long-form content to AI slop mills? YouTube and the like pay more for shorts, so makers who used to post polished makes just seem to do shorts. And you get people doing unscripted rants while cheap AI videos pop up for trending news or science topics.

Oh, the joys of a password reset form that blanks out the new password you're entering while simultaneously hiding the password requirements, that also hides the password requirements if you go off the tab to generate a password to meet the requirements.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

maybe i am going insane

good advice from YLE yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/i/179508318/...

Never change, ChatGPT, never change.

Astrophotographer Captures Stunning New Image of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS - #Astronomy - ift.tt/FyhmbnS

Two days of pointless 3I/Atlas speculation to go. Conspiracy theorists, please note the "comet" and "interstellar comet" labels before jumping to conclusions. www.nasa.gov/news-release...

The dumbest thing about the "universe is a simulation" theory is that the simplest sufficient simulation is whatever you're perceiving, not the whole universe. Congrats, you've reduced your reality to the delusions of a brain in a box.

3I/ATLAS Update: would you believe it? It’s *still* a comet. 🔭 (www.virtualtelescope.eu/2025/11/11/i...)

I cannot believe how much misinformation there is about comet 3I/ATLAS. It's just very cool on its own without having to be an alien spaceship conspiracy... Prof. Jason Wright wrote a great breakdown of all the ways Avi Loeb is wrong about his awful alien conspiracy theories, and why 3I/ATLAS […]

That fuzzy dot at the center of the image is the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as captured from my backyard this morning. 🔭

Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...

Tianwen-1 Mars orbiter successfully observed the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS in early October at a distance of ~29 million km, CNSA has just announced. www.cnsa.gov.cn/n6758823/n67...

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

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3I/ATLAS has both Ni and Fe vapor, like 2I/Borisov and dozens of solar system comets. These are probably from carbonyls formed when metal reacts with ice, and seems pretty universal. Its 3I/ATLAS’s hyperbolic orbit that tells us it formed in another star system.

3I/ATLAS is now visible from🌎w small🔭 Interstellar☄️3I/ATLAS is now rising early enough in morning twilight to be seen even with small🔭 under imperfect conditions. Here's an image from this morning through thin☁️using a 152-mm Ritchey–Chrétien reflector 📸 Qicheng Zhang cometary.org/@qicheng/sta...