Adam Rogers

12 Nov 2024

Here’s my booze book: bookshop.org/p/books/proo... And here’s my color book: bookshop.org/p/books/full...

I'm glad Koenig got a post-Trek turn as the mysterious telepath spymaster Bester on Babylon 5. A whole clutch of Easter eggs—named for a great old sf writer, did the Prisoner "be seeing you" thing, and was, well, him. Like an elder blessing the show.

bit.lyTrump-Epstein ties covered up, House Democrats allege; want special counselDonald Trump was “an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to the report.

Wait wait wait Koenig *wrote* the Land of the Lost episode with the Sleestack twist? Where the scientist thought they were his ancestors but it turned out they were the future of his people? That snapped my little-kid head back!

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Miami Herald

@miamiherald.com

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Donald Trump was “an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of young women in the mid-to-late 1990s,” according to the report.

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Holy crap there is new Midnight Diner

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Hey, that’s *really* racist.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."

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You know, I just did the thing, out of habit. I hate-platformed. OK. Gonna stop doing that.

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J. Michael Straczynski

@straczynski.bsky.social

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Today we lost Walter Koenig. Some thoughts about a fine actor and genuinely nice guy....

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Please make an immediate urgent contribution right now to help me be the weird-nerds meme

Boo!-per Lund@cooperlund.online

Who do I give to to get this in front of as many Michigan voters as possible?

sfchronicle.comOakland’s Crucible arts school abruptly shuts its doors, leaving students and artists in limboThe 56,000-square-foot West Oakland institution abruptly closed over the weekend, leaving employees, students and artists waiting for answers about its future.

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I've spent deeply happy hours here building tables. Thousands of kids have learned craft here. One of the world's great concentrations of wealth, and the Bay Area can't keep a community gem like this going? The second biggest cultural institution in Oakland? www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

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"It is kind of crazy that we live in the heart of the tech community and yet we can’t tap into those resources," he told me. "It’s one of those things that’s baffled us for a long time, about how we can't secure major funding from these individuals or companies."

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I made these masu and this bell there. The idea the place won't be there anymore hurts like hell.

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businessinsider.comHollywood's uncanny evolution of evil billionaire tech bros, from "The Spy Who Loved Me" to "Musk."If you really want to understand the extent to which everyone thinks Silicon Valley is so uncanny these days, watch "Cupertino."

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I talked to a development person at the Crucible for a story last spring. They own their building, but grants and funding that used to come from the city and the school district have dried up, as has the Bay's fire-arts/Burning Man scene. Tech companies used to do team-building there, but no more.

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Business Insider

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If you really want to understand the extent to which everyone thinks Silicon Valley is so uncanny these days, watch "Cupertino." https://bit.ly/4z8QG0Z

Hey I'm back haunting Business Insider today with some thinky thoughts about Hollywood drawing its latest crop of villains from Silicon Valley...and why the fun show "Cupertino" is evidence the techlash has spread to your grandma's living room. www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-vi...

🎃 Found Star Trek Episodes 🎃

Advice coming out of Brazil that goes, don't platform your political opponents on social media...seems like good advice.

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@foundepisodes.bsky.social

#StarTrekTOS "Chekov's Odyssey" Kirk, Spock, and Chekov investigate an ancient mausoleum ship that suddenly activates and sends Chekov on a vision journey to the most distant region of the universe where an astonishing discovery awaits. RIP Walter Koenig 🖖

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Jesse Thorn

@jessethorn.bsky.social

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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

nytimes.comCan Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.’s Gender Problem?Marissa Mayer made her name as a pioneer at Google, then as chief executive at Yahoo. Now Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants — and hoping to draw in more women.

what

AmyAlexCA@amyalexca.bsky.social

Oh. I see: “When I asked Mayer if it’s somewhat depressing to imagine a frictionless future when birthday celebrations, holiday gifts and family vacations are planned by AI, she seemed caught off guard. ‘haven’t really thought that through,’ she said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/s...

@emilynussbaum.bsky.social

One begins to suspect that some people’s goal in starting a business is not actually to make the thing the business nominally sells, but just to make money, somehow, at whatever?

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Gremliny Nussboo

I’m more upset than necessary about the Marissa Mayer AI thing. I could literally point at -*any random little girl* and say, I sense that she’s empathetic! Creative! and loves animals! And win the lottery. What kind of person would tell this story out loud??

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U. S. Commission of Dark Arts 🧱🗃️

@jgbollard.bsky.social

Any reason's a good reason to share this interview with the designer of the Cheesecake Factory interiors.

eater.comCheesecake Factory Interiors Are Weird and Wonderful, All Thanks to This DesignerWhy interiors expert Rick McCormack will go down in restaurant history

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Everybody loves a wicker Skarsgard; everybody gets real mad at a wire Mayer.

(That Times quote is so outlandish I actually doubt it. Like, she lied, or they got it wrong, or…something?)

nyti.ms‘You Can See Everything’ Gives ‘Clayface’ a Run for Its Money at the Box Office“Clayface” was No. 1 at the box office, but “You Can See Everything,” a documentary about the disgraced Theranos founder, surged in its second weekend.

Well, Batman would’ve fought Holmes, too, though, so

The New York Times@nytimes.com

“Clayface,” a horror movie about a lesser-known Batman villain, was No. 1 at North American theaters this weekend. Its unexpected challenger was “You Can See Everything,” a documentary about the disgraced Theranos founder, which surged in its second weekend.

“Lesser known.” That’s the kind of thing that in a comic would have Clayface laying siege to the Times.

Actually Fiedler is kind of a Batman villain, too. “In this reconstruction of Crime Alley, you will see the murders of your parents again and again, as portrayed by the actors who played them in a movie. Can you save them? Do you still want to be Batman, Bruce?”

Oh so about *this* the president cannot lie

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says he examined Jon Husted’s ass to groans but then says Nikki Minaj has a nice ass to cheers

foxnews.comInside the Pentagon's doomsday plan to keep America fighting if global war eruptsThe Pentagon's FORTRESS initiative requires every major U.S. military base to sustain operations for 90 days without civilian power or supply chains.

Well, that’s suspicious. www.foxnews.com/politics/ins...

inc.comThe Cheesecake Factory Is Closing Locations: See a List of Shuttered Locations for 2026In the midst of a big expansion, the well-known chain shut down some decades' old locations earlier this year.

Huh. Cheesecake Factory has 218 US locations, and is expanding. Highest numbers in California, Texas, and Florida. www.inc.com/amaya-nichol...

ohiocapitaljournal.comRamaswamy tries to reframe controversial ad, claiming it wasn’t about child sex abuse amid protests • Ohio Capital JournalOhio candidate for governor Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is attempting to reframe his controversial ad featuring Democratic opponent Amy Acton's estranged mother as protestors have started gathering at ...

Ramaswamy trying for “actually it’s about ethics in campaigning” here. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/10/25/r...

Sure the Democrats claim to want to bring manufacturing back to the US, but then they insult hardworking blue collar laborers on the cheesecake assembly line

trib.alICE wants robot dogs. Boston Dynamics' workers urge company to 'cancel the sale'Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“Quadripeds.” No matter what Boston Dynamics—which is Hyundai—calls them, they’re not dogs. Copy desks are a critical line of defense between humanity and robots.

WBUR@wbur.org

Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Dan Vergano

@danvergano.bsky.social

All I can add: Very good people are still at the magazine, working hard to do great work. The editors who tried to save the place, David and Jeanna, did their best at a really loaded, uncertain time. Imho, the union-busting owners bear the blame for this sad mess.

Emmet Fraizer@woolsox.bsky.social

Last summer, Scientific American's owners were stalking the site, making sure it wasn't being too critical of Trump. This summer, the magazine was sold and gutted. I wrote about it for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

thenation.comThe Fall of “Scientific American”When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

Nobody wants to talk about Epstein numbers though.

qdot@buttplug.engineer

“hey baby what’s your bacon-erdos-aella number” is a completely valid pickup line in sf

I’m Bacon 3, Erdos ♾️, Epstein 2. Aella ? .

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qdot

@buttplug.engineer

“hey baby what’s your bacon-erdos-aella number” is a completely valid pickup line in sf

George Pearkes@peark.es

If anyone ever tells me my Aella number I’m going to stroll into traffic.

futurism.comCEO of Palantir Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated WomenPalantir CEO Alex Karp said AI would disrupt "humanities trained" and "Democratic voters" who are largely women.

Hey, that's sexist. Also, come on. futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Kieran Healy

@kjhealy.co

A corollary of the King & Worthington peer review paper is that “by every measure we could construct” (e.g. fidelity of recall, ability to summarize, etc) AIs are better than people at *reading* papers, too. This suits the very large class of academics who don’t really want their papers to be read.

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Adam Bonica

@adambonica.bsky.social

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

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Nolan Hicks

@ndhapple.bsky.social

Bring 👏 back 👏 the 👏 Mini!

The Verge@theverge.com

The Duo is thick and heavy. You will feel its weight every time you read an email, scroll Instagram, or put it in your pocket. It is a dense phone, and after a week with the Duo, my 13 Mini feels almost comically light. Like, can this be a real phone? Surely not.

theverge.comNo, the iPhone Duo isn’t a small phoneBring back the Mini, you cowards.

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Geoff Brumfiel

@gbrumfiel.bsky.social

I'm sorry wut? Bigelow Aerospace was doing UFO analysis for the Pentagon between 2008 and 2010?! www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

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Stephen Jacob Smith

@stephenjacobsmith.com

Here are the password criteria for NYSIF, the state's official disability/paid family leave insurer. Your password MUST contain a special character, but CANNOT contain a special character.