Mike Lund

Is Kevin Bacon the center of Hollywood? (Probably not, as this six degrees of separation visualization shows).

Ope, shut down the meme format, this one wins.

Appropriate seeing this today, as I've been waiting all day on a UPS delivery because the thing I ordered weeks ago was delivered to who-knows-where and the seller had to send me a second one. No idea where the first one ended up, but this has gotta stop

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How was Hugh Burden not a screen name?

So I just got a email that's a pitch for podcast services that looks very similar to the iLands AI agent emails I got last month but from a gmail account and without an AI disclosure. All the same beats and style as the AI agent had. I guess this "is that a real human" vibe is Halloweeny?

Still mad about this, and the extent to which this feels like it was avoidable if SoCal Edison had been acting more responsibly. Instead, this states that they weren't spending anything to fix broken risk modeling while millions of dollars in bonuses went to execs www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSgu...

A great documentary from PBS that really highlights just how much Los Angeles pushed to fix its smog issue, leading to improvements far beyond LA Shockingly, it involved corporate interests valuing their aversion to change above doing things that could benefit society www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...

Wild Mouse has the most awesome Halloween version of its logo

I think this has made me respect The Exorcist II a lot more now. Despite that Joe Dante described the opening weekend atmosphere as "palpable sense of betrayal"

I suspect the reason that UPS has a name that is shorter than USPS is because 25% of my packages that are sent via UPS never actually arrive

Dogcatcher xkcd.com/3309/

I had this same experience a little while back trying to find a song based off the lyrics "Why are you haunting me" and got some weird trash response from Google rather than just the search I wanted

Over 1,000 planets have been discovered with data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)! These additions bring the NASA Exoplanet Archive's total confirmed planet count to 6,445 🪐 Read more here: www.ipac.caltech.edu/news/more-th... 🔭

Incidentally... for the curious: the reason ended up being that one 1 was a string and one 1 was a number.

I've spent way too much of today trying to track down, ultimately, why it is 1 does not equal 1.

When we keep naming things after people, the opportunities for these are getting smaller and smaller. And where's the fun in that?

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I feel like I shouldn't be learning, this late in the game, that the newest Attack of the Killer Tomatoes movie apparently has John Astin back.

"avoid contact with the eyes" Yeah, i don't need the back of a box to say something to get me to avoid eye contact

I think one of the signs of how society makes no sense is that a company can make a square frozen pizza and then have the audacity to say that it is 5 servings.

More games need personality matrices where it'll just get a feeling of what you're like then take care of dialogue for you rather than constant dialogue choices. Makes the rest of a more relaxing experience for me to focus on the gameplay aspects and storyline. And it's on sale now, too

Always a shame to me when a theme park closes, but I'm glad I had a chance to check out Wild Waves some years back

On point B, the NASA Exoplanet Archive typically serves ~10-20TB of data per month. In July it jumped to 70TB. In August it jumped to 600TB. So either our user base organically grew *30x* in two months (... unlikely), OR the bots have taken over already.

People that think sports superstitions are entirely baseless should do some reading into physics and the observer effect. Sometimes they're just a misapplication of things.

Examinining if the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have the ability to detect the immediate and short-term effects of a concave dish composite beam superlaser being fired at an Earth analog from an alien megastructure. arxiv.org/abs/1703.10432

Are there any motels with a lot of taxidermied animals where it isn't a horribly bad idea to stay there?

A very respectful way for the editor to say that these authors are utterly wasting everybody's time and are destroying trust that holds our research community together

Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers. He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.

"Most men of vast wealth realize that with their millions comes an obligation to society" - Doug Lamont, Dr Kildare's Crisis (1940) Man, old movies had some wild things in them

I got an email from Tubi mentioning how many items are currently on my watchlist, and I have rarely felt quite so judged from an automated email. 502 feels a lot bigger when it's in the subject line

I'm surprised I haven't seen chuck testa memes today

The rate this is suggesting for 2026 hits a point of being hard for me to process: "the fraction of astro-ph papers whose analyzed prose shows a language-model trace reaches 54% in 2025, up from 20% in 2024, and it reaches 87% in the first half of 2026." (errors removed for bluesky readability)

Spent like 5 hours at the Lucas Museum yesterday, and stumbled upon this article today: www.artnews.com/art-news/rev... While I don't fully agree, the core criticism about the lack of context and narrative for the works feels like a validation of how I felt yesterday (though I still enjoyed it)

I think this is a good time to mention the book "No One May Ever Have The Same Knowledge Again: Letters to Mount Wilson Observatory 1915-1935", edited by Sarah Simons, and is a collection of some of the sorts of letters Mt Wilson was getting for two decades (I've only read a few from it)

Tomorrow! See @timtoon.com and I live and in person! Holy shit!

Clearly not my domain (on any count) so I can't assess accuracy, but this does remind me of other examples of people with other knowledge sets can supplement more traditional academia. In this case it's lit meets weaponry. (and I feel he qualifies his theory fairly) www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZx1...

Still slightly surprised that Pirates lasted this long before getting an episode, but at least with the US, the Disneyland one is unequivocally better than Disneyworld one (I rode them both on the same day once)

Listening to the stuff that amazing long-term YT creators are putting up with really provides some insight as to why it also seems so ridiculously difficult to develop a niche on YouTube with a new account/pitch