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Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Julie K. Brown at the Miami Herald is still doing the heavy lifting on keeping the story alive. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Solar has overtaken nuclear. A decade ago it supplied 1% of the world's power. In 2025 it met three quarters of global demand growth. Almost nobody saw it coming. I spoke to Jocelyn Timperley at BBC Future about why. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

Finally watching Korean film ‘Hope’. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hope_2026

In what other industry aside from software could you say “our product is a danger to society, but that just shows how versatile and capable it is!”

This cartoon has been living in my head for at least fifty years. A few years back I found a copy of it in some cartoon museum. That link seems to be gone now, but today seemed like a good time to repost it.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Catch up on our latest episode with Comedians @larrywillmore.bsky.social & Rosebud Baker! Available to stream NOW on CNN.

The Democratic Party should change their logo to a pic of Jared Polis. It would be fitting since he has made an ass out of himself by commuting the sentence of Tina Peters.

Just finished Hereditary. Holy fuck.

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

Bsky “suggested” Hillary for me and I felt so ‘seen’.

“the money Amazon makes from payola exceeds the advertising revenue received by all the newspapers in the world by 300%.” @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy pluralistic.net/2026/09/04/c...

“Don’t let them tell you it’s too late. They just want all our water and to do creepy surveillance shit and sniff our underwear or whatever it is climate deniers do with their spare time.”

Distributed. ‘the storage systems are further connected to a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform to participate in demand response & power spot market trading, exploring a new pathway for C&I energy storage to evolve from standalone energy cost optimization toward diversified energy value creation’

On August 31st, 2026 an ICE agent tried driving through the crowd and rammed a woman, running over her leg outside of Delaney Hall during a Prayer Vigil. Footage from this via Casey Kinward

Another day, another heat advisory. Like can somebody do something.

This is the single biggest physics discovery of my entire lifetime. Or something's wrong with one of the cables. One of the two

My goodness, what a cute but sleepy boi

TUMMY. Photo from my collection, 1968.

A man died in ICE custody due to neglect of his leukemia. Gary Indiana has no power & water sources are contaminated — people with electric stoves have no way to boil it. These are told as separate stories but they’re the same fact of death by neglect written in different fonts.

Sam Altman is starting to look like a younger Cigarette Smoking Man from the X-Files.

As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings. (Published Dec. 2025)

Mandatory Joy is a natural outgrowth of toxic positivity.

Wtf is this AI Japanese soldier doing as a graphic about health

FACT CHECK Due to the $1 million donation, they’re actually pocketing $2.199 billion

🚨TWITCH is using your account to train Amazon's AI by default 🚨 TO OPT OUT: Turn it off by going to www.twitch.tv/settings/sec... It's hidden all the way at the bottom.

Treasury Rolls Back Ownership Reporting Obligations for U.S. Companies www.occrp.org/en/news/trea...

deliberate deliteracy, further, being one massive support for the project of alienation via dissociation from the conditions of production, whether that be of goods, narrative, or reality. shatter any source of identity till all that’s left is post-traumatic self-soothing among the fragments

This statement from Codeberg maintainers, after their community voted to not use any code for LLM training and banned vibe-coded projects, is really good. blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...

This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot

Most moral army.