- Japan’s sushi legend Jiro Ono turns 100 and is not ready for retirement
- Wait. What? College golfer aces same hole twice in one day!
- Feisty Otters Are Once Again Hijacking Surfboards in Santa Cruz
- “When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.” – via Joe Hanson
- Like the HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, researchers say some AI models may be developing their own survival drive, seeming to resist being turned off and even sabotaging their own shutdown.
- New to me: Italian time
- The average energy bar is anywhere from 6 to 15 times more expensive per calorie than a good ol’ PB&J.
- Hoo boy. Care to read about how chatfishing has made finding love on dating apps even weirder? – via kottke
- “[On] Sunday, [October 26, 2025,] the [New York] Times had more column-inches dedicated to urging readers to gamble on football than to China’s control of rare-earths minerals.” – via TMQ
Some good reasons to vote:
- Before [POTUS], and Before the Young Republicans, There Was the Dartmouth Review – via my dad
- [I] really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. [W]e’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it. – via Marisa Kabas
- As improbable as it had seemed just minutes ago, it now appeared that I really was texting with interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan. [See also: New York AG Letitia James pleads not guilty to mortgage fraud charges]
- “the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections [to] the world’s most notorious human trafficking pedophile” is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese – via ryan cooper