- 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
Posts tagged “otters”
- T-shirt Worn by Taylor Swift Sparks a $2M Windfall for Sea Otters
- “It turns out playing God is neither difficult nor expensive,” is the catchy lede of this article on editing genes with CRISPR, Editing Nature To Fix Our Failures, that everyone I follow has already posted.
- Got a few hours to kill? Check out the Space Exploration Logo Archive. – via kottke
- Imagine getting burned by the Pope.
- Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents
- Score one for the good guys: Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules
- Research on 6,000 older adults reveals that optimistic people are up to 50% less likely to develop weak grip strength and lose mobility.
- Any golfer should be able to relate to this essay by Gabby Herzig: I made a 12 during the biggest golf tournament of my life. Here’s what I learned.
- Who doesn’t love a good story about a cursed Egyptian mummy? (Related: The Met is having its first Egyptian exhibit in over a decade.)
- It’s just tech, everything doesn’t have to become some weird religion that you beat people over the head with, or gamble the entire stock market on. – from The Majority AI View, a fantastic essay by Anil Dash.
The beatings will continue until morale improves:
- Top US Army general says he’s using ChatGPT to help make key command decisions
- There is a special place in hell for those who use children as pawns in their quest for power.
- I don’t understand why the headline on this article about a convicted felon isn’t simply Maliciously Incompetent, Aggressively Ignorant, Lying Buffoon Lies Again.
- North Carolina Elections Chief Demands Voters’ Full Social Security Numbers from DMV
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is perhaps the end of the beginning. – Winston Churchill