Again, I got tempted into making a post about AI shit, and I don't want that to be my most…
From: Life's a Gas
Horror auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa seems to like the name Harue. Prominent characters in at least two of his movies have…
From: Life's a Gas
I was fully intending to fuck off the blog until next year, but kept thinking of things I want to…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 13 Win Bear's appearance in the North American Confederacy has proven that the Probability Broach works.…
From: Daylight Atheism
pro-AI post. haters don't interact. thx. Labor-saving technology should be the friend of labor. Obviously, the bosses will just use…
From: Life's a Gas
content warning: i mention one of the worst things ever in animal cruelty and human nastiness, mutilation and death. I…
From: Life's a Gas
Didja know A Song of Ice and Fire by George "Rail Road" Martinson inspired a bunch of ripoff titles, prominently…
From: Life's a Gas
Much has been written in tribute about Rob Reiner after the brutal murder of him and his wife Michele. Rob…
From: Mano Singham
There was an interesting article in the August 11, 2025 issue of The New Yorker about the pain that can…
From: Mano Singham
in honor of the newest moral panic about a thing that is being blamed for suicides, a look back at…
From: Life's a Gas
I think I'm trapped at home today -- I tried walking to work, and didn't get beyond my driveway, because…
From: Pharyngula
I've been watching the trainwreck named Avi Loeb for a while now, and it's become obvious that he's shredding his…
From: Pharyngula
I keep seeing lies about biology like this on social media. This is all wrong. [caption id="attachment_78186" align="aligncenter" width="500"] A…
From: Pharyngula
Defense Expert Dunc commented in an earlier post of mine, with a link to an article that we both find…
From: Stderr
I'm going to shovel out some opinions, here, and I will not be bothering (entirely) to support them with references…
From: Stderr
You may have noticed (I hope, actually!) that my last posting sounds like it was written with the assistance of…
From: Stderr
I'll be teaching cell biology next fall. Should I be worried? [caption id="attachment_78123" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Little girl: Sings "Jesus loves…
From: Pharyngula
Sometimes, students earn a failing grade. I hand back essays or exams with zeroes on them, and inform students that…
From: Pharyngula
I'm sure you've noticed how creationists only want to talk about their perceived flaws in evolutionary theory, but never about…
From: Pharyngula
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the continuing trend toward a secular future, in America…
From: Daylight Atheism
I am becoming increasingly concerned whenever I see the word 'influencer' associated with someone on the internet. It is a…
From: Mano Singham
I have a new column this week on OnlySky about the effect of abortion bans. They don't decrease abortion -…
From: Daylight Atheism
Heated Rivalry is an M/M hockey romance TV series based on the book of the same name. It's some sort…
From: A Trivial Knot
I have a new column this week on OnlySky. It's about the prospect of marriage going extinct, whether it can…
From: Daylight Atheism
I'm not in favor of assassinations; I'm especially not fond of sloppy wet work. Fortunately I'm not in that business,…
From: Stderr
Wait, what? There's a Riley Gaines Center? Meanwhile, the Leadership Institute, a nearly 50-year-old nonprofit that trains conservative activists, launched…
From: Pharyngula
Incels and misogynists seem to have missed out on a lot of genetics, so they freely make it up as…
From: Pharyngula
Rebecca Watson. The context: it's because Lawrence Krauss was getting clobbered by Watson over his abuses, and he wrote to…
From: Pharyngula
The insufferably pompous, arrogant, and sexist former president of Harvard University has been forced to withdraw from many of his…
From: Mano Singham
I have not written much about the Epstein files and the recently released trove of emails between Jeffrey Epstein and…
From: Mano Singham
There is an enduring appeal to encyclopedias.The ability to look up information that has been prepared by credible sources on…
From: Mano Singham
We woke up this morning to the moaning of the wind, and I decided to just stay in bed a…
From: Pharyngula
Being a lexicographer compiling dictionaries in the internet age can be viewed as both exciting, because of all the new…
From: Mano Singham
I decided to stock up on honey this year, so I contacted my friend and former colleague, who is a…
From: Affinity
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From: Mano Singham
It's time for my traditional holiday activities. I have to cycle the fruit fly stocks. I need to feed the…
From: Pharyngula
Last night, I was going to clean up a junk drawer in my office -- you know, one of those…
From: Pharyngula
It's unpleasantly cold this morning, and I was reminded of this old photo from the early years of the 20th…
From: Pharyngula
There have been a lot of health problems and difficulties in our household this fall, a lot of stress. Usually…
From: Life's a Gas
I did not have a chance to take a bird picture for a long time, so I fumbled a bit…
From: Affinity
The University of Oklahoma has made an announcement about the Samantha Fulnecky affair. It's the wrong one. [caption id="attachment_78226" align="aligncenter"…
From: Pharyngula
In these days of relentlessly depressing news, a good comedy comes as a welcome relief and this is such a…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_77735" align="alignright" width="130"] Dumbass[/caption] I don't think she should graduate from college until she passes a basic English literacy…
From: Pharyngula
A reader sent me a comment about how Catholics tell stories that they claim are in the Bible that aren't,…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_77649" align="alignright" width="150"] Chopping it all down[/caption] I had a nightmarish realization last night -- that American education was…
From: Pharyngula
We all know of and despise Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Oklahoma. He's a Christo-Fascist of the…
From: Pharyngula
As regular readers know, I play the card game bridge and recently I happened to look at some aspects of…
From: Mano Singham
Joseph Ladapo is the surgeon general for the state of Florida and is a vaccine skeptic who recently announced plans…
From: Mano Singham
I've been pretty blithe in my attempts to make people feel less doomy, and PZ did call me out on…
From: Life's a Gas
I was in the parking lot of home despot, when I saw this sign at a distance. Initially I thought…
From: Life's a Gas
There is an enduring appeal to encyclopedias.The ability to look up information that has been prepared by credible sources on…
From: Mano Singham
This isn't exactly a pro-AI post, it's more of an anti-human post, because I'm annoyed that otherwise clever people can…
From: Life's a Gas
I've outlined how LLMs work, how they differ from Markov chains but also what they have in common. I've demonstrated that…
From: Reprobate Spreadsheet
This is Prinerigone vagans. I've never seen one -- that's a European species. I have seen other Linyphiidae in my…
From: Pharyngula
pro-AI post. haters don't interact. thx. Labor-saving technology should be the friend of labor. Obviously, the bosses will just use…
From: Life's a Gas
Today was the day I planned to start breeding my spiders. I have a group of definitely female black widows…
From: Pharyngula
I am becoming increasingly concerned whenever I see the word 'influencer' associated with someone on the internet. It is a…
From: Mano Singham
There was an interesting article in the August 11, 2025 issue of The New Yorker about the pain that can…
From: Mano Singham
I'm just trying to help the AI out. I think it's time Guenevir had a lover.
From: Pharyngula
Chuck Wendig is a well-known author, and unsurprisingly, people are curious about him. He's the subject of various harmless inquiries,…
From: Pharyngula
There is an enduring appeal to encyclopedias.The ability to look up information that has been prepared by credible sources on…
From: Mano Singham
Much has been written in tribute about Rob Reiner after the brutal murder of him and his wife Michele. Rob…
From: Mano Singham
Consider this: ICE agents smashed in a car window in Minneapolis, and dragged a pregnant woman through the snow and…
From: Pharyngula
The writer and digital rights activist coined the term 'enshittifcation' to describe the deterioration of the internet and it caught…
From: Mano Singham
In an earlier post, I wrote about how I enjoyed sleeping. But clearly I am a mere piker in this…
From: Mano Singham
If you've noticed that I'm posting less, it's the timing: my sabbatical is ending, I'm getting ready to plunge back…
From: Pharyngula
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani upset the political establishment by winning the mayoralty of New York City but now comes along…
From: Mano Singham
He's always been this revoltingly racist, but somehow he got elected, because a lot of the citizenry are revoltingly racist.…
From: Pharyngula
Commenter Dunc pointed me to a long but fascinating article by Edward Zitron titled The Era Of The Business Idiot…
From: Mano Singham
Worst president ever. Mr. President, thank you. Um, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Frey, is saying that he's actually proud…
From: Pharyngula
There is an enduring appeal to encyclopedias.The ability to look up information that has been prepared by credible sources on…
From: Mano Singham
You're not convincing me that I should get out of my American bubble, UK. What's this I hear? You might…
From: Pharyngula
I just assumed that since the US government has been such an overwhelming shitshow, it was distracting us from the…
From: Pharyngula
It has long been the case, probably since the end World War II which saw the emergence of the US…
From: Mano Singham
I don't think I've ever heard this right-wing freak, Benny Johnson, speak before, but he spoke at a TPUSA conference…
From: Pharyngula
PZ wrote a good summary of CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulling the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT because the White…
From: The Bolingbrook Babbler
I'm instantly suspicious of conspiracy theories, typically because believing in them requires some degree of confidence in the competence of…
From: Pharyngula
I was not in the least surprised that the release of the Epstein files was limited and consisted of heavily…
From: Mano Singham
That's just the start, everyone in this rotten administration should follow. Wait, no, I can't recommend following any of the…
From: Pharyngula
I am becoming increasingly concerned whenever I see the word 'influencer' associated with someone on the internet. It is a…
From: Mano Singham