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From: Mano Singham
I have a Cardi B song stuck in my head. I like the song, but it just won’t leave me…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
The damn writing events never end in my writing group, wtf. This is part of a postnanopocalyptic restructuring. Since nanowrimo…
From: Great American Satan
This post almost certainly will not be as well-organized as I wish it could be. I feel that the topic…
From: Stderr
Humanism is an idea that, like so many philosophical concepts, is hard to pin down. If asked whether I am…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_4951" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Coffee, designed by Wang Shuo[/caption] A lot of origami paper is colored on the front, and…
From: A Trivial Knot
F. Scott Fitzgerald is often quoted as saying "The rich are not like you and me". He never actually said…
From: Mano Singham
I read Cixin Liu's Hugo-winning novel The Three-Body Problem in 2016. I liked it, but I thought it was unfilmable.…
From: Daylight Atheism
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From: Mano Singham
I amused myself for a short while by adding the word "swole" to AI prompts. The term "swole" is actually…
From: Stderr
She said, the longer you wear a mask, the more unhealthy you get. She thinks vaccines wreck chromosomes. For those…
From: Pharyngula
[caption id="attachment_111" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Screenshot via Catholic Answers[/caption] Catholic Answers, a lay-run apologetics organization, is joining the AI-for-everything fad. In…
From: Daylight Atheism
It's fun to watch religious conservatives grapple with pop culture, because they really don't get it. Today is the goofy…
From: Pharyngula
I have a Cardi B song stuck in my head. I like the song, but it just won’t leave me…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Brian Cox (not the astronomer) is an actor who often plays brusque, rude, loud characters, and he's usually, at least…
From: Pharyngula
Villains love dichotomies. [caption id="attachment_72956" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Bob the Angry Flower[/caption] I am reminded of the way Answers in Genesis…
From: Pharyngula
The last donation I got was epic. My donor didn't expressly forbid me from naming them, but I'll err on…
From: Great American Satan
I had my follow-up appointment on Tuesday from my knee surgery earlier this month. They removed the sutures, but unfortunately,…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I get email from creationists all the time, and it is so discouraging: there are a few people who manage…
From: Pharyngula
Somebody suggested I could meditate for a moment on what it would be like if Loki were behind the mask…
From: Great American Satan
The pressure is enormous. I'm a pretty conventional guy, but all the messaging from the world around me tells me…
From: Pharyngula
Aww, a heartwarming story before the weekend (when I'm going to be neck-deep in grading.) A Russian, Erik Beda, fled…
From: Pharyngula
In one of those meatspace conversations, we were talking about crazy cat ladies, each of us trying to do cursory…
From: A Trivial Knot
Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler are two comedians who call themselves 'The Good Liars' and pull political pranks such as…
From: Mano Singham
Got some gentle sympathies in donation message, but again, barely anyone has been suggesting topics to write about. Makes me…
From: Great American Satan
I've never played Warmhammer, never owned any of the books or models, and I only just today learned something surprising.…
From: Pharyngula
There are many ways to assess the utility of a policy. One way is to simply ask who favors the…
From: Pharyngula
The ruling by the Arizona supreme court that an 1864 law that purportedly bans all abortions even in the case…
From: Mano Singham
I've changed my mind on a couple of things since yesterday. Based on the impression I got from the play…
From: Pharyngula
I keep hearing from anti-trans activists that this major review of the literature on the efficacy of transgender treatments, the…
From: Pharyngula
I have just submitted all of the grades for my Spring 2024 classes. I wish I could say "that is…
From: Pharyngula
I am so excited to be getting rid of these crutches soon! I am no longer in pain and I…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I am going to continue the thread over at [stderr] but I wanted to branch into a side-topic here. [avalus@#10]…
From: Stderr
I have a Cardi B song stuck in my head. I like the song, but it just won’t leave me…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
This is the first day of my summer break. Of course, then, in the middle of the night, the toilet…
From: Pharyngula
I stopped listening to popular music around the mid-1970s or so. While the 60s and early 70s had some great…
From: Mano Singham
If for no other reason than to help them avoid this kind of mistake. Is that how Medicare works? I…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a short blurb promoting a podcast, If Books Could Kill. If Books Could Kill focuses mostly on the impact…
From: Pharyngula
In my previous post, I suggested that there was an inverse correlation between intelligence and wealth. Look! I got another…
From: Pharyngula
There's a twisted, deformed culture of rich capitalists in California who come up with some of the worst ideas and…
From: Pharyngula
I have a Cardi B song stuck in my head. I like the song, but it just won’t leave me…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I had my follow-up appointment on Tuesday from my knee surgery earlier this month. They removed the sutures, but unfortunately,…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
I am both fascinated and disturbed by cults. Fascinated because of my interest in the psychology of the kind of…
From: Mano Singham
Somebody suggested I could meditate for a moment on what it would be like if Loki were behind the mask…
From: Great American Satan
A donation with a topic, fantastic! What is the role of Satan in current American religions? What I want is…
From: Great American Satan
The Washington Post gave a lot of attention to Kali and Joshua Fantanilla today, for reasons I can't comprehend. It's…
From: Pharyngula
It often seems that rich people can break the law with no consequences, but once in a while, you come…
From: Pro-Science
The philosopher Daniel Dennett has recently published a memoir and in a review Matthew Lau accuses him of pursuing a…
From: Mano Singham
The dingbats of Arizona were up to shenanigans recently. Here they are, speaking in tongues before denying women basic health…
From: Pharyngula
My surgery last week was done in a Catholic hospital. I didn’t choose it. It just happened to be one…
From: From the Ashes of Faith
Here you go, just released today. [caption id="attachment_73063" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Spiders of the United States and Canada[/caption] It's not exhaustive,…
From: Pharyngula
I was checking out our compost bin, which is swarming with young juvenile spiders, and what jumped out at me…
From: Pharyngula
I am going to continue the thread over at [stderr] but I wanted to branch into a side-topic here. [avalus@#10]…
From: Stderr
A swarm of Parasteatoda have hatched out in my compost bin, and I've tried a few times to get decent…
From: Pharyngula
Last class today; I'm not giving any finals, but I do have some term papers coming in on Monday evening.…
From: Pharyngula
I read this article, "Where seas are rising at alarming speed", with rising exasperation. Look: the Gulf Coast is slowly…
From: Pharyngula
This post almost certainly will not be as well-organized as I wish it could be. I feel that the topic…
From: Stderr
The director of Infested, Sébastien Vaniček, tells the inside story of making a horror movie about spiders. And, yes, they…
From: Pharyngula
Way back in February, I made a harsh comment about ChatGPT on Mastodon. I teach my writing class today. I'm…
From: Pharyngula
Otherwise, I'd visit this place. I bet it's better than Disney World!
From: Pharyngula
I know that there are sadistic sociopaths out there who delight in the suffering of other people and animals. But…
From: Mano Singham
The mayor of New York City Eric Adams and the police department have used the claim of outside agitators to…
From: Mano Singham
Both the university and the state have an ugly history of racism that they would like to bury. But the…
From: Mano Singham
The widespread campus protests against Israel's assault on Gaza has resulted in some claims that it is driven by antisemitism…
From: Mano Singham
The student protests over what is happening in Gaza have spread all over the country with nearly 2,000 arrests made…
From: Mano Singham
[caption id="attachment_105" align="alignright" width="800"] Columbia students' protest encampment (CC0)[/caption] [Previous: The First Amendment doesn't have an Israel exception] The pro-Palestine…
From: Daylight Atheism
The student protests on college campuses against the horrors taking place in Gaza have been largely peaceful and taken the…
From: Mano Singham
The horrific situation in Gaza where the Israeli government has unleashed a reign of terror on the people there killing…
From: Mano Singham
Dhruv Khullar writes about the differing opinions about how to approach the so-called "'marginal decade' at the end of our…
From: Mano Singham
I wrote yesterday about how the FTC had banned noncompete clauses for all but high-level employees. It is absurd to…
From: Mano Singham
I know that there are sadistic sociopaths out there who delight in the suffering of other people and animals. But…
From: Mano Singham
I have a question to ask regarding current student protests against the genocide in Gaza. Police in the USA is…
From: Affinity
[caption id="attachment_73058" align="alignright" width="150"] Nahlia Al-Arian[/caption] They're a terrifying force of nature. They're so scary that their presence is sufficient…
From: Pharyngula
The mayor of New York City Eric Adams and the police department have used the claim of outside agitators to…
From: Mano Singham
The pressure is enormous. I'm a pretty conventional guy, but all the messaging from the world around me tells me…
From: Pharyngula
I've been listening to arguments in favor of capitalism for at least a couple decades now, since long before I…
From: Oceanoxia
Both the university and the state have an ugly history of racism that they would like to bury. But the…
From: Mano Singham
South Dakota governor Kristi Noem obviously has not heard of the maxim that when you are in a hole, you…
From: Mano Singham
I am going to continue the thread over at [stderr] but I wanted to branch into a side-topic here. [avalus@#10]…
From: Stderr
The widespread campus protests against Israel's assault on Gaza has resulted in some claims that it is driven by antisemitism…
From: Mano Singham