Im gonna live forever then.
People who listened to music most days slashed their risk of developing dementia by 39 percent compared with those who did not regularly listen to music, a new study of more than 10,000 people age 70 and over found.
Listening to music is linked to lower dementia risk, study suggests
A new study finds that regularly listening to music or playing a musical instrument may help older adults protect against cognitive decline.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Im gonna live forever then.
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Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
October 4, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
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governments put people on the moon before most people on this website, myself included, were even born
private space travel is wasting billions on exploding rockets and ferrying celebrities to the edge of the atmosphere
private space travel is wasting billions on exploding rockets and ferrying celebrities to the edge of the atmosphere
September 25, 2025 at 1:51 AM
governments put people on the moon before most people on this website, myself included, were even born
private space travel is wasting billions on exploding rockets and ferrying celebrities to the edge of the atmosphere
private space travel is wasting billions on exploding rockets and ferrying celebrities to the edge of the atmosphere
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Nicely done, America
brazil’s president lula says he will respond to “tariff blackmail” by pursuing closer ties with brics countries who have become “victims of unjustified and illegal trade practices.”
September 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Nicely done, America
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When every extremism expert and historian on bluesky is telling you not to celebrate political violence, maybe just don’t do it.
September 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
When every extremism expert and historian on bluesky is telling you not to celebrate political violence, maybe just don’t do it.
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How CBS Went From Edward R. Murrow to Installing a Trump Loyalist as Its Journalism Cop www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-wh...
This Is What Institutional Capture Looks Like
CBS News just appointed a Trump donor as its bias monitor, fulfilling a promise made to secure merger approval. The network of Murrow and Cronkite is officially dead.
www.readtpa.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
How CBS Went From Edward R. Murrow to Installing a Trump Loyalist as Its Journalism Cop www.readtpa.com/p/this-is-wh...
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As @johnrogers.bsky.social wisely reminds us: “A fine is a price.”
Wait so I can do bad things but only pay 1% of my "valuation" if I get in trouble?
September 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
As @johnrogers.bsky.social wisely reminds us: “A fine is a price.”
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Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
Brett Kavanaugh says there’s a good reason Supreme Court rulings can sometimes be so cryptic
In remarks to a judicial conference, Kavanaugh also defended Chief Justice John Roberts.
www.politico.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.
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What are we even doing?
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.)
h/t @joshuajfriedman.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
h/t @joshuajfriedman.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Firefighter arrested by US border agents was on track for legal status, lawyers say
Lawyers say arrest of man fighting Bear Gulch fire in Oregon was illegal and demand immediate release from detention
www.theguardian.com
August 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
What are we even doing?
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Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
August 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Question: Why did US put big tariffs on India despite major national interest in cultivating a strategic counterweight to China and trying to isolate Russia?
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
Answer: Because the US president lied that he fixed India-Pakistan and India wouldn’t go along with the lie.
(Seriously, that’s the answer)
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“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
Honoring Ashli Babbitt Dishonors the Military
If there’s no difference between upholding the Constitution and attacking it, then there’s no honor in service.
www.thebulwark.com
August 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.”
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
My latest in @thebulwark.com
www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
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Corporate statism, to quote the WSJ editorial page
August 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Corporate statism, to quote the WSJ editorial page
I don’t have words.
President Donald Trump said that Intel has agreed to give the U.S. government a 10% stake in its business.
President Donald Trump says Intel agreed to give US a stake in its company
President Donald Trump said that Intel has agreed to give the U.S. government a 10% stake in its business.
trib.al
August 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I don’t have words.
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Comrades, the grain harvests are above our five-year targets!
Leavitt confirms that monthly jobs reports may be suspended "until they can get the data and methodology in order"
August 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Comrades, the grain harvests are above our five-year targets!
Nope.
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Nope.
What an immensely tedious movie Weapons is.
August 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
What an immensely tedious movie Weapons is.
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As someone else said, some American company is surely working on a way to automatically triple prices in a natural disaster. "Surge pricing," you know.
August 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
As someone else said, some American company is surely working on a way to automatically triple prices in a natural disaster. "Surge pricing," you know.
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Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
August 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it
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My machine that that doesn’t work, and won’t ever work, but if it could one day work might be of mild interest, has no clear use or audience, and no one will ever pay for it costs $10 billion per quarter to operate. Give me money or you’ll miss out!
So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/o...
August 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
My machine that that doesn’t work, and won’t ever work, but if it could one day work might be of mild interest, has no clear use or audience, and no one will ever pay for it costs $10 billion per quarter to operate. Give me money or you’ll miss out!
Jesus is the new CR song good. Home run after home run.
August 2, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Jesus is the new CR song good. Home run after home run.
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Trump making deals and giving preferential treatment to sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell while she helps cover up his crimes.
August 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Trump making deals and giving preferential treatment to sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell while she helps cover up his crimes.
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Waking up to the news of the Tsunami I was thinking about the Tsunami Museum in Hilo which sees heritage as part of disaster preparedness. How sad to see that it's been hit by the same economic disaster as do many other museums www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/10/p...
Hawaiian tsunami museum fights to stay open amid economic woes
The Hawai'i shoreline fixture is struggling to keep its doors open amid post-pandemic costs
www.theartnewspaper.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Waking up to the news of the Tsunami I was thinking about the Tsunami Museum in Hilo which sees heritage as part of disaster preparedness. How sad to see that it's been hit by the same economic disaster as do many other museums www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/10/p...