Posts tagged “guns”

• If you can’t get excited about Jack Black as Steve, you really need to spend more time interacting with elementary school children.
• We need to work on bringing the phrase, “the whole megillah,” back into regular use. I feel like abandoning this wonderful expression was a bad idea, even though I’ll freely admit that I thought it was spelled “magilla” until about ten minutes ago.
• I have started listening to the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast and really love it. Of course, the three episodes I’ve heard so far were ones featuring interviews with Harrison Ford, Tom Hanks, and Jeff Goldblum, three of my favorite actors, so my opinion may be biased. But all three had me laughing out loud at one point or another and it’s nice to hear Conan’s voice again.
• A month after the death of his mother, Tiger Woods says he’s recovering after surgery to repair a ruptured Achilles, likely ending his 2025 season.
• An 11-year-old boy who pulled the Paul Skenes MLB Debut Patch card will likely sell it for more money than Skenes will make from his 2025 Pirates base salary. – via @jacksongagne.com
• Tim Walz to launch national tour of town halls in Republican House districts. (Go get ’em, Tim!)
• Madness:
  • The Pentagon Keeps Pouring Cash Into Golf Courses – Even As [Administration] Slashes Government Spending
  • USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers
  • Department of Justice Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson‘s Gun Rights
  • Pete Hegseth is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul of the judge advocate general’s corps as part of an effort to make the US military less restricted by the laws of armed conflict. – via @jamellebouie.net
  • NIH officials have urged scientists to remove all references to mRNA vaccine technology from their grant applications in a move that signaled the agency might abandon a promising field of medical research. – via @kwcollins.bsky.social

• New jazz fellowship honors the genre’s elders and gives them each an unrestricted $100,000 grant. – via @phillewis.bsky.social
• Welcome to Chicken Town presents exactly what its URL says it does. – via @erikahall.bsky.social
• Thomas Perry is likely the strongest player in the 2025 NFL Draft. You’ve probably never heard of him.
• While the individual accumulation of wealth offers an illusion of safety, does it simply create more instability and insecurity in the long run?
• After Pressure from Georgia Senator Ossoff, White House Restores Funding for HBCU Students Studying Agriculture
• College Football 25 broke video game records. Can EA Sports keep everyone happy?
• You Have No Rights
• Good News for People Who Love Bad News
  • Once social security checks stop showing up, millions of Americans will finally understand the scope.
  • After All This
  • The Environmental Protection Agency will move to reverse its 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare — a step that would threaten most major climate regulations and make it harder for future presidents to enact new ones. – via @vanhollen.senate.gov
  • “You’re not going to like what I’m saying next, but we are in the middle of a totalitarian fascist coup in this country.” – via @anildash.com
  • FDA Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots
  • It IS Happening Here
  • The White House on Wednesday denied reporters from Reuters and other news organizations access to [the administration’s] first cabinet meeting.
  • It seems almost unavoidable that we are headed for a deep, deep recession.

• Jumblie is yet another fun little word game you can add to your morning routine of Wordle, Connections, &c.
• The appeal to nature fallacy is not a viable healthcare strategy. Sometimes “all natural” is far better, but other times nature tries to kill us. – via @kmpanthagani.bsky.social
• Matthew Green wrote a post about how AI will interface with end-to-end encryption. TL;DR: Maybe not so well! – via @matthewdgreen.bsky.social
• Related: Another day, another horrific and troubling example of AI going wrong – via @emily.space
• Related: Scientists covered a robot finger in living human skin.
• Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately those who do study history are also involuntarily dragged along for the ride.
• In college a friend suggested I read The Myth Adventure series by Robert Asprin. At the time it had been almost a decade since I’d read The Hobbit and the rest of Tolkien, and I thoroughly enjoyed returning to stories of dragons and wizards and swords. It looks like they’re no longer being published, but if you’re into that sort of tale, I’m sure you can find them used somewhere.

Good Lord, that last paragraph. – via @joshtpm

Every parent in the US who sends their kids to school knows that they are playing a lottery – today could be the day that their kid is shot. It could happen anywhere, any time. There’s no safe place.
It’s utterly, utterly fucking insane that we live like this.
@drvolts