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found the craziest map ever on reddit from a guy who co authored a book called “Atlas of Western Prehistory”

Just read that possibly life-containing exoplanet K2-18b is offering tax incentives for film and TV production

Scott Bessent gave comments that massively moved the markets earlier to a private JP Morgan event that wasn't open to the public or the media. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

I like it when things are named in a clear way. "New Mexico" is a good example. It's right there in the name, don't claim you were tricked!

Jamestown (1607), St. Augustine (1565!), and New Mexico (1598) considerably pre-date the Plymouth colony (1620). And New Amsterdam was only trivially later (1625). We should probably teach a "Five Founding Settlements" history, rather than the Plymouth-centric mythos.

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the GOP's proposal to sell 5,200 acres of federal land for a few beads (basically), with no actual goal in mind for the land, is almost too stupid to believe. get your grubby little stubs off my mountain vistas and don't talk to me again until you're ready to build a megacity.

I belatedly caught up on Common Side Effects, a dazzling, confounding mix of animated action thriller, corporate satire, dry buddy comedy, and drug trip, among many other things that shouldn't work together, but do: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…

Selling off America’s priceless Mountain & Desert West for $30 Billion — after “DOGE” was laughed out of Washington for only cutting $130 B — is the same destructive desperation that made the UK sell its Royal Mail & railroads. Tomb looters marked the fall of Ancient Egypt, too.

That expression about a hill to die on won't be an expression if this public land selloff notion goes much further. I can't think of an issue more likely to radicalize and antagonize at an almost primal level a wider swath of westerners. This is a bill for the dumpster.

Why didn’t you call us back from vacation to vote on military action if there was a serious threat to our country?

Google Home device corrected my pronunciation of Cal Tjader

Lillian Gish in Broken Blossoms (1919). While they were making The Shining, Stanley Kubrick had Shelley Duvall watch this scene for inspiration

So the Larry O goes to OKC

These people are so dishonest that the answer just needs to be a flat "NO!" The version 2.0 that is supposedly all about near-urban housing is trying to play the same trick. Sales of public hunting land to adjoining land owners (rich/connected boomers) to exclude the public!

Policy choices with potentially massive consequences (for better or worse) for the energy mix of the country, getting decided by random horse trading to get to the right number of votes. And all mostly being done in order to cut taxes, and to say that something got "done"

as always, there are a million valid answers to “best 30 rock joke” and as always, i will stand on my hill shouting “jerem is the single funniest one episode minor character in television history.” i’ll die on this hill. they’ll bury me on this hill. the tombstone will say JEREM.

This evening, 56 years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, I spoke with the astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Together we shared the memory of a historic feat, a testimony to human ingenuity, and we reflected on the mystery and greatness of Creation.

It's bad that the White House is banning WSJ from the trip -- but I think the bigger scandal is that the president of the United States and his entourage are flying to Scotland on the public's dime so he can "open a new 18-hole golf course at his resort." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

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