The writer and digital rights activist coined the term 'enshittifcation' to describe the deterioration of the internet and it caught…
From: Mano Singham
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
pro-AI post, haters don't comment. but if you're having an open-minded moment, it could be interesting for you to read.…
From: Life's a Gas
Defense Expert Dunc commented in an earlier post of mine, with a link to an article that we both find…
From: Stderr
The Probability Broach, chapter 12 Over lunch, Ed and Win Bear are debating the merits of their respective governmental systems.…
From: Daylight Atheism
between the boards is where the roaches dwell. i suppose they were named cockroaches due to an affinity for chicken…
From: Life's a Gas
hey howzabout the weather. purty wet 'round these parts, i tell you whut. maybe not rainin' cats and dogs, nay,…
From: Life's a Gas
I'm going to shovel out some opinions, here, and I will not be bothering (entirely) to support them with references…
From: Stderr
My last two AI posts were not meant to evangelize, just preface to this post, in which I talk about…
From: Life's a Gas
The Probability Broach, chapter 12 Win and Ed have one lead to follow up on: the university researcher, Dr. Thorens,…
From: Daylight Atheism
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
One of the things that sometimes frustrates me about AI is that they are constantly being tweaked and adjusted, so…
From: Stderr
Back in the day, when I was writing papers, it was a grueling, demanding process. I'd spend hours in the…
From: Pharyngula
Here's a taste of what some apparently consider a persuasive argument. One minute after you die you will be either…
From: Pharyngula
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
It's as if America wasn't the paradise the Right tries to tell us. A Gallup poll shows that a lot…
From: Pharyngula
They have new policies for their university. Courses at Texas A&M University System schools that “advocate race or gender ideology…
From: Pharyngula
Making alliterated titles was a fun (for me) exercise, but I do not think I would be able to keep…
From: Affinity
Defense Expert Dunc commented in an earlier post of mine, with a link to an article that we both find…
From: Stderr
I've got all these spiders getting to a size where fruit flies don't cut it anymore, and unfortunately, my mealworm…
From: Pharyngula
Little Marco Rubio has taken decisive action and ended an oppressive policy. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday…
From: Pharyngula
Ways of Seeing (1972), John Berger Episode 1-4 | Video, 2 hours, via - An old television show, talking about…
From: A Trivial Knot
The Algorithm keeps throwing articles and videos about this bad essay that was written by OU student Samantha Fulnecky. I…
From: Pharyngula
Got a new rug for my office…actually, it's an old rug, used to be in our bedroom, it got relocated…
From: Pharyngula
By now, I have become familiar with the signs that something that I receive via the phone or text or…
From: Mano Singham
The science and math party is on Monday, and I had to figure out what to bring. I don't want…
From: Pharyngula
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
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
To me the answer is 'no' but the title of this post was suggested by this essay by Philip Goff,…
From: Mano Singham
edit to add: oh yeah, pro-AI post, usual warning. In an effort to see how effective AI writers can be,…
From: Life's a Gas
pro-AI post, haters don't comment. but if you're having an open-minded moment, it could be interesting for you to read.…
From: Life's a Gas
Defense Expert Dunc commented in an earlier post of mine, with a link to an article that we both find…
From: Stderr
The colony has expanded just a little bit: all new, roomier containers for the largest of the black widows. The…
From: Pharyngula
The fossil fuel industry likes to make out that it is a pipe dream to think that we can completely…
From: Mano Singham
Remember this guy? A local chiropractor put up signs all around town touting "The Cancer Cure" (but taking care not…
From: Pharyngula
I know that a pile of bones of Tyrannosaurus or Triceratops gets all the attention and popular press, but what…
From: Pharyngula
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
Among my friends, many of them complain of problems with sleep, either falling asleep or getting up after sleeping for…
From: Mano Singham
We just struggled to figure out how to put fitted sheets on a split-top bed, so I'm too tired to…
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
The stories of brutality and violations of people rights by the thugs that now make up the Immigration and Customs…
From: Mano Singham
One of the messages of doom that were widely broadcast about what might happen should Zohran Mamdani win the mayoral…
From: Mano Singham
It is fair-minded in pointing out that while Minnesota has done a poor job of preventing fraud, it doesn't justify…
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
[caption id="attachment_78183" align="alignright" width="150"] He looks like a genuine American Psycho[/caption] Joe Lonsdale. He's emblematic of the problems of the…
From: Pharyngula
This time, at Brown University. It's deja vu all over again. For some of the students, this was their second…
From: Pharyngula
pro-AI post, haters don't comment. but if you're having an open-minded moment, it could be interesting for you to read.…
From: Life's a Gas
In an earlier post, I wrote about how I enjoyed sleeping. But clearly I am a mere piker in this…
From: Mano Singham
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani upset the political establishment by winning the mayoralty of New York City but now comes along…
From: Mano Singham
Commenter Dunc pointed me to a long but fascinating article by Edward Zitron titled The Era Of The Business Idiot…
From: Mano Singham
The fossil fuel industry likes to make out that it is a pipe dream to think that we can completely…
From: Mano Singham
Trump is using the power of presidential pardons not as they were intended to be used, to correct perceived miscarriages…
From: Mano Singham
The right-wingers are fighting among themselves again, inspired by Hegseth's bombing of boats. Claire Lehmann, the terrible racist founder of…
From: Pharyngula