Jon Evans
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engineer / novelist, occasional journalist / CTO / archivist / peripatetist; see https://rezendi.com/
This looks like a fun list indeed: "tip sheets from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference"
gijc2025.org/tipsheets/
gijc2025.org/tipsheets/
Tipsheets
Tipsheets from the GIJC25 Conference.
gijc2025.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This looks like a fun list indeed: "tip sheets from the Global Investigative Journalism Conference"
gijc2025.org/tipsheets/
gijc2025.org/tipsheets/
"In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore ... There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles." archive.is/1IrZf
archive.is
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"In medical research, there’s a practice of ending a study early when the results are too striking to ignore ... There’s a public health imperative to quickly expand the adoption of autonomous vehicles." archive.is/1IrZf
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Tonight's sunset behind San Francisco Financial District, taken from Emeryville, California.
#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin
#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin
December 3, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Tonight's sunset behind San Francisco Financial District, taken from Emeryville, California.
#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin
#sunset #nature #eastcoastkin
I am baffled by #s 9 and 10, and haven't seen #7, but otherwise this is a solid list. (I would replace those three with SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, UNDER THE SKIN, and HOLY MOTORS, but I'm weird) variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Quentin Tarantino Names ‘Black Hawk Down’ the Best Movie of the 21st Century; His Top 10 Includes ‘Dunkirk,’ ‘Toy Story 3,’ ‘Zodiac’ and More
Quentin Tarantino has named his favorite movies of the 21st century so far, from 'Black Hawk Down' to 'Toy Story 3,' 'Dunkirk,' 'Zodiac' and more.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I am baffled by #s 9 and 10, and haven't seen #7, but otherwise this is a solid list. (I would replace those three with SORRY TO BOTHER YOU, UNDER THE SKIN, and HOLY MOTORS, but I'm weird) variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
I do in fact stay awake at night sometimes thinking about how the MAGA ghouls are destroying actually-essential counterterrorism efforts in favor of directing resources towards brutalizing elderly taco truck workers
NEW: Oregon could lose nearly $18 million worth of terrorism prevention and emergency funding.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
In the past, the money has paid for bomb detectors, law enforcement training and barriers that prevent cars from plowing into crowds.
December 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Yeah, one of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure fails to prevent a major terrorist attack and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
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Only five hours left on the Goodreads giveaway for Trace Elements. 2483 people have signed up for the chance to win, which does feel like people want it, which is great!
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025. From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groun...
www.goodreads.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Only five hours left on the Goodreads giveaway for Trace Elements. 2483 people have signed up for the chance to win, which does feel like people want it, which is great!
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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It's the most wonderful time of the year.
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
It's the most wonderful time of the year.
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I've seen deals you people wouldn't believe. Delivery trucks on fire off the shoulder of Best Buy. I watched C-notes glitter in the dark near the Target Superstore. All those bargains will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to shop.
Cyber Monday is here and deals are going fast! These deals are diaphanous. They are receding even as we speak, becoming mere memories of deals, prices longed for but lost, hints at what could have been had for less. A golden slant of sun through window falls on an empty countertop. Act now.
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I've seen deals you people wouldn't believe. Delivery trucks on fire off the shoulder of Best Buy. I watched C-notes glitter in the dark near the Target Superstore. All those bargains will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to shop.
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Physicians and academics often believe that they/we are immune to being radicalised online, but the reality is the opposite. No one is immune, and I saw this happen to Prasad and so many other physicians and academics when covid started. It’s pure hubris to believe anyone is immune.
Prasad is exhibit A of Twitter brain. Someone needs to do a detailed case report tracking his decline from reasonable skeptic of high price oncology drugs with questionable outcomes to COVID mask skeptic to full on vaccine skeptic. It was all in plain site on Twitter, and a hell of thing to see.
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Physicians and academics often believe that they/we are immune to being radicalised online, but the reality is the opposite. No one is immune, and I saw this happen to Prasad and so many other physicians and academics when covid started. It’s pure hubris to believe anyone is immune.
This is the golden age of railway travel: you can ride
- Bangkok to Kunming and on to Shanghai live-less-ordinary.com/bangkok-to-c...
- into Kashmir, for the first time www.economist.com/interactive/...
- they're even relaunching the Orient Express, albeit as a ridiculously expensive superluxe route
- Bangkok to Kunming and on to Shanghai live-less-ordinary.com/bangkok-to-c...
- into Kashmir, for the first time www.economist.com/interactive/...
- they're even relaunching the Orient Express, albeit as a ridiculously expensive superluxe route
The world’s most audacious railway project
A gravity-defying bridge now links India with the disputed Kashmir Valley. But locals are wary of its implications
www.economist.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This is the golden age of railway travel: you can ride
- Bangkok to Kunming and on to Shanghai live-less-ordinary.com/bangkok-to-c...
- into Kashmir, for the first time www.economist.com/interactive/...
- they're even relaunching the Orient Express, albeit as a ridiculously expensive superluxe route
- Bangkok to Kunming and on to Shanghai live-less-ordinary.com/bangkok-to-c...
- into Kashmir, for the first time www.economist.com/interactive/...
- they're even relaunching the Orient Express, albeit as a ridiculously expensive superluxe route
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Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary:
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”
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"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
"Never spread the lie in the headline" should be a hard rule of 21st century journalism.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
Research shows that repeating lies helps to spread them, and people read headlines more than they read stories.
I mean, this has long obviously been the loophole that Gödel spotted in the US constitution
Right, the answer to the question “can the president issue a valid pardon for the assassins he sent to successfully kill the Congress that was impeaching him” has to be no or the underlying structure of the Constitution makes no sense
i think that we should charge even people who have been pardoned, because there is no conceivable way the founders intended the pardon power to permit the executive to order people to commit crimes and then pardon them for them
November 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I mean, this has long obviously been the loophole that Gödel spotted in the US constitution
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I've had similar experiences both in MFA and community-based classes. What used to not require teaching--punctuating dialogue and other manuscript formatting--shifted to requiring it in 2022 and now I have to go over it every week, and to no avail.
We're seeing possibly the worst attendance in history. Even in creative writing classes, where students generally want to participate and have their voice heard--they're not showing up, ignoring guidelines and feedback, and either describing expectations as "unclear" or simply refusing to comply.
November 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I've had similar experiences both in MFA and community-based classes. What used to not require teaching--punctuating dialogue and other manuscript formatting--shifted to requiring it in 2022 and now I have to go over it every week, and to no avail.
☀️“a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.”☀️ www.cnbc.com/2025/11/29/a...
Airbus A320 recall disrupts global travel after glitch linked to solar flares
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said in a directive that a JetBlue flight on Oct. 30 experienced an "uncommanded and limited pitch down event."
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:36 AM
☀️“a recent event involving an A320 Family aircraft has revealed that intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical to the functioning of flight controls.”☀️ www.cnbc.com/2025/11/29/a...
Now this is goth.
Actors can be nuts, man. A dude (André Tchaikowsky) left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company to play Yorick in future productions. No one felt comfortable doing it until David Tennant played Hamlet.
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Now this is goth.
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"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
📃✍️💥👀
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It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
📃✍️💥👀
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The "AI eats water" moral panic is really something. This is not a thing! There are many reasonable concerns and criticisms one can aim at AI--but not this! Yet people are *convinced* they *know* AI will consume our precious bodily fluids, sorry, potable water. (See: www.nanaimo.ca/NewsReleases... )
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The "AI eats water" moral panic is really something. This is not a thing! There are many reasonable concerns and criticisms one can aim at AI--but not this! Yet people are *convinced* they *know* AI will consume our precious bodily fluids, sorry, potable water. (See: www.nanaimo.ca/NewsReleases... )
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happy regular-day to all non-americans
November 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
happy regular-day to all non-americans
"And yet even with samples from vastly different time periods, we identify pure Neanderthal and Denisovan individuals over and over in the cave, rather than witnessing the emergence of a new Neandersovan hybrid population." www.razibkhan.com/p/the-cave-w...
The cave where it happened: Denisova cavern’s congress of ancient peoples
A second high-coverage Denisovan genome holds a mirror up to our own lineage
www.razibkhan.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"And yet even with samples from vastly different time periods, we identify pure Neanderthal and Denisovan individuals over and over in the cave, rather than witnessing the emergence of a new Neandersovan hybrid population." www.razibkhan.com/p/the-cave-w...
OK this is amazing tabloid.vercel.app
Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language
Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.
tabloid.vercel.app
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
OK this is amazing tabloid.vercel.app
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Just four days left in the Goodreads giveaway for Trace Elements! Sign up for a chance to win a copy! Also, why not pre-order it now from your favourite place to buy books, so you can be surprised and delighted to get it when it comes out on March 24th, 2026!
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Book giveaway for Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy by Jo Walton Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025
Enter to win one of 50 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Nov 10-Dec 01, 2025. From two of the most acclaimed writers in the field today, a groun...
www.goodreads.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just four days left in the Goodreads giveaway for Trace Elements! Sign up for a chance to win a copy! Also, why not pre-order it now from your favourite place to buy books, so you can be surprised and delighted to get it when it comes out on March 24th, 2026!
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
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“They should do it the right way”
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“They should do it the right way”
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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The more that gerrymandering tries to squeeze more seats out a fixed pool of voters by lowering expected margins of victory, the more vulnerable it becomes to a wave in which the expectations are upset. There are self-interested reasons why many Republican incumbents haven't wanted to redistrict.
This race is close and, given how much Democrats outperformed the polls a few weeks ago, a win is actually possible.
But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.
But even a narrow loss in a gerrymandered district Trump won by 22 points last year would be a sign of significant progress.
Emerson poll | 11/22-11/24 LV
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
Tennessee’s 7th congressional special election (Trump +22)
(Leaners pushed)
🟥Matt Van Epps 49.4%
🟦Aftyn Behn 47.0%
Others 3.5%
emersoncollegepolling.com/tennessee-7t...
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The more that gerrymandering tries to squeeze more seats out a fixed pool of voters by lowering expected margins of victory, the more vulnerable it becomes to a wave in which the expectations are upset. There are self-interested reasons why many Republican incumbents haven't wanted to redistrict.