Wm Reddy
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For no particular reason, a photo of a birch tree…
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 AM
For no particular reason, a photo of a birch tree…
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This giant pinecone belongs to the coulter pine! It can be found in California & Mexico. Nicknamed “the widowmaker,” it produces some of the world's largest pinecones—which can weigh ~11 lbs (5 kg) & plummet to the ground with deadly force!
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
December 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
This giant pinecone belongs to the coulter pine! It can be found in California & Mexico. Nicknamed “the widowmaker,” it produces some of the world's largest pinecones—which can weigh ~11 lbs (5 kg) & plummet to the ground with deadly force!
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
Photo: damontighe, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist
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The disinformation campaign which promulgated that HIV was created in a lab was a Soviet/Russian KGB op called Operation Denver, code named INFEKTION.
We’ve known it was fake for decades, and these astoundingly willfully ignorant and incompetent people are still being suckered by them.
We’ve known it was fake for decades, and these astoundingly willfully ignorant and incompetent people are still being suckered by them.
Anyone else find it alarming that the FDA Commissioner is sharing deranged conspiracy theories about HIV coming from a lab and Lyme disease being a bioweapon made by Nazi war criminals in a USDA lab during the Cold War? Just me?
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/commission...
December 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The disinformation campaign which promulgated that HIV was created in a lab was a Soviet/Russian KGB op called Operation Denver, code named INFEKTION.
We’ve known it was fake for decades, and these astoundingly willfully ignorant and incompetent people are still being suckered by them.
We’ve known it was fake for decades, and these astoundingly willfully ignorant and incompetent people are still being suckered by them.
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Artifact from a happier time: Steve in the infinity room installation "Diamond Matrix" by Studio Irma. Moca Museum, Barcelona. October 2023.
December 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Artifact from a happier time: Steve in the infinity room installation "Diamond Matrix" by Studio Irma. Moca Museum, Barcelona. October 2023.
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This is one of the bravest things I've ever seen. The man is a hero.
December 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is one of the bravest things I've ever seen. The man is a hero.
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***UPDATE***
Reported drone strike on Turkish linked ship Viva (IMO 9156539) in black sea. Fottage of the aftermath shows the distinctive four-cylinder engine used in the Russian (/Iranian) Geran (/Shahed) strike drone. Second photo for reference, other way up
Reported drone strike on Turkish linked ship Viva (IMO 9156539) in black sea. Fottage of the aftermath shows the distinctive four-cylinder engine used in the Russian (/Iranian) Geran (/Shahed) strike drone. Second photo for reference, other way up
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
***UPDATE***
Reported drone strike on Turkish linked ship Viva (IMO 9156539) in black sea. Fottage of the aftermath shows the distinctive four-cylinder engine used in the Russian (/Iranian) Geran (/Shahed) strike drone. Second photo for reference, other way up
Reported drone strike on Turkish linked ship Viva (IMO 9156539) in black sea. Fottage of the aftermath shows the distinctive four-cylinder engine used in the Russian (/Iranian) Geran (/Shahed) strike drone. Second photo for reference, other way up
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There must be some non-Euclidean geometric term that may be applied to this
Well, there's a photo I never expected to see in my life. Noam Chomsky palling around with Steve Bannon.
December 13, 2025 at 5:23 AM
There must be some non-Euclidean geometric term that may be applied to this
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Charlotte Rampling
December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Charlotte Rampling
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This is terrible, and hopefully Apple can fix this, but also a useful reminder that you have no control over anything in the cloud, and you can lose access to it for any Kafkaesque reason. You need backup copies you can physically access as well.
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is terrible, and hopefully Apple can fix this, but also a useful reminder that you have no control over anything in the cloud, and you can lose access to it for any Kafkaesque reason. You need backup copies you can physically access as well.
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Trump’s incoherent national security strategy is a bad look for America. | TDBP 622
December 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Trump’s incoherent national security strategy is a bad look for America. | TDBP 622
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Fixed the Netflix Japan advertising campaign. This is much better. 😏
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Fixed the Netflix Japan advertising campaign. This is much better. 😏
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Union Glacier, Antarctica. 79°46S 82°52W.
We move along the blue ice, heads down, breath freezing as it leaves the body. The cold here is not sharp. It is deep and steady, soaking through layers and time.
We move along the blue ice, heads down, breath freezing as it leaves the body. The cold here is not sharp. It is deep and steady, soaking through layers and time.
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Union Glacier, Antarctica. 79°46S 82°52W.
We move along the blue ice, heads down, breath freezing as it leaves the body. The cold here is not sharp. It is deep and steady, soaking through layers and time.
We move along the blue ice, heads down, breath freezing as it leaves the body. The cold here is not sharp. It is deep and steady, soaking through layers and time.
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There was no mistaking a building by Frank Gehry—their forms often surprised even him. We remember the man who designed buildings for Disney and Louis Vuitton, and for friends and family
Frank Gehry shook up buildings as never before
The world’s most innovative architect died on December 5th, aged 96
econ.st
December 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
There was no mistaking a building by Frank Gehry—their forms often surprised even him. We remember the man who designed buildings for Disney and Louis Vuitton, and for friends and family
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Former studio and home of ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Netzler for sale for the first time in 80 years. Absolute dream home.
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
December 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Former studio and home of ceramicists Otto and Gertrud Netzler for sale for the first time in 80 years. Absolute dream home.
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
7837 Woodrow Wilson Dr
Los Angeles, CA 90046
"If you go back to the period of the high inflation..basically, the public kind of lost faith that the Fed would restore price stability...the cost was a decade of very high and very volatile inflation, quite difficult business conditions, extremely difficult for people on a fixed income."-J. Powell
"All twelve regional bank presidents are up for renewal in February, and Hassett and Bessent have hinted a purge may be coming. The pretext would be a new, bogus, long-term residency requirement that Bessent proposed...This would be the way Trump co-opts the Fed." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The Sleeper Issue That Could Destroy the Economy
Trump may have stopped threatening Jerome Powell—but he’s still got designs to control the Fed.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"If you go back to the period of the high inflation..basically, the public kind of lost faith that the Fed would restore price stability...the cost was a decade of very high and very volatile inflation, quite difficult business conditions, extremely difficult for people on a fixed income."-J. Powell
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Everytime people try to tell me AI writing is just like human writing...no. It's avuncular salesman Skeletor, delivered in a yes sweetie tone w/a side of passive aggression, bc it has trained in all the most annoying places, AND eaten literature, so we also get ill-deployed dashes of Ripley.
literature.so
December 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Everytime people try to tell me AI writing is just like human writing...no. It's avuncular salesman Skeletor, delivered in a yes sweetie tone w/a side of passive aggression, bc it has trained in all the most annoying places, AND eaten literature, so we also get ill-deployed dashes of Ripley.
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Here is a free to read link: wapo.st/4oOp6jO
How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors
The controversial order given by Adm. Frank Bradley is under scrutiny from Congress. Inside the most consequential deliberation of his career.
wapo.st
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Here is a free to read link: wapo.st/4oOp6jO
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December 11, 2025
December 11, 2025
On Tuesday, President Donald J.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:39 AM
December 11, 2025
A true man of the people…
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
A true man of the people…
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Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
December 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Tonight Stekkjastaur, the first of Iceland's 13 Yule Lads, comes down from the mountains. He likes to sneak into the sheep shed to drink milk from the ewes.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
All the children put a shoe in the window for him to put a treat or a little gift in – if they have been good! The bad children get a potato.
Always great to hear from Keith Richards, a wise and battle-tested old rock n'roller...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
The Wisdom of Keith Richards at 82
Solving the mystery of the guitarist’s longevity may be our best hope of aging gracefully.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Always great to hear from Keith Richards, a wise and battle-tested old rock n'roller...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
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My holiday gift guide goes as follows:
Curate a selection of beautiful heirloom beans for each of your loved ones. www.ranchogordo.com
And that's my list.
Thank you for your vision, Steve Sando @ranchogordo.bsky.social
Curate a selection of beautiful heirloom beans for each of your loved ones. www.ranchogordo.com
And that's my list.
Thank you for your vision, Steve Sando @ranchogordo.bsky.social
Rancho Gordo - Heirloom beans, grains, spices, and more
Rancho Gordo specializes in heirloom beans and products indigenous to the Americas. Our fresh-harvest beans, grains, and herbs celebrate traditional foods with superior flavor. We work with small farm...
www.ranchogordo.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
My holiday gift guide goes as follows:
Curate a selection of beautiful heirloom beans for each of your loved ones. www.ranchogordo.com
And that's my list.
Thank you for your vision, Steve Sando @ranchogordo.bsky.social
Curate a selection of beautiful heirloom beans for each of your loved ones. www.ranchogordo.com
And that's my list.
Thank you for your vision, Steve Sando @ranchogordo.bsky.social
"Admit it. You’re glued to your smartphone, outsourcing more of your brainpower to the machine. Literacy is plummeting, and universities are under attack. Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?"
Kate Devlin, Prof.- AI & Society, King’s College London
Kate Devlin, Prof.- AI & Society, King’s College London
This is a great read - @drkatedevlin.bsky.social's thoughts are brilliant (as always)...
✨ New online:
Five experts offer their thoughts on the future of human intelligence - featuring @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Susskind, @ziyadmarar.bsky.social and Moheb Costandi
Five experts offer their thoughts on the future of human intelligence - featuring @drkatedevlin.bsky.social, Martha Nussbaum, Richard Susskind, @ziyadmarar.bsky.social and Moheb Costandi
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Admit it. You’re glued to your smartphone, outsourcing more of your brainpower to the machine. Literacy is plummeting, and universities are under attack. Are we all getting dumber? Or is society transforming, discovering new ways to be smart?"
Kate Devlin, Prof.- AI & Society, King’s College London
Kate Devlin, Prof.- AI & Society, King’s College London
"...and pay attention."
"I will not be quiet. Not speaking out — it equals resignation."
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova on the importance of standing up to Trump and his enablers:
December 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"...and pay attention."