I remember someone interviewing a historian (details fuzzy, can't remember names) and asking "when and where in history would the average person want to live?" His reply was simply "now" due to the technological and social systems we have. Life, on average, has never been better for more people.

The second finalist is:

Gigantic TLE* above Mexico seen from the ISS
*transient luminous event (Upper-atmospheric lightning/ionospheric lightning)

Taken on: July 3, 2025
Credit: ISS, Simeon Schmauß, @stim3on.bsky.social

( i did a post on why levels are uninformative here drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/11/12/r... )

So when the AHA says it's OK to use AI to summarize scholarship, the greatest risk this guideline poses isn't simply to the quality or accuracy of research; the hazard it poses is to the communal nature of the knowledge production. A pursuit that puts people across time & space into conversation 4/n

The crisis of masculinity is that all the fortune in the world is being thrown into making idols out of monsters.

hints that some physical rulesets are preferred over others (lower entropy, etc.). End/