Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: We Have Recommendations For You
This week, we discuss our recommendations for the year.
The Abstract
Scientists May Have Spotted Light from the First Stars
Astronomers think they may have captured starlight from the first generation of stars, which shone more than 13 billion years ago.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: We Have Recommendations For You
This week, we discuss our recommendations for the year.
AI Slop
When Will My Pornographic Shrek Christmas Ornament Arrive?
I am starting to think I will never receive my horny novelty holiday decorations.
The Abstract
In the Dark Arctic Deep, Scientists Find a Hidden Oasis of Strange Life
More than two miles under the Greenland Sea, tubeworms, snails, crustaceans, and microbes live on gas hydrate seeps that leak crude oil and methane.
Music
Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
Podcast
Podcast: We Tracked Ourselves with Exposed Flock Cameras
How we tracked ourselves with exposed Flock cameras; a year in review; and our personal recommendations on all sorts of things.
News
Archivists Posted the 60 Minutes CECOT Segment Bari Weiss Killed
iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.
Podcast
Podcast: Marisa Kabas on Landing Big Scoops as an Independent Journalist
Marisa Kabas of The Handbasket joins the pod to talk about indie journalism, the industry, and what's going on in the federal government
Flock
Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock left at least 60 of its people-tracking Condor PTZ cameras live streaming and exposed to the open internet.
The Abstract
Scientists Discover ‘Black Widow’ Exoplanet That Defies Explanation
An exoplanet located 750 light years from Earth has an atmosphere unlike anything previously known.
Behind The Blog
Behind the Blog: Resisting Demoralization
This week, we discuss history repeating itself, a phone wipe scandal, Meta's relationship with links and more.
News
The Government Added a Comments Section to the Epstein Photo Dump
Oversight Democrats released a new trove of Epstein pictures on Dropbox and left the comments on.
