DanceScholar
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I used to make a living playing Diplomacy, but then an AI took my job.
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
Heading out to Glen Echo to recapture some of the Glory Days of my youth. Happy New Year!
December 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Heading out to Glen Echo to recapture some of the Glory Days of my youth. Happy New Year!
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Here's something to end the year on a better note
The Muppets at the 1980 World Puppetry Festival
YouTube video by arQivisT
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December 31, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Here's something to end the year on a better note
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Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat
December 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Cis comedians making great trans jokes is always such a treat
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Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
December 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.
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And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but was relaunched in Ultimate Tiny Tim #1, which takes place after Amazing Tiny Tim #332 and All-New Tiny Tim #200, and don’t forget to read the Scrooge / David Copperfield / Great Expectations crossover event minis otherwise the Miss Havisham bit won’t make sense
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and will return in Avengers: Doomsday
December 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but was relaunched in Ultimate Tiny Tim #1, which takes place after Amazing Tiny Tim #332 and All-New Tiny Tim #200, and don’t forget to read the Scrooge / David Copperfield / Great Expectations crossover event minis otherwise the Miss Havisham bit won’t make sense
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Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Happy Hogswatch to all who celebrate. Ho! Ho! Ho!
Back in the GM Saddle!
The narrative centers on a missing Wand of Minor Healing, stolen from the Academia Umbra vaults. Four protagonists—an arcane student, a diplomatic spy, a legionnaire, and an acolyte—approach the mystery from different angles.
@landruajm.bsky.social #AD&D2e
The narrative centers on a missing Wand of Minor Healing, stolen from the Academia Umbra vaults. Four protagonists—an arcane student, a diplomatic spy, a legionnaire, and an acolyte—approach the mystery from different angles.
@landruajm.bsky.social #AD&D2e
December 23, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Back in the GM Saddle!
The narrative centers on a missing Wand of Minor Healing, stolen from the Academia Umbra vaults. Four protagonists—an arcane student, a diplomatic spy, a legionnaire, and an acolyte—approach the mystery from different angles.
@landruajm.bsky.social #AD&D2e
The narrative centers on a missing Wand of Minor Healing, stolen from the Academia Umbra vaults. Four protagonists—an arcane student, a diplomatic spy, a legionnaire, and an acolyte—approach the mystery from different angles.
@landruajm.bsky.social #AD&D2e
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This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
December 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This is just a note to say
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
that I have eaten the falcon
in a widening gyre
and that you were probably saving for anarchy
Forgive me
it was delicious
so rough
and full of passionate intensity
Oh my goodness. Yes. Take five and read this, and never mind the ninjas cutting onions. </3
A beautiful, devastating piece, worth reading to the end. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/o...
Opinion | Why I Keep Returning to Middle-Earth
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Oh my goodness. Yes. Take five and read this, and never mind the ninjas cutting onions. </3
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Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
December 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sorry my computer’s late. It woke up and the NIST atomic clock was blinking 12:00.
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Reliability is our top priority. We have declared "Code Orange: Fail Small" to focus our engineering efforts on a single goal: ensuring the causes of past outages are fundamentally eliminated. Here is how we are building a more resilient network for the future. https://cfl.re/4pOLIlC
Code Orange: Fail Small — Our resilience plan following recent incidents
We have declared “Code Orange: Fail Small” to focus everyone at Cloudflare on a set of high-priority workstreams with one simple goal: ensure that the cause of our last two global outages never happen...
cfl.re
December 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Reliability is our top priority. We have declared "Code Orange: Fail Small" to focus our engineering efforts on a single goal: ensuring the causes of past outages are fundamentally eliminated. Here is how we are building a more resilient network for the future. https://cfl.re/4pOLIlC
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Building on a visualization in the 2025 Year in Review, Radar's AI Insights page now includes a view into traffic by client type: human, non-AI bot, AI bot, and "mixed purpose" (bots that crawl for search indexing & AI training).
radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
December 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Building on a visualization in the 2025 Year in Review, Radar's AI Insights page now includes a view into traffic by client type: human, non-AI bot, AI bot, and "mixed purpose" (bots that crawl for search indexing & AI training).
radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
radar.cloudflare.com/ai-insights#...
I just saw (yet another) post about the disconnect between Big Tech and the general population on AI, and I gotta say having just got back from a conference where 20,000 scientists, scholars, and students were talking about how they were _already_ using AI ... my money's on Big Tech this time.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I just saw (yet another) post about the disconnect between Big Tech and the general population on AI, and I gotta say having just got back from a conference where 20,000 scientists, scholars, and students were talking about how they were _already_ using AI ... my money's on Big Tech this time.
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🚨 React vulnerability! Cloudflare’s WAF deployed global protection fast — but if you run React, upgrade now.
Watch Daniele Molteni on WAF’s future, Firewall for AI + a multiplayer chess demo inside ChatGPT (agents SDK): https://youtu.be/KdDDxV_4rH4
#ThisWeekInNET
Watch Daniele Molteni on WAF’s future, Firewall for AI + a multiplayer chess demo inside ChatGPT (agents SDK): https://youtu.be/KdDDxV_4rH4
#ThisWeekInNET
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🚨 React vulnerability! Cloudflare’s WAF deployed global protection fast — but if you run React, upgrade now.
Watch Daniele Molteni on WAF’s future, Firewall for AI + a multiplayer chess demo inside ChatGPT (agents SDK): https://youtu.be/KdDDxV_4rH4
#ThisWeekInNET
Watch Daniele Molteni on WAF’s future, Firewall for AI + a multiplayer chess demo inside ChatGPT (agents SDK): https://youtu.be/KdDDxV_4rH4
#ThisWeekInNET
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Today, the 2025 #ArcticReportCard was released, marking 20 years of tracking rapid Arctic warming and change.
Find the full 2025 Arctic Report Card, with images, facts and stats at:
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
#AGU25
noaa.gov via NOAA Research
Find the full 2025 Arctic Report Card, with images, facts and stats at:
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
#AGU25
noaa.gov via NOAA Research
Report Card 2025 - NOAA Arctic
Arctic Report Card: Update for 2025 Twenty years of tracking rapid Arctic warming and change Archive of Previous Arctic Report Cards Arctic Report Card 2025 2025 Headlines and Overview Vital Signs Oth...
arctic.noaa.gov
December 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Today, the 2025 #ArcticReportCard was released, marking 20 years of tracking rapid Arctic warming and change.
Find the full 2025 Arctic Report Card, with images, facts and stats at:
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
#AGU25
noaa.gov via NOAA Research
Find the full 2025 Arctic Report Card, with images, facts and stats at:
arctic.noaa.gov/report-card/...
#AGU25
noaa.gov via NOAA Research
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What do you think were the biggest moments on the Internet in 2025?
Find out in a couple of hours as we reveal some of the key moments that shaped the web in Cloudflare Radar #YearInReview!
Find out in a couple of hours as we reveal some of the key moments that shaped the web in Cloudflare Radar #YearInReview!
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
What do you think were the biggest moments on the Internet in 2025?
Find out in a couple of hours as we reveal some of the key moments that shaped the web in Cloudflare Radar #YearInReview!
Find out in a couple of hours as we reveal some of the key moments that shaped the web in Cloudflare Radar #YearInReview!
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🎙️New #ThisWeekInNET episode!
Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen joins us to talk about:
🤖 AI & content creators
🛡️ Transparency and control over AI scraping
💳 Agentic Commerce with Visa & Mastercard
🌐 Building strategy in a fast-moving landscape
📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/9ygZ4vhhDbw
Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen joins us to talk about:
🤖 AI & content creators
🛡️ Transparency and control over AI scraping
💳 Agentic Commerce with Visa & Mastercard
🌐 Building strategy in a fast-moving landscape
📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/9ygZ4vhhDbw
December 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🎙️New #ThisWeekInNET episode!
Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen joins us to talk about:
🤖 AI & content creators
🛡️ Transparency and control over AI scraping
💳 Agentic Commerce with Visa & Mastercard
🌐 Building strategy in a fast-moving landscape
📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/9ygZ4vhhDbw
Cloudflare CSO Stephanie Cohen joins us to talk about:
🤖 AI & content creators
🛡️ Transparency and control over AI scraping
💳 Agentic Commerce with Visa & Mastercard
🌐 Building strategy in a fast-moving landscape
📺 Watch: https://youtu.be/9ygZ4vhhDbw
Having grown up in this culture, and knowing all these archetypes, makes this an even better movie. Still a great watch even if you don't know from Ballroom Dancing!
Today in The December Comfort Watches, I'm essaying Strictly Ballroom, a loving look at a delightfully weird little subculture, that is, in its way, an absolutely perfect film:
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/09/t...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/09/t...
The December Comfort Watches 2025, Day Nine: Strictly Ballroom
A personal story to begin: I was a film critic at the Fresno Bee newspaper when Strictly Ballroom came out in 1992, My review of it was an unqualified rave, and I said something along the line that…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Having grown up in this culture, and knowing all these archetypes, makes this an even better movie. Still a great watch even if you don't know from Ballroom Dancing!
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me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
December 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM
me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight
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Eleanor Parker died on this day in 2013 at the age of 91. She loathed the experience of making The Sound of Music and would doubtless have joined us in applauding this utterly delicious piece.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-r...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-r...
I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled
Dear friends, family, and Austrian nobility,
Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepe...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Eleanor Parker died on this day in 2013 at the age of 91. She loathed the experience of making The Sound of Music and would doubtless have joined us in applauding this utterly delicious piece.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-r...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-r...
Well damn.
This is neither here nor there, but because this came up in a random conversation yesterday, and sometimes I think everyone could use a distraction of something fun and entertaining mixed in with your doomscrolling, here is the best card trick ever performed on TV. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Kc...
Dani DaOrtiz at Fool US 2022 (the act that Penn and Teller didn’t even try to figure out.)
YouTube video by dani daortiz
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December 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Well damn.
Today in "news I did not suspect would resonate with me."
SMH
SMH
The statistics faculty reviewed the metrics being used to justify the elimination of their department and found those stats to be highly misleading if not outright wrong, with decimals in the wrong places, for instance. Good thing they’ll be eliminated to save later embarrassment.
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Today in "news I did not suspect would resonate with me."
SMH
SMH
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Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. Here's what happened: https://cfl.re/4aw32qy
Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impac...
blog.cloudflare.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Cloudflare experienced a significant traffic outage on December 5, 2025, starting approximately at 8:47 UTC. The incident lasted approximately 25 minutes before resolution. We are sorry for the impact that it caused to our customers and the Internet. Here's what happened: https://cfl.re/4aw32qy
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Stop by the Cloudflare booth 1384 at AWS re:invent and chat with our team! Be sure to check out all things happening during the week: https://cfl.re/4oPPFG8 #reInvent
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Stop by the Cloudflare booth 1384 at AWS re:invent and chat with our team! Be sure to check out all things happening during the week: https://cfl.re/4oPPFG8 #reInvent