Steve Hinton doesn't even know what a street taco looks like. “The first Del Taco was in Yermo, and that’s DEFINITELY not a ‘street’ taco. Signed, the guy who wrote the book about the history of Mexican food in the United States,” said Gustavo Arellano, the Los Angeles Times columnist.

New post of mine: "The Circumstances Around Daveigh Chase's Death Are Chilling" yeah, I have feels about our society's level of safety for young people. Not in a paranoid, handwringy way, but a systems thinking, heart-centered, let's build a society without so many funnels into tragedy kind of way

Utah censors is Stephen King’s Different Seasons, a collection of novellas, three of which were adapted into films (The Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me and Apt Pupil).

I was clearly the black sheep for a long time.

“I think in a lot of cases it’s just that an individual bird is a little cuckoo, you know, and it says, ‘Oh, I’m gonna go travel.’ It’d be like a human who suddenly wants to walk around the world.”

Peter Pyle, a staff biologist at the Institute for Bird Populations and a former member of the California Bird Records Committee, cautioned that it’s hard to draw conclusions from the behavior of just one bird.

Check out my latest writing project, Prism14 prism14.substack.com a concise breakdown of the advanced chipmaking stack in 2026. The AI revolution runs on a manufacturing ecosystem few people ever see. There's the map.

#wildflowerhour #california_dreaming

“I knew that if during the race I would feel tired, I wasn’t allowed to feel tired,” Leerdam said after clinching gold. “I told myself: ‘You have 80 years to recover from this. You can feel tired after. You don’t want to live with that regret. You fought so hard for this.’”

News of the raccoon’s tipsy caper spread worldwide after a recent study concluded that his kind had adapted to living in urban areas so well that they had been exhibiting physical changes resembling the early signs of domestication.

(Hunters Point) About 2000 grams of plutonium-239, a highly radioactive material and one of the most lethal substances on the planet, is estimated to be there, per a report provided to the EPA by nuclear experts on failures in the site’s clean-up.

#spacejunk A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end of their missions.

The ultimate tragedy of the moment: I missed CatCon, last weekend!!!

The whole article: Medicare and Medicaid turn 60 – and face historic cuts decades in the making — $1 trillion in cuts by 2026 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I did not have the means to attend in 2023, but I took a couple pictures at the plenary, here they are.

Moments ago, I was turned away from the one of the sessions supposedly about inclusion! They said they were over-capacity, but they had just let a bunch of people out! I want to keep a neutral attitude. #psysci2025

The kerning on the Pope's tomb is really an actual travesty. My junior high school self is facepalming, because she could have and would have done a better job. I was in junior high in 1990, as I recall. I used Fontographer, Photoshop 1.0, and Illustrator. I'm not sure how I got those copies.

“Organised crime groups have never had so much venture capital available, and also never before such a strong incentive to invest in bribing to make sure the business keeps moving.”

“The cocaine bonanza that we have witnessed in Germany and the EU in the past decade has led to an unprecedented influx of cash into organised crime,” said Brombacher.

I'm realizing a dream I've had for years: chemical reaction database complete with PDF, image, and text ingest tools. I'm learning modern app development, applying it to what I love, and I have a thing to point at! Who else - or do you know someone - who is into bits AND atoms?!

“Pornography can be ethical,” says Linder. “But when you’ve made a product in your bedroom it needs to be distributed, and that’s when the tech companies take ownership of it. That’s when it gets very, very murky.”

Love this. Inspires me, too. Here's a work I made.

Current view #happylunarnewyear

The Trumping of America: Why and What’s Next? is the title of the conference I'm at, today. I know I need to get out even more, so I’m at the Warschaw Conference on Practical Politics at University of Southern California Dornsife, exploring the forces shaping our political landscape.

The title alone—"The Trumping of America"—signals an urgent conversation about the evolution of power, identity, and governance in the U.S.

Abstract from a _Science_ publication: "Sex and gender are associated with human behavior throughout the life span and across health and disease, but whether they are associated with similar or distinct neural phenotypes is unknown. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Let's talk about culture! At work and elsewhere.

California pays more in taxes to the federal government than it receives in benefits. In 2022, California paid $83 billion more in taxes than it received from the federal government.

Life is about power, and many of us are only beginning to wake up to the ethical use of power, ours and others. Those empowered are waking up to more power. Those who perceive risk to their power are waking up to a new reality: there are other people with whom they are having to share with.