we are the 99% of the 37

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Anyone remind me what SKY was again? Trying to figure out why I would have set alerts for it.

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all i need is the air that i creep https://youtu.be/0XbogWA-riU?si=teZ1_KJbNSylkLCb

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Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) Report 2026: Understanding, Detecting, and Documenting Manipulation in the Research Ecosystem ❝The FoSci Report 2026 establishes Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) as a data-driven discipline dedicated to understanding, detecting, and documenting manipulation across the research ecosystem to strengthen scientific integrity. The field organizes its investigations into three interdependent levels: the micro level, which focuses on anomalies in individual papers; the meso level, which targets organized misconduct networks; and the macro level, which addresses systemic issues. The report provides contributions from experts across these topics, outlining methodologies, examples, and proposing a roadmap of solutions for publishers, institutions, and policymakers to combat the gradual undermining of science.❞ https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/_b_Forensic_Scientometrics_FoSci_Report_2026_b_Understanding_Detecting_and_Documenting_Manipulation_in_the_Research_Ecosystem/32178456

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“The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.” — Charles Darwin ❝Scientists wanted to know why the chatter of Alston’s singing mice sounds so much like human conversation. What they found might change how we study both species.❞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/a-mutation-gave-humans-the-gift-of-speech-these-mice-have-it-too.html?unlocked_article_code=1.glA.Izb9.mjSXlhKLthPn&smid=url-share

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humans are suckers for stories https://www.ft.com/content/eb6f5398-6635-4938-b890-625e7c8d3af2

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war, good gawd

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good PSA from @pichi

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if it really went without saying, you wouldn't have had to say it

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https://www.there-i-ruined-it.com/

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Beeple's new exhibit reminds me of John Carpenter's "The Thing" (1982) — though more darkly funny than creepy.

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"Regular Animals" are more human than human ... [WaPo] Robot dogs with Musk and Zuckerberg heads roam around Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit ❝Robot dogs with hyper-realistic silicone heads modeled after world-renowned figures — including Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Warhol and Pablo Picasso — can be seen roaming around a Berlin museum, occasionally “pooing” printed images of their surroundings which they’ve previously captured with integrated cameras.❞ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/04/28/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art/36e131b4-42f4-11f1-b19d-32431046b5b4_story.html https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/beeple-regular-animals/

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Spirit no longer moves anyone

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My VPN provider no longer surfaces its Salt Lake City server in the app UI as of May 1 — days before Utah’s new VPN liability law takes effect. But: 👉 Hostnames still resolve in DNS 👉 Traceroute still reaches SLC (Zayo backbone) 👉 Connection attempts to VPN ports just hang (no response) So this isn’t a clean removal. The endpoint still appears in DNS and routing, but isn’t responding to connection attempts from this vantage point — effectively taken out of service. That kind of partial withdrawal — visible in infrastructure, absent in the product — is exactly what you’d expect if a provider were reducing exposure without fully tearing down a location. Utah’s law goes into effect May 6, per EFF: ❝Next week, on May 6, 2026, Utah will become, to EFF’s knowledge, the first state in the nation to target the use of VPNs to avoid legally mandated age-verification gates. While advocates in states like Wisconsin successfully forced the removal of similar provisions due to constitutional and technical concerns, Utah is proceeding with a mandate that threatens to significantly undermine digital privacy rights.❞ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/utahs-new-law-regulating-vpns-goes-effect-next-week No direct confirmation these are related — but the timing and behavior line up in a way that’s hard to dismiss.

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A little over a decade ago I visited the local Cracker Barrel for the first and only time. I didn't order anything. I didn't eat there at all. This was about 10 years or so after Cracker Barrel settled a pair of federal civil rights lawsuits alleging racial discrimination against employees and customers. I was not a fan of the company. Even so, I'd recently learned that bluegrass legend Ralph Stanley had partnered with the restaurant chain to release a new album. "Ralph Stanley & Friends: Man of Constant Sorrow" was a collaboration with a lineup of stellar musicians that included Ricky Skaggs, Elvis Costello, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Robert Plant, Del McCoury, and Old Crow Medicine Show. The album was available exclusively through Cracker Barrel — and only in person. I could not resist. I drove over one evening and furtively dashed inside like a junkie seeking a fix. A few minutes later I was listening to this glorious version of "Pig in a Pen" on the CD player in an aging blue Subaru Forester pockmarked with tiny hailstorm dents. To the best of my knowledge, that album was the last collection of new recordings Stanley released during his long and storied lifetime. He died about six months after its release at the age of 89 after a long battle with cancer. It's a CD that spiritually feels very much of a piece with Johnny Cash's latter-day Rick Rubin recordings. Artists of an older era who knew or suspected death was coming soon, they chose to spend their waning days making more of the music that had long sustained them, in fellowship with the many people to which that music connected them. ❝I got a pig at home in a pen; Corn to feed ‘im on. All I need is a pretty little girl To feed ‘im when I’m gone.❞ https://youtu.be/JqmKIB76DbE?si=l9tqpuEkKSFVzvNq https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/cracker-barrel-ralph-stanley-6451087/

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