Bookmarks 2026-02-25T07:12:21.268Z
by Owen Kibel
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Bookmarks for 2026-02-25T07:12:21.268Z
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Judith Curry on X: "Interesting article on frontiers in global climate modeling. Interesting, but I'm not very optimistic after reading this https://t.co/xdX52Dry9u" / X Added: Feb 24, 2026
Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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AI music-making platform ProducerAI acquired by Google Added: Feb 24, 2026
AI music-making platform ProducerAI acquired by Google
Site: Music Business Worldwide
Google has acquired ProducerAI, the AI music creation platform formerly known as Riffusion, bringing the startup and its team into Google Labs.
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Producer.ai | AI Music Agent
Added: Feb 24, 2026Producer.ai | AI Music Agent
Create the music you imagine. Producer.ai is a generative AI instrument for creating, remixing, and sharing studio-quality songs from simple prompts. Swap stems, extend tracks, and personalize your sound effortlessly.
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The Blue-State Model and the Politics of Disorder | National Review Added: Feb 24, 2026
The Blue-State Model and the Politics of Disorder | National Review
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Geologists Found The World’s Oldest Water Trapped In A Deep Mine For 2.6 Million Years | IFLScience Added: Feb 24, 2026
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Breakthrough Study Shows Sound Stimulation May Help Clear Alzheimer’s Plaques Added: Feb 24, 2026
Breakthrough Study Shows Sound Stimulation May Help Clear Alzheimer’s Plaques
Site: SciTechDaily
Forty-Hz auditory stimulation increased amyloid clearance markers in aged primates and produced lasting effects, supporting its potential as a non-invasive Alzheimer’s therapy. Scientists at the Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have shown for the first time in
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DOUG SCHOEN: The SOTU winner, the losers — and the problem Trump still hasn’t solved | Fox News Added: Feb 24, 2026
DOUG SCHOEN: One big winner, one giant loser and one big problem after Trump's State of the Union
Site: Fox News
President Trump's State of the Union set the midterm election agenda with populist messaging on economy and immigration, though the long-term political impact remains uncertain.
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WATCH: Trump delivers State of the Union address, Va Gov. Spanberger gives Dem response - YouTube Added: Feb 24, 2026
WATCH: Trump delivers State of the Union address, Va Gov. Spanberger gives Dem response
Site: YouTube
President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address to a joint session of the 119th Congress at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Virginia Gov. Ab...
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Trump hails 'turnaround for the ages' in record-long SOTU packed with wins and warnings
Site: Fox News
President Donald Trump awards Congressional Medal of Honor to World War II veteran Royce Williams and honors multiple heroes during State of the Union speech.
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AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture | Communications Psychology Added: Feb 24, 2026
AI is turning research into a scientific monoculture - Communications Psychology
Site: Nature
The rush to study generative AI is producing a feedback loop of topical and methodological convergence, flattening scientific imagination and crowding out the pluralism needed to keep research adaptive, resilient, and intellectually generative.
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End, don’t mend, the prime-time State of the Union address Added: Feb 24, 2026
**End, don’t mend, the prime-time State of the Union address **
Site: The Hill
Historians looking for a term to describe the second half of the 20th century in the United States could do a great deal worse than “the Television Age.” Calling it the Cold War Era sounds loftier,…
Historians looking for a term to describe the second half of the 20th century in the United States could do a great deal worse than “the Television Age.” Calling it the Cold War Era sounds loftier, but overstates the importance of the U.S.-Soviet conflict in daily life. “Postwar America” alludes to the dramatic new social order that arose in the wake of World War II, but isn’t descriptive of the period itself. I’m with Marshall McLuhan on this one: “The medium is the message.” Television’s startlingly rapid rise and near-total supremacy in our cultural life for more than five decades changed the way Americans saw the world and themselves. As many young people today might experience life as #content on an iPhone screen, late 20th century Americans came to understand events and reality as defined by what could be shown through a 4:3 aspect ratio cathode-ray tube. McLuhan's most influential intellectual heir, Neil Postman, put it this way in 1987: “Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and commercials.” That’s even more true today with social media, but the current culture is an intensification of the changes wrought by the television age, which was the truly radical departure from the preceding 500 years in which the printed word was supreme. McLuhan published his treatise on the television age in 1964, which was the same year the State of the Union took its current form. The year before, President Lyndon Johnson had been sworn in to office in a way that was tailored to the world before television. Only one photographer, Cecil Stoughton, was present for the gripping, solemn scene aboard Air Force One as Johnson, flanked by Jacqueline Kennedy, still flecked by her slain husband’s blood, took the oath. The images were transmitted around the globe in a flash and dominated newspaper coverage the next day. But it wasn’t good television. Johnson’s message gurus had an idea, though. The State of the Union address had typically been a modest, daytime affair since 1913, when the equally imperious Woodrow Wilson had revived the practice of delivering a spoken report, rather than a written one, for the first time since 1800. Midday sessions were fine for newspapers, but television was all about evening viewing — prime time, baby. Johnson had a big legislative agenda to sell, and he also had an election to win. Denied an inauguration because of the means of his ascent to the presidency, Johnson would turn those lines from Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution — “from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient” — into the jewel in the crown of the Television Age presidency. It was a smash hit. Estimates hold that more than 60 million Americans watched Johnson as the “big three” networks shut down their prime-time lineups to give him center stage. That would be like 112 million Americans watching a telecast today — more like the Super Bowl than President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress last year, which drew about 37 million viewers. Once Johnson had created the media monster, there was no chance that his successors would pass up the chance to have the best stage in the world of politics to themselves every year. As America’s attachment to and dependency on television grew, the annual address became one of the pillars of the broadcast year. Along with election night coverage and quadrennial presidential debates, which became fixtures in the 1980s, the State of the Union was one of the few moments where politics was granted a place of primacy in America’s living rooms. But the image that the medium of the televised address created of the American government was misleading. In our system, Congress, the first branch, is supposed to instruct the executive, not the other way around. The carve-out for the “time to time” updates from the president was included in the Constitution as a way to make sure that Congress was being informed about the implementation of its laws and to make sure that the lines of communication stayed open. In time, though, reality was bent to match the medium. There are many reasons why Congress has become the pitiable shambles that it is today, but it surely has not helped that the most visible thing that happens in Congress every year is to have the leader of another branch come and tell members what to do. But now, Johnson’s original creation isn't even good for the presidency. In 2009, when a House member shouted “you lie” at President Barack Obama, it was deemed “an extraordinary breach of congressional decorum.” Now, lawmakers heckle and jeer at the president, and presidents — at the rostrum that was formerly the embodiment of their kingly power — heckle back. The grand stage of the television age has turned into something between a daytime talk show and Britain’s Prime Minister’s Questions. The ambitions of individual members to get their piece of the action in such a high-visibility event has finally overwhelmed the power of television to enforce norms. That’s not entirely a bad thing, pointing in its own crooked way toward a more assertive legislative branch, but the spectacle, always rather un-American, has become damaging to the legitimacy of the system more broadly. Maybe next year, Congress will wise up and decline to invite the president to come in prime time, and offer a midday luncheon. If he declines the invitation, he can just post his speech on Instagram. Surely, we could use a refresh on the 1964 model.
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Only 42% Know the State of the Union Address Is This Week
Added: Feb 24, 2026Only 42% Know the State of the Union Address Is This Week
Site: Napolitan News Service
Only 42% of voters said that the State of the Union address is happening this week. Another 38% are not sure. Smaller numbers said the a...
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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IT WAS CRASHED
Site: YouTube
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🚨LIVE: TRUMP STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS 2026
Site: YouTube
Download Rumble Wallet now and step away from the big banks — for good! https://rumblewallet.onelink.me/bJsX/timcastirlDo not wait for another IRS letter or ...
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DEMOCRATS GOT CRUSHED BY TRUMP'S STATE OF THE UNION
Site: YouTube
Trump set another record, the official record for longest State Of The Union speech and Democrats are not happyBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/...
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HE TORCHED THEM
Site: YouTube
SUPPORT THE SHOW BUY CAST BREW COFFEE NOW - https://castbrew.com/Join - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLwNTXWEjVd2qIHLcXxQWxA/joinHosts: Tim @Timcast (eve...
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How Einstein revolutionized the meaning of "where" and "when" - Big Think
Added: Feb 25, 2026How Einstein revolutionized the meaning of "where" and "when"
Site: Big Think
Even space and time are relative in Einstein's universe. That means our old notions of "where" and "when" no longer apply on cosmic scales.
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FactCheck.org Media Bias | AllSides
Added: Feb 25, 2026FactCheck.org
See issues and political news with news bias revealed. Non-partisan, crowd-sourced technology shows all sides so you can decide.
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PolitiFact Media Bias | AllSides
Added: Feb 25, 2026
PolitiFact
See issues and political news with news bias revealed. Non-partisan, crowd-sourced technology shows all sides so you can decide.
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Snopes Media Bias | AllSides
Added: Feb 25, 2026
Snopes
In July 2024, Snopes introduced "FactBot," an "artificial intelligence (AI) tool to fact-check your burning questions about online rumors." In 2021, we wrote about an example of Snopes attempting to f...
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The Onion Media Bias | AllSides
Added: Feb 25, 2026
The Onion (Humor)
See issues and political news with news bias revealed. Non-partisan, crowd-sourced technology shows all sides so you can decide.
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Michael Goodwin: Mayor Mamdani offers 'sloppy' response to NYPD officers attacked with snowballs Added: Feb 25, 2026
Michael Goodwin: Mayor Mamdani offers ‘sloppy’ response to NYPD officers attacked with snowballs
Site: New York Post
For better and worse, the tenure of any new major public official is often defined by events in the first 100 days of the term.
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Trump’s most partisan State of the Union ever still appeals to unity
Site: California Post
President Donald Trump gave one of the best — and most strident — speeches of his career on Tuesday when he delivered the first State of the Union of his second term. Trump always excels in these s…
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What Trump got right — and wrong — last night - POLITICO Added: Feb 25, 2026
What Trump got right — and wrong — last night
Site: POLITICO
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The Tax Nerd Who Bet His Life Savings Against DOGE - WSJ Added: Feb 25, 2026
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Top General Dan Caine tries to avoid conflict with Trump while preparing for possible war with Iran | CNN Politics Added: Feb 25, 2026
Balancing act: Top general tries to avoid conflict with Trump while preparing for possible war with Iran | CNN Politics
Site: CNN
As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine has been drafting military options for potentially striking Iran, a steady stream of top officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force have been quietly summoned directly to his office.
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HE ACTUALLY ADMITTED IT
Site: YouTube
He actually admitted itBill Gates you dirty dogBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j0BUY...
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Trump's night of heroes: Takeaways from the 2026 State of the Union Added: Feb 25, 2026
Trump's night of heroes: Takeaways from the 2026 State of the Union
Site: Axios
A defiant Trump bragged, weaved, smiled and sparred his way through 108 minutes of prime-time television.
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ASI votes down NYT subscription proposal at Fresno State | Fresno Bee Added: Feb 25, 2026
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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VP JD Vance: "They wouldn't stand for the idea that American citizens should come first"
Site: YouTube
VP JD Vance: "They wouldn't stand for the idea that American citizens should come first"
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MAGA Dude STORMS Democrat Anti Trump State Of The Union | Tim Pool
Site: YouTube
Well good for him, these weirdos have lost the plotBecome A Memberhttp://youtube.com/timcastnews/joinThe Green Room - https://rumble.com/playlists/aa56qw_g-j...
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Why you should try these 9 "strange" Linux distros (even if you never switch)
Added: Feb 25, 2026Why you should try these 9 "strange" Linux distros (even if you never switch)
Site: How-To Geek
Venture into the edges of Linux, where strange questions are asked and operating systems are redesigned from the ground up.
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A 12-year-old boy in Texas spends four years building a nuclear fusion device at home and manages to detect real neutrons
Added: Feb 25, 2026A 12-year-old boy in Texas spends four years building a nuclear fusion device at home and manages to detect real neutrons
Site: ECOticias.com
A 12-year-old in Texas built a nuclear fusion device at home and detected real neutrons after four years of work.
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Kilo launches KiloClaw, allowing anyone to deploy hosted OpenClaw agents into production in 60 seconds | VentureBeat Added: Feb 25, 2026
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Baby butterflies use rhythm to fool ants into taking care of them | Scientific American Added: Feb 25, 2026
Baby butterflies fool ants into taking care of them
Site: Scientific American
These caterpillars rely on ants to tend them, and they use a surprisingly complex sense of rhythm to make it happen
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Megyn Reacts to Trump Getting Elizabeth Warren and EVEN Nancy Pelosi to Stand Up For Trading Ban
Site: YouTube
Megyn Kelly reacts to Trump getting Elizabeth Warren and even Nancy Pelosi to stand up for trading ban.LIKE & SUBSCRIBE for new videos everyday: https://bit....
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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Site: X (formerly Twitter)
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