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Lou Cannon, a veteran Washington Post reporter who wrote several influential biographies of Ronald Reagan, has died at 92 (Robert D. McFadden/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/20/books/lou-cannon-dead.html

Lou Cannon Dies at 92; Journalist Chronicled Reagan as an Author
He was a foremost authority on the president, tracing his career in unvarnished accounts from his time as California governor through his years in the White House.

Police were no longer pursuing Marshawn Kneeland at time of crash, report says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6825131/2025/11/20/marshawn-kneeland-police-crash-report/

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band open a 2-night superbill at winterland, their only time playing there, along with the keith & donna band & weir’s kingfish. all dead members present minus lesh & hart, though the only sit-ins happen on the 20th.
soundboard: https://archive.org/de…

A terrible rail tragedy near Cordoba. At least 39 dead.
We won't know the causes for weeks yet. However, it's a reminder that all risks do increase with speed. The derailment of the first train, into the path of the second, seems to have happened very shortly before arrival of the second, with no time for even the most sophisticated system to stop it.

Police were no longer pursuing Marshawn Kneeland at time of crash, report says https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6825131/2025/11/20/marshawn-kneeland-police-crash-report/

Rosie McGee,
handcuffed to Bob Weir, front,
with other members of the 710 Ashbury collective being led out of the house after being arrested by police following a drug raid on the famous Grateful Dead house in Haight Ashbury on OCTOBER 2, 1967.
"By the time a paddy wagon arrived to take us down to the Hall of Justice, a crowd had gathered across the street.
Bob Weir and I were handcuffed together and as we came down the stairs, the crowd cheered.
A broad…

Emotionally brutal poem. Don't read it if you are feeling fragile today.

60 years ago tonight, the big beat acid test, on the grateful dead’s home turf in palo alto, at a soon-to-open go-go club on the outskirts of town. full chaos, with the dead & prankster band playing at the same time. local historian @… on the big beat:

Doctor Says More Than 200 Reported Dead in Tehran as Regime Opens Fire on Protests (Time)
https://time.com/7345092/iran-protests-death-toll-regime-crackdown/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p134#a260109p134

the best thing about our ring camera is the battery is dead 95% of the time.
#privacy
https://mastodon.social/@eff/115697276823039413

Timeless wisdom.
Bob Weir's 6 principles of rhythm guitar | Guitar World https://www.guitarworld.com/lessons/artist-lessons/bob-weir-rhythm-guitar-principles

“We play three to four hours a night or more. I study in real time, 100 gigs a year. That's a great deal of practice”: Bob Weir was the Grateful Dead's anchor – here’s how he boiled down 60 years of rhythm guitar wisdom into six essential principles
Often overlooked in guitar circles when compared to bandmate Jerry Garcia, Weir was a brilliant rhythm player who blended jazz, folk, country, blues, and rockabilly influences into a style that any guitarist would do well to study

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Dead Can Dance:
🎵 A Passage in Time
#DeadCanDance
https://voltakband.bandcamp.com/track/a-passage-in-time-dead-can-dance-cover

The New York Times reported that
Meta is considering adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses.
According to an internal Meta document,
the company may launch the product
“during a dynamic political environment
where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us
would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
This is a bad idea that Meta should abandon.
If adopted and released to the public,
it would …

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans
Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

*new role has a script called `test:turbo`*
*runs it*
Time elapsed: 1303 seconds (21 minutes)
Dead.

The group chat is dead. It’s stunning that people keep saying it’s where the action is when it’s been dead for a long time.

Our Christmas tree didn't drink water this year. It's been pretty much dead for the past 2 weeks. Every time you get near it, needles fall off. It's been quite a mess.
Today was the day it came down. I really wasn't looking forward to having to pick needles out of everything we own between the living room and the door for the next year, so… I went Full Dexter on it. (And it actually worked.)

It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead.

40 years ago tonight, the grateful dead’s mardi gras ball in oakland. the neville bros. open & play with the dead for the 1st time, chaotic but fun jams, & the beginning of their association for next few years. also: the dead show attended by joseph campbell.
soundboard: https://

Kimi Onoda, Japan's new Minister of State for Economic Security, is a 43 year old half-Irish ex-game industry PR femcel with an extensive history of defending her exclusive attraction to anime boys on twitter

just remembered this 1985 photo (from a SEVA benefit) of weir with jonathan richman, who looks like he's trying to figure out how he ended up onstage with a grateful dead. incidentally, weir is singing "ripple," i think maybe the first time he sang a garcia/hunter song outside the dead.

evidently, Tom Stoppard passed away recently. Reminds me of:
https://wrog.dreamwidth.org/20761.html
(tl;dr: Tom Stoppard and Auditory Processing Disorder are two things that do not go well together.)
(... could be time to rent "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" again -…

Potentially my most heretical musical opinion: The Grateful Dead studio recordings are just better, especially without an altered sense of time. Also, and I’m not sure if this is related, it is some of the best house cleaning music ever recorded. #music #gratefuldead

Decided to knock off for the night after I dead shorted the 305Ah 72V lithium house battery for the second time. I think I'm sundowning. Or possibly tired. Either way...!

Nighttime Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia – 4 dead, 6 wounded #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/nighttime-russian-strike-on-zaporizhzhia.html

60 years ago today (maybe), the muir beach acid test, during which the grateful dead & owsley stanley encounter one another for the very first time & owsley promptly freaks out & drives his car into a ditch. muir beach photo from later in the '60s. (sometimes the palo alto acid test is placed on 12/11 & muir beach on 12/18, but rosie mcgee says she met phil lesh for the 1st time on 12/11 & attended palo alto the following week, which seems to settle the matter.) [1/4]…

RIP Udo Kier. I loved him in many things but he's particularly great opposite River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho. Later he appeared again with Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
Perhaps it is time to watch Spermula in honor of his divers oeuvre. I think he had a lot of fun in his career.

Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night,
leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing
with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise apartment buildings into the morning.
Police had arrested three men on suspicion of manslaughter in connection with fire
which began Wednesday afternoon in a housing complex in Tai Po district, a suburb in the New Territories.
By Thursday morning local time, the fire was yet to be pu…

3 arrested in Hong Kong, as a high-rise fire leaves at least 44 dead and 279 reported missing
HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s deadliest fire in decades burned through the night, leaving at least 44 people dead and 279 reported missing with rescuers still pulling residents from blazing high-rise a...

Series A, Episode 04 - Time Squad
AVON: No, but they weren't planning on coming back. All the instruments are set for landing. There's nothing for take off.
BLAKE: There'd be no point in going back. The world they left would be dead years ago.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/104/234

Taking up all the remaining oxygen in the room right now is AI hype,
exemplified by Jared Kaplan, who is quoted in this article:
-- ⭐️ --
"I spoke to Jared Kaplan, co-founder of Anthropic, the company behind the chatbot Claude.
He was a physicist the last time we spoke.
As a grad student at Harvard in the 2000s, he worked with the renowned theorist Nima Arkani-Hamed to open up the new directions in amplitude research that are being actively pursued today.

Is Particle Physics Dead, Dying, or Just Hard? | Quanta Magazine
Columnist Natalie Wolchover checks in with particle physicists more than a decade after the field entered a profound crisis.

60 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead (& bill graham's) 1st fillmore auditorium gig, at the #sanfrancisco mime troupe’s appeal II, maybe the 1st actual time the dead name was used. not in ads (“formerly the warlocks” was january), no tape.

found the website of a dog-obsessed german couple, then the page where they memorialize their dead dogs
http://www.cmf-dogs.at/index.php/in-memoriam