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Fifth Hammer is a very good small brewery in Long Island City that has great beer in a really cool enviroment.

Despite last season’s collapse, ZiPS projects the Mets as a highly competitive team in the NL East, and one the league shouldn’t dismiss via Source: Fangraphs I know it might not feel like it, but the Mets are better today than they were on the last day of the season.

The order: 2 poached eggs, sausage split and well done, dry rye toast which grabs the yolk, sliced tomato, and of course the coffee with unlimited refills. No better way to read the New York Times cover to cover ...

New court record from the FBI details the state of the devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson: phone was on w/Lockdown Mode; personal laptop was off; work laptop was on w/Touch ID; several Signal chats used disappearing messages. https://t.co/YqLahtQihR pic.twitter.com/cMAEXBXLnD — Runa Sandvik (@runasand) January 31, 2026 via Source: Runa Sandvik (@runasand) - Twitter This issue has been talked about for years, courts have been saying that your face and/or fingerprint can be compelled to unlock your phone while they can’t force you to give up the passcode in your head. John Gruber wrote about this a few years ago, and the article contains some good advice that everyone should heed. ...

The study has not yet been published. But MindBio’s CEO Justin Hanka recently released the top-line results on his LinkedIn, eager to show that his company was “in front of the curve in microdosing research.” He called it “the most vigorous placebo controlled trial ever performed in microdosing.” It found that patients dosed with a small amount of LSD (ranging from 4 to 20μg, or micrograms, well below the threshold of a mind-blowing hallucinogenic dose) showed observable upticks in feelings of well-being, but worse MADRS scores, compared to patients given a placebo in the form of a caffeine pill. (Because patients in psychedelic trials typically expect some kind of mind-altering effect, studies are often blinded using so-called “active placebos,” like caffeine or methylphenidate, which have their own observable psychoactive properties.) ...

We had to say goodbye to Mookie this morning…. this little guy gave me 15 years and 1 week of unfettered joy.