Posting the sign so I can tap it when necessary.

#ChemSky #ChemChat There is a band called Silica Gel and if they don’t cover Offspring’s “Come out and play” (Keep ‘em separated”) I’m going to be VERY disappointed

Machine voices are sounding more lifelike because they're not just paying attention to varying inflection but also artificial pauses with varying time. These aren't even hard tweaks. I cobbled together a chat bot using ALICE frankencode back in the day and two ways I fooled people with it...

Starmer urges EU to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right. Because as we know, the way you beat the far right is to accede to all their demands and adopt racism as your central principle.

An out nonbinary candidate just won a seat in their ruby-red Ohio town by 13 votes. They didn’t believe it, either. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/09/g...

I really hope the people who are giving money to the leopards eating face party so that the leopards won’t eat their face pay attention to the fact that the closer you are to the leopards, the closer your face is to the leopards.

Trump is letting NVIDIA export cutting-edge AI chips that his own DOJ revealed are being illegally smuggled into China. His own DOJ called these chips "building blocks of AI superiority." Trump and Lutnick need to answer to Congress on why they are selling out US security.

Does anyone know what strain of H5N1 is responsible for the most recent poultry outbreaks, particularly in Indiana? D.1.1 I presume?

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

The Pledge to the American People was a foundation for Walter Dowdle’s Mountin lecture in 1990, and it used to be as prominent on our website as this 20ft mural in the lobby of one of our buildings. I used to walk past these words every day, proud that we could rise together with these principles.

Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.

I need suggestions for a journal that will publish some careful work we have that shows how difficult it is to collect specific data carefully and how to it properly. It accidentally shows key papers in the field are likely wrong. Currently getting referees telling us there is no **impact**…

Vinay Prasad sent Tracey Høeg dumpster diving in VAERS for pretext to block access to flu vaccines, alter safety standards, end combo vaccines, & hold clinical trials to impossible standards. CBER is supposed to regulate vaccines, not withhold them. FDA is as broken as CDC.

In addition to the lives that were lost, what is most disturbing about this is learning that our military will, in fact, obey illegal orders.

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

This season might be different. In the last week of sampling we saw FluC in 10 different sewersheds. Cumulatively, there was more FluC than all of the FluAs and FluB put together. 12/

me, most of the time: i like mark kelly, hate when he goes all centrist mush me, when trump tries to take on astronaut hero mark kelly:

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜 🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

brb making electrons

admitting to statutory rape to own the libs

Remind us @nytimes.com, who is it that is ruining the workplace? www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Religious freedom to be shoved face forward into pavement.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

The thing that always struck me about this video is it’s clear that Trump is seeking approval of the “cool guy.” The email cache is a lot more of that.

You know how you used to be extra nice to the weed guy bringing you an illegal thing, right?

“I yipped about inclusion”

I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

Aurora color guide! What creates the different shades? Different atoms getting "excited" at different altitudes The bright reds are a sign of a particularly intense event

we are going to win

Yes, this happened in September. Yes, it is now November. BUT EVERYTHING JUST HAPPENS SO GODDAMN MUCH, it's *entirely possible* some authors have missed the news or forgotten to look, and they *should*.

My red line has always been lowering health costs for Americans. Donald Trump and Republicans don’t want an agreement that meets that bar. I’m a no.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

if they were going to cave anyway they should’ve done it a week ago to spare SNAP recipients the agony.

Then after that, read— (It is not coincidental that these two pieces appear in relatively non-mass-market locations, although they are very different: Lithub and @statnews.com...)

Sometimes one has the good luck to read two things in close succession that are even more powerful when read together. A vindication of the Internet itself, and Bluesky in particular. It's an indictment of the core internal working norms of our major media organizations. Slow build. First read:

A man collapsed in the Oval Office yesterday. The internet got the story wrong. My experience struggling to correct the record — including on Bluesky! — and the warning signs as AI, aggregation, and social media increasingly drive our news consumption.

Happy to share our latest collaborative effort: "An intramuscular prime and mucosal boost vaccine regimen protects against lethal clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 challenge in cynomolgus macaques". It is open-access, so anyone can access it anywhere on any device. (1/4) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When I joined the UW Biology department in 2001, everyone else had a nice nameplate on their office door — but I got a piece of paper with my name on it taped to the wall. It was a newly implemented cost-saving measure, I was told. You cheap-ass bastards, I thought. Anyway, now I feel better.

this is why we have to be extremely on our guard regarding voter suppression and the federal militarization of our cities

Representatives of Germany's Nazi Party, now known as the Alternative für Deutschland or AfD, are now routinely in Washington for interaction with their counterparts in the GOP, seeking pointers on how to further develop their movement into a governing party... and to raise funds.

#ICE returned the immigrant they shoved in a Texas prison - to a windowless 8x10 room with no bed in the basement of a Burlington office building www.universalhub.com/2025/ice-ret... #Massachusetts #immigrants

‘This is kidnapping — plain and simple’: ICE arrests 9 employees at Allston car wash trib.al/2NU6eGa

New Yorkers if this doesn’t convince you, I don’t know what will.

Never before have I ever read an article that so eloquently sums up my current world view.

🚨DEI firings at CBS🚨 He asks for this to be downloaded and shared. He and his colleagues deserve so much more, but this is an easy ask. We see you CBS 1/2

The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.

Exactly a week ago tonight, I bought an outstanding quesadilla from a food truck around the corner from my house. Sometime today, the man who smiled warmly and provided my meal to me, and literal shelter from a rainstorm, was kidnapped by paramilitary forces.