Interesting commentary from former independent governor of Minnesota.

Martial law is next in Minneapolis?

What are the executives of Valor, Fidelity, Qatar Investment Authority, NVIDIA, and Cisco thinking? They are publicly named for funding Grok scaling as the news describes murders, suicides and unwanted undressing assisted by Grok. 🧵

Grok has no limits to what it can do. And that is the problem.

I'm surprised there isn't more white on the map... looks like RFKj has some more "work" to do.

Why scientific literacy is important to the general public... time.com/2991835/man-...

'Functionalized Lignin Enables Co-Cross-Linking of Natural Rubber and Simultaneous Carbon Black Dispersion' from ACS Applied Polymer Materials is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice. 📖 Read the article: buff.ly/q70GDvw

Misinformation is as old as antiquity...

The next round of Epstein file release will be countered by an overthrow of the Cuban government as a distraction... www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

This is not likely the best way to communicate the significance to the public. A demo like this one that explained the Challenger would be more effective in demonstrating the impacts... www.youtube.com/shorts/ZXv6-...

Intriguing new paper from @profsavoie.bsky.social out today in ACS Applied Polymer Materials - small molecule degradation data can be used to predict the thermal stability of polymers. This could be a game-changer in design of polymers for extreme environments doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

New required reading for the new year...

Here's the next state of the union... www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX0v...

Think that I'm going to be listening to some White Stripes and maybe Raconteurs tonight... www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This might even be a better one than you were thinking... www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC8E...

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice in Chains

My favorite short to watch on Boxing Day... it reminds that no matter what went wrong for Christmas, it wasn't that bad.

'Trash to Treasure: Methanolysis of Postconsumer Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Using a Magnetically Retrievable Catalyst' from ACS Applied Polymer Materials is currently free to read as an #ACSEditorsChoice. 📖 Read the article: buff.ly/LQhH8XA

Holiday traffic back after Christmas is going to be fun with the expected weather... www.centredaily.com/news/weather...

My guess on the response to this news... www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOR3...

Is there going to be a John Olson for any of these AI companies. The money shell game smells a little like Enron. RIP John Olson. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

I would say that there will be a big fine from the FAA for failure to notify, but DOGE likely eliminated anyone that would have the oversight to reign in SpaceX. I guess I will start looking at planned SpaceX launches when planning trips...

please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it

If the US administration knew that Germany has the biggest, longest heat pumps in the world and the US only has sad tiny little heat pumps, would the US work to extort firms to build even bigger pumps in the US?

Interesting patterns to where people have relocated in the past year... www.axios.com/2025/12/15/m...

Ford writes down nearly $20 billion in electric vehicle investments... Is this going to haunt them in another decade? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/b...

I didn't know that Mordor was so near to Seattle, just beyond Rainier.

Is Minnesota going to be the MyPillow State? I am looking forward to hearing about horrible ads for the governor's race from @pauldauenhauer.bsky.social

A picture paints a thousand words - a striking visual metaphor for the immense forces of climate change that are reshaping Earth’s systems #COP30, wrapping up today 21 November 2025) in Belém, Brazil Image of Semeru's eruption earlier today from AfarTV's YT livestream via @volcaholic1.bsky.social

Why does this make me think of 🧵

I don't think that this is the circular economy that was envisioned by the MacArthur Foundation www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/topics/circu...

Unique near netshape production of dual responsive hydrogels just out in ACS Applied Polymer Materials. doi.org/10.1021/acsa...

periodic reminder of the existence of Atkinson Hyperlegible, a free font available from the Braille Institute designed to improve readability for people with low vision I use it in talks because it's pretty and also because, as an audience member, I am perpetually squinting at people's slides

Looks like some state attorney generals are concerned with antitrust laws regarding organizations trying to pressure companies to make plastics recyclable. How's this the major concern and not Amazon/Google/Apple that have cornered some markets? www.recyclingtoday.com/news/five-st...

With the move to autonomous decision making with AI, I wonder how AI would have responded...

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Woah. Another chemical plant explosion. I don't recall this frequency in prior years. Would be great to have statistics on this but the only funds for the Chemical Safety Board are to shut it down...

Hibbing MN... birthplace of Nobel laureate Robert Zimmerman and where guy in Deadpool shirt shoots a stranger in the face to 'see something funny'

@theonion.com Trump administration continues fight against climate change... this time through mandatory cuts to domestic flights. 10% cuts to flights potentially reducing CO2e emissions by 35k metric tons each day (assuming that the flight cuts are average emissions)

Will carbon capture be greater than quantum? Shake your magic 8 ball to get the answer.

Let's see, maybe AI will figure out that burning that much coal to fuel it may lead to its ascent to the apex species as warming temperatures lead to mass extinction

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Difference is one had more hair.

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

I hope that Jaime Dimon has more J.P. Morgan in him that I think if a major crash does happen. Can he lock some bankers in a room to avoid a crisis like Morgan did on this day in 1907?

166 yrs ago John Brown was convicted for his role in Harper's Ferry and sentenced to hang. One of the sparks for an actual insurrection that led to the Civil War

This might be THE Onion but it might be happening in reality with large investments by so many companies... some of these may not look like good decisions in retrospect.

Favorite reference to bubble gum in cinema...