The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

I'm taking this idea like a piece of chicken and dangling it in front of all my academic friends and going "pssst pssst psssst"

I listened to the press conference - if you are in the evac zone you need to get out now. They did not sound confident at all that the tank won't explode at any second. www.wral.com/news/ap/e0da...

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

“Charles Stross provides a standout critique of this phenomenon, dissecting how Silicon Valley billionaires have treated classic sci-fi stories not as cautionary tales, but “how to” manuals for their libertarian fantasies.”

Does your local tech company understand consent? > Yes! > Maybe later

I'm down a rabbit hole on thermal batteries. These tanks use water, sand, salt, crushed rock or virtually any other substance to hold heat generated by transient or off-peak power generation. It operates at ultra-low cost, has efficiencies of 90-99%. I had no idea how practical they were!

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

I'm fallin' even more in love with you Letting go of all I've held onto I'm standing here until you make me move I'm hangin' by a moment here with you

she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol

Published in The New England Journal of Medicine. Peer-reviewed. Large sample size. Sound methodology. An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in individuals exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Ensitrelvir blocks the enzyme coronaviruses need to make new copies of themselves.

THE CYCLOPS IN THE ODYSSEY IS NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE! THIS ACTOR LOOKS NOTHING LIKE SCOTT SUMMERS!!!!! CHRISTOPHER NOLAN HATES TRADITIONAL VALUES!!!!!

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Tashan Mehta's THE MAD SISTERS OF ESI (Calvino-esque (reductive) meta galactic fantasy), Ursula Whitcher's NORTH CONTINENT RIBBON (exoplanetary sf mosaic novel, rich in political/cultural verisimilitude), Deena Helm's OUR CUT OF SALT (heartbreaking Palestinian haunted house story, not out yet).

We’re doing a live Ask Me Anything on Reddit with the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory. 🌋 It starts at 11am Today (Tuesday) but the link is up now for you to start answering questions. Lots of amazing scientists are joining us. www.reddit.com/r/AMA/s/i8JF...

Hey gang you may have seen that my dog Willow had to have surgery on her right hind leg. The surgery for her left hind leg will be later this summer. I'm looking for help paying for these expensive procedures. Please give anything you can and share the link here and on other social media.

So my list of foods & ingredients available in Medieval Europe is getting a bit out of hand, so I'm giving it it's own article, you can find it here: fakehistoryhunter.net/2026/05/10/f...

author of famed sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus blamed for creation of Torment Nexus

A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it.

Not me, laughing at this for 10 minutes straight.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Hacking canvas? What do they think this is, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in 1990.

A big study that was cited as evidence that text generators are good for students has been retracted: www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

this is not the first anti-Real ID skit at SNL, please tell me which writer hates Real ID so I can besties with them

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHAH *deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I made something, mostly for my own amusement, but maybe y’all will like it: treacheryof.pics Make your own Magritte-style “Treachery of Images” image.

it’s not even close (this is from 1985)

Holy shit! Catching up on last week's @radiolab.bsky.social and imagine my joyous surprise to hear my old History of Technology professor Richard Hirsh! (Also David Nye, to whose work i was first introduced *in* Hirsh's class.) radiolab.org/podcast/the-...

According to the Department of Education, 98% of public schools have written procedures for active shooter drills. Just something I'm thinking about tonight. www.ed.gov/media/docume...

So I discuss this with my students this way: Have you ever had a tricky puzzle in a game and you work hard at it but eventually give up and look at a walkthrough? And then the next time you come to a puzzle, maybe you work less before looking up the answer and so on until you don't even try anymore.

The #Hubble space telescope turned 36 today! Happy birthday! 🥳 Three and a half decades of cosmic beauty, including a certain Pillars of Creation that may or may not have been photoshopped 👀 🔭🐡🧪🎨

Omg i laughed too hard now i have asthma. But I feel way better about my life choices.

Not gonna believe it until someone nails some theses to a door about it tbh

I also see this with writing. "Wow this 1000 word flash is the best 4000 word short story that's ever become the first instalment in an epic series". "It was supposed to be a [oneshot/short story]", the lament of my people.

Academicsky: does anyone have any sources about the quality of discussions/argumentation/cognition on social media vs previous types of print media? (Specifically like tweets vs op-eds.)

Speaking only about how I've heard people back home talking about it, I'd say the AP called it for Finding Out. 🤷

Cis people who did some thinking before coming out to themselves as cis tend to be some of the most reliable, honourable and secure people I’ve ever known.

Good tip by @samshirazi.bsky.social for when you're following the Virginia redistricting results tomorrow evening bluevirginia.us/2026/04/new-...

Who is that girl I see Staring straight back at me? Why is my reflection Someone I don't know? Must I pretend that I'm Someone else for all time? When will my reflection show Who I am inside?

That sound you hear are historians of science, gender, STS etc collectively banging their heads against the nearest hard surface until sweet sweet oblivion

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note