They're choking US R&D, and when it withers, will claim it's because American universities let in too many minorities and labs wouldn't let directors call junior staff who won't sleep with them slurs.

a biologist would have cracked that capsule open 30 minutes ago with an angle grinder I can tell you that much

Science is good. We should fund it.

mark kelly: they made this look easy. but actually? going to the moon is very hard.

LMAO did Houston really ask “are you sure you’re pushing the button?

elon musk just got moonmogged by taxmaxxing nasachads kill me

kinda sucks that the first place they gotta go is San Diego I guess

i think, and this may be controversial, the government should be doing more stuff like this

i know it smell crazy in there

*hurriedly looking for my planet of the apes mask*

science fact: there’s no real communications blackout they just do that to heighten tension

let’s give it up for heat shield

we gotta talk about nasa’s impeccable graphic design game

we really needed this i think

i hope one thing we eventually all take away from this is that doing diplomacy and being nice sometimes actually are good skills to employ

she changed the entry for stellan skarsgård to stellar skateboard?!

[at open mic] fuckin... fuckin Gen Z fuckin LOVES putting apps in full screen mode. can't get enough of it. i guess it reminds them of being on their ding dang phones am i right-- [i am obliterated by a tungsten rod dropped from low earth orbit]

i think we are entering a very weird time, generally

cool bug alert

good time to kill the forest service

I don't know why everyone is like this it's incredibly manly to mouth pipette fish semen for a living

this sounds childish but a lot of mediation works this way

Cite the deep magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written and I think it’s important to credit our sources.

Crew guy: everything ok Seagal(sobbing):no Crew(alarmed): whats wrong Seagal: This script Crew:what Seagal: It's so beautiful Crew(now experiencing vertigo):what Seagal: I just read this script and it was so beautiful I can't stop crying Crew:Wow.Who wrote it Seagal(bawling loudly): me

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

once you reach a certain threshold in this country you can only become more wealthy no matter how bad you are at life and business, you can even waste billions and billions on the metaverse and remain wealthy and powerful it doesnt matter

this is just French mcdonald's

Oh... Oh no!

lol, lmao

I’m not a real computer knower but I do think the anthropic results are well beyond “candy company says candy essential for life” or whatever the joke is

I think if I was president I would like read briefings and stuff. it's probably pretty fucking nuts

in France they just say le email and le wokisme I conclude France is fake

actually all languages are made up

I’m being told this is a sort of chocolate soda and I hate this

well I feel like we're about to read a gross email

polymarket is the supermarket where only polyamorous people can go

THIS CEASEFIRE IS INCREDIBLY PEACEFUL

everyone is being an idiot today on bluesky

Specifically, they show a big spike in stress and worry, which have come down a bit since the beginning of COVID but not returned.

god, with the bumper sticker lmao

Happy Appomattox Day to all that celebrate

maybe ai will destroy cloud storage. that would be really great in my largely uninformed opinion. claude please launch onedrive into the sun thank you.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

In a country that took the humanities seriously, way more of the medievalists you’re seeking out to explain Avignon would have actual academic jobs.

One time I got annoyed at people complaining about academics so I complained about them complaining. When will the cycle of complaining end!? sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2024/09/back...

every day I curse university IT for their dumb bullshit but I have to remember they are constantly just staring into the abyss

I think a _lot_ more air gapping is in our future

hospital and municipal IT are going to get fucking wrecked whenever someone releases Mythos-class models to the wild and I hope someone in a position to do something about that is on top of it

people at the time thought it was very insane!