Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

Over the last six months the PNE have invested over $6 million to bring the iconic old Pacific Coliseum back to life — and to make it home of the PWHL’s Vancouver Goldeneyes. I took a tour of the building ahead of Friday’s home opener for @theathletic.com

A horrifying graphic from Pew showing the fruits of the right wing war on public health. Only 48% of Republicans believe that vaccines prevent serious illness, while 80% of Democrats do. This is not a difference of opinion in science. This is the result of a ruthless disinformation campaign.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

My ask of any science enthusiasts who tell the story of Rosalind Franklin: Don't make her life be about the DNA debacle. She died far too young, but she was a promising scientist in her own right, a mentor and scientific author. Not for Watson or Crick, but for her legacy.

New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.

If you see any business owners belittling SNAP recipients for accepting government money to get through tough times, maybe look them up on @propublica.org's PPP Loan Tracker to see if they got any of the $793B in bailout money (96% of which was forgiven) projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/...

What was your first rigged election? Mine was 2000 Bush v Gore. A quarter of a century ago..

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How about some good news? Vaccine to curb chlamydia epidemic devastating koalas approved

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

I keep saying every miserable summer, it was never this hot in the Pacific Northwest, and here's the proof.

This is the one Labor Day graph that tells you the actual problem in America. The problem is not that America lacks abundance. The problem is that a handful of oligarchs are hoarding America’s abundance. www.levernews.com/the-labor-da...

Happy Labor Day to all who celebrate, and a miserable Labor Day to those who don't, because people who hate labor don't deserve nice things.

We’re only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jr’s eugenicist ideology.

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

This impact of dams was not on my Bingo card… “A team of scientists at Harvard University…[found] that the rampant construction of dams from 1835 to 2011 has locked up so much water that the Earth’s poles have moved slightly from their axial rotation.” www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

Fun fact: Members of Congress keep stable, subsidized health insurance - even in retirement. Sounds great, right? Last week, many of them voted for the Big Ugly Bill, which strips coverage from millions. Healthcare is a human right - for me, not for thee.

"In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." (1776) 🗃️

Just a quick little comic thing. Heave-ho 😏

@drtomfrieden.bsky.social had a great Insta post that we are sharing here. "We spend 300 times more on military defense than on protecting our health. But when the threat came, it didn't wear a uniform. It didn't knock. It slipped through systems we never built and funding we never prioritized"

"Thus are our cruel enemies warring against liberty, virtue and the arts and sciences. To make war against literature and learning is the part of barbarians." From J. Thatcher, 1777. "A military journal during the American revolutionary war, from 1775 to 1783."

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

Yet Luigi launched a thousand hand-wringing op-eds from the chattering class. Makes you think

I just wanna write about astronomy and talk about Star Trek and make high-level puns and post fun photos but instead we have secret police and federally sponsored kidnappings and horrifically repressive legislation jammed through and oh yeah also a massively illegal war in the Middle East. Dammit.

I'm willing to forgive the Democratic establishment a lot more than most folks on this site, but rallying behind Cuomo is self defeating and inexcusably craven.

Hi! My name is Monica and I'm a landscape painter from Canada 🇨🇦 This is my art, let me know what you think!

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

nature is for EVERYONE! 🏳️‍🌈

Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

🚨New paper alert!🚨 We show that hummingbird beaks have changed in shape & size since around WWII, driven by the rise of commercialized feeders! 🧵 📄 Paper: dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.... #ornithology #evolution #GlobalChangeBiology

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Science is under attack! Here are a few ways you can share your story - post it on social media, call your representative's office, engage local media outlets #resist #SaveNSF

One of the most overlooked features of the museum? LABELS! Without them, we're all just guessing, but with them is a life more completely lived. Try it! #museum #science #funnyvideos #details #houston #hmns

May Day is not officially acknowledged in the U.S. because of what historians say is an ongoing resistance to unity among the working class. This resistance is prompting protesters to take action on Thursday, regardless.

Breast cancer diagnoses rose by over 300% between 1973 and 1992. Was there a breast cancer epidemic?! NO. Mammograms were implemented for screening in 1976. PREVALENCE is a function of being able to correctly diagnose something. This is also about autism.

There are still heroes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

Instead of believing the myth that three expensive, genetically modified wolves are “de-extinct” dire wolves, let’s look at animals humanity has actually brought back from the brink of extinction using proven science and dedicated hard work: 🧵/6

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Dire wolves were not close relatives of gray wolves. They last shared a common ancestor more than 5 million years ago. What Colossal has done is make something new and slapped a dire wolf sticker on it, as if an organism equals a hypothetical genome.