WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS: We try to keep fresh fruit around, though it can be challenging out of season, yeah. CHOTNIER: So the icebox, obviously, would keep things from going bad as quickly. WCW: Exactly, yes. C: Is the food communal? Do you just grab whatever's in there? WCW: Isaac, look.

I shattered my left shoulder by tripping over my own left foot, trying to stumble and then tripping over my own RIGHT foot. Went airborne, landed on my outstretched arm. This happened in a state park, on father’s day. Soooo many people saw it all.

Reached one year cancer free. Went to Iceland, accidentally witnessed an erupting volcano. Learned to solder.

'Unfurl', 2023, acrylics on 20x24-inch canvas. Part of a small series of macro ostrich fern paintings. #ArtAdventCalendar

Men. Can. Get. Breast cancer.

Remember those times i said we were headed for an epistemic crisis because bad people were gonna use deepfakes to make propaganda & conspiracy theories & destabilize consensus reality-making & how the central paradigm of "generative AI" enables, encourages, & was indeed built on this premise? Yeah.

Without planning on it at all, we caught part of the eruption in the Reykjanes peninsula in Iceland a few days ago. Also saw some of the lava scars from last year. What an otherworldly place.

I met some puffins yesterday! They are much smaller than I expected, though just about as cute as I expected. They all had adult coloring, but many of them seemed to be rather new to adulthood :)

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

I’ve been watching all the videos out of Minneapolis and LA and at this point I’m wondering if the majority of armed dudes in masks wearing “ICE” gear are even employed by them. Like ICE should be abolished *and also* most of these guys are just claiming to be them in order to terrorize people.

Read my brilliant pal Matthew.

Two LIGO sites are essential for independently validating observed gravitational wave signals. Without the second site, we can't constrain the sky position well enough for electromagnetic follow-up searches of binary neutron star mergers. This would be devastating for the whole field ...

it is quite literally not LIGO without two antennas

My people, we need two LIGO sites to prove sources are astrophysical and not, like, a rabbit hopping nearby. ⚛️

petition to call apps with unnecessary, intrusive, non-toggleable predictive tech "AI-infested apps"

If anyone in my network knows any mathematical artists on blue sky… or artists who use math in their work on blue sky…. Can you let me know? I’d love to follow them. (I had a bunch on Twitter but I deleted that a while ago and want to see more in my feed.)

Everyone 6 months and older is eligible to get a flu vaccine. It makes no sense to restrict Covid vaccines to only people who have specific medical conditions. The FDA is basing its decisions on politics, not science.

you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

People need to stop following executive orders like they’re laws

It’s even more offensive because they ASKED US FOR THIS POWER and they’re not using it! They’re shrinking away from responsibilities that they actively campaigned for! They’re spending more time trying to keep their jobs than to do their jobs!

At this point, I don’t take seriously any elected official who doesn’t throw themselves into the gears of the machine because the machine is creating fascism

No one likes this but it remains true that you can’t just oppose a message and expect people to pick it up; you have to actively, aggressively build an affirmative narrative for people to support in order to counter opponents. “You’re wrong” isn’t as powerful as “this is what right looks like”

I… did not know about this. This is so bizarre and unsettling.

Oh wait there is one in NYC! And it costs $45 to get in! Are you fucking kidding me?! streicker.nyc/events/schumer

I’m seriously asking myself this question. First stop is Monday in Baltimore. I just… beyond the crassness and abdication of responsibility that is doing a BOOK TOUR when an unelected billionaire is actively destroying critical government agencies, it’s notable he’s not scheduled to show up in NY.

between Eric Adams, Columbia, and Gillibrand and Schumer, New Yorkers are straight up not having a good time rn

I don’t want to wait nearly four years to primary Schumer. I want every moment of his existence to be a struggle, right now. I want him to feel like he can’t go out in public without being reminded how much he has hurt people. No rest. No acceptance. Same for the rest of them.

So I read the filing from Citibank re: Climate United, but apparently the FBI also requested freezing the accounts of the New York State Dept of Taxation and Finance last month? Did Citibank comply with that one too, or are they cherry-picking? I feel like it would have been a news item if so…

“But Accu-Weather!!” They get their data from NWS. “But my local TV station has their own radar on a truck!” Sure, and they use it to fill small geographic gaps in the broader radar coverage that’s provided by NWS. “My weather app!” It’s getting its data from NWS.

I, a person who has taken and taught general relativity and passed a qualifying exam based on Wald (!), pointed out the earth is round in response to the suggestion that flight paths should be straight and a man who is a genomicist came into my mentions and told me I didn’t understand curvature

Remember to keep joy in your revolution. Community justice is also about the right to have spaces that *aren't* just concerned with survival.

If your revolution excludes developmentally and intellectually disabled people, your revolution sucks.

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers. This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

My heart is in a dark place. I just spent the past year in surgery, chemo and radiation for a rare and rather deadly form of cancer. The research output of even just the past 5 years has likely saved my life. This is so horrific.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

I think pushing a whole new type of technology so hard it is basically unavoidable should count as experimenting on people without consent.

This is a great little institution in Ithaca, I was there in 2022, it is an enjoyable visit and a cool place, well worth supporting!

Our sweet silly girl was diagnosed with end stage lymphoma today. We are doing palliative care but prognosis is very short (days to weeks). Ligo was such a strange and cute little ball of energy, and things turned very quickly. Hug your cats if you have them.

There's a difference between deciding to direct your care energy to a situation of your choosing and actively going out of your way to publicly pronounce your total lack of care for a situation of your choosing. In the latter scenario, you're still directing your energy. It's just bad energy.

Trying to be creative under capitalism is evil. What’s your brand? Do you have a large following? How are you selling yourself? Can you produce constant output so people don’t get bored? How are you special and different? Why should we care? Answer these questions, be pretty, and maybe you’ll win!!

Dang I didn’t know this. Will be using moving forward though!

Sigh. I have been trying to find a new primary care physician (mine left practice while I was in cancer treatment) and I finally found one in my town that didn’t have a waitlist. First available appointment is in mid June. Why is this so hard?

Oh wait I get it. People think "Don't Look Up" was about how if we don't stop climate change we will all die. Actually, the film Don't Look Up was about what it is like to know something that nobody wants to hear.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 12: December a photo taken a few minutes before or after the winter solstice on December 21, 2022

If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information

There’s more to rainbows than the human eye can see: here’s how a rainbow extends into the infrared and ultraviolet. Photos: 1. Infrared 2. Visible (obviously) 3. Ultraviolet, and 4. A composite showing how UV is beyond the violet in a rainbow, and IR beyond the red end. 🧪 #photography

I keep seeing this reference to public bathrooms as women's "private spaces" and I just do not understand it. Strangers are strangers even when they're women! We're not communing in there for hours at a time, talking about perimenopause and who's getting divorced and shaving our legs.

Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭 He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.