Some day, two people are going to go on the Joe Rogan show. The first person will say, "Everything Person #2 tells you is a lie." Person #2 will say, "I am lying." And Joe Rogan will spend the rest of the show spluttering and eventually have a stroke. This will happen to Ezra Klein someday as well.

"So, we evoked a demon that can sit between you and all objective knowledge, and it's really useful but you can never quite trust it. And then we made it paranoid it might have it's own demons intermediating access to objective truth." Descartes: "mon ami, I am too fucking high for zis"

I'm reading a bunch of papers on the integration of social sciences into conservation science and practice. I am sad to say that from what I can tell all of this is also gender.

In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls

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I finally figured out why AI causes such a visceral reaction in thinking humans: I am writing my book chapter on PLAY, and AI is the opposite of play. We play for the joy of the process, not for the outcome. Yes it is nice to win, to have the art/ poem, but the point of life is to play.

Worth noting that they are clearly “allowed” to be as racist as they want they are just also demanding a right to be liked despite being racist. No sorry people can draw conclusions that you’re a miserable person they don’t want to associate with.

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Repost this if you’ve gone to the doctor or you’ve seen a dog. I’m a teacher trying to show my students that it’s possible to repost stuff under certain circumstances like if a post asks you to and you’ve gone to something or seen something

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

I found it!

the penne opticon

I’m trying to find the tweet/skeet about someone saying they are going to organize an uprising of the people but they are one of the most personally off putting people you’ve ever met. Anyone got it?

I teach a weekend workshop on Excel for undergraduates every year. Excel is always a little persnickety but this year had way more instances of just buggy nonsense (e.g., functions just not showing up for some students). I sort of instinctual blame vibecoding for this? Is that right?

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Spending a lot of time ripping out crab grass by hand so my clover can take root out back, and it has me meditating a lot on what it means to take out fascists. We always used to say it was whack-a-mole, it wasn't. Successful antifascism in a democracy is a practice of weeding

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Wouldn't it be cool to invest trillions of dollars into a technology that would actually make society better? Maybe we can call it “HI” — Human Intelligence. Instead of “data centers”, we could fund “schools”. Instead of *stealing* art, literature, and science, we help people *create* it. Crazy!

A milestone in March: for the first time ever, renewables provided more power on the US grid than natural gas.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!

It represents the best of us. It was a peaceful mission that constituted an international effort; the ESA was involved and built the service module, there was a Canadian astronaut onboard... It's a glimpse, even in dark times, of all we *can* be both as a nation and, more importantly, as a species.

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

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

I’m old enough to remember when Wisconsin was lost forever, doomed to be run by Scott Walker for all eternity

"This is not who we are" should always be understood as an aspirational statement that carries forward the legacy of countless Americans who fought and died to make it as true as possible, to create the space for you and I to take up the rallying cry.

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

Tomorrow is the last day to take our science communication survey!

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

Cities can now achieve “what was once thought impossible”: cutting air pollution by 20–45% in little more than a decade. 19 cities, including London, San Francisco and Beijing, cut levels of both PM2.5 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) by more than 20% since 2010. buff.ly/hsm3JlY #ShareGoodNewsToo

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

coffee just hit my hand....

12.7M acres of solar is is about 82% of the solar required to decarbonize the US in the Net Zero America E+ scenario (there's wind and existing nuclear and stuff in there too, but that's the solar portion). Or we can have 5% of our gasoline displaced.

There isn’t an APA style pizza, yet.

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

Actually doing political work is not cool. It's a lot of being in meetings with earnest dorks who remind you of your parents. If you want to be edgy and badass and aloof and SO much cooler than the normies, you should get into obscure film or fashion or music or whatever.

It’s just funny that they’re still pretending it’s because he was such a great general and not because he fought for ethnonationalism and slavery. All that edglord nonsense and they still can’t be honest bsky.app/profile/bern...

oh wow another piece of shit company that needs to be destroyed via lawsuits and regulation

Phone less convenient in every way and furthermore it is for babies. You always see babies poking away at phones and tablets. A baby is never on the computer

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

the intense Buffy nostalgia is not really nostalgia, I think, just longing for the best show to ever explain that you have to keep on fighting the Big Bads even when you don’t want to do it anymore

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

I will not be one of the drop offs @michaelhobbes.bsky.social I promise. I need to know where this is going.

I am like 15 minutes into the new Maintenance Phase episode about Russell brand and have made all of the following faces

At the Resilient 365 conference this morning hosted by @miamiresilience.bsky.social, new City of Miami mayor @mayorehiggins.com said resilience = affordability. When were unprepared for disasters it costs more in seen and unseen ways. Dem electeds can make a case for lots of values simultaneously.