Learning about the TRAPPIST-1 system—an environment composed of seven rocky planets orbiting a red dwarf star—has been an ongoing endeavor. And now #NASAWebb is expanding the scientific story in exciting and new ways: https://bit.ly/4kH9X3i

A pastoral letter

"Warner Brothers used 2 b a friend of mine, now they're just a monumental waste of time..."

My “Chocolate Pop-Tarts control the weather” skeet has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the skeet. 1/

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

Congratulations to USA Women’s Olympic hockey team

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Stirring the pot

“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward, and not just at Hopkins.” I highly recommend reading this piece. www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

MUST READ: The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪 Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

3 new videos are posted on YouTube for our Tour of the NASA #Exoplanet Archive series! 🔭🧪 Watch & subscribe: www.youtube.com/@NASAExoplanetArchive

Does GenZ have a movie yet? It seems like there’s long been a consensus that the previous generations were defined by the movies / soundtracks of: Boomers: The Graduate (1967) GenX: Say Anything (1989) Millenials: Garden State (2004) Maybe it’s just too soon?

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Man I thought “masked agent of the state calling the woman he murdered a bitch” was the most “heavy-handed feminist novel” reality was gonna get but now we got “rapist president demands woman smile when she asks him about abuse victims”?

I can't believe we're gonna get to buy our Halloween costumes at the damn Kennedy Center.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Imo the arXiv should impose an automatic ban the first time someone submits a preprint with a hallucinated reference in it. Zero tolerance policy.

There really seems to be a lot of kayfabe happening right now. Trump is pretending to de-escalate to placate Dems so they don't demand reform, and Dems are making up fake reforms so they can pretend like they made changes while they vote to fund DHS.

This machine yub nubs fascists.

This is what it feels like to

I wrote the speech I *wish* Chuck Schumer would give tonight - as an actual opposition leader. Here it is: "My fellow Americans: At this hour, an unrestrained force of militarized and violent federal officers is carrying out a project of ethnic cleansing in the streets of American cities." 1/14

Reviewer 2 must be stopped.

someone should write about this www.liberalcurrents.com/the-present-...

I come from North Minny And I never run from any And I ain’t about to stop right now

Androids, AI, and self-driving cars. It really is just mechanical turks all the way down.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

One of the points I tried to make clear in having this conversation was: I’m not a radical. I am a *boring middle-aged dad*, who’s raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital, and worked in tech for decades. I have not lost my mind, or become an extremist. THEY DID.

(For folks asking, I'm happy to grant the Iron & Wine Front flag to the public domain, feel free to use for whatever you want; if you want to make merch or t-shirts or stickers, have at it. If you charge money for stuff, donate the proceeds to help ICE targets or you're a scumbag.)

Posting screenshots of losers from twitter is corny.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Maybe the greatest hoodie of all time

The image I plan to show while discussing the GenAI policy for my winter term undergraduate gravitation/cosmology course. You may infer what said policy might be.

I mean, you don't have to convince me, I do what an LLM is supposed to do, but much better, much cheaper and fueled almost entirely on snacks and Coke Zero. But then I want pesky things like human rights and a salary, so

I want to thank the Apple Music algorithm for playing Sarah McLachlan’s “Possession “ into Prince’s “Delirious “ taking my son to school this morning.

Hegseth vs Kelly is like Drake vs Kendrick: I cant believe the fight was picked, and I really can’t believe how many rounds it’s going.

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

Go!

I’ve been watching Macross 7, an anime series from the mid-90s set in the mid-2040s. Million-person city ships easily traveling between the stars, antigravity microphones, but no cellphones.

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I’m certainly not an economist, but this is the first explanation I’ve read that seems to jibe with the recent experiences of almost everyone I know.

We have a “poverty trap” and it’s driving the destruction of social cohesion. The “poverty line” is’t 35,000, it’s $150,000, and making more than one, and less than the other is worse than being “poor”. Which is why the rage. www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office. He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people. Release the transcript.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi

Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You

STScI has three goals: 1) to excel in the science operations of NASA's current and future astrophysics missions; 2) to advance astronomical research, archives, and tools for scientific discovery; and 3) to make astronomical information accessible to all: https://www.stsci.edu/ 🔭 🧪

NEW: I’m calling on Trump to cancel private jet flights instead of commercial airlines. Private jet flights often take a single billionaire passenger, but still put real strain on our air traffic control system.