Know the difference.

I'm probably a bit behind the curve here, but I am amazed by how beautifully engineered the Bambu Labs printers are. Just an incredible degree of finish...

Great interview

“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence

Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬. The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

This thread comprehensively confuses fascism with totalitarianism. There was dissent and resistance under Mussolini and Salazar for example. Duterte is probably another modern example of a modern fascist government that wasn't totalitarian.

Labour is handing more victories to the Far Right than the Far Right even thought was possible.

Forum culture only felt like a civics lesson because the constraints were legible. They weren’t healthier, just toxic at a dosage you could metabolize. We can’t microdose anymore.

Messaging the world's most famous pedophile about how you want to fuck one of your students decades your junior is completely disgusting. It is a gross abuse of his position and he should no longer be allowed around students.

What's the goal here, to cause unnecessary suffering to create more sad, embittered people?

Ah the 1970s. Stagflation, three day weeks, collapsing infrastructure. Civil War in Northern Ireland. In yer face racism and bigotry everywhere. Bin strikes. Strikes in general. Blackouts. Industrial decline. Wage inequality. Dog crap everywhere. And households spent 25% of their income on food.

And then it was “*Maybe* a few people would be swayed into thinking it was meaningful if there were days of having your brain scanned while you were exposed to a huge variety of stimuli” not “Oh, a couple of minutes of video, a little voice cloning and a quick interview, that’ll do the job!”

Oh, they made Virtual Martin from @gregegansf.bsky.social's 2010 novel Don't Make Virtual Martin^w^w^w^wZendegi

I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.

I think the NYT should lean into it more, perhaps "Matt Gaetz left vulnerable after helping homeless teen to afford dental care"

This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 3998 (2023-11-05) at approximately 17:20 LTST and a solar longitude of 143.68°.

"One of the first people to make public allegations against now-deceased billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was Ava Cordero, a transgender Latina woman. Cordero, a model, was transphobically mocked in the media after she filed an October 2007 lawsuit"

a “Space Force”, if you will

Airbnb cofounder Joe Gebbia is keeping tabs on the demographics of babies in Denmark

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

A new class of malaria drug is HUGE news

Sadly, the most obvious "tell" that these deportation videos are AI generated slop is that the ICE agents show their faces.

if you can’t see the aurora borealis tonight, here is a sewer tunnel which is a wonder in itself.

say what you want about worshipping unknown gods, dude. At least its an ethos.

"Write a game of tictactoe in any language of your choice in 3 days" and I bet > 90% of them would not be able to. The tech bros don't understand tech. They understand owning tech companies.

Midas is being comprehensively displaced as a the go-to metaphor for the emptiness of wealth

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

I've already gotten the "Blue Sky isn't normal" thing, but I just know that when I see leaders willing to fight, I'm elated. Leaders who fold, deflated. I don't think most of the Democratic base are dummies either. We know leadership in the Senate are folders, not fighters. Disappointing.

extremely rude that this wasn't it

Live look at GOP HQ, moments after getting Dem proposal to end the shutdown.

I don't believe in metaphysical darkness as an external thing, but damned if I haven't seen it dozens of time since 2016. Like we let something terrible in, while we were sleeping. It's here now, walking our streets, shooting our priests with pepper balls and abducting teachers in front of kids.

Wow, savage post-humous obituary. Quick notes: 1. Scariest words in the English language: 'I'm a successful auto-didact, and I'm here to help!' 2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ne_supr... is a reminder that this is the source of many of our ills today.

Nature makes weird planets, and now this is among the weirdest: As big as Jupiter, made of carbon, blasted by high winds, and heated to 1900 degrees C by a dying, fast-spinning pulsar. No matter how bad things get here, we live on the best of all possible worlds. 🔭🧪 arxiv.org/abs/2509.04558

This is really worth your time

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

The National Socialist Network held an antisemitic rally outside New South Wales Parliament today - astoundingly, it's emerged this afternoon that they did this with approval from NSW Police. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

Rosalind Franklin was born #OTD in 1920. Her X-ray diffraction work was critical for establishing the helical nature of DNA. 👩‍🔬 🧪 Work carried out by Franklin (with doctoral student Raymond Gosling) was given to Watson and Crick without her consent. Image: Vittorio Luzzati / Jewish Women’s Archive

i need you all to stop what you're doing & take 1 minute & 35 seconds to listen to curtis silwa on rat abortions

What is happening at Goddard is absolutely devastating. We are losing history. We are losing an incredible amount of human talent, skill, and knowledge. Rebuilding it will be impossible same for same. Industry can not absorb the people or the equipment. This is undoing space science in the US.

The NYT has earned their reputation of bring harmful and dangerous to trans people and especially trans kids. That’s entirely on them. If my kid was trans I wouldn’t trust the NYT either.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

Bill "the good billionaire" Gates

Just in case you were expecting something wild tonight, this viral screenshot was fake.