Arkansas touts its designation as the “most pro-life state in America," but that clearly only applies to fetuses, not women.

The answer to this depends on how you define AI. In astronomy, for example, we have been using machine learning for many years to search for features in large data sets. We develop and vet our own training sets, though. I think people mean LLMs for AI, but there is a broader set of tools.

recorded this just before news broke that the settlement shields the trump family from IRS audits which is OUTRAGEOUS youtu.be/hraZ4tIuDWA?...

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Red states can cancel elections and redraw the maps to cut out Black representation without any voter input, and no one stops them. Blue state asks the voters if they wanna redistrict, the voters say yes, and the court strikes it down.

Glad I finished grading yesterday though they aren’t submitted yet. #canvashack

Currently in this situation, though I haven't finished yet. I did get many other things done while avoiding the task, though.

I have finally done the thing The important thing I have inexplicably been putting off And which is very late And which has been contributing to my anxiety and insomina for months It took about an hour wasn't very hard at all, almost enjoyable in fact

Wow.

MS Project “helping” me with scheduling…

The White House is proposing $18.8 billion for NASA in FY27, a 23% cut to NASA's 2026 enacted funding. Science, ISS, and education major targets of the proposed cuts. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

I see these men trying to for an easy-mode sense of worth. Instead of working on themselves, they want to just shove others down and then celebrate how exalted they are.

This is why I don’t use AI. After 20+ years of technical writing , it’s faster to do it myself than to proof AI. Plus, I like to learn new things and you don’t learn if you don’t do the work.

Even if the Supreme Court rules to uphold Birthright Citizenship, and I suspect it will, Trump will still have succeeded in politicizing an issue that has largely gone unquestioned by most Americans. To that extent he will have weakened--perhaps permanently--another pillar of our democracy.

When the birthright citizenship decision comes out, people will say it could never have gone any other way, that the law was obvious. But the mere fact that SCOTUS took on the case is evidence enough that we are living in a time of democratic precarity.

"The whole world should be outraged by it." If "it" means the consequences of the unnecessary war that President Leeroy Jenkins initiated in the region, then yes, yes they should be.

Making the Strait of Hormuz safe for energy shipments would be a remarkable accomplishment, one that the world has never seen since the beginning of the month.

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

Rand Paul: Who ordered you on this 'classified mission?' Mullin: Oh, you wouldn't know them, they go to a different Intel agency.

La Brea Tar Pits.

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

I just finished Hemlock & Silver and what I want to know is whether @tkingfisher.com has read Wicked Plants, because if she hasn't, well, she needs to.

This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.

Also, this war brought to you by the same Pentagon that shot down a US drone with a laser and closed airspace near El Paso, again. You really want these guys starting wars and/or doing regime changes in Venezuela, Iran, and maybe Cuba in just the first quarter of 2026?

The largest spot-the-difference effort EVER has begun!🚨 On the night of Feb 24, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially released its first ~800,000 public alerts of detected changes in the night sky!🔍 A new era of discovery is here✨ 🔭🧪☄️ 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/first-a...

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Hey, I know that guy in the middle!

This spring, I'm spending a lot more time on I-35 than usual. Yesterday was particularly hairy: some sort of tarp blowing across windshields, a plastic shopping cart blocking a lane, and a genuine wildfire in Kyle. Spring Break can't come soon enough.

I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.

I think we need a new term, like a hell-no-bill.

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I feel heartened to know this was aired.

How do you not view this as a gorgeous expression of Hispanic culture in the U.S.? Smooth music, beautiful sets, and great dancing.

It felt like a love letter to the Hispanic American experience.

The prof's quotes in this article. 🤮

Phew, one of those times when something is stressing you out that you know you won't care about on your deathbed, but that seems very important right now.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

This was murder. Pretti did not initiate the confrontation. He didn’t strike them. He didn’t brandish his gun. They tackled him, beat him, disarmed him, and shot him.

Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry. It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.

TFW you are refereeing a paper you know you should have said no to...

/2 This will be grotesque. Edward R. Murrow didn’t have a radio show in 1946 where Eisenhower debated Göring about whether the Nazis had some good points. Today’s media would absolutely do that. Today’s media will platform people defending and rewriting Good’s murder for years.

I'm glad this is happening to a rostered faculty member instead of an adjunct or TA.

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

The White House having it's "we've always been at war with Eurasia" moment.

Also, cedar fever days like today make me think I should retire on medical grounds.

I'm teaching this semester and just had my first teaching bad dream. A student called my Canvas modules "mediocore" lol.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

Yeah, man, the only difference between your career and Mark Rufallo’s career is the political stuff.