i do not like chat GPT It just is not the tool for me I do not like it in my slides I do not like its gross insides I do not like its good friend Claude I do not like this useless sod I do care for Gemini I would rather stab my eye...

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

“You get tired of people playing fast and loose with your dead. You know how many people are dead in the bottom of rivers in Mississippi because they tried to vote? Racism still occupies the throne of this country.” ~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Distinguished University Professor at Princeton #SCOTUS

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli

TRUMP: I'm not a rapist. I didn't rape anybody O'DONNELL: Oh, you think he was referring to you?

Time to get rid of the oligarchy

“Competence porn” - we need more of that in our current chaotic existence

JHC. 😱 Paraphrased: "how should investors view genocide and war crimes? should they expect an uptick in their portfolios? or a downturn?"

great documentary series about the Persian people and how their art, science, food, and culture has shaped humanity....arguably more than any other.

This tweet just received a full-blown guffaw from my dad

"The Nights Are Quiet in Tehran,” by Shida Bazyar and translated from the original German by Ruth Martin. Bazyar’s novel traces a family’s life from communist activism during the revolution to the anguish of watching the Tehran street protests of recent decades from abroad." All Booker Shortlist: ⤵️

Pam Bondi? More like Pam GONEdi…. Amirite?!

Friends don’t let astronauts friends use Microsoft Outlook. I wonder if Mission Control in Houston will set up a Teams meeting to solve this IT problem? 🤪🙄🤦‍♂️😉

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

Damn, this series of really brutal polls on the economy

Why do women account for nearly 2/3rd of all cases of Alzheimer's disease? A new, thorough review, open-access, on its origins in midlife. @jci.org www.jci.org/articles/vie...

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

Jellyfish have survived all 5 mass extinctions which goes to show the best way to succeed in this world is to not have a brain or heart

These dogs are having the time of their lives following this week's historic blizzard in the Northeast. Please enjoy. 14/10 for all

Please consider sharing.

This administration just wants to hurt people in states that didn’t vote for them

I really appreciate this TikToker with Tourette syndrome, Shay, for taking the time to educate so many of us (including me) about her disability and coprolalia in light of what happened at the BAFTAs with John Davidson when Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were on stage. I learned a lot.

new data from NIH about funding trends through FY2025 also a flyby analysis from Claude lol grants.nih.gov/news-events/...

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

when dook loses, we all win. Heels, baby

i am a bari hater and take no pleasure in reporting this but nellie does seem to have been on the up and up re epstein: she contributed reporting to at least one story on him (www.nytimes.com/2019/07/08/n...) and also specifically wrote about him emailing her (www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/b...)

Ban everyone from using Teams! 😉

Attn @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Mandatory no masking, visible IDs, body cameras on, state jurisdiction for investigations

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Nurses are pissed. This is on the front page of the nursing subreddit, along with many discussions about it on several other posts.

Its like the set up of a very very long joke. "Ok, so there's this bar and in walks a priest, and a priest, and a pastor, and a vicar, and an imam, and a rabbi, and a deacon, and two more pastors, and a mufti and a...."

I think the more accurate phrase is "Everything Trump Touches Dies" #ETTD from @therickwilson.bsky.social but ETTTTS also has a nice ring to it.

Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her

NEWS: The Social Security Administration has referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Students were encouraged to inform on their teachers... in the Soviet Union. "A growing threat to #academicfreedom: Students who act as informants and police their classes and professors for signs of political incorrectness." #AcademicSky theconversation.com/theres-an-in...

This. We don’t need better training for Trumps Gestapo. Just dissolve it.

Tuskegee, part 2

When the normal stand-on-the-sidelines folks get involved, you know you’ve fucked up big time.

The right: stop calling us Nazis Joe Rogan: this is some Gestapo bullshit.

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I did a crisper version of this Andor remix if anyone is a completist.

Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

can we put them into a table without corrupting the larger spread sheet ?

Here's another absolute shredder I'd recommend catching live!