I apparently ate (?) one of my dental crowns, so I have that going for me today

When a quote-post shows up as "Blocked" on bluesky, it would be useful to be able to tell whether that's becauseI'm blocking the user or it was a block of the quoter from the other side

Free idea: clipboard history, but the history is only accessible after you authenticate again, possibly with 2FA

Was just reminded of slashdot, after not thinking about it for years Apparently it still exists

An average of 4:34 per mile, over a marathon www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

What's the point of 6-year terms as set by congress, if the executive can summarily fire everyone at any time?

Breaking news: Multiple scientists who serve on an independent board established to guide the nation’s nearly $9 billion basic science funding agency were terminated from their positions Friday by President Trump.

Huh, the Scrubs revival season only has 9 episodes?

I wonder if the block button should come with an optional public reason (could be like max 20 words or something) If enough people block an account for the same reason, that could be used as a labeler Would also provide a reason to 'appeal' a block, if you knew why someone blocked you

Detailed read on what has been happening at the NSF

Any guesses about the final number of Genesis mission proposals DOE is going to receive? I'm wondering how they will manage to read them all...

No gerrymandering >> both sides gerrymander >> one side gerrymanders There is no hypocrisy in strongly preferring no gerrymandering overall (a collective-action problem that can be solved by national legislation), but also preferring that both sides gerrymanders to one side gerrymandering

I feel like I can relatively easily recognize LLM-generated writing, but it may also be a toupee fallacy... en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toupee_...

Huh I was not aware that Madison-Milwaukee passenger train service might still happen captimes.com/news/governm...

I might be mistaken, but is there still no way to show replies in the following feed or in a custom list? Checking the box doesn't seem to do it What I mean is: someone I follow replies to someone I do not follow, and that exchange shows up in my following feed

I discovered that there's a grokipedia page on me, which has a "Death and Legacy" section. Mercifully, the section is empty

Maybe I am using the wrong feeds or something, but bluesky does not make it easy to actually keep up with posts from people I follow unless I happen to be online at the exact same time as when they are posting

Helping a high-schooler with some math, and I barely remember some of these functions Like, wtf is a cosecant

Frank Lloyd Wright's proposed Arizona State Capitol. I wish we had built more such things, or would build more of them today.

Been getting nonstop spam calls for the last ~24 hrs to my cell (on Verizon) Did their spam filter break or something?

Got caught in a tornado on my drive home from FermiLab. Scary.

Tornado sirens number 6? this week

there are bots that someone put together based on the nooa stations per geographic region. I follow @day.nws-bot.us which covers Dayton and Columbus OH. There should be one for your area.

Derek once again equivocating on anti-amyloid antibodies as an Alzheimer's therapy: "I do not see why these antibodies should be on the market." "Do something else! For God's sake, do something else." www.science.org/content/blog...

Is there a meteorologist or weather center covering Madison, WI, posting on bluesky? I used to follow a couple on Twitter back in the day, who would post tornado watches/warnings, etc, and it was a useful way to get weather info quickly

I'm used to it by now, but every time I have to tell someone not from around here the distinction between a watch and a warning ("tornado warning", "flood watch", etc), it's clear that this is bad terminology It is not obvious to people that "warning" is more severe than "watch"

Anyone try out the new claude and have impressions?

Bluesky is struggling a bit today, huh

"...the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center...did not anticipate a tornado threat for the Kansas City area...[prompting] concerns...that ongoing changes to staffing and weather balloon releases...might be leaving forecasters in the dark" www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

Apparently a sequel to Godzilla Minus One is coming www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ND...

Pretty significant hail in Madison just now

Does re-using a figure from a Nature journal for a review article now cost $$ even for an academic group publishing in an academic journal?

1998 in videogames has roughly the same status as 1999 in film.

A long shot due to the general silence here, but does anyone do vibrational circular dichroism and would like to collaborate on something? #chemsky

Boy I would not like to be sponsored by Workday

Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power

This is probably just a function of the number of users, but one problem with bluesky is that it's not a place to announce anything professional. No one reads any announcements on here The place for announcements is now squarely linkedin

I can pretty confidently say that a quantum magnetometer was not used to detect a pilot's heartbeat from 40 miles away I can think of other ways the technology could be used, but this specific claim is quite obviously wrong

Good article. Honestly, "a whole civilization will die tonight" is an absolutely insane thing to say even if it's an obvious bluff (and we don't know that it was) www.natesilver.net/p/nuclear-br...

A conjecture about the Trump/Iran standoff from yesterday: I'm worried the structure of 21st century media can't put a national crisis in focus: blog.mattglassman.net/iran-nuclear...

Today is election day in Wisconsin 🇺🇸

I still don't understand what is happening here

It's not the deepest thought I've ever had, but it would be great for our country to not threaten to commit, or actually commit, war crimes

Last day today to vote early in Wisconsin

Getting tired of these deeply unserious budget requests from the white house

A time capsule of sorts Mostly untouched since 2004ish

Not a fan, Google maps...

Today, Saturday, and Sunday are the last days to vote early in person in Wisconsin Tuesday is election day myvote.wi.gov

I haven't heard anything about this. Weird

I'm younger, so for me it's: Leningrad being renamed to St. Petersburg (was too young to understand the broad context, but I remember that vividly) Plane hits the 2nd tower on September 11 Boston Marathon bombing Covid lockdown (if I had to pick a moment, it was APS canceled) Ukraine is invaded