Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, you set up an experiment that would disprove it. If you can't do that, you shut your fucking mouth and learn something.

JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."

Happy #OPRD Items of Interest Day! #ChemSky #ChemChat

The baseless protein craze "You just create an inefficient system where your body gets very good at wasting food protein” “It’s really frustrating because there isn’t evidence to support the claims that they’re making" Feature @nature.com nature.com/articles/d41...

Jesus rather famously just gave people fish.

Okay, I'm all in for the Blue Jays. 1) AL East representing. Toughest division in MLB 2) Fuck the bigger payroll always. 3) Canada deserves something nice after all the bloviating and assholery they've endured from us these nine months. Yeah, Cali v. Trump. But Newsom can troll with other stuff.

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

scramble you little shits, scramble

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

@jimmykimmel.com If you're in town on October 18th, we'd love to have you again at our Torrance rally. I've heard your calendar has opened up. . . Sorry, too soon? www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

AI-generated content is AI slop. Signed, A Lazy Luddite

Endorsed.

I suspect you're not at the kind of conference I attend. If someone is speaking too confidently about their scientific research, I can't take them seriously. Expressing doubt about the validity of assumptions is the mark of a good scientist. But that's just like, my opinion, you know.

Stuart Stevens, currently to the left of most democratic leaders on the Hill

It’s crazy that America just like. Destroyed science. Just looked at its golden goose and went “wow should we kill this? And not for the gold, but just because we fucking hate this thing” And if you tell random people about it they go “no, that doesn’t seem true” and just refuse to believe you

If Trump pardons convicted child rapist Gislane Maxwell, they will absolutely officially be the pedophile defender party. The fact that this is even being considered is sickening. She also has been moved to a nice min security prison, a club Fed, ALREADY

Trump deploying National Guardsmen in DC exposes one of his big lies about January 6th. Kash Patel falsely claimed for years that the Democrats failed to take Trump up on his offer to deploy the Guard on Jan. 6. But Trump could have deployed the DC Guard himself and didn’t. Now he does.

Tamal is the singular of tamales but just like pierogi, who orders only one?

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

I thought 2 Californias was funny and then I panned right in the image.

We only rate dogs. This is the goth cousin of Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc. Please understand it's not just a phase, and only send dogs. Thank you… 12/10 (credit u/vincidelaunc)

Remember when products had the quality ingredients?

watching you dildo brain cock suckers play w/ AI shit is like watching a dog paw at one of those puzzle boxes that you put treats inside of

Friendly reminder: the president who most increased debt in US history? Donald Trump! More than 43 other presidents accumulated in the country’s first 216 years combined.

They SHUT DOWN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

This should be a huge story

Come be my colleague! We are looking for someone to join the medicinal chemistry team here in Lawrence. The ideal candidate must have some industrial experience. #chemjobs #chemsky #medchem www.smartrecruiters.com/DecipheraPha...

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Talk about The Wire, Sopranos, Game of Thrones all you want, but the greatest US television program ever made is Sesame Street. It's not even close. 50+ years of treating kids across class, ethnicity, religion not as mini-consumers...but as citizens with a stake in this world.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

though I did read about someone in InfoSec getting called into HR because his response to getting one of these scams was replying with goatse. turns out it was an internal test that they did to new hires. his response was basically "my personal phone? off limits."

paradox, you say

Our A.I. times ;-)

Stephen Miller should be sent to The Hague for crimes against humanity.

If you disfavor full disclosure because it might end Republican control of Congress, you are not a serious person. You are a partisan hack.

Recently, my book THEY CALLED US ENEMY was banned – again – in Tennessee. Book bans are out of control. Huge parts of American history are being restricted. To join me in standing up for the freedom to read, go to pen.org/action. @penamerica.bsky.social @topshelfcomix.bsky.social @idwpublishing.com

Don't make me tap this sign.

This was a hard one to write. It’s disconcerting to report on inhumane conditions at a U.S. concentration camp from the comfort of my home office, but not enough people are speaking out. And I don’t want history to repeat. Please help let others know. My write-up in the replies.

I don’t really care what this place is or isn’t. Alls I know is it’s been great for the business of The Onion and that both Zuck and Musk have experience cooking and/or hiding the books on their own traffic. Doesn’t really matter if there are more page views if they’re not real people.

Just to accurately lay out the course of events, people were yelling at him because his auto-responding robot that was trained on Twitter’s userbase still displayed — against all odds — a modicum of empathy. He then made the robot speak like him and within hours it was calling itself Mechahitler.

This is vile. Medela pumps are the most commonly used hospital grade pumps in NICUs & postpartum units. You can support breastfeeding without discontinuing products for parents who exclusively pump, bottle feed, or have to send their child to daycare with bottles so they can return to work.

Art by @karenhallionkenney.bsky.social

Is the guy who trained the Nazi AI the same guy who definitely didn't do a Nazi salute at Donald Trump's inauguration or is that a different guy who 100% isn't a Nazi?

I'm reading so many posts shitting on Karen Bass, upset that she didn't run ICE out of MacArthur Park. She LITERALLY DID. One woman with her mad-teacher voice got them the fuck out. (For now.) What exactly do you nihilists want from her? Christ I am so mad. lacityview.org/live