And less than 6 months later, was beginning the process of writing Project 2025. Then he took aim at broadcasters, and SNL specifically.

Leave it to @quantamagazine.bsky.social to come up with the most intuitive example of a discrete Fourier transform I’ve ever heard: it’s the calculation that allows us to hear!

I read this part of the Klein article and asked myself, “hm, I wonder what CK said about the 2020 election? Did he ever acknowledge that Biden won?” The answer, unsurprisingly, is no.

Found solace, joy, and community tonight with @theferocity.bsky.social & @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social discussing their new book The People’s Project. Also @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social we have the same jumpsuit and that feels special.

Whew, what a poem

Next years #RSECon26 will be 9-11th September 2026 &co-located with the inaugural International Research Software Conference 7-8th September 2026 (www.researchsoft.org/irsc/ ) in Sheffield. Want to help organise RSECon26 see society-rse.org/volunteer-at... #RSECon25 #RSECon26 #IRSC26

Might have found a new favorite bar shopping downtown with Casey today: Bukowski Tavern near the Prudential Center. I’d give 5 stars! Some other Joe apparently disagrees.

"say what you want about this arsonist, at least he has a plan for the house" please listen to yourselves

A Florida court detained a US Citizen for being an "illegal immigrant." He showed the court proof of citizenship. The court agreed—& held him anyway. I criticized the ruling online & a Florida judge responded by trying to strip me of my law license. I fought back www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-florida-...

it really is interesting that they recognize it isn't politically possible to claim the US as a specifically anglo-saxon country and thus have to retroactively include groups of european immigrants — seen, at the time, as interlopers — as "white" people entitled to the same claim on national origins

Remarkable that after several years of learning about #Rust, and how its type system gets error handling right, the first substantive Rust function I wrote used `panic!` like an (unrecoverable) exception. Old habits die hard.

A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture. More: rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

In 2022, the @houstonchronicle.com editorial board endorsed an election denier because of the incumbent’s “failure to respond with urgency” to crime. Three paragraphs down: “violent crime is currently declining”. Public understanding should be a metric of success. The field is utterly failing.

New from me on an obvious way to build trust in the reality-based press. Please read and subscribe. https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/bring-back-the-public-editor-no-i

There are so many great popular science books. Do folks here have any popular math book recommendations? I’m interested in a “graduate level math concepts distilled” book, like popular cosmology books.

WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.

This essay confronts what I’ve been trying to write in a short story that deals with SA. To let the world forget the names of men who have abused women. Thank you @megpillow.bsky.social. I hope others take the time to read this important essay.

Call for Astronomy, astrophysics and space science Editors at the Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) blog.joss.theoj.org/2025/08/call...

I found @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social’s The Originalism Trap on here!

Youth is wasted on the young and wealth is wasted on the wealthy.

Key policies in the AI Action Plan include a lot of bad stuff. One of the scariest is the Promotion Rapid Buildout of Data Centers. Without protections against the air-polluting facilities, communities are going to be burdened with health risks #ai #aiActionPlan

Now formally published! It really is perfect that this code, named both for the PSF spikes and as a nod to a favorite Buffy character -- hence the logo, should find its home in JOSS... github.com/avapolzin/sp... 🔭🧪☄️

Roughly 10 years ago, in his Medal of Freedom speech as VP, Joe Biden said he was planning to sell his family home to pay for his son’s medical bills for cancer treatments. The Vice President of the United States almost sold his home to pay for cancer treatments for his veteran son.

Plenty of articles in NYT, Atlantic, etc. arguing that CBS canceling the Late Show makes sense for financial reasons. At what point did the appearance of impropriety stop being enough? What have executives done to deserve the benefit of the doubt?

this is a good illustration of what “compromise” on trans rights looks like. there’s no “everyone gets rights but we take it easy on the pronouns.” if you head down that road you will end up denying that trans people are real.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

I can’t think of another fixture in American non-political media who has so consistently refused to bend the knee. It sounds dramatic to say in any single case, but the culmination of ~20 of these cases looks like civil society crumbling.

There's no way this is just about "finances," given that they had plenty of finances to bribe Trump. A shame. Colbert is so funny and kind and generous, especially to writers.

(1/n) Why do we believe in dark matter when we can't directly see it? The distinction between a "direct" and "indirect" is more a spectrum than a binary. Galaxy rotation is fairly indirect and could be explained by something like modified Newtonian dynamics (MOND). #Science #Physics #Astronomy 🧪⚛️🔭🧵

Getting coffee with Casey this morning had me remembering my favorite coffee shop back in Houston: Agora in Montrose. All of my grad school applications and research readings were completed by the grace of their coffee and wine until 2am on weekends. I highly recommend it if you have reading to do.

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

I’m still so heartbroken about Andrea Gibson. So unfair that their time on earth was so short. ❤️‍🩹

Bonus points if the books use #JuliaLang 🏎️

I may apply for some graduate classes in computational science. I thought books would be a good first step, but I’ve found very few published in the last 5 years. Any textbook recommendations for the following? 🧪 Numerical methods, automatic differentiation, inverse problems, learning, etc.

Pro Publica’s work is so impressive. Their impact goes way beyond that of media organizations with 10x headcount.

I've been wanting to find blogs on computational science (specifically the intersection of applied mathematics & research software development) and I'm realizing an online magazine could be really useful for aggregating and elevating ideas. If anyone interested in exploring this, please reach out! 🧪

The evisceration of American science can be stopped.

It's been ZERO days since a trailing comma in a payload "broke" my REST API client 🗑️🔥

Here you go …. Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/07/is-the-new-york-times-trying-to-wreck-zohran-mamdanis-mayoral-bid?CMP=share_btn_url

The astronomy community here is amazing, and astrosky.eco is only the latest example. With AT, so many integrations with this community are possible. For example, what about an automation where being added to one of the feeds also adds you to a Hypothesis Group? 🔭 bsky.app/profile/loop...

I recently remembered this performance by a poet named Georgie Jones. I saw it on social media a year or so ago, and it’s stuck with me.

Typst (and SDR) rules, excited to give this a listen.

Are there any hypothes.is groups for science and/or computing? Or should folks just annotate publicly? 🧪🔭

An excerpt from “Ilium" by Casey Reiland (@caseyreiland.bsky.social). Read the full piece in garlicpresslit.com/issues/issue-5

I spent most of today getting my blog to be hosted entirely on Cloudflare with private previews authenticated through a SSO layer. The end goal: the capability to selectively move content behind a paywall with zero code in #Quarto. I have no prior experience with web development, but seems possible!

The complete and open contempt this administration has for roughly half of America is disgusting. Building a national politics that disincentivizes it will be difficult but worth it.

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

I’ve moved like 10 times so far and once again it is so much more work than I remember

These protests can be escalated so quickly. I know many are uncomfortable with photos of protestors near the police line, e.g. Ferguson in 2014. I recently learned that this can be a crowd’s defensive response to tear gas. The police line may be the closest space that’s safe from chemical weapons.