I sent a Quack-O-Gram and you can too! Show your support for science by sending your Congressional representatives a ducking message about the importance of strong leaders in our science agencies.

First time I've seen this in Slack:

Spread this info widely

Gamesbeat event in Seattle... Dean Takahashi and Adam Boyes sighted!

Windows Sandbox is sure handy when I'm judging game jam games or messing around with other Windows executables that seem a little sketch. Highly recommended! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Thank you Sho Sato and @igda.org Japan for organizing the Kyoto Serious Games Summit! I was sad to need to attend remotely but enjoyed the opportunity to hear more about Japanese serious games. May there be many more future events!

Scientists stand together

As we see fleets of drones attacking cities in the Russia/Ukraine war, at the same time as food and aid trucks are being blocked getting into Gaza, I can't help but wonder -- would fleets of drones be an effective way to deliver food and aid in war zones?

The truth is Nye.

A 14% ⬆️ in applications of Americans seeking education abroad, with record numbers of US students turning to UK universities. Meanwhile, international students are avoiding the US due hostility + uncertainty. The current administration's policies are systematically eroding our knowledge ecosystem.

It's possible I listen to too many NPR podcasts that my podcast feed is all this this morning. But also, a reminder of how much good work NPR does and how ridiculous it is that Trump has cut funding because they sometimes tell the truth about him.

Today is a good day to cancel those streaming services you’re not using very much, and contribute monthly to your local PBS and NPR stations instead.

Yeah maybe some more transparency on training data and system prompts would be a good idea www.theverge.com/news/705015/...

Just three days left for you to back Take Us North: a game about crossing the US-Mexico border! If you think games can do more, can be more, can tackle important topics and contribute to the national conversation -- now's your chance to get behind this timely tale. Click through to check it out!

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

NEW from @citizensforethics.org: Four senators or their family members bought stock in AI-related companies as the Senate was considering the future of regulation of AI. It is well past time for a comprehensive ban on congressional stock trading and ownership.

A teacher adds pencils to her Amazon wishlist... Meanwhile, in Washington DC... apnews.com/article/trum...

Curious how PBS funding works? Check out this excellent video from our local station, Cascade PBS. And then go support your own local public media! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNpj...

Forced break! It's going to be like the old days on this flight

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Immigration is what made America great. If they want to “make America great again” they should understand this.

For some reason I just watched 50 minutes of 9/11 video on YouTube, transitioned to a 1982 Jaco Pastorius concert, and now Bob Berg's last album, released after his death by a car accident with a cement truck. It's just generally been a weird day. I still have a temperature, adding to the WTF-ness.

Omg Seattle how many screaming Amber alerts do you need to send out today?

if you are protesting now or in the future be safe and remember: • do not announce you're attending online • do not sign any online RSVP • wear a mask • wear clothes that don't draw attention • leave your phone at home • bring bottled water • do not speak to cops • do not post photos after

NPR, PBS give back far more than they receive in nuggets of education, journalism, enrichment, ideas, and PUBLIC GOOD. They are a well on which the entire world can draw, for free. Our tax investment is, quite literally, a drop in the bucket. A molecule of a drop. www.npr.org/2025/06/12/g...

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I just checked the livestreams on YouTube to see what's happening in LA and -- I'm sure this will surprise you -- the streams were ABC7, LiveNOW from Fox, Fox 11 LA, Fox 2 SF, Fox 7 Austin, Fox 9 MSP, Roland S. Martin, Fox 26 Houston, Fox 4 Dallas, Fox 10 Phoenix, CBS Texas. Brought to you by Fox.

I have to admit, I'm still amazed every time I put on the Quest 3 headset. One of these days I'll have to upload headset pics from the HIT Lab at University of Washington back in the 80's / 90's. Low headset fidelity made all the worlds seem fanciful, but also, super pixelated, jittery, and framey!

Spelling it out over I-5 in Seattle today. GOP keeps breaking its promises. 47 cares only about his billionaire base. #HandsOffMedicaid

The Trump regime’s Executive Order about “Gold Standard Science” distorts & weaponizes the principles of open science to intimidate scientists and reshape scientific production to support the political goals of Trumpism. Stand Up for Science is asking scientists to sign an open letter pushing back.

Have to admit I get a good laugh every time I get a Steam pop-up notification that one of my friends is playing some strange hentai content that I've never heard of. I mean, you do you, but don't forget that Steam broadcasts what you are playing to all your friends! 🤣

Millions of Kids Learn Through Public Media. Why Take That Away? www.the74million.org/article/mill...

This is awful. When brilliant students quit coming to the US to study, we all lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/w...

Huh. I just opened PowerPoint to work on a deck for a conference presentation coming up, and Copilot prompted me to tell it what I was doing, then made its own deck on the subject, which was impressively generic. Do they not realize people use PowerPoint to make their OWN presentations? Puzzled.

It's a cult. Don't contradict Dear Leader.

Thanks Duolingo!

Still wondering who pays for tariffs? Here's your answer. Adafruit got a bill from DHL for goods imported, and those costs will then be passed on to the consumer.

“International student demand for US postgraduate education (MA and PhD) is now down 44% since mid-January, having dropped a further 3% since your last article [on 18 March],” Edwin van Rest, co-founder and CEO of Studyportals, told University World News. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

Hard for me to imagine a world without NPR and PBS... They're what I mostly watch and listen to for news! As a kid I grew up on the PBS kids' shows, and I love what they've done with PBS KIDS Games. Please sign this change.org petition! chng.it/WBfcfvVGGF

Today Run for Something Civics is kicking off The Next 100 Days - a national non-partisan candidate recruitment campaign to bring new leaders into power. Check it out & pass it along. www.thenext100days.net

CPB, PBS, and NPR respond to Donald Trump’s new illegal executive order trying to defund public media America's public media won't roll over for the wannabe dictator and his minions in the White House. They're ready to fight - and NPI stands with them.

Among the poor decisions in the President's budget proposal is this one cutting NSF research grants and the "broadening participation in computing" work. Systems created for all people should be created by all people. In this era of AI it's even more vital to identify and address biases.

This has been absolutely horrific: cutting research at Dept of ED, the National Institutes of Health, and now National Science Foundation... government invests in long-term research that corporations can't. A hostile U.S. will drive the innovation elsewhere. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

I apologize to all my Canadian friends. This is lunacy.

So annoying when I click "add to calendar" on an event and it downloads an .ics file. Come on people, there are a variety of calendars in the world!

I just backed The Little Sunbirds of Gaza Project on Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com/projects/sun...

Apparently today we're all just going to move on from the fact that the Trump administration is ignoring a 9-0 ruling from the Supreme Court: the most conservative Supreme Court of our lifetimes. WTF is even happening.

Hey ChatGPT, now that you have a bigger memory, draw a whimsical portrait of me based on your memory of some of our conversations!