These are awesome. The underlying article about taking the photos is worth checking out too.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

LOL. When Tom Lehrer said this, he was 84 years old.

I love this. A very hopeful (imho) call to action. I would like to find more weird music, art, and writing online tyvm. Time to start creating in public more

I can tell I’m going to be thinking about this for a long time

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

The problem is they’ve shown desire to put their thumb on the weights, and there can no longer be any trust or assumption of neutrality moving forward.

how many NASAs could have been funded with the money that congress just approved for building concentration camps

Every year, millions of Americans pay a lot of money to go on a vacation where they finally get to live in the pod and eat the bugs.

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how can you be in AI research and still be on X? what they did to Grok is absolutely insane

“If we are all one planetary social organism now, that creature is in pain. Its own organs attack each other, unable to recognize their interconnectedness. We’re constantly putting up boundaries. Boundaries between nations, between computers, between people. But it doesn’t have to be this way.” 🔥🔥🔥

There's no silence on social media. No negative space. If you stop posting, people don't see an absence, they just see different posts in your place. There's no way to leave them wanting more

see, this is why you leave X in case like “constantly bombarded by gunther eagleman, fake philosophers and Catturd” wasn’t enough reason already

we are entering the Eternal Wednesday

Is the U.S. in a "high-level equilibrium trap"?

Specifically any claim that campus activists/mobs/sundry imagined collectives incited the shooting should just be rejected out of hand. The KKK announcing at a rally that they’re going to march for “revengeance” on DC doesn’t even count. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branden...

Brace yourself for a wave of misinformation about “incitement,” a term with a well-defined meaning in constitutional law that has absolutely no application to what appears on the basis of *everything we know* to be a single person’s decision to commit murder

Enemy of my enemy is my friend. Inevitably short lived when you have little overlap in ideals and principles (and have been at odds for decades). The emergent pairing never made sense to me.

Strawberries coming in great this year.

Can attest. Get yourself one of these.

we're stealing Flood the Zone tactics from Steve Bannon and we're using them to promote abundance and techno-optimism instead of fascism

Venkatesh was one of the first to exit Twitter. He tends to be correct about a lot of things. Being reminded of this post makes me a bit sad. It’s going to take a lot of work to rebuild out of the ashes.

hey. new or returning to bsky? trying to build a following here? how do you get interaction on posts? my suggestion is get in replies, interact with people, quote post things without dunking. ya that's also how you can find fights, but avoiding interaction gives you exactly that (no interaction)

turning a big dial taht says "Recession" on it and constantly looking back at the markets for approval like a contestant on the price is right

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

Interesting thought here. Leveraging AI for governance as a small state. At a minimum I think you could get an AI to manage concerns of a populace (intake, sort, etc) much better than mailing your congressional rep as your point of intake.

What saddens me about the fracturing of twitter is that it's one of the two anglophone social media that is actually upstream of creating cultural phenomena and communities (alongside TikTok). I made actual friends there. But now I have to ignore the occasional Nazi to use it

as with the twitter purchase the savvy people are all saying "it will be fine", "nothing to worry about" and it just doesn't work that way.

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

lollllllll futurism.com/half-million...

Oh holy shit searching accounts actually shows people you follow at the top. Gd I wasn’t ready for that. Twitter is so f’d right now.

Do we have bookmarks over here yet?

Clean indoor air the kind of no-brainer, basic component of civil society that future generations will be aghast we neglected this long

hello new and returning bsky users! one of the things we have been working on recently is making it easier to build and log in to other apps, clients, and toys. here are a few examples 🧵

Oh look, past me was on point

Bluesky is funny because I can’t recall any other platform where its growth is explicitly tied to the collective hate for one person.

TIL someone made a fan zootopia comic about abortion.

There’s this sweet spot around 98-04/5 where pop punk was birthing emo and the separation wasn’t distinct yet.

Coming back to skeetin’ whenElon does dumb shit

This band essentially pioneered the visual kei genre and while Musk is a dunce I'm glad they are finally getting some global attention over this.

people keep saying the united states is too big for high speed rail so i overlaid china's rail map on america

It’s #FreeComicBookDay !! Stop by your local comic book store and have fun! I’m at Fantom Comics on P Street NW in DC

“What are you up to?” “You know, just layin in bed skeetin”

Pretty sure “Subskeet” is on the new Lil Jon album.