Huge pet peeve: No, “Harvard University” didn’t publish a study, and nor is it proper to say that it is “according to Nature.” Universities don’t publish studies, professors do. And unless it’s an editorial, journals don’t say things either—authors do.

tf is an “unnecessary controversial subject”?

just said uuuhhhhhh???? aloud, to no one, for like 30 seconds straight

ok the drop cap is fixed on Safari, and less obviously broken but still not how I want it on Chrome-family browsers. Blink, y u no allow me to align the bottom of drop caps?

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, clean accessible text is very good. On the other hand, I love the design and typographic possibilities of the modern Web. My web site isn’t just its textual content — I like attempting to marry text, type, and layout for a particular experience.

Top marks to Bedford Borough Council on both history and astrophysics. 🔭

Yeah, I hope people don’t come away from this post thinking “they must be stupid or hypocrites” instead of seeing these as two parts of a unified international power projection policy

codeberg: for when you don't want your code continvoucly morged.

star wars is an *incredible* sandbox you have samurai space wizards! you have lightsabers, which are easily the coolest fictional weapons ever created! you have the best fictional ship design in sci-fi (x-wings! the tie fighter scream! the big angry triangle!)! you have awesome weird aliens!

in my bayesmaxxing era or sth. (it's felt soooo good to be back into MCMC-land for a project the last couple weeks. the hilarious thing is that this Bayesian inference is to support frequentist analysis decisions.)

Come for the macabre title (hey, I'm not dead yet!), stay for the quantitative metascience critique! We definitely need better descriptive models of science with at least a touch of awareness about what philosophers, historians, sociologists of science have discovered about the scientific process.

Bookmarking this video for the next time someone claims that science communication can’t be engaging unless it’s about an inherently exciting topic or made personally relevant to people’s lives

Oh god yes, Microsoft continvoucly morged my diagram there for sure 😬

The lasting way to fight fascism—and the thing each of us can do—is to liberate your mind from the fascist framework. Stop being frightened of the things that fascists say are frightening. Start looking at those things as liberation. Fear the things fascists say make us safe. See them as prisons.

I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.

I find this whole "AI agent wrote a hit piece" thing really troubling for reasons that have nothing to do with bots getting "mad" and "deciding" to take down open source contributors. theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-... Why do we keep wanting to give AI so much agency that it lets humans off the hook??

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

right now my main test matrix for LensKit tests all supported Python versions (3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.14t) ✖️ supported platfoms (win64, linux x64, linux aarch64, macos arm64). how common are errors that depend on both platform *and* interpreter version? I might have seen a couple in the last years?

📢 Call for Workshop Proposals: ACM #RecSys2026 📄 Details & submission guidelines can be found here: recsys.acm.org/recsys26/cal...

Anyway, read Russ Cox's take on AI tool use in the Go project. groups.google.com/g/golang-dev...

This thread is the we are going to win thread, is the kids are alright thread, is the STOP ICE thread, is the civil society rising thread; read it through.

Oregon Trail was a great game even though the graphics were a little buggy

Stop sharing the “our AI agent made up data” reddit story. It is as fake as the AI you think you are critiquing & the people sharing it have done zero due dilligence 🙄🙄🙄🙄

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

There are very few shows where the characters would take a break from an ongoing war arc to play baseball and have it be one of the greatest episodes ever And that's one of the reasons why we love #DS9 so much ☺️💜🖖

The best thing about DS9 is that Benjamin Sisko inherited the messiest mess to ever mess a mess and turned it all around into a perfectly goofy found family in space. Hell, Q showed up and rather than playing his game, he punched him in the face like, "Pal, I have got shit to do here." 100% Silly.

God I love that episode. And a few episodes adjacent they also pull a heist against the mob to save a holodeck character. With a serious discussion of racism and how Sisko relates to history, a short convo that heightens in significance when read alongside the baseball episode. Good show is good.

love some Space Jesus and Goo Sheriff.

Obviously this is who we have always been, that is a given... but the fact that people who did not know that are out here, protesting for the first time, in actual tears? They have lost complete control of this narrative, man.

<pulls up creaky chair, rests cane in corner> “Well, Johnny, before we had AI to make up endless bigoted bloviations, it was the job of humans we called ‘talk radio hosts’. You could listen to them on AM, which is like a little like WiFi but worse in almost every way.”

This is a really good read, but IMO may underestimate MAGA depravity here. Jan Mickelson, WHO radio talk show host, proposed enslaving undocumented immigrants. Doug Wilson, leader of Hegseth’s denomination CREC, downplays slavery’s evil and called the antebellum South the last Christendom.

“Don’t fund concentration camps” is a good policy position to stand on.

this is an incredible piece of kit. someone should port netbsd to it. stereo2go.com/forums/threa...

When this is over, we are going to need public backing for a reconstruction of higher education that isn't solely focused on recovering lost funding for STEM research

Beautifully articulated "...the AI industry has flipped philosophical inquiry into a design brief. Instead of looking for signals of thought, it uses language to forge the evidence." 😚👌

The thing many people fail to grasp—the thing you are sort of prevented from ever having a reason to grasp until you put the effort in to learn or life demands it of you—is that a world in which you see a lot of disabled people is simply a world in which more people survive disability.

This whole-ass thread, but esp. this sequence of questions. This is why I love Star Trek.

"We know that for some members of our community, generative AI raises significant concerns around privacy, sustainability and ethical use. We share those concerns and are working to mitigate – where possible – the impacts." Those em dashes are doing a lot of work.

ATTENTION: I just started a rewatch of this a few weeks ago (not on YT, but might give it a shot over there now that I know), and imho *this* is the sci-fi allegory for our political moment that folks should be watching. Very, VERY prescient…

8. Given the reception of these results at face value, I think the scientific community has too much hunger for disaster & crisis scenarios, and metascience has largely been feeding this hunger. I dream of a theory-informed metascience prioritizing precision, contextualization, and understanding.

Also, in the issues, people are trying to get the bot to do drugs… somehow… I don't understand the 21st century.

a perennial issue is that people just refuse to believe that the republican party is as far gone as it is.

never seen a better clapback to "just playing devil's advocate," this made me screech

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

This is absolutely bonkers

OpenAI Introduces Premium Video Generator For White House Advisors Manipulating Trump https://theonion.com/openai-introduces-premium-video-generator-for-white-house-advisors-manipulating-trump/

looking forward to future math papers. “Let T be a Trump ring…”

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

finally, an AI wallet that can autonomously hand itself over to the wallet inspector