you crack open an unusually large acorn and these guys all come tumbling out

If you are skipping straight to the cool cutting-edge stuff, you're just stamp-collecting, not really learning a subject. You learn atomic structure so you can learn valence and bonding so you can learn orbital theory so you can learn resonance etc. etc. Of COURSE AI people want to skip to the end.

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

The true glonzoism will be the Butlerian jihad (This is a sentence completely unintelligible to a well-adjusted person)

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

How it’s going How it’s going to go

it has been half a year since we lost my stepfather, Dr. Adrian Gross (z''l), and so I would like to share with you one of his favorite bits of comedy. the only German you need know is: "Das Bild hängt schief" = "the picture hangs crooked"

Well it’s grotesque but it’s honest about what white American evangelicals worship. Part of me feels every evangelical church should be forced to display one of these out front for the next seven generations. You chose your god, so take the full measure.

Rugose coral video is done! Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwkM... #SciArt #paleoart #3dAnimation #coral #reef

Quacks love ivermectin and are now recommending it for hantavirus. Obviously, it doesn't work. But why ivermectin? Why this drug in particular? I wrote a bit about why. smol.news/p/why-the-iv...

and now i'm just rage baiting myself but i cannot help but be reminded of that one stupid meme (you know the one with the brick ovens) the South is literally the root of all evil in America and in the 21st century it has exported its rot to all of rural America

People shocked Moderna explored a mRNA #hantavirus vaccine don’t understand infectious disease preparedness. Hantaan & Seoul viruses are endemic in South Korea & cause Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome. Vaccines for priority pathogens are developed long before the public hears about them.

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

this is ofc stephen jay gould making me cry about some rocks 🥲

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Oh, the people who blow up ships are the bad guys? Huh.

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

Since RFK jr thinks antidepressant withdrawals are worse than heroin, like or repost this if you’ve ever forgotten your meds and successfully completed a day of work regardless.

Good example of how stupid the conservative intellectual interpretation of 20th century US history is; in the 1960s there was a beautiful, brave, heroic movement to end racism which completely succeeded by 1965, at which point the activists all instantly became race-communists and welfare queens.

Hi! I'm a farmer! This NYT article is sweet, saccharine bullshit. Farmers knew Trump was going to hurt our business. Because he already did a trade war in his 1st term. I even did a video on why so many farmers support Trump, WHILE knowing he'd hurt our farms.

How come when cats lick themselves they get clean, but when dogs lick themselves they just get smelly?

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

Been training for this moment my whole life.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Every reply is blockable.

"He was more than a hero. He was a union man." - Miles O'Brien #MayDay

Happy May Day, fellow thugs. United we bargain, divided we beg.

Chicago Manual of style

Mamdani never had a Nazi tattoo, never joined Blackwater, never expressed regret that he'd been born too late to participate in the American pacification of the Philippines. I see Platner's supporters, and I will remember you.

There is a serious proposal that the New Hampshire Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education needs to add Holocaust deniers to the commission in the name of "balance."

The former director of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, went on a tour of the West Bank to examine settler violence. He said it made him "ashamed to be Jewish" and that "it reminded me of the events that happened in the last century against Jews." 13tv.co.il/item/news/po...

Anyway, an important thing to realize is that right-wing nostalgia for Antebellum Plantation Life and tech guy fantasies about Explosive-Collar Apocalypse Bunkers are the same thing. A vision of an ideal society for sadists where they are granted unaccountable power over helpless people.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

So congrats to all the people who were mad about Mamdani condemning her statements because she is unquestionably a goddamn Nazi

1) There's no reason an administrator at NASA should care how a Solar System body is categorized. 2) NASA isn't the org that makes classification determinations for Solar System objects. 3) If Isaacman wants Pluto reclassified again, he can lobby the International Astronomical Union on his own time.

one time the biden administration politely asked social media platforms to take down covid misinformation to save lives and the rightwing ecosystem spent years screeching about the perils of censorship

Liberalism is an ideology of liberation - from caste, irrational tradition, ancient prejudice, and the eternal tendency of the powerful to abuse the powerless for their enrichment and pleasure. It’s an ideology worth fighting and dying on barricades for, and millions have. Don’t waste their lives

Liberalism is the unrelentingly radical belief that humans stand equal as brothers and sisters in a shared and open society, governed by laws and leaders of their own choosing, free to live lives of their own choosing, finding their own truth and fortune, vested with rights universal and inalienable

I don’t understand how they thoroughly messed up the widely used software that opens PDFs? Like as apps go this one is pretty close to “you had one job”???

thinking about the gould quote again

unrelenting

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

Who could have imagined the reporters at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner would have wound up cringing in their knees on the ground

Stand by for... going through a bunch a bullshit. We're watching Marcia McNutt, America's Most Famous Geophysicist, give the 163rd National Academy of Sciences President's Address. In which we'll learn we're going about it all wrong, resistance *is* futile, and we should compromise our work ASAP.

Dear Dearc

What Bovino means: About a third of the population isn’t white.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

#InverteFest is here (24-30 April), show us your invertebrate-themed creations!