This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org

More or less universally a country seeking to limit foreigners studying in that country is a sign of a society, culture, great power in severe decline.

Makes sense since the administration seems hell bent on n driving the US and the globe into recession. 🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

The end of NSF and American science expertise as we know it is here.🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

American science in a tailspin www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Julia Parsons, a U.S. Navy code breaker during World War II who was among the last survivors of a top-secret team of women that unscrambled messages to and from German U-boats, has died at 104.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

"If this many different judges in this many different courts appointed by this many different presidents are blocking this many policies promulgated by the same president, we ought to be able to agree that the problem is the policies—not the judges." www.stevevladeck.com/p/136-settin...

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

Bicycling = independence of the mind.

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

We are releasing OpenThinker-32B, the best 32B reasoning model with open data. We match or outperform Deepseek-R1-32B (a closed data model) in reasoning benchmarks. Congrats to Negin and the whole Open Thoughts team. github.com/open-thought...

🚀 🇬🇷 A year in the making! I’ve just completed a set of 21 lectures in Machine Learning, in Greek, designed for high school students. The course introduces key ML concepts, coding in Python & PyTorch, and real-world AI applications. 👉 WebPage: tinyurl.com/ye2awe8m 🎥 YouTube: tinyurl.com/2wwjru6z

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