If you need to do a lot of work to make model explainable, you didn't make a (good) model

And @olivia.science's short piece on Models bsky.app/profile/oliv...

For those interested in paying for a platform that will actively protects its users, here's where you can pay us (Northsky)

🇬🇧 A 17-year-old British high school student has become one of the youngest people sanctioned by Russia. Alexander Browder says he made Russia "uncomfortable" by unveiling a cryptocurrency money laundering network he says was being used by Moscow to evade U.S. sanctions.

Former Irish President, Michael D Higgins, makes factual statement that the EU is not credible on human rights. The systemically anti-LGBTQ state broadcaster ignored the EU’s disregard for equal human rights of its 40.5m LGBTQ citizens EU has 'no credibility' on human rights or international law

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'“The journal wants to publish as many submissions as possible and doesn’t care too much about quality,” [...] “These are not bugs but intentional features, designed to essentially remove the human editors as much as possible.”' This has been the case with commercial publishing for a long time now.

Britain says rejoin

I wish I were still teaching because I keep thinking of all of the things in US history my students would laugh at because how could things have been that stupid and I wonder if they still laugh.

James Carville serves scathing warning to Trump...after midterm elections, White House staff and officials will turn on Trump www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Birmingham UK antifa protesters outnumber the far-right demonstration and the police force that came to avoid any clash between the two sides.

BBC News Channel actually covering the racist attacks in Edinburgh near the start of the 20:00 segment. It looks as if Reform are now stirring up racial hatred in Scotland.

You know, it is possible to critique capitalism and how socialism has been deployed in other countries to silence dissent and force people to work for an abusive state. It really is possible to do both. And I wish otherwise smart people would fucking try.

DeSantis knew what he was doing wouldn't stand up . The process is the punishment.

Last month, a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologist who was fired over a personal Kirk post was awarded a $485,000 settlement. www.pnj.com/story/news/2...

1/4 Full press release: “UAW DELEGATES APPROVE HISTORIC DIVESTMENT FROM ISRAEL BONDS” docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A cultural exhibit from the Innu Nation was set to open on National Indigenous Peoples Day, but has since been cancelled by the nation after Newfoundland and Labrador’s provincial museum told them to limit Innu history at 300 years.

I’m going to become so gleefully insufferable if the Society of St. Pius X actually gets excommunicated for ordaining their own trad heretic bishops on July 1. they MIGHT be just spineless enough to chicken out because they don’t want that smoke, but I desperately hope hubris carries the day 🙏

Gustav Klimt, Field of Flowers Look for flowers in your world today.🏵️

It’s been five years since Alex Jones lost InfoWars to the Sandy Hook families. As the verdict came down, he asked: “Do these people actually believe they’re getting any money?” He hasn't paid them a penny. Well, The Onion is going pay them anyway. The new InfoWars begins July 2nd at 8 p.m. ET.

I’ve been yelling from the rooftops that Trump, the tech bros, the Christian nationalists, and cronies are EUGENICISTS. Do you believe me now???

Leaked files show the invite-only network grades members by their money and fame, shaping who’s in, who’s out, and who pays. www.wired.com/story/how-pe...

New: Leaked records show how Dialog, the Thiel-linked private club, secretly grades members by wealth and fame, labels their politics, tracks relationships, and uses algorithms to help decide who should meet, who should date, who sits together, and who gets cut w/ @dell.bsky.social & Yulia Almazova

Sex & the armageddon, what more could a guy ask for? "Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society. More than 200 of the world's elites registered for a retreat whose agenda runs from panels on cult-building & sex to prepping for WW III. An associated app offers matchmaking."

Amateur saboteurs: the young men carrying out attacks (in Europe) for gangs, Russia and Iran. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

A man who set fire to homes linked to Starmer is in jail. His Russian-speaking handler slipped away. #hybridwar apnews.com/article/russ...

The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

Out today at the Annual Review of Political Science, my article with @alicexu.bsky.social and Audrey Sacks "The Politics of Climate Change in the Developing World." www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

We invite applications for the second cohort of Early Career Editorial Fellows for JGR Biogeosciences. Fellows will interact with journal leadership helping to develop skills that will support future leadership roles in scientific publishing. Apply by 5 July: spklr.io/63321E3WPv

someone should make an "Accidental Unionist" account for the amount of Anglo-American Rightists assuming Belfast is currently part of the Irish Republic

Judge rules transgender people won’t face criminal charges for using Idaho public restrooms www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

White supremacist Thomas Mair murdered MP Jo Cox in broad daylight. He shot her several times before stabbing her in the chest, shouting 'death to the traitors' and 'this is for Britain'. 2/

I’m in @foreignpolicy.com taking a big swing (but not a hot take): Trump’s defeat in Iran is a bigger US defeat in strategic terms than the US loss in Vietnam foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/16/i...

Vance is really out here trying to establish the MOU Extended Cinematic Universe all on his own.

Just got a notice of award for an R01. I will be hiring. I'll be looking for either a staff scientist or postdoctoral researcher. The project explores the conserved HEATR5 family of proteins. Their roles in AP1 mediated traffic, and links to motors.🎉

Ezra Klein is doing secret societies the right way

Decade-old networking tech spun out of Intel bests Infiniband to power DoE supercomputer

The new Siri makes one of Apple's most convenient OS features a cumbersome mess

No more fake tech news! Add The Register to your Preferred Sources in Google Search: www.google.com/preferences/...

Feds snooze as US datacenter law set to lapse with no replacement in site

The process is the punishment.

"Charles Darwin looked back on his early repugnance for mathematics ... ‘I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics; for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense’" link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Chinese carmaker BYD unveils a recharge as fast as filling up with gas. Original post

Freedom of the press is a pillar of a free society. What else will Paramount Skydance refuse to air as it consolidates more control over the media? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/paramount-rejects-ad-on-warner-bros-acquisition

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

Wait. Microsoft did something smart? WTF

I been doing this dance with Ole Slippery Seth for a while now.

Thwaitesia argentiopunctata, the 'mirror- or sequined-spider', native to Australia, has scales coated in guanine, the same as the "G" base in your DNA. Guanine forms rhomboid crystals with a high index of refraction, making it a biological 'mirror coating'. Sparkly! (📷: Nicky Bay photography)