There's a lot of energy being expended to encourage me to use AI. But, the highlighted examples just seem to be busywork to in turn automate the generation of busywork.

After a mother effer of all Murphy’s Law days, it’s down time w/ naan pizza Italian cheese, sliced sausage, diced red & yellow peppers, thin sliced zucchini, w/ chopped basil & parsley from garden & sprinkled w/ feta. My 1st & only meal of the day. Too chaotic messy today battling carpenter ants.

Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.

Oh boy…..

Experienced that years ago. It was because I was a woman.

This 👇🏼

Just read a ‘perspective’ on panspermia thinking ‘No, I doubt it’. Perhaps I should take that back.

So glad (not) we are the poster nation for science destruction and willful ignorance. 😖

"..‘generation-by-generation’, cycle-by-cycle, molecules w/ higher stability (survival) & increased replication &/or prototranslation efficiency (reproductive success) in a primordial soup on Earth that functioned as a planetary PCR-like machine." An interesting concept: planetary PCR. #Abiogenesis

This needs to be circulated widely. The American Elephant

Thought of this article watching "Hail Mary" last week, wondering, 'If Grace's preconception of 'life' was as restrictive as it is now, would he have found astrophage? The aliens (eg Rocky)?' If I were to imagine a form of 'life' in outer space, what could be encountered? What would it be like?

After election results Nov 2024 I told my kids, “This will become the American jihad.” And here we are.

This 👇 Add "power trip".

The is efing awesome. It quickly depicts the multitudes of permutations and combinations. My father would have loved this. I doubt he'd take time to eat or sleep. #assemblytheory

Schools Don’t Just Fail to Develop Critical Thinkers. They Punish Them. "...there was such an astonishingly low rate of curiosity in any of the classrooms she visited that there was nothing to measure." 1/n

“Human beings routinely mistake the limits of their perceptual apparatus for the limits of reality.” 1/n Source:

Conquers always (re)write history.

We knew back in the 1960's that the AD was a lie. Didn't do any good, did it?

"Right on"

"we cannot agree that false things are true" 🔥 #NetZero

Rings true.

We need a "Dunce Cap" Award......... Tsoukalos is our first candidate. (History Channel should be renamed as 'Conspiracy Channel')

Fisher points out so many examples of "human folly" that it's almost funny. Is it the human 'condition' that we are obsessed with "the gene for" everything? But now 'aliens' too? Good thread.

Very apt summary. My question is why Americans continue to ignore this and let it continue to ruin the country?

This has been discussed ad nauseum for decades but it still hampers us. Like a hat full of Venn diagrams dumped on the floor. #Life "In the world of human thought generally... the most important and most fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.”

Anyone know if submitted manuscripts to this journal are peer-reviewed? #Springer #Nature link.springer.com/journal/11084

Highlight of my weekend: watching an osprey dive into lake for a large fish. Always amazing how they can find fish under lake water. It should feed their 2 little white bobbing-head nestlings as well as themselves. When free of the water they turn their fish so its face-forward. More aerodynamic.

Anything with a capital ‘X’ in their name triggers auto suspicion 🙄 Considering the poor quality of several of their pubs, it’s a death knell for any magazine.

Heat waves on multiple continents, heat-related emergencies at Washington DC Fair, severe thunderstorm at Mount Rushmore greeting Tr@mp……. 🌎🌏🌍

#Justice in the US seems to be in the toilet. The Supreme Court is willing to flush it. And Americans look the other way.

Poet for the next 3 Years:

The American spirit just isn’t in me this 4th of July. For the neighbors it’s an excuse to be loud and obnoxious. I’m hiding.

“We are time. We are this space, this clearing opened by the traces of memory inside the connections between our neurons. We are memory. We are nostalgia. We are longing for a future that will not come.'” -Carlo Rovelli, physicist (“The Order of Time”)

Have been trying to understand the new era of ‘influencers’ & not succeeding. So many young pple believing & trusting this offshoot of the Internet-verse to the point of skewed realities & “to hell with the science”. Or is it a rebellion against authority? It’s chaos.

Priceless……. 😠

I think I’ve had too much coffee……. (refuge in the cafe from the heat) #SuperNote

I’ve heard similarly. A HS senior already applying for citizenship in Canada and study there.

Sometimes patterns others don’t see knock on my door. The past several yrs I’ve noticed English speakers using rising tails at the end of most of their sentences, as if asking a question. The sentence tail is usually at a higher pitch (not loudness) than normal, for almost every sentence. 1/n

Quote for the Day: “Usually the best way to tackle hard problems is to play with them until you find a window that opens up new questions & experiments.” 👍🏼 -Sara Imari Walker, astrobiologist/physicist Isn’t this what science is?! 😏

You know what they say about dragging fingernails down the blackboard? The same applies to dragging chairs across tile floors. 😱🤯 (It’s like sticking your fingers in a light socket)

An excellent article & very cool study. This is a bottom-up approach that may help explain segments of abiogenesis. Odd that some biologists find it disquieting, it’s “not real biology”. 🙄

Some people choose willful ignorance. That, is beyond my comprehension of why. (Will have to read Jacoby’s book; I’m curious.)

In a 5 to 4 margin the Supreme Court has decided that the Constitution doesn't really matter

Kudos to the science community!! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Four out of nine Supreme Court justices find the Constitution unconstitutional, what a time to be alive

Skeptical about the conclusions & their assumptions that individualism=lack of “romantic love”, in the article & study. Despite the word is so ubiquitous, there’s no consensus on what ‘love’ is other than the study survey questions. (Ask Tina Turner.) 1/n

Ever wonder how a T. rex with its little arms/phalanges eat a carcass? 🦖

This is very cool 😯

Baby fossils reveal link between human and Neanderthal development @lemoustier.bsky.social @trentonholliday.bsky.social #evolution #evolutionsoup #fossil #science #paleoanthropology 👇🏼👇🏾 is.gd/kDa7cT