<runs in, out of breath> i just came from mastodon and—-

Warning! You might see posts in the wild claiming "Hogwarts Legacy is free right now!" but this is malware, if you try and run it, it'll install Hogwarts Legacy on your PC.

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

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Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

IMO uncapping the house is more important than expanding scotus. 435 members was established in 1929. What was the population of the US during that time? It needs to be expanded for more fair representation.

My brain randomly today: "The rest of the movie sucked, but that one Tifa fight scene was the best hand to hand combat scene in a movie ever."

OMG, @lowbacca.bsky.social , look what a student just sent me. (We're having a... slow start to class observations this week)

Hello World, we’d like to introduce ourselves. We the workers of the Magic: The Gathering Arena team have come together to unionize as United Wizards of the Coast - CWA! 🧵 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

AOC on how Democrats should respond to SCOTUS weakening VRA: “And so if Republicans are going to redraw North Carolina, if they're going to redraw Texas, if they're going to redraw and gerrymander every one of their states, then unfortunately, we have to provide balance to that”

This is believed to be due to pollution in the Gulf of Thailand driving fish to the surface and forcing the whales to adapt: www.instagram.com/p/CJ_NfTtnLMV/

Just FYI there’s an account on here called @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social (with over 200k followers) that is posting a bunch of AI slop (including a “Saturn polar hexagon” with 8 sides) and claiming it’s NASA imagery. If you see anything posted by them, it’s likely fake.

New discovery - a surprise from the ancient world: a fragment of Homer’s Iliad has been found in the gut of an Egyptian mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

I'm screaming I'M FuCKGiN SCREAMING youtube.com/shorts/NOM4L...

Republicans have pulled their dangerous, egregious bill gutting the Endangered Species Act (ESA) from the House Floor 🎉 Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

When they said "AI will increase productivity" I didn't realize they meant "AI code will crash the social media networks on which I procrastinate, forcing me to actually do my job"

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

I love this little cartoon! It's adorable and easy for anyone to understand!

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Anecdotally, this is my experience with my Jewish students. The ones who might want to talk about real antisemitism on campus are being dissuaded by the fact that they do not want to feed the destruction of higher education as a whole, and now by the fear of ending up on the admin's Jew list.

This is the face of a lunar scientist who has just been told that the #Artemis II crew saw SEVERAL impact flashes (the flashes when meteors hit the lunar surface) in real time 😃 🌓💥

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Yessssssss 🙌🙌🙌🙌 Jewish belief in right to abortion for the WINNNNN

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

tl;dr mangrove trees save coasts

Please fill out this form if you live in NYC and tell them what you think about "A.i." in the schools. You don't have to have a kid in the schools - you can list yourself as a "community member." survey.alchemer.com/s3/8751093/G...

Hit you back with a wonderful UKLG quote I saw for the first time today

State of Fear by Michael Crichton. (His anti global warming propaganda book). I was just a Jurassic Park fan, trusting my favorite science fiction author, and very much was not sufficiently informed to spot the bullshit. Sorted myself out eventually, but I definitely fell for it temporarily.

Jesus. Paying a French company a billion dollars *not* to build a wind farm.

The decision by Judge Brian Murphy today in AAP vs. Kennedy allows RFK Jr.’s dangerous handpicked ACIP members to meet, but they are not permitted to vote on anything. They have been defanged for now, as they cannot change vaccine policy. This is great news.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

I have been fortunate enough to see this in person and it is a legit crazy thing to see.

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

Betting on warfare. Insider betting no less. Absolutely soulless.

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

For the first time since the Great Depression, more Americans are leaving the US than coming in. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

This analysis of fantasy magic by @andrewmarkhenry.bsky.social is really interesting. Explains where the modern ideas of mana used in games comes from, and explains how different that is from historical magic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XN9...

If you've experienced anything like Danielle's experience at DICE or other in-person gaming events, I would love to talk to you for a story for Mothership! Reach out here or at zoe at mothership dot blog. Thank you in advance for trusting us with your story! <3

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

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