Forgot I had unblocked Stancil to see one post then forgot to re-block, so two thirds of my feed was Stancil again. Briefly.

The US is absolutely awash in excellent R1s and R2s like nowhere else in the world. And we were operating below our potential even before Trump fucked it all up. If we unfuck immigration and turn the research funds back on we can get something better than what we lost.

Hey I went to school there

Japan is one of the most R&D intensive non-US countries, and RIKEN is its most prestigious (non-university) research institute. If you isekai’d it into the US, it only has the fourth biggest R&D budget in the state of North Carolina, which is like the twelfth biggest state bsky.app/profile/awma...

Conservatives hate universities because they are broke outside the club, liberals think it’s gauche to brag, and foreigners self soothe by making “100 top universities for elite reproduction” lists that ignore the fact that, like, ETH Zurich and Oxford have a lower R&D budget than UW-Madison

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

A lawyer friend told me she is worried about using AI search in law databases because it is learning from the fake case references that AIs have been producing that keep getting lawyers sanctioned. At some point we may have to go back to actual law books to remember which cases are actually real.

Subnautica 2 launched 20 minutes ago. Safe to say Krafton will be forced to pay out the $250 million bonus it tried very hard (via advice of ChatGPT) to avoid paying

Outlaw bandoliers and only outlaws will have bandoliers

honestly I think journalists just liked Twitter because they got to shoot the shit all day and call it work and get paid for it and then slide into dms or quote pull entire threads slap them on a webpage, describe it as reporting and collect a cheque for it and go back to wallowing in the mentions

Thucydides Traps? I hardly know deez traps!

We now have denialists of Israeli sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners shouting at denialists of Oct 7 Palestinian sexual violence against Israelis. And all of them hate the NYT and screaming "hoax". Despicable people. All of you

Wait'll the AP finds out about this new Baker rifle the British are trying out

Xi asks Trump if they can Blink their way out of The Tipping Point

Donald Trump to a reporter: You're a bitch who is stupid NYT: Trump in testy exchange with female reporter Donald Trump: Americans are stupid and deserve to be poor, so I will take their money NYT: Trump proposes bold new redistribution scheme for middle class americans

Wife took a pic of her mother's spice cabinet and I am having a Moment

the Round Bloke of Woke

the story of how elon musk destroyed his public perception so he could bring about fascism and how that downstream has essentially ruined all of his businesses is so fascinating. all that he’s gotten out of this is a war in iran and he has to defend the epstein class now

A moment of silence just now in the arena before Cavs-Pistons for both Brandon Clarke and Jason Collins, though for the latter the announcer said he “broke barriers” without saying WHAT barriers. Anyway, read this: #NBAsky [🎁]

Remigration is a white nationalist idea: immigrants of color voluntarily leave America for their native countries,making America whiter. That the State Department and White House are openly promoting it is an obvious tell - as if another one was needed - about the Trump regime’s goal.

Just fysa all of Battlestar Galactica is on Prime now

When I accidentally put on the wife's glasses instead of mine

Any Ohio attorneys want to have a vacation home? And probably a boat and sports car?

WHAT THE FUCK

I should probably stop watching The Boys right now because all I want at this point is for Kimiko and Frenchie to be happy together and TV writers hate that shit

Call Diogenes! The judge has found an honest man.

Get his ASS, juror 96

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Look at this absolutely ginormous puppy.

In case you haven’t heard, certain MAGA types are outraged that Helen of Troy is played by a black actress in the Odyssey blockbuster, when obviously a human child hatched from an egg fathered by a goose who was secretly the god of thunder could not be black, that would be ridiculous

Daveed Diggs will always be Perry from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt to me but he is outstanding as Oh Father in The Boys

If Jeremy would ever like to come over to the engineering school, I'd be happy to introduce him to people — yes, students! — doing extraordinarily important work who had their federal funding yank over issues of 'speech.' And that's probably all I can say in polite company.

Toss Your Weasel Wednesday!

Look I know everything is whatever but the President picking a contractor is basically as insane as launching a war on Iran but in the federal procurement world

this uh might be an issue lol

buried lede: "That Bushnell’s death was ruled 'In the Line of Duty' and then overruled by Noyes has not been previously reported..." sounds like this finding, correct or not, was done to alter his status and presumably any benefits received by his family

It feels like there's a fork in the road, once you get to the (banally true) insight that "taxes aren't for funding the government," where you either come to the sophisticated understanding of what they ARE for (making money valuable, basically) or you say "hey, I guess we don't need taxes!"

Brazil is my favorite country that should be a global power reason #211334

Great news for nuclear power imo

Trump thinks this is somehow a show of strength, but needing this kind of backup to meet another head of state shows how terrified he is

WITH THEIR TANKS AND THEIR BOMBS AND THEIR BOMBS AND THEIR GUNS IN YOUR HEAD IN YOUR HEAD THEY ARE DYIIIIING

The internecine wars about Twitter and Bluesky always feel like a 30 year high school reunion where some middle-aged people still clearly identify as “cheerleader” and “varsity” while other people cannot remember any of the people in the room. The people who ignored the reunion invite won.

I'm going to say something unpopular but Jesse Singal's presence on this website is not actually a problem unless you make it your problem. Blocking him, blocking his followers, muting his name, forgetting he exists: these are all things that are *your responsibility to do* as a Bluesky user.

In most difficult situations I would rather be able to call the Juggalos than the police

Just to add: some of my favorite accounts on here have become a character of the day either because they said something that was uncharitably interpreted as ridiculous or really was ridiculous. You post a lot, you’re not going to bat a thousand.

i don’t have strong opinions on the data centers and there’s a lot of slopulism going around these days, but just to reiterate: the tech industry earned every ounce of hate it gets, regardless of the merits of this or that project

The funniest part of this is James Hohmann had been at WaPo on and off for twenty years and his takes were so bad that no one had ever bothered to remember his name until today

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.