Trump is very good at market manipulation but very bad at actual diplomacy or war fighting. He is also completely disconnected from reality, which should (and does) worry the entire world. None of the claims he made in Friday are true.

The "we're not saying he's guilty of criminal fraud, but we're not not saying that and many people are saying he's fraud-adjacent" edition.

@ronanfarrow.bsky.social and Andrew Marantz joined @klonick.bsky.social on Lawfare Daily to discuss their recent @newyorker.com article which investigated Sam Altman, the products he's building at OpenAI, and how he's selling them. youtu.be/O2GNrY63_2c?...

BREAKING: IRS confirms it's negotiating with Trump family to pay a "settlement" in the wildly defective lawsuit over the leak of his tax returns. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This is HUGE!

Maxwell's demon of Hormuz

Schrodinger’s Strait of Hormuz

This is the first year of a new course I built called Computing and Data Sciences. The tools used this year: Semester 1: • Whiteboards • LaTeX (on overleaf) • Sheets + Desmos visualization Semester 2: • Python in Colab with: - NumPy - Pyplot - Pandas #ITeachMath #TeamCompSci

*sigh* I would hope the scientists sharing the picture from @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social of the Moon visible from the Moon realize it's shitty AI and are sharing it as a joke, but I'm not sure. Anyway block @redditspaceviewes.bsky.social for being content scrapper/passing off fake images as real

kind of beautiful

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil? How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️ Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?' Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports... 🧵 1/25

Monk getting mad because that’s too close to Jainism

'hindsight is always 20/20' is actually independent of ZF. cohen showed via a forcing argument that there are choiceless models where hindsight achieves 20/n vision for arbitrarily high n

GenAI products should not be used in schools until they are proven safe. I am proud to join Fairplay along with 260+ organizations to call on preK-12 schools to #PauseGenAI for at least 5 years. more here---> www.bit.ly/pausegenAI

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Work will continue on this until I’m less sad

@yale.edu released a report on why the public (allegedly) doesn't trust higher education. The @nytimes.com covered it uncritically. So... I'm "pleased" to unveil my next debunking: an interactive annotated doc that points out factual, logical, and rhetorical errors. Enjoy! #AcademicSky

The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East. This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family. Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships. Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

It’s been overshadowed by Venezuela and especially Iran, but the deadly boat bombing campaign is still going, even though: -There’s no war -The US wasn’t attacked or under threat -Drug traffickers aren’t terrorists -These may not be traffickers -It’s blatantly illegal -With no clear strategy either

The Tom Waits / Massive Attack collaboration is out...

How every layer of science's "self-correcting machinery" failed when Iva Veseli and I simply wanted to reproduce the findings of a high-profile study on gut microbiome and autism: merenlab.org/2026/04/15/u...

I’d had enough. I had to do something about it. The stickers must flow.

Watership Down. When I was 7 or 8.

This is pure 🔥 Utterly filthy stuff.

More evidence that the placenta is underappreciated.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

As I read the replies I had to take my glasses off so many times and wipe my eyes. God bless the internet

As the author of the screenshot, let me state it clearly: I do not consider myself a "bully" but if "bullying" is necessary to keep influential people from working on behalf of scams like Kalshi and Coinbase, I think it's worth the cost. Working for private enterprise is fine. Selling their BS isn't

Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

Lmao

I don't know about you, but this is not what I voted for when I voted for Pope

Kushner-Witkoff "CEO diplomacy" never worked, except at soliciting bribes. Failed badly in Ukraine. Failed badly with Iran. Only supposed success is Gaza, and that's because media pretends ongoing deadly violence is a ceasefire, an ethnic cleansing real estate scheme is peace, and didn't follow up.

It better fucking be resignation.

The incoming health minister of the future Magyar government, upon learning of the election results last night (From Instagram)

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

Good post that actually helped me understand the mindset of Kushner and by extension Trump.

This is zero percent surprising to anyone who's worked with Jared. Even as a businessman, he's a shitty negotiator because he doesn't understand diplomacy there either. In some ways, he's a product of his industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

I hope you had a more productive weekend than J.D. Vance did.

#MathIsBeautiful #MathIsArt #Math #Maths #MathSky #iteachmath #MathIsCool

Authoritarianism is not predetermined. The defeat of Viktor Orbán in Hungary shows that even entrenched strongmen can be removed by democratic means. Hope shines bright in Europe tonight.

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Whatever Trump just announced, nobody believes that the US Navy is about to start interdicting Chinese supertankers that are buying oil from (and paying 'fees' to) Iran, let alone tankers full of Arab oil that have done the same.

If google gave a shit about their users, the top hits for any hotel wouldn't be sketchy intermediary booking sites. It's a perfect example of enshittification.

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

This looks great for Spring!

Me going through other people's replies and blocking anyone who claims billionaires skew data about median incomes.

My project for the last year, Orbital Studies Issue № 0 is available now! Orbital Studies is a literary science magazine. We publish writing and art in service of a more beautiful scientific culture. Includes work from @philipcball.bsky.social, @spencer.place, Michael Levin... orbitalstudies.com