If OMB's proposed "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" goes into effect, it will be the end of US science in its world-leading post-WW2 form. This is a very good explainer. Contact your senator/rep. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

I'm pretty pessimistic but didn't foresee that it would only take 16 months for the US to fall into Lysenkoism.

Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord"

Happy birthday to David Attenborough!

Brutal.

This is amazing: byte.tsundoku.io The first issue I recognize is October 1978. Zooming around in this is like a time machine.

I wrote a few lines about my development setup (which - by accident, not by design - mitigates a good number of risks associated with vibecoding. Not all of them, but many.) addxorrol.blogspot.com/2026/03/slig...

NASA now serves climate disinformation to elementary school kids. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

I'm probably a dinosaur but this resonates with my experience and current practice. newsletter.humanwhocodes.com/posts/single...

MY GOD even the Project Maven DoD sponsor is against the US deploying autonomous LLMs to kill people. I... cannot even

STOP LAUNCHING CRAP WE DON'T NEED OR WANT It's staggeringly depressing how blithely they plan to ruin everything. Everything. I went to a dark site last week so I could say goodbye to the sky. Took a little hand-held photo and guess what? A satellite trail appeared. Just stop!

This is really funny. Maybe good food is woke?

Facts are woke.

Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.

Really making America great again. www.science.org/content/arti...

I suppose par for the course for a woman who once shot her dog. She makes me nauseous.

Bellingcat analysis of the murder

Very clear (and distressing) video of what happened this morning in Minneapolis. ICE attacked and then murdered the victim after he tried to help someone else whom they were knocking down. Maybe now we can stop wondering what American fascism would look like.

The GOP is consistent. When they said state’s rights they meant “white supremacy“ and when they said “tyranny” they were mad about federal interference with white supremacy. ICE is white supremacist, so they support it. They aren’t hypocritical on this.

A really good post about the politics and policies of decarbonization, by @hausfath.bsky.social. Also check out the rest of the @theclimatebrink.skystack.xyz blog. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/keep-it-in...

Must be tough to be a parody account, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social . www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...

Good video analysis by the NYT of the Minneapolis murder. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Today my pastor of several years was detained by ICE at the lawful demonstration where ICE officers murdered Renee Good. Three times they taunted and asked him if he's afraid yet. They let him go because he's white, saying, "Well you're white and it wouldn't be any fun." This is his story:

Feeling an unhealthy combination of anger and powerlessness.

Hannah Ritchie cuts through some noise.

Never forget Four Seasons Landscaping.

This is so good: www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu... It's like a capsule form of Edward Tufte's books, really well done. h/t @scientificdiscovery.dev

TIL that it wasn't until the mid 1990s that more than 50% of Americans approved of interracial marriage. Apparently ~5% still don't. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...

I don’t often choose a specific day on which I think American democracy broke, but when I do, it’s this one

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

People like to bury their heads in the sand. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...

❤️

Incredible piece of writing on what it's like to live in Chicago under ICE occupation. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

"Operation Charlotte's Web": fuck these people all the way to hell. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

In an absurd waste of time, I wrote a blog post about voting and the 19th Chopin Competition. There has been controversy about who should have won. Different voting systems would yield different winners. Differences in top rankings are statistically insignificant. kencaldeira.com/2025/11/chop...

"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.

Every time I read about incarceration in the United States I have to go for a walk to cool off. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

This from the "Head of Mission Alignment" at OpenAI. Huge uncertainties, indeed. 🤡

I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger

In Utah, homeless people are going to be put into detention camps on the outskirts of town ("large-scale involuntary mental health treatment"). Curious that this is not front page news everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...

No. on.ft.com/3L3tU6U

Clean on OPSEC.

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Make war crimes great again. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Absolute failed-state shit that this guy was nominated, approved, and has stayed in office for this long.

Echoes of Makani Power, but seemingly simpler and probably more effective? www.scmp.com/news/china/s...