claude is a software program that produces text

I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

And 2. the Biden admin approved a $400 million grant to Puerto Rico to install solar panels to improve reliability and protect 30,000 low income households from blackouts. Trump cancelled it a couple weeks ago

Now let's talk about the song!!! Finally Becky is GETTING TO THE POINT The video is amazing. It's a traditional music video but also a mini documentary about all the shit I just summarized, including reporting by independent journalist Bianca Graulau Here it is so you can listen while we ~discuss~

after using Evernote for 13 years I've finally cancelled it and switched entirely to Obsidian. Obsidian isn't perfect but it does everything I need it to do and it's great to support open source!

Those heat lamps are great though…

This is by design. By making the US market too risky for investment, they can take vaccines out of the US healthcare toolkit, without having to do the dirty work of banning them outright.

got nerd-sniped by a github actions feature I hadn't used before (using a GitHub App instead of a personal access token for authentication) docs.github.com/en/apps/crea... #GitHub #CI

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

why yes, Copilot, commenting out the failing unit tests is certainly one way to address the problem...

Here’s the deal with the FY26 NIH funding bill: One line in the 1000+ pg bill = significantly less science. The increase to ~40% of grants moving to MYF is estimated to result in a 35% decrease in the NUMBER of NIH grants funded annually—moving the paylines from 10% to around 4%. THIS IS BAD.

Has anyone figured out how to get #GitHub fine-grained tokens set up when using repos from multiple different orgs? Is the answer to set the token for each cloned repo individually, or give up and switch to ssh keys, orrrr something else?

How many game-saving throws has Caleb Williams made on 4th down in Q4 this season? Eleventy-billion?

It is Love that we're seeing from the good people in MN, and all over this sick and beleaguered nation right now, in those streets, out in the cold. There is no greater love than to love your neighbor... it's love as a verb. And one day, maybe not in our time, but if we do the work... one day...

Anyone leave voicemail for their congresscritters that start out with “Hi this is my polite professional voice” and end with “I’m LOSING my SHIT because my TAX dollars are being used to TEAR GAS INFANTS!!!!!”

General reminder that the Immigration Act of 1924 that set immigration quotas and established the Border Patrol was the crowning political achievement of the Klan

This thread is now an op-ed:

Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

The onus so far is entirely on the frightened and unfunded public to organize perfectly peaceful resistance and outlast an ad hoc army of thousands of untrained bigots pulling from a well of near unlimited taxpayer finances?

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

my move is to uses vermouth because I always have some of that in the fridge for cocktails

Random reminder to call your Reps and Senators to tell them what you think about *gestures broadly* “Hi my name is <name>, I’m a constituent in <city>, and I’m calling to make my voice heard that the only morally correct position is to abolish ICE. Thanks bye!”

There are people in Minnesota who are violating the law, and it's the people who are flash-banging babies, shooting people who pose no threat, and deploying tear gas against peaceful crowds. The way to end the violence in Minnesota is for ICE to stop committing violence against Minnesotans.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

All they can do is harm the people within their reach. But that provokes anger, and steadily MOUNTING anger, among people who are NOT within their reach. This is not a circle that can be squared, really.

The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.

how about you solve the core problem of government agents beating the absolute shit out of citizens in grocery store parking lots this really isn’t that complicated

If you cannot make “these people are leaving BABIES in CARS in WINTER and then returning them to their carekeepers with BRUISES” into popular sentiment as a politician, you’re either inept or you want this to keep happening.

I’m seeing lots of people on here misunderstand the purpose of ICE watch. It’s de-escalation. And it’s grounded in the social science of violence. 🧵

Abolishing ICE is the moderate position, or it’s our job to make it the moderate position. Abolition was impossible before it was common sense. Civil rights were impossible before they it became common sense. Abolishing ICE is possible and that's what we should push for.

once again I really think we lack the adequate language to differentiate between "stuff called AI that sucks shit and what's more, is profoundly evil in ways we have never seen before" and "tools that actually work and improve things somewhat".

In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.

This week, our neighborhood scientist is Dr. Adam Hockley @adhockley.bsky.social ! In his article, he details the road from basic science to clinical outcomes–and why sometimes it’s not quite as linear as you might think. Read his piece below: neighborhoodscientist.org/posts/2026/o...

/2 In light of that, I am in awe and deep respect of the people who are still showing up to monitor the ICE Gestapo, protect and defend their neighbors, do whatever they can to hold ICE to account and call out their lawlessness. What incredible bravery.

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Canadians are being warned to treat any medical information we see from the US as misinformation and although this is obvious to me, maybe some moots should know this too

Walz: "I couldn't help but think, and it scares me a bit -- 'The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most important directive.' It certainly feels like that in this moment."

Overheard: “How old are you?” “Twelve” “What grade are you in?” “6-7”

This is something I struggle with as a journalist who writes a lot about AI. I have written whole articles about how AI is a misnomer! But I feel powerless in the tides of linguistic drift. Has anyone else who writes about AI found ways to usefully (and regularly) distinguish types?

We are supposed to believe that FDA paused and removed the J&J vaccine immediately after 6 cases of clotting, but they hid 10 kids dying from the mRNA vaccines until Prasad and Hoeg, who were always antivaxx, revealed the truth. Checks out.

tech bro: i have made Artificial General Intelligence programmer: you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

“Enjoy your legs!”

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Nobody wants this shit. Nobody. The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.

do they make electric cars with a pretend manual transmission because they should

absolutely. which is why this was the definition for AI that @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I included in our recent TiCS article

When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)

I'm sitting on the couch crying actual tears reading the docs for this 😂

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.