To succeed? To succeed it as a state yeah. Makes me think of the play within the film in "To be or not to be" Mel Brooks as Bronski as Hitler: " I don't want war. All I want is peace. Peace. Peace! A little piece of Poland, a little piece of France"

early discworld is not as polished as later discworld but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's still pretty good

I’m not sure I already knew how to read when I got that book. Not even sure it was the first one. Some fixations are remarkably persistent.

Best case scenario: [Redacted for TOS violations] Worst case scenario: [Redacted for TOS violations]

I had gotten a few crackpot emails, but this is the first time I get a crackpot *review* of a preprint for which I am a co-author 🧪

Pueo is launching! #Antarctica #southpole @NASA Watch live here: video.ibm.com/channel/nasa...

"What do you mean I can’t teach economics at an other college if I resign?” -David Ricardo, finding out about his non-compete

In light of recent visa news www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

This comes on the back of renaming the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to the "National Lab of the Rockies”. Bad days for green science in Colorado and the US.

Re-upping 🔭 🧪

Just realized the Pritzker we visited a couple of times when I was a child was one of *the* Pritzkers.

antisemitism has two settings, "shut up jews you're overreacting" and "mass murder"

Person who hates America 🤝 Person who hates America

The segfault, dear Brutus, is not in our *s. C++ssius, discussing pointers

In the same vein as my previous reskeet: "Thanks to AI, professors can now return to more ancient forms of marking bias (looks, voice, etc…)"

After $300B in investment, we have finally created a machine that can reproduce the conscious and unconscious biases of the 6th form to physics tenure pipeline.

Lovell Telescope: "Am I a joke to you?" 🔭

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Gussie Fink-Nottle has had a bright future.

Yeah she’s at the singularity because she is infinitely dense. Do editors not exist anymore?

Nuzzi has slept through all of Gaia

*Slaps roof of popular front* This bad boy can fit so many people with even a shred of humanity in them.

La communauté @iap.fr a l'immense tristesse de vous annoncer la disparition brutale de Karim Benabed, dans un accident de la circulation, hier après-midi, le 3 décembre.

Daisy www.smbc-comics.com/comic/daisy bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/daisy

Seeing a bit of the semi-regular "Las Malvinas Son Argentinas" discourse here today and I think what would be best both for the UK and Argentina would be if Milei attempted an invasion. Labour could use a reset.

Yearlong sprint by all the scientists involved to save LiteBIRD after KEK disengaged.

once again: real Costco has never been tried

I re-read "the new gender synthesis" for inspiration regularly, and I am as cis and straight as they come. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-new-gend... Liberal Currents is the best publication around currently, no argument possible. Consider donating to them!

I think the cognitive error here is what I am going to call - from A Man for All Seasons - the 'This Isn't Spain!' fallacy: the assumption that some special forcefield enforces the regularity of your country's politics, so that things that happen elsewhere 'cannot happen here.'

Trump has brought a national chill to U.S. science. But what about state actions? 🚩🏛️ For @science.org, I spoke with researchers across disciplines, career stages, and geography to find out how being a red state researcher can stoke fear, and acts of resistance 🔬🏳️‍🌈: tinyurl.com/4yf8pf62

The Department of Energy is tasked with a "Manhattan project-like" effort on AI and quantum computing. The Manhattan Project consumed about 1% of US GDP from 1942 to 1945. By that metric the new investment should be about $300B a year. In 2024, the US government spent $3B on AI research. 🧪

"Economy and inflation policies" "Tariff and trade policies" ItsTheSamePicture.gif

I guess we should all apologize to Graham Plattner then (no).

Saruman cooked his brain scrying into Twitter 12 hours a day.

To be clear, SF is the evil part. "Oakland calls!" "And Berkeley/Fremont/Hayward will answer!"

"As leaders, we lost our mission a bit about what higher education was about" says person charging students $70000 a year to get an education at a school with only a handful of PhD programs.

I would like to thank MNRAS, @theguardian.com and the authors in Korea for creating and spreading this dishonest dogshit so fast it made it to the audience questions of an outreach event I was at tonight. Top science communication by all involved.

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

The turkeys vote for Christmas because they’re worried about gobble warming.

The hardest part of teaching science these days is you get to tell young people about all the cool shit we could be exploring, but in the back of your mind you know we're not going to because the next experiment would cost $100M and we need to spend $50B to build a plagiarism machine to do scams.

Broke: Pizzagate Woke: Lizzagate Bespoke: The current President of the United States was on friendly terms with a pedophile who preyed on minors at his hotel, and didn’t report him to any authorities.

René Girard was a mistake.

When there is a leak on a spaceship, Roscosmos gets to blame sabotage, CNSA space debris, and NASA Boeing. Also the quotes and replies seem to indicate not many people understood the chronology from the whole article.

Ah shit. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/o...

Why can we make raw milk cheese in France with short maturing without poisoning ourselves with E. coli and salmonella en masse but the Americans are unwilling to do so? Is it just a different appetite for risk and cheese?

A reminder that "Alien observations" is an anagram of "Avi Loeb's insane rot"

Apropos of nothing in particular, two cosmology questions for my followers: - in the first figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with the pink ones? - in the second figure, are the black or blue contours in better agreement with (w0,wa)=(-1,0)? 🔭🧪☄️

I have a feeling we can wait a long time for reactions from any of the 39 idiots who co-authored a book with Krauss last year about how science was under attack www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Wa...

It’s glonzover/We’re so Tom Barrack dichotomy