This is so cool

As a former trombonist: true

Will they also build a time machine to save our hover cars from warp speed engines?

oh my GOD this is beyond amazing. absolute chills.

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NASA shuts down Low-energy Charged Particles experiment on Voyager 1 to keep the nuclear-powered spacecraft operating, nearly 49 years after launch. science.nasa.gov/blogs/voyage...

This is so deeply unserious. Even setting aside the hitherto-undreamt-of levels of fecklessness, the destruction of freedom of speech and of the press isn't even coming from Congress! It's absolution of Trump dressed up as condemnation!

"Surely not. We have objective measurements for intelligence and will responsibly use our knowledge of genetics to increase these. What? The history of intelligence tests and genetics? Oh, let me loo-- oh no. Oh no, no, no, no, no."

Do you want the Eugenics Wars? Because this is how you get the Eugenics Wars

Videos of the property of these white collar criminals being confiscated and arrest videos of the men who victimized the women in the Epstein files would provide ideal social media content for a future Democratic administration...the flip side to the sadistic ICE sizzle reels produced by this one.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller April 12,1947

Influencers delenda est

I find everything about the idea of software I'm using having a "personality" (in a literal sense, not as in like little quirks and idiosyncrasies that any machine has) so off-putting

Baking set to opera. Found this weirdly satisfying.

I already know that time's inexorable advance is grinding me to dust, I really don't need the constant reminders

Sidenote: this is all reads as the type of silicon valley science wishcasting that was extremely Jeffrey Epstein’s Thjng. So I checked the Epstein files and, uh, yep.

I think this is the most capital-S Scholarly title I have seen in years, love it

Their involvement should haunt every moment the rest of their lives. They were careless people - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

Talking in the Discord about how memes are simply the way we communicate now and just started making these.

really does feel like we have a bunch of commentators who would like to just say “the bell curve was right”

Here's the article which includes the actual interview in question. Yes, he absolutely said this and yes, it's in context. wordinblack.com/2025/02/rfk-...

I am enjoying the new errors that constantly tell me what I'm doing is forbidden, though. Mine are the forbidden posts, the feed no one can read with sanity intact.

This interview with Tony was a lot of fun to do, he's a truly fascinating guy and I'm really glad to see him getting this kind of recognition. Click through to read my oral history with one of the 100 most influential people in the world!

The best thing about Bluesky is the chronological feed, but this also means that constant outages like we've been having recently are even worse for the user experience here than they would be on algorithmically-driven platforms.

This interview with Tony was a lot of fun to do, he's a truly fascinating guy and I'm really glad to see him getting this kind of recognition. Click through to read my oral history with one of the 100 most influential people in the world!

This is fun! @jowiph.bsky.social recently did an oral history with Tony Tyson that is now in our collection: repository.aip.org/node/129829 His work at Bell Labs on weak gravitational lensing is pretty amazing.

to what extent has the AI hype bubble been shaped by the simultaneous reemergence of IQ scores into public discourse? how do assumptions about general intelligence or a "g factor" distort the way AI boosters think about artificial intelligence?

I also think if you’re a CEO presiding over layoffs of a certain size, 10% of those laid off (chosen at random) should get to spin a wheel to see how much of your stock compensation they get to receive. there are two bonus wedges where they get all of your TC

modest proposal: everyone who serves in political office has their investments seized & placed in a fund that tracks the market. at the end of the term they get 50% of that back. the other 50% is voted on by their constituents in terms of how much of it they think the candidate deserves to get back

What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their executives.

The automatic runner is still the dumbest rule in baseball

So do we think the home plate ump has money on Arizona?

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Just stumbled across one of my favorite old pictures of Theo

Credit where it's due, this is great

Yeah, Mackenzie Scott is a fascinating case. She is literally ignoring the SOPs of philanthropy in order to give away wealth as quickly and efficiently as possible and she’s still getting richer. At her level it is impossible not to make money. Tax billionaires, A LOT.

So this arrived today:

the total domination of society by sports betting is not in itself Why Things Are This Way but it sure as hell doesn't help

I know intellectually that some people think they're immune to consequences, but I cannot wrap my head around the thought process of a serial rapist who actively seeks out the highest possible levels of attention and scrutiny.

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

Steamed Hams is old enough that he feels conflicted because everyone younger than he is has no emotional attachment to the simpsons golden age and everyone slightly older than him can talk exclusively in simpsons quotes for hours

Everything happens so much (complimentary)

Holy shit, we actually won

How are the Orioles winning right now?

GET OUT THE RYE BREAD AND THE MUSTARD IT'S GRAND SALAMI TIME

I should probably turn this game off

You have GOT to be kidding me. This is a curse