no but seriously, they ARE gutting a body of water, and you've gotta hear it open.spotify.com/track/0qQkMM...

To whom it may concern, This post is to notify you of a new post on my Substack. The contents therein include 1 (one) music ramblings, 2 (two) old posts, and 3 (three) another playlist. The ramblings will continue until morale improves. Warmest regards, B. Allmond open.substack.com/pub/bradenal...

vibe coding without even using AI slop. Modular? Hell no. Memory safe? Absolutely not. Easy to read? Not even remotely. Does it even run? Also no. My code is broken and nonsensical in a totally organic way that LLMs 100 years from now could only hope to approximate.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

I was thinking about suggesting to a small coffee shop to do coffee cards and realized that's like saying "Hey, you should give me every tenth cup of coffee for free." Instead, I'm going to suggest they give me every cup for free from now on.

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Justices divided over whether Constitution means what it says

"No one uses bike lanes" Meanwhile in Utrecht, the Netherlands:

transphobes go to the shadow realm

“Your agency acts as if laws don’t matter—as if the election gave you some mandate to violate the Constitution and the laws passed by this Congress. It did not give you that mandate.” — Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem

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If you haven't yet please give this article a read and most certainly the album a listen. Not an healing balm for our trying times but more of a friendly arm thrown around the shoulder.

remembering when democrats elected him house oversight chair over AOC 2 months ago talking about him like this

Anyone wanna tailgate the papal conclave with me

Does my toaster miss me when I am at work Are my washer and dryer married

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

We should stop holding in-person scientific conferences in the U.S. until our international colleagues can safely travel here. They should all be online or in other countries. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha... #science #research

onion headline on npr today

I know they damn near put the crisis hotline number in this email

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The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

I would rather watch my own autopsy

"It's #BeamTime in the LHC" - There's a public page (op-webtools.web.cern.ch/vistar/?usr=...) where you can watch your favorite particle detector ramp up for 2025! Check back in every day to see different steps of operation on the way to data taking later this year

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

hey so is it a good thing or a bad thing when the "number that only goes up" drops precipitously? What if we all pulled out of our retirement accounts early, just for fun

Trans rights are human rights

Trans rights are human rights.

This is a sad but interesting question. How many grad students will leave and where, if anywhere will they go ?

Crockett: "The idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bullshit. We need to stop playing."

“We are currently clean on OPSEC” accidentally sent to a journalist is an all time classic.

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

Right now, there’s an important race happening that will shape the Wisconsin Supreme Court for the next 10 years. Judge Susan Crawford is ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all Wisconsinites. Make a plan to vote early today — don’t wait until April 1st: wisdems.org/vote

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

I mean very obviously Hegseth should resign, and if it were a Democratic administration this would be quickly be a consensus position.

Anytime you find yourself thinking about benzene, I would recommend the model on the left over the model on the right.

Greatness is in the agency of others (alliances). We are becoming less great.

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Move aside $199 counter-top distiller. With two random metal cans, a nice candle, some rubber hose, and two tripods made from wire hangers, I'll have all the delicious DI water I'll ever need

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The US is the only country that is telling highly skilled and educated young people that the government doesn't want to hire them. Too bad for the US, because every other country loves US doctorate holders.

Germany issues warning for transgender & nonbinary people traveling to the U.S. www.advocate.com/news/germany...