@kamath.bsky.social Hey! I read your blog about "Building a Pan-Tilt Mechanism". by any chance do you still have the schematics for the pan tilt module you made for the OAK-D? Love your blog!!

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

whoever created a youtube playlist called 12 HOUR FAN WHITE NOISE FOR BABY SLEEP which has a random ravi shankar sitar solo that blasts out at the nine hour mark- you will pay for your crimes

I know a lot of folks here who have been laid off from tech who would be great for this.

@darthbluesky.bsky.social did you and @mollyknight.bsky.social dream this up?

Good news: Tom Suozzi isn't the only name on the ballot this June in NY-03. Getting on the ballot is only the first step. Please donate and/or sign up to volunteer at votewelch.com. (If you already have,THANK YOU! We will be reaching out to volunteers for things other than petitioning soon.)

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

The more I look around the more surprised I am that there isn't a cuda version on the multivariate normal cdf. Am I not looking in the right place(s)?

P.S. I couldn't find a GoFundMe or other fundraiser for Renea Gamble’s legal costs - if someone knows of one, please post it! We need to support folks who, by their own brave actions, demonstrate our first amendment rights to public assembly & free speech.

This is absolute trash. Kids are submitting their original art for AP Studio Art classes. Claiming copyright over that work is genuinely evil.

man I am just blocking doomsayers left and right today. Like, idgaf if you want to give up. i get it. just keep that shit to yourself.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

Call us old fashioned, but we think science is a good thing, and we want to support it. If you’re a Ph.D. climate scientist or engineer in the U.S., and you want to do work that supports the public interest, take a look at these 1- to 2-year fellowship opportunities.

If he's going to get a national profile on the strength of a younger woman's campaign, I'm going to come out and say it: during his short-lived tenure as a math professor, Biss had an inappropriate romantic relationship with one of his undergraduate students. I was that student.

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org

Please help spread the word #medievalsky! Funded PhD position on medieval literary and artistic representations of disability as part of a Vidi project I will be leading that is funded by the Dutch Research Council: www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3592...

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

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We received 125 applications for the energy policy analyst role at Gridworks. It's like sorting through an embarrassment of riches. There are so many qualified applicants, refugees from fed agencies. It's sad we can only hire one. Reach out if you're hiring; happy to forward candidates along to you.

I think it sucks that as far as I know the only way to get off a starter pack you don’t want to be on here is to block its creator but here we are. If anyone knows a more graceful way to exit a starter pack please lmk.

a second nine inch nails album has hit the tron

Feels like a good time to mention I'm primarying Tom Suozzi, one of the only 7 House Dems to vote for ICE funding last month. www.votewelch.com

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

I had not touched a cat in 15 years when an orange cat wandered over to sit with me in the grass.

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Wow the exact same amount he was suing the IRS for. He just took it. Not only impeachable but [Redacted] as well.

Anyone know anyone with solutions for dm_control/dog fetch task? Anyone with an MBRL solution?

I cannot believe that it was less than two weeks ago that the President of the United States shit his pants on live television and we have...forgot about it?

The Zapruder film we deserve

Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

For those in southwest Ohio worried about a possible ICE surge next week, you can sign up to connect with community here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#rstats bat signal: If any of y'all have experience with multilevel multinomial logistic regression, with {brms}, Kruschke and I could use your help. This is your chance to influence the upcomming textbook. discourse.mc-stan.org/t/problem-in...

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Anyone hooked an iphone up to a mac mini M4 pro to run a quadruped? Where you all at?

Hi everyone -- there is a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow to protest what the Trump administration and DHS are doing to our community. In solidarity with the action, I am going to donate my revenue from tmrw's newsletter to People over Papers, the Midway-Hamline Diaper Bank, & Every Meal. (1/2)

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

"You're asking me about something that the president just said... He's never going to implement it... We should talk instead about what he's doing... Every time we get distracted by what he talks about rather than what he does... he destroys and he redistributes to the rich."

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