"Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents."

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

Do these men feel big, in their uniforms and battle rattle, their masks and their sunglasses, hauling away a little girl and her doll?

These are secret police of an aspiring fascist regime blatantly violating 4th Amendment rights of women and children. The tree of liberty thirsts.

Even more, university professors are teaching *how to think*. I am not interested in outsourcing my most human capability to a magic box. Yes, I use calculators, computer algebra, etc. If those vanished tomorrow, I would still be able to do physics, because I learned how to do the integrals myself

So exhausting..

Discussions of gender alterity are just discussions of historical fact, dating back as far as our knowledge of human history goes. They’re not advocacy sessions (although there are some logical conclusions about “normalcy” that any intelligent person would probably reach).

From @marisakabas.bsky.social: ICE agents point guns at bystanders during violent arrest in Maryland “What’re you gonna do? Shoot me?” one witness yelled. “Go ahead. Shoot me.” www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

Saying that ICE is different because its mandate is for immigration is like saying the SS could never evolve to run concentration camps because it was founded to protect meeting rooms. Power like that is a key factor in an authoritarian state. 5/

Perfect.

Job Announcement! Postdoc in Gravitational Waves at University of Nottingham * Two year position * Deadline soon: 29 September * Details and application form: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

I didn't ask for AI in my search. This is really not convincing me!

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

Any emacs / font experts want to chime in? emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/85...

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

Baby's first contribution to the emacs source tree! cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.g...

Always a little scary when you install a new version of emacs...

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Recent paper the cites the BHPToolkit: "Resonance in black hole ringdown: Benchmarking quasinormal mode excitation and extraction" by Kei-ichiro Kubota, Hayato Motohashi, arxiv.org/abs/2509.06411

There is a special frequency called the "Kepler limit" for when stuff that's on the surface of a body flies off because the surface is spinning so fast. It's the same as the orbital frequency skimming along the surface. The centrifugal force will exactly equal the surface gravity 1/

Make a band singular: The Door

We're at a point now where a Fox News host can just casually suggests killing homeless people with a lethal injection on air and no one bats an eye but a MSNBC contributor gets fired for calling Charlie Kirk "divisive".

Oop.

I'd love to follow other early-career and early-ish-career science journalists on here. Who's out there? What do you write about? Please say hi and maybe post a recent story you're proud of — or shout-out someone who's writing great stuff. #scicomm

I spent a long time figuring out how to get matplotlib to be able to add a little cartoon of a binary orbit onto a plot (so now you all have to see it): ⚛️🧪🔭

Time to break out the chart

NEW: The University of Mississippi has fired employee Lauren Stokes over a post she shared about Charlie Kirk that called him a white supremacist and criticized his support for forcing child and adult rape victims to carry pregnancies to term.

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...

How about that.

New paper on the arXiv today about systematic errors when modelling the gravitation waveform from extreme mass ratio inspirals and their impact on LISA data science Huge thanks to my collaborators, especially Hassan Khalvati, for getting this project over the line! 🧪⚛️🔭🧮 arxiv.org/abs/2509.08875

Meanwhile, on HBCU campuses, lockdowns after bomb threats and though I'm sure this won't interest most media types, it is worth noting: abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

"A Dead Statesman" I could not dig; I dared not rob: Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among Mine angry and defrauded young? —Rudyard Kipling, from "Epitaphs of the War", in _The Years Between_ (1919)

Violence for thee, not for me.

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Right-wingers suddenly deciding to decry political violence

I am once again begging paper authors, editors, and journalists to understand that we do not test theorems

... can this be simplified at all? n and m are fixed positive integers, p is a fixed real number between 0 and 1.

The b̶e̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶s̶ postings will continue until morale improves

Every House Rules Republican just voted to block the Epstein Files Transparency Act from advancing.

One of the ways a democracy disappears: the legislative branch neuters itself and takes orders from the leader. This week Senate Republicans will go "nuclear" to change the body's rules. The change? Stop having separate votes on nominees. Just do 50 at a time. Not kidding.