Americans have been fed a pack of lies about national health care and government responsibility for generations — and now we pay more for less care than any other rich, developed nation, but live comfortably in the illusion of our righteousness. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/w...

There's a special place reserved in Hell for hacks and apologists who attempt to explain the verbal dribblings of Donald Trump. Trump is insane and dangerous. It's that simple. Call it out.

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

Read why NIH colleagues resigned. Brave writing from Sylvia Chou, Alexa Romberg, Paul Grothaus and Vani Pariyadath. 🧪 #science #standupforscience #integrity www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/n...

Fifteen years later, 4,000 workers struggle to control the ongoing disaster. The three melted reactors remain so radioactive that they destroy the robots sent to explore the damage. No one knows exactly where the melted fuel is located or how deep it is thebulletin.org/2026/03/fuku...

Electrify everything. Ban the production of gasoline-powered vehicles. Tax oil companies dry. Subsidize all renewables and EVs.

Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:

"The U.S. is being run by gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth."……. Former NATO commander and British General Sir Richard Shirreff delivers a stark warning for Britain to avoid being dragged into America's illegal war on Iran. -Analyst News

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Publishing in a journal means endorsing it. Where you publish reflects your values. Choose wisely. doi.org/10.52057/erj...

Werbevideo der norwegischen Verbraucherschützer: A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ

This will of course affect all of us. But unlike 2022, since then we personally transitioned to a heat pump and an EV, and I can't help but wonder that the direct economic effects on Europe would be smaller if we had been more forceful in the transition away from fossil fuels.

I found the longer speech, the whole speech is so heartfelt inappropriate now as well. youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?...

Embedding unreliable AI deep into the source code of the military without human oversight is the single stupidest thing we could do as a species. And that is *exactly* what the United States is about to do.

Trump‘s ‚clean coal‘ is Germany‘s ‚green oil‘. Neither exists. Neither are needed. Both are meant as distractions and cost us precious time.

198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.

"A man free of patriarchy is a man who has found not only every woman's humanity, but one who has at last discovered his own. The actual path to liberation for lonely men is feminism—because pursuing an identity based on dominating others is self-isolating." www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

This is why we are hosting a discussion about parasocial and machine-social relationships at the April Cambridge Disinformation Summit meetings.

This is some incredible journalism.

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

A lot of places are about to be bombed in a country far away and a good many people killed because Donald Trump cannot make anyone forget or ignore the accusations of what he did with young girls. That is now the foreign policy of the United States.

Whoah. This hits hard: unreplug.com/blog/dear-mi...

I've been cranking numbers. Full year 2025, it looks like nuclear power just about kept its nose ahead of wind and solar. But in H2 2025, while wind didn't quite overtake nuclear, solar did. In 2026 nuclear will drop to third place in the production of clean electricity.

FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Some of us didn't hop online in the 90s or the 2000s to get rich and famous, man. Some of us hopped online in the 90s and 2000s 'cause it was FUN to chat with people all over the world... for free! Baby, we grew up when it cost a zillion dollars to call long distance! We had pen pals at school!

„Es braucht Menschen, die bereit sind, ihren eigenen Körper auszusetzen, weil sie nicht mehr bereit sind, Ungerechtigkeiten hinzunehmen. Es ist am Ende vermutlich die mächtigste Art, Macht zu erschüttern. Und nur sehr selten reagiert Macht mit Milde, wenn sie erschüttert wird.“ Neuer Newsletter

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out #SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL "I was 14" "I was 16" "I was 16" "17" "14" "There are about a thousand of us" "It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows" "It's time to shine a light into the darkness" "Release all of the Epstein files"

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Wir suchen Verstärkung: 16 offene Stellen bei der Deutschen Raumfahrtagentur im DLR in Bonn. 🚀 👉 Join the mission. 100% #Raumfahrt! jobs.dlr.de/go/Alle-Stel...

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

I was once an undocumented migrant in Spain – this new decree will change lives | Francheska Melendez

This is one of the reasons I have said that protecting neighbors from being kidnapped or beaten without due process IS the strategy for voting. This isn't about "immigration" whatever they say. It's about eradicating people of color from public life.

I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

Here's an article I wrote that @nature.com turned down, on Crick and his half-century relationship with Nature. It condenses all the material relating to Nature that appeared in my Crick biography (apart from the double helix, which you can find here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

A prominent Royal Society fellow helped out with this

❗️Kyiv is on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe: there is a risk of complete collapse. In January alone, 600,000 people left the city, — The Times quotes the mayor Klitschko. In some houses it is so cold that residents cannot use the toilet because the water has frozen.

Fukuyama: Trump is a bully who wants to dominate everyone around him. Trying to placate him with concessions is a fool’s errand. He despises weakness. As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop. 1/3

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

This dude is intense and correct

Happy birthday to the most important site on the internet. As I told a group of historians last week at AHA during a panel about marketing history books: As AI makes the rest of the web decline in trustworthiness, we all have a responsibility to make Wikipedia as good & complete as possible.