I’m always looking for a reason to hate on Virgil’s cohost, but like did any of you actually watch the interview. I did, she was discussing how AOCs poor voting record on the genocide in Palestine reflects on her as candidate in comparison to Tucker’s much more publically anti-genocide persona.

Weed man continues to stay winning with the takes.

Fifteen Dogs, House of Leaves, Crime and Punishment I do not understand how people like Vonnegut that much.

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

Every few weeks neuroscience rediscovers that the mid brain….helps coordinate cognitive effort for predictively regulating the body. wait til they figure out how hunger and ghrelin/leptin signalling works to convince the muscle controller to find food. Riveting stuff.

Instead of watching Pokémon (first season, cute and fun) my niece is subjecting me to watching some children play in boxes on YouTube.

Goddess help me, I'm diving into the AI-in-math convo. Tim Gowers says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro did "PhD-level" math in an hour with no input from him. Terence Tao tells Nature the job description is changing. I wrote up what I think, including what could be lost: people, training, equity... #MathSky

Phones these days too big. I love my 13 mini. So small. I just carry around a battery pack.

This was actually a really emotionally validating interview to watch. A frequent point of discussion I have with colleagues is how we systematically discourage students from wanting to pursue and investigate the big questions. And the rigour that one is held to when they try can be soul-crushing.

Everyone always ask if the scientist is interdisciplinary. No one ever asks how the scientist is interdisciplinary, or if they’re doing ok rn.

It‘s #horrorpostertime! Post one of your favourite horror movies from (1989). VK is barely a horror movie but I love it so much. Yelling out “I’m a vampire” over and over while drunk is always a classic.

Logging on to Bluesky.

Just past alright and kinda shitty. -Fred Netse

Foobar, Bandcamp, piracy and just buying from the artist stays top tier.

This is the kind of bravery more of our elected leaders should show. He is unafraid of the online woke brigade making fun of him for hiding behind his pregnant wife like a precious little baby boy. And as a man he is practicing his right to cop a feel.

Damn this would be awesome if it happened.

this is what I imagine people hear when I talk about my research

I for one welcome the raccoon mindset

…in my back yard terrorizing my children.

2026 is year of the Linux desktop for real

Elena Wuest (German, b.1977) "An Afternoon Tea II," 2026 Oil on canvas 110 x 110 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained becaus Cassandra (famously) was right. It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...

The vibes RN

Big Solar is hiding something from us.

We’re led by the very worst of us—and I don’t just mean Trump, who’s only an appropriate figurehead for his class and their narcissism, bloodlust and poisonous, nihilistic ideology. Far from being a democracy or meritocracy, our system rewards psychopathy with world-ending power.

Space group hug after Commander Reid Wiseman names a lunar crater after his late wife, Carroll. 🧪 #ArtemisII

‘The Chinese government statement said the death "calls into question once again the impact and legitimacy of unwarranted U.S. interrogation and harassment targeting Chinese researchers and students."‘ www.freep.com/story/news/e...

I mean we gotta hand it to trump, that’s he’s at least still determined to produce his own thoughts and text and not just copy paste chat gpt output as his own thoughts.

ladies and gentlemen the bee gees

What if in the choice between the sterile order of hierarchy and full chaotic interactional complexity, there was a secret third thing? Where the dragons of order and chaos lived in computable harmony.

I think it might have more to do with critical functions of a microblogging site (like fullscreen video viewing) being nowhere in sight, while weird AI driven functions seem to be the priorities of the development team, and less about the evil anti-bedtime leftists.

what the actual fuck????

Most academics have been sold an individualist ego-trip in the package of a sense of discovery. Discovery isn’t just about the uncovering of a new fact or the construction of a new model, it is also about the social/political element of getting that knowledge reflected out in the world.

Reminder that here in Canada, Carney is making substantial cuts to Fisheries and Oceans (-70%), Environment and Climate Change (-45%), Agriculture and Agri-Food (-10%), and Natural Resources (-5%), and closing multiple research stations.

This shot of the core stage separation is incredible

SURVIVAL HORROR IN THE ALPS FFS! No AI slop in my game... For your consideration: Mundaun - a lovingly hand-pencilled horror tale. It's at 93% positive on Steam. It's on a steep sale right now. All human made. Sound. Voice acting in a language I don't even speak! BUY IT -> SUPPORT HUMAN (me)

look at this baby beaver and feel better briefly (@ wildheartrescue on TT)

Don’t have to think about the moral and ethical implications of MY work, if all immoral science is NOT science and I know my science IS science. tale as old as hypothesis testing.

Quitting the board has left me more free time for shenanigans with friends

No more personal brand, only personal space; get away from me

Gotta say I hope Apple keeps failing in its AI integration attempts cause they are winning by failing. But for everything else there’s arch.

Can’t wait to be strung up like a puppet so some undergrad can copy my flow in their 2nd year psych course.

It feels really nice to have actually submitted a paper and participated in a research project again. I’ve been playing politician for so long I thought I lost my academic edge.

It’s crazy that the BAFTA producers chose to keep that in likely as a marketing stunt cause who the fuck watches the BAFTAs. Disrespectful to all the men involved.

I think it may be time to replay disco elysium.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

this is our culture comrade

It’s funny (read: depressing sui fuel) that will people will sublimate their self-destructive impulses into ruining the institutions they are a part of. Sometimes it’s not that you need to tear apart an institution that’s barely keeping it together, you just gotta step down and smell da roses.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds