Comedy is attacking someone until they learn to have a sense of humor

Quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Congratualtions to Dr. Aparna Shah, recipient on the VT Diggs Teaching Scholar Award. The Diggs Award recognizes excellent educators who model 'innovative pedagogical practices that advance, challenge, and/or unsettle existing conventions of teaching and learning. Well done!

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

The Atlantic writers manage to make an article about bread have some very "let them eat cake" energy www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.

@vscooper.micropopbio.org & @isabelott.bsky.social let me crash their high-school bacteria hunt while I was working on my book "Life's Edge." Their paper's now out, featuring lots of mutants (including my very own CZ1A).

NEW: Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. His father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

this is a very bold thing to say -- women can't do this -- about a technology that requires the ability to issue detailed natural language instructions to an immensely powerful but childlike simpleton

"Tech companies like Palantir now stock vending machines with nicotine pouches in the hopes of boosting their workers’ productivity."

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

In 1963 the US govt spent 2.5% GDP on research in America. This was on top of what business spent on research, and was not conflated with business "spending" on research by bundling in expenses like advertising into their research budgets. That spike in 1963 has driven our economy for decades.

@jackerhack.ing I came across this service recently: jace.ai 😂

@zigzackly.bsky.social Saw this pic of Remo Fernandes recently and you could pass as a reasonable double for him. 🤣

“Any selective admissions process that ignores income, privilege & structural access while targeting race‑based efforts to increase diversity isn’t leveling the playing field. It’s cementing it.” Trump’s Deals With Top Colleges May Give Rich Applicants a Bigger Edge www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/u...

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

I used to be starry-eyed about the Internet. Not so much anymore but the worst thing about the Internet is that it made this asshole a billionaire.

Professor and C4R coLAB, Aparna Shah (@neuromusings.bsky.social), discusses our new unit on establishing proper experimental controls. Check out her blog post at bit.ly/4eAIxcl and play with the Controls unit at c4r.io/units

KitKat content for @neonepiphany.com

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

When students were attacked by cops in the México City protests of 68, UNAM’s Rector - Javier Barros Sierra - stayed silent for fear of jeopardizing university funding. Just kidding. He ordered all flags to 1/2 mast, led 80,000 down Av. Insurgentes, & gave an epic speech defending free expression

@jackerhack.ing I bet you want one these! (If you don't already have one...) flipperzero.one

Growing in my backyard, SW Virginia. 🍄📷

Bellingcat’s Pooja Chaudhuri identified four Indian far-right media outlets that are receiving non-transparent foreign donations. Two sites could be linked to a US-based group associated with the RSS, the group that birthed far-right Hindu ideology. www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/05...

@styler.bsky.social Are you still reading Order of the Stick? The latest page is quite cool!

We stopped by to check out the wonderful 2023 St Pancras International train station Christmas tree, which is a tower of books created by Hatchards that features 3,800 hand-painted books.

Oh and btw the solution to "not everyone has the time to dedicate to art, you classist" is not "AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS AND DON'T PAY ARTISTS" it's "VALUE ALL LABOR SO THAT PEOPLE ARE PAID FAIRLY AND CAN LIVE AND MAKE ART IF THEY WANT YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE"

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

🤣 'The next time Timbo chunters on about any aspect of economic policy, or about the current predicament of employer-employee relationships, he should be forced to staple to his forehead how he really “made it”. Lord knows there’s enough room' twitter.com/FinancialRev...

Ziggy enjoys a sunny day in the yard.

It's amazing to me how "unsocial" many social media services have become.