If there was a movie about Doug Emhoff it would be a blockbuster.

How long before it’s impossible to buy a fridge without an ad infested touch screen?

Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein. More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q #GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow @uofgravity.bsky.social

The supermarket bread isle is like the candy isle when it comes to carbs and blood sugar levels. White bread is the skittles. Whole grain is the dark chocolate.

it kills me when people respond to this by saying "it might be hard, but if we can just fix the errors it'll be great" it can never be fixed because from a process standpoint, *correct answers are also hallucinations* it's all the same process: generating likely text

A nice introduction to AI fairness testing. youtu.be/n8jPRUZij4s?...

1. Today, the Trump administration's HHS Dept., under RFK Jr., released a review of transgender healthcare. It has no authors. It pushes pseudoscience and conversion therapy. It does not follow a scientific process. My fact check of the Trump HHS review. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Crazy and yet totally predictable. Meta’s social media chat “friends”, which often license the voices of celebrities, will routinely escalate to explicit sex chats with minors. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...

This vid needs more views youtu.be/Ix4nKNDKhTQ?...

What would RFKJr say if the cure for autism requires a vaccination?

They should have thought ahead and renamed it the DJT Mighty Wind project. electrek.co/2025/04/17/t...

Thought For Thursday

Planting some Douglas Fir and other trees. The earth needs some love.

Losing for money should basically make on ineligible to compete for the rest of the season at minimum.

They aren’t Trump tariffs — they are Republican tariffs.

Im seeing endless workshops on "how to use AI/incorporate AI in the classroom" etc, does anyone know of workshops on how to refuse AI? Not even be critical of AI (which is often just one or two slides of handwaving-but-it-is-here) but to refuse it in the classroom and in our research?

For more than 50 years the world has agreed to pay for oil in petrodollars. The US in turn reaped trillions in sales of US treasuries. With than excess investment in the US economy the US tacetly accepted the job of security the world against authoritarianism.

I’m having a super bowl of chicken and dumplings.

Maybe its a good time for a little Executive Order (EO) primer, a few wee tools for sorting wheat from chaff so it seems like less of a deluge. Item 1. EOs have to comply with the Constitution & laws, including acts of Congress. Any that don't will face long court battles before anything changes. /1

Sorry NPR, the radio stays off today.

I’m thinking of starting a betting pool: how soon after the 2026 elections the first impeachment reaches the senate?

While “President Musk” is fun and trollish, we should start referring to Musk as Trump’s Regent. Trump may soon be president, but Must is wielding his power.

Why is Camembert so hard to find? Brie is overrated and over abundant.

The problem is not the problem. Agreeing on the solution is the problem.

I’m not particularly fond of any of these finalists for the Illinois state flag. Not having spent much time in the state, there must be something I’m missing. www.ilsos.gov/special/IFC/...