I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Happy Saturday to everyone except the Nazis and terfs 🌈

Gonna grabb yuwith my slappres, gonna git yu!

I became very conscientious about this during COVID. I do puzzles, read hard things or read and watch programming with different normative (or cultural) assumptions etc. I would like to keep what I can. Bananas to come out of the forced mediated world of COVID…and jump into AI.

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

Yes, some people's legacies are complicated. For example, Watson. After all, though he was racist, don't forget his other traits. For example, he was also sexist. And also anti-semitic. And a data / idea thief. So let's not forget all the different facets.

me: what are you doing?? The Jag Cat: sneezing on the clean dishes *sneezes again*

all of this is also true for sexism. you tell me you think women are biologically less smart and i’ll suspect that i could probably convince you to drink your own piss

bring back maligning racism as the mark of a stupid person. prejudice is the mark of an idiot. if you believe that shit i bet you also don’t wipe your ass

apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe

Colleagues, I say this with utmost care and love: Using AI slop* does not improve your slides. To the contrary, they make you come across as sloppy. Please resist! ------ *I mean this very literally, as in AI-generated images that have hallucinated non-words and nonsensical details in them.

I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college: “What did Watson and Crick discover?” “Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”

Watson was really a trailblazer in scientists selling the idea of themselves, a relentless self promoter. He wrote The Double Helix, the book length account of the discovery that famously smears Franklin. He appeared in a 1954 Vogue photo essay on "Young Americana Talent."

It's really important to note that not only was Watson a racist and misogynist but his contribution to the double helix was listening to a Rosalind Franklin lecture and getting mad because Francis Crick wouldn't invite him to his sex parties.

After publishing the 1953 paper with stolen data and winning a Nobel Prize, James Watson basically coasted on the back of Franklin's work for an astonishing 71 years with few substantive contributions to the field.

endlessly? really? despite the heat death of the universe?

this is excellent maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

He thinks his agenda is popular because no one around him will tell him his agenda is sinking the party, and his unranked social media website is all conspiracy theories.

when your absent leg just means more unimpeded solar access to the belly

HELEN ANDREWS And so what the statistics show, Ross, when you look at it ROSS DOUTHAT Yeah, let’s dig in ANDREWS What they show is that, okay, 98% of boys go to college to get more knowledge DOUTHAT Wow. ANDREWS And almost 97% of girls, in contrast, they go to Jupiter to get more stupider

My body has apparently decided we're just not going to Fall Back this year, and I can't figure out whether this is being 45 or being department chair

Almost the weekend! Now I just need 72 hours to sleep

You know, it’s not like I’m half-assing this, I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.

Missoula, MT, 11 June 2025. #photography #outdoorPhotography #plants

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

Hi @davewagner.bsky.social did Sandal live his dream a meet a pig yet, my cat wants to know thx

One of the slave power secessionist complaints was that Northern juries kept acquitting people who obstructed the Fugitive Slave Act. But even when the bastards had the federal government on their side, there was no way around the Sixth Amendment's requirement of not just a jury but a local one.

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".

It’s really important to note who filed the lawsuit: faculty and staff. Once again, not administrators.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

The rains have returned. I know other places have good reason to worship the spring but watching pipe-cleaner limbs sprout back from charred forests of redwood trees and mushrooms burst out from damp soil, I can’t help but give my whole heart to fall. (Do you see the people in this picture?)

I! Friggin! Love!! Oak! Leaf!! Pinwheel! Season!! (Oak-leaf pinwheel mushrooms are the fruiting body of the Collybiopsis quercophila fungus! They literally grow right out of fallen coast live oak leaves in my neighborhood)

Will pay 199,990 US dollars for this on billboards, greeting cards, tshirts, toilet paper, whatever

It's always satisfying when your review is a quick re-read of the paper and a one-sentence recommendation to accept

A short piece of mine has just been published in the @justiceeverywhere.bsky.social blog. If you're interested, check it out! I think I get more nerd points for (only slightly gratuitous) Star Trek references. justice-everywhere.org/education/ll... #PhilTech #NerdPoints #PhilSky #StarTrek

Anyway, if you want to follow people like me who are actively confronting racist pseudoscience and want to hound them into starting a nonprofit that can structure and support this vital work, check out this starter pack from my friend @jowiph.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jowi...

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

the only part of the system to actually work as intended and convict Trump was his jury, which the judge then proceeded to nullify on political grounds

The right of the people to keep and bear Sammiches, shall not be infringed

It’s muppet coat weather

We must change this mindset that the essential and most critical work in a field is always the first one. That distorted view has caused a lot of problems in psychological science already. The first work is just that—the start. Every field should be evaluated based on the complete body of evidence.

You know, Joey, how about we change things up today? You handle the writing and I'll roll around on the floor like a little nerd.

I'm continually surprised how many smart people will just casually drop a reference to evolutionary psychology in their work somewhere, or in a lecture, and they just immediately drop several points of credibility for me

*writers' room meeting* Hey, so what if, like, The Death of Stalin, only Stalin isn't dead yet

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Maybe a long shot but if anyone is going to be even tangentially involved in the negotiations at COP30 in Brazil and is willing to answer a quick question or two (anonymously if you prefer!), please reach out, Signal is davelevitan.26 or my email is easy to find.

I need accounts like this to actually link to the story they’re citing. If I have the right link, this strikes me as an overstatement. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...