The Anaheim Halloween Parade was Saturday! Amanda and I volunteer with the Float Team who builds and drives the parade organization's floats. www.youtube.com/live/Y3KqWZv...

Times are tough, but at least there's a new Neko Case album to sink my teeth into. nekocase.com

@aaup.org Youtuber Hank Green (with 3.94 million followers) has made a video about Trump and higher ed. He's provided a link to the AAUP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwh...

On days like this I'm glad I switched from a total market fund to USXF, an ESG fund that does not hold Tesla.

Kids playing Ozzy's Crazy Train on xylophones

Absolutely insane. They are destroying this country's scientific enterprise. If you're not a scientist and don't know what this means, it basically means they are planning to fund only the top 4% of grants. Historically it's around 10%.

Have canvassed, can confirm

At a Sunday night concert targeting mostly people in their 40s-50s (Psychedelic Furs). So far 75% of the people around me have checked their work calendar for tomorrow.

As an instructor, I feel this loss of a shared frame of reference. Sometimes it would really help to explain something by analogy, or theme an assessment around a pop culture reference, but there aren’t any stories that practically everyone knows anymore.

This is so so sad. And I don’t see many people talking about the student loan shit they jammed in that bill. They’ve ensured only the rich can go the college. They capped the amount you can borrow over 4 years AND cut Grad Plus loans (which is how I paid my rent during law school).

The dismantling of the research apparatus that made America the science and tech giant it's been over the past century is the greatest own-goal in history. We haven't even begun to calculate or feel the losses

this 48-second video of a protest in ontario, california is top-tier storytelling 🤌🏽🤌🏽

Trump is deliberately killing one of our strongest exports: higher ed www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

US science starting a death spiral....after 75 amazing years.🧪 www.npr.org/2025/05/02/n...

I don’t think a single person should do any ethics training modules if Trump actually takes that plane. Why the hell should I if he’s not going to?

This. 🧪

Sometimes estate sales are bittersweet. Kicking the tires on this ‘66 Fury, I found that once upon a time the owner wrote labels with detailed maintenance notes. A kindred spirit! #weirdcars #musclecars #plymouth #mopar #stationwagon

With billions of dollars in federal funding at risk, Harvard University officials on Monday rejected Trump administration demands to make sweeping changes to its governance, admissions and hiring practices.

LOL Who did this? 😆😉😏

Annual reminder that the Coachella music festival is streaming for free. Honestly at this point I prefer streaming outdoor festivals over attending. coachella.com

Every casino and resort on the Vegas Strip is now 100% union. The Culinary and Bartenders Unions have reached an agreement with Fontainebleau Las Vegas, and for the first time in the 90-year history of the strip every establishment is totally unionized. 963kklz.com/2025/03/06/l...

I'm in Pittsburgh for the SIGCSE Computer Science Education conference. Loving the city! #SIGCSE #SIGCSE2025 sigcse2025.sigcse.org

If you have a job offer that you want at a university take it now. Widespread hiring freezes are likely.

The NIH capping the indirect cost rate (IDC) for grants at 15% can best be described as a direct assault on Universities. It’s such a bureaucratic, innocuous sounding thing that actually means that research universities will be kneecapped. Thousands of employees across the US will lose their jobs.

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

I see more criticism here of Democrats in Congress than I do condemnation of Republicans. And yet it is the GOP who are enabling Trump. It tells me a lot when I see you regularly bash our side but say nothing, ever, about the other. Reflect on your choices. You may be helping the fascists.

Janelle Monáe's performance during the Quincy Jones appreciation segment of the Grammys reminded me of the genius of Jones' rhythm sections. There's a lot of subtle auxiliary percussion that's easy to miss but adds a lot in aggregate. youtu.be/yURRmWtbTbo?...

Fire Aid is killing it fireaidla.org #FireAid

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

Cutting off grants to academia, pausing clinical trials, etc., is key to this administration’s plan to kill higher education. Targeting intellectuals is textbook fascism.

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Today’s estate sale picks: a ‘93 Craftsman drill press that cleaned up nicely, Christmas lights, 1980s Road & Track magazines, misc hand tools. They had a working Vectrex console but wanted $1500

I don’t want to hear Trump’s voice ever again. My lifetime capacity for that voice is depleted.

to recap: — Trump was *for* the TikTok ban — which the GOP Congress passed — and the GOP Supreme Court upheld — and even though Biden said he wouldn't enforce the ban, TikTok shut down anyway — so that Trump could "save" it — and the media fell for it we really do live in the dumbest fucking country

Someone should make a AAA video game about firefighting. There are strategy, tactics, and coordination layers to it. That would be more pro-social than yet another first-person shooter.