Headed to Florence, Italy for the week for the European Mechanics conference. First time attending this one. Should be fun!

Checkmate, I guess?

Ribs: it’s what’s for dinner!

PhD hooding ceremony, Duke chapel

The wheels literally coming off the CyberTruck is definitely a metaphor for 2026.

Sheyna Patel developed a hydrogel that removes more than 93% of PET microplastics from water. The material acts like a molecular sponge and could degrade waste using sunlight to help fight environmental pollution.

Hard to say just who he’s trying to fool here: himself or everyone else.

Like your drunk uncle who brags over Thanksgiving about all the sobriety tests he’s passed.

For May the Fourth, reupping my review of the first season of Andor. "Andor is the first show to take the details of administration seriously." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-return...

Strong 2008 vibes

With the Munich team. Managing 50 parallel sessions is no joke.

“Men who cannot handle accountability, cannot admit that they’re wrong, cannot actually face the hard work of self-examination and repair, are dangerous to everybody.” From: I Went to Duke With Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax. Decades Later, He Killed Her by Elizabeth Spiers or archive.is/nqBmK

The AI Layoff Trap. CEOs: this article argues that companies replacing workers with AI, eliminates the necessary customer base to succeed. “If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on..” arxiv.org/pdf/2603.20617

Powerful spoken work from poet laureate, @mileshardingwood at The People’s Shareholder Meeting to De-ICE Citizens Bank in Providence, RI. @de-icecitizensbank.org #citizensbank #de-icecitizensbank

Watched a little of the Family McMullen on a flight down to Atlanta. Gosh, it’s terrible. The first two movies were pretty good. This one… is not.

I’ll just observe that the main objective of propaganda is to get people to a point where they don’t trust any news whatsoever.

Glad I’m traveling overseas this week. The US media coverage promises to be particularly stupid.

What the fuck are we doing here

The Access of Evil

Boy I bet that Democratic Senator sure feels dumb now…

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

This reminds me of when Katie Couric asked Palin what national papers she reads and the answer was “All of them!”

1) Acquire BlueSky. 2) Set up code around it that effectively views screen time as protected by privacy, so that algorithms have no influence over what any user sees in their feed.

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

Revising an article

This is like going to a bullfight wearing PETA underoos.

Play-by-play of how the NIH was demolished and left on the chopping room floor. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/one-year-a...

Difficult to overstate the havoc the DOE Genesis program is causing.

I have no words for this.

Come on and raise your voice above the raging seas We can't hold our breath forever When our brothers cannot breathe Come on and raise your voice above the raging seas We can't hold our breath forever When our sisters cannot breathe

Isn’t all of Multi-Level Marketing just another version of “learn to scam” ? Lots of folks very determined to fool themselves and their friends, trying to sell a modern day version of snake oil in many cases.

timeline cleanser - this is Luna

As someone who has spent plenty of time in various national forests, it’s difficult to convey just how devastating and bleak this is.

“If they can automatically enroll men into the draft at 18, they can automatically register Americans to vote at 18. Ask yourself why they won’t” Josh H.

Fascinating. I gather walking around on the moon’s surface might be much more dangerous than I’d appreciated.

APL pork loin with cilantro, apricot, garlic:

The concept that we’re trying to attract the very best students in the world, and they’re not all going to be Americans, really isn’t that hard to grasp.

A great teacher

A lunch plate (very much shared) from Lewis BBQ, in Charleston SC.

Miller couldn’t care less about this team or the university. This is like connecting a Princeton loss in the debate championships to Ted Cruz.

LOL, @kevinmkruse.bsky.social - seek therapy!

Is it a good sign or a bad sign for a president when a popular sports figure is denouncing your immigration policies on a widely watched March Madness broadcast?

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

So many flavors… and you chose salty

LOL. LMAO even.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

Right up your alley, @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Just caught an ACLU commercial to protect birthright citizenship, and props to them for that. It’s great to see. But it was set to Springsteen’s “Born in the USA” and… does nobody understand what that song’s actually about?!?!?

The inevitable result of this would be the creation of a permanent underclass of exploitable people, who grew up in this country, know no other, and have no education so are more vulnerable than ever before; a serf class for the rich and powerful.