idk how anybody is even entertaining this idea as feasible after Defunctland basically exposed this whole part of Disney R&D as a hype cycle for the shareholders over a perennial vaporware. doubtful that this even makes it to the parks

Darkly comic, that Black people are talking about racism and how it affects them, are constantly accused of being grifters when people have been riding this gravy train to open whole universities, take over CBS News, etc. etc.

"Experts have called the possibility of losing elimination status for measles 'deeply embarrassing' for a wealthy country with the medical resources of the United States..." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

Well hey, the AI bubble’s bursting faster than I thought it would. Hold tight, everyone!

The US embassy is warning residents about increased bear activity in Japan, and just like that we have another social predicament in which a bear is the obvious choice.

Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them

Is the AI bubble the only thing preventing this from being an official recession?

People are roasting this lede, but NYM is actually correct to print it. Toilet paper is so scarce in prisons that it is sometimes used as a currency. It shouldn't be restricted, for any person, but the fact that it isn't for her (and her alone) is a sign of extremely special treatment.

I think it’s not really recognized outside leftist circles just how utterly broken terror of the left makes some people’s brains Like a genuine kind of derangement, a distortion of reality and how to engage with it that’s incomprehensible from the outside

Eddy Burback just posted an astonishing video about how far ChatGPT would egg on dangerously delusional thinking - funny, yes, but also very scary: youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q?...

A Nature poll found that 75% of U.S. researchers are considering leaving the country. Guyz, even the *historians* are leaving or contemplating / likely to go. Including, at least 3 historians that I know of in my subfield. 😢

Yes. One of the most powerful drivers of elite political discourse right now is wishful thinking: We don't want what's happening to be happening, so we make up a story in which it in less bad and more fixable than it is. All very understandable but it is false and not helping!

I know this reinforces a narrative about condescending leftists calling all conservatives bigots but I'm sorry, every form of data — anecdotes, polling and public statements by conservatives — indicate that these are the main drivers. It's a doomed quest to keep looking for good underneath evil.

I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters. We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.

The unspoken end of these statements being “therefore we need segregation” ought to be remembered.

They literally ruin everything they touch

Hunter's Point: "a type of plutonium called Pu-239 was detected in an air filter at the site when workers were grinding asphalt during field work operations last year. The plutonium levels were more than double the Environmental Protection Agency’s “action level"

That a federal judge had to block the Trump administration from pushing millions of Americans into hunger says everything about this President and the party he leads. Grateful to our Attorney General for being on the frontlines of this fight.

rubella was SO around in the 60s that Gallaudet (probably the number one deaf/hoh university in the world)’s enrollment more than doubled between 1982 and 1985 www.nytimes.com/1985/01/06/e...

not sure how this vote went but the rallies are ongoing for the next few days, there may be one in your area

I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.

Went back to Santa Cruz on October 17 and picked up the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award! Back in September they sent a camera crew to @unhresearch.bsky.social to interview me. Here's the video they made about my journey as a physicist/astronomer and my time as a banana slug.

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

Some of the details may be disputed but this man’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration. It takes over a week without water for an adult to die of dehydration. One officer’s suggestion he needed medical attention was ignored. There’s no plausible situation where this wasn’t intentional.

Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.

Really well put! AI sucks, of course, but it is the latest of thousands of insidious ways that EdTech grifters have attempted to destroy labor within education. EdTech has been successfully destroying universities and K-12 education for at least 30 years, to the cheers of donors and idiots!

How is US activity in Okinawa documented & can it be accessed? Okinawa Times Correspondent Jon Mitchell shares his experiences/methods in "Documenting US Operations in Okinawa: The Jon Mitchell Collection at Okinawa International University & Beyond" #NCCSpotlight guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

I said this on Twitter too, but like. Such a well written article, and yet also I think, significantly underplays just how integral misogyny and objectification is as a currency within this virtual space, and it really does make me worry for young women.

Incredible

Yes, this is absolutely fantastic, a really good, long - not to mention troubling - read.

Folks have been warning about this for at least 3 years that I have seen. Now with less people able to find even basic employment, the tower is going to collapse.

Now playing (09:10 AM PST): "When a Woman Ascends the Stairs" (1960) By Mikio Naruse Runtime: 111 min.

Can’t wait for the Indian right to discover the price of their Basmati rice is going up. missionlocal.org/2025/10/sf-i...

I will repost this forever.

The climate record in song! gc.copernicus.org/articles/8/2...

the grievances of the Right are 'legitimate' and exist because the Left 'goes too far.' The grievances of the Left(s) are illegitimate because they are disfavored groups who should be grateful to get to live in this country.

What is Sora's deepfake slop for, exactly? A little bit from me in the NYT on this awful, ghoulish invention which ultimately seems to have one purpose: to demolish the wall between the real and the unreal. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

I cannot tell you how many parents and SPED teachers and professionals in red states I interacted with in the months leading up to and after the election who were like, “oh no don’t freak out, there won’t be any difference and my guys will never make cuts to special education!” The sheer delusion.

Every once in a while during the 2024 campaign, I'd meet parents of disabled kids who were part of Moms for Liberty or people who taught autistic kids. @slooterman.bsky.social writes how they are afraid right now as Trump targets special education staff. 19thnews.org/2025/10/spec...

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

"My neighbors die of heat...homes become uninsurable, as the sea rises ever faster...hurricanes...But the AI overlords tell us with a straight face that their products, which cannot draw an accurate map of the United States, will somehow solve this crisis, if only we let them make it worse first.."

many conversations I have had with complete normie libs, the kind who have a tote bag from donating to NPR and shop at Whole Foods, involve the kind of rhetoric that under no circumstances should be put on the internet people are very mad

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

I‘m staring at this post like I was a Black student in the 90s and 2000s and had to share a campus with racist Young Republicans