genius idea

Hello fellow Asian-Americans, just in case you thought we were going to escape the eye of Sauron

Click into the reposted comic for a work of GENIUS

My sign today.

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

Here's something brief I wrote on Friday morning about Renee Good. It's not a column, really, but something between a dream and a prediction.

This is a HUGE win…and one that happened because we ~collectively~ said “NO!” But AAAS coming in and saying on record to the NYT “Science is doing ok. Things are not bad at all…” is baffling. If things are hard for you as a scientist, please share in the comments. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

Thank you for highlighting how 1) when a senior man asks about inclusivity the question isn't closed 2) the men end up "it's not so bad" and "no idea what we could do". That's how both @sns.it where I studied and Sissa where I work still struggle to attract women students.

WHOA

I come with writing some good news www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

And hey, some good news

The always genius @petridishes.bsky.social outdoes even herself here

TWO KEY IMAGES from Minneapolis. Left: The ICE shooter, who has crossed in front, draws his gun while the car is *in reverse.* Right: when he fires--note the smoke--neither foot is in front of the car. Fool thinks he's Wyatt Earp. Really, he's just another murderer.

Right on time, Jesse Welles!

Ah well. Can't disagree here really. Americans did vote for masked agents of the state to kill innocent people, whether they understood that at the time or not. Too bad they didn't listen to anyone who tried to explain it to them bsky.app/profile/atru...

Gift link to this detailed, harrowing breakdown of the Minneapolis shooting, including a synchronous analysis demonstrating that a video circulated as evidence that the ICE officer was "run over" does not in fact show that: www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Sending this back in time 4 or 5 years without explanation

Jacob Frey: "To ICE -- get the fuck out of Minneapolis"

Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him. Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.

For comparison, there were around 250 players chosen in the 2025 NFL draft, and roughly 60 players chosen in the NBA draft

"According to the academic math jobs listings, there were 150 faculty tenure-track jobs advertised in 2024. There were 70 advertised in 2025. So that gives you a sense of the cuts. Of those 70 jobs, Simons is funding 10 of them."

since I fell for this myself

I found this shot of the Fuentes flags as I was going through my phone and working on this story yesterday. I have others. It was one of the first things I saw that made me realize how bad things were and rhat the building was breached.

I wrote about January 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-mom...

2026 marks 4 years and 2 months since our administration took office—and 250 years since our nation was born. 250 years ago on this very day, a young man—the son of immigrants, and a BPS alum—was standing on the banks of a half-frozen river, focused on getting home to Boston. #BostonInauguration

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

On 22 Feb 2022, shortly before the planned host of that year's International Congress of Mathematicians launched a "special military operation" in the territory of a sovereign neighbour, the American Mathematical Society released this statement: www.ams.org/news?news_id...

And also boycott #icm2026 #mathsky

Seems appropriate to read about the death of MTV in an online descendant of a "Sunday supplement" to a "newspaper", aimed at old people like me parade.com/news/mtv-off...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself. For @reuters.com

"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."

Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

too optimistic?

How 'bout a thread of iambs grouped in fives?

- Jeff Stahler

A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols

Really? Actual fucking Hunger Games? Perhaps a marathon walk compnent or a running man competition are next?

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

19, because I am *too old* to have an AOL address

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

cool