"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too." Read Gisela Salim-Peyer: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I created awesome-blogdown.com 9 years ago, not long after {blogdown} was announced. It seemed like a fun way to help promote the project and its users. People have largely moved on to other tools and the list is stale though, so the website will be gone soon. It was fun while it lasted #rstats

Con lo de Charlie Kirk lo primero que pensé es "bueno, cualquier pijo de los cojones lo suficientemente tarado puede escalar en el turbocapitalismo neonazi si es un temerario de la hostia". Luego resulta que no, que el padre de Charlie fue ingeniero en la Torre Trump.

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Por que hai xa tantas lesmeeees 😰 Hoxe son eu o tráxico cabaleiro medieval en pantuflas, se cambio o debuxo dun caracol a unha lesme

if you weigh 70 kg, do not eat 1,806,000 mg of glucose or there’s a 50% chance you could die especially if you’re a rat

always

This is extremely bad. In the past, the Congo would have leaned heavily on USAID. That's no longer possible. "...Just 1,740 people in three health zones of Kasai province have been vaccinated as of Sept. 21. The Bulape zone alone has a population of more than 212,000."

"Eating for Palestine" is admittedly a quintessential Galician bit 🖤🤍❤️💚🍉😍

Llamar terrorismo al antifascismo es un delito de odio como una catedral

Me siento frívola hablando de otras cosas sabiendo que, tan cerca de aquí, hay un dolor inmenso que es imposible de medir.

Info here: www.livescience.com/space/black-...

Well don't I feel stupid

Rest in power Assata www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This may be the most important paper ever published about NIH funded research. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

97-Year-Old Dies Unaware Of Being Violin Prodigy https://theonion.com/97-year-old-dies-unaware-of-being-violin-prodigy-1819571799/

guy who’s vegan except for invasive creatures

Friday afternoon poll! 📰 Each new R release gets its name from which comic strip? 1️⃣ Garfield 2️⃣ Calvin and Hobbes 3️⃣ The Far Side 4️⃣ Peanuts 📊 Show results

❗ La ONU incluye la ACS de Florentino Pérez en la lista de empresas que hacen negocio en la Cisjordania ocupada ilegalmente

¿Cuántas décadas vamos a tardar a confiar masivamente en las vacunas? Esto va a ser un desastre. Votar a imbéciles es letal.

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

Ide levando os paraugas á praza de abastos a que volos arranxen... ☔

The “Trailer” at friend.com feels more like the teaser for a sci-fi dystopia.

May want to watch SA. This is the single genetic change that has the potential to de attenuate clinical severity of covid to that of NL63 and dramatically reduce the frequency of LC. Or it becomes like the Feline and Porcine corona, and everyone melts from inside 🤣.

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A Israeli academic asked his followers on X which sanction would really convince ordinary Israelis that they are isolated internationally. "Expulsion from football tournaments" was the most popular answer, followed by "ending visa-free travel to Europe"

Literally the authoritarian playbook: 1. Call your opponents terrorists. 2. Deploy state power against them. There's nothing subtle or confusing or complex about what's happening. The *outcome* is uncertain but the authoritarianism is right out in the open.

And let's also be clear: those "with a record" are are almost never the tabloid-esque crimes talked about, as demonstrated by the many stories of people being picked up for old traffic of drug offenses. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Studying 25,000 workers across 7,000 workplaces, this study finds that: "AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation... Our findings challenge narratives of imminent labor market transformation due to Generative AI." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Haberá tamén un obradoiro de carrachas, loita (biolóxica) de fungos contra parasitos, outro obradoiro sobre superbacterias e a resistencia a antibióticos, un laboratorio vivo do solo galego, modelado 3D de fígados ou demostradores para optimizar a enerxía nas misións espaciais.

Cada vez máis preto de descubrir o "xen Barbanza"

Que nos use el ¡HOLA! para dar noticias de ciencia es la alegría del día, la semana y el mes: "Desde el @sciencemediacentre.es —una plataforma de referencia que conecta a medios con científicos para contextualizar hallazgos relevantes—..." www.hola.com/al-dia/20250...

Se che din que non é unha “decisión política “. Se che din que si é “decisión centífico-ténica “

This. My dad has late stage Parkinson’s disease with dementia and psychosis. My dad isn’t a bad guy. He’s not perfect, but he’s a damn good person, and he doesn’t deserve to be vilified because he has a medical condition that he has no real control over.

#OtD 25 Sep 2003 noted Palestinian intellectual Edward Said died. A founding father of postcolonial theory, he wrote extensively on the Middle East and Palestine, and how Western culture has been moulded by imperialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9791...

BREAKING: Starbucks just announced a $1 billion restructuring and will close 59 unionized stores — nearly 10% of union locations. It includes the Roastery in Seattle, one of its busiest shops. CEO Brian Niccol made $100 million in four months last year.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

Por favor que quiten eses enxeñeiros e poñan topólogos a cuñadear de Anatomía 😜 Polo menos a Topoloxía dá para conversas interesantes cun libro de embrioloxía diante Para un topólogo, unha taciña de café e un donut son a mesma cousa 😁 como debe ser ☕ 🍩

If you're interested in absorbing scientific literature, this concise, smart, extremely valuable for people at a range of experience levels: How to Read a Paper, by S. Keshav 🧪 #NEISvoid web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m...

5/ Borsook warned that “cypherpunk” paranoia about government intrusion was leading them to create “a society where there is ever more surveillance and computer-retrievable information about people's private lives.” Sound familiar?

4/ Borsook divided the tech ”libertarians” into two main types: the Ravers and the Gilders. The Ravers are the ones who go to Burning Man and project countercultural ideas. The Gilders are the Peter Thiel types, more overtly focused on money and power. But they are birds of a feather.

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Mendelian Randomization works if the DAG (from wiki) holds true. These assumptions have probably held true in <10 studies since the inception of the method, all else is GIGO. "Z is the genetic variants, X is the exposure, Y is the outcome of interest, U are confounders."

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Este es el dato. Cada 900.000 coches eléctricos aumentan la demanda eléctrica actual de España en un 1%