"So yes, faculty can teach more courses by spending less time on each. Just don’t expect students to learn as much." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Happy to see DHS employees got the holiday off to spend with their families.

It looks like the Dept. of Energy deleted thousands of webpages about energy saving out of embarrassment that those pages recommended people set their thermostats to 78 degrees, after @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social got criticism for making that same recommendation. youtu.be/FWzVBiHORTE

Every single lawmaker that’s calling for their constituents to “be responsible with electricity usage” during the extreme heat had better be supporting heavy restrictions on data centers.

Definitely interesting culmination of cheap mid-tech gear punching about its musical weight: @aaronlanterman.bsky.social - perhaps of interest youtu.be/ufHvIIQWhV4

"Capitalism creates a world where a deadbeat dad with a trust fund is respected more than a single parent who works two low-wage jobs to provide for their family." -- Benn Jordan @bennjordan.bsky.social

A cop claimed something and video showed he was lying? Stop the presses 🙄🙄🙄 I shudder to think of the thousands of citizens killed or wrongly imprisoned before widespread video availability provided the possibility of catching the cops in their lies 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

It's amazing how the Iranian regime seems to have outmaneuvered Trump by simply twiddling their thumbs.

Adafruit, the much-loved electronics manufacturer in New York, fired back against Flux AI's threats with a court filing. Here's my take on it. @adafruit.com

In their defense, if I was a student I'd note that Donald Trump can't likely read more than a paragraph, and he managed to get into a position where he can launch nuclear missiles.

At the University of Iowa, students will be forced to take 2 classes from the center for Intellectual freedom. This center isn't part of the university's reporting structure — it reports directly to the regents. It's a special child that gets special treatment.

NEW: The Right to Record Act was just introduced in Congress, which would allow people to sue federal agents who violate our First Amendment right to record their actions in public. This bill is essential to protecting our ability to hold our government accountable.

I feel like if people are shooting at each other then you can't really say a ceasefire is "teetering." You don't have a ceasefire.

Can't afford health care, but you're on the hook as a taxpayer to bail out Sam Altman?

James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell

Someone at the American Diabetes Association should have realized that calling the cops on the researchers handing out hardcopies of their editorial would create a much bigger stir than just letting them be.

Incredibly disturbing: experts attending the American Diabetes Association conference had their badges confiscated and were thrown out by police and threatened with arrest for handing out copies of this editorial. One of the experts was a former ADA president!!! Streisand Effect now in effect.

My initial take on the issue of flux.ai threatening @adafruit.com.

My son and I hooked a Battlezone controller yanked out of a real cabinet (courtesy eBay) to my laptop.

Heh.

"Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative."

“...like all men of power, when he talked of prices worth paying, you could be sure of one thing. Someone else was paying.” -- Richard K Morgan, Altered Carbon

Meta’s issue is a man who made a hot or not page in the early 2000s thinking he is a technological god.

This is our house. Donald Trump has turned these grounds to trash. He never should have been allowed anywhere near the levers of power. He should be removed from office now.

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Why is the Trump administration trying to get everyone killed?

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

I knew the United States had major issues and political divides. But I never thought our country and democracy would die at the hands of a moron, bloviating bankrupt conman with the intellect of rotten cabbage.

Not enough people are talking about this. A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Joe Rogan had Marc Andreessen on JRE, and naturally, they talked about Flock cameras and surveillance. A lot of Flock PR talking points were taken as "evidence", and this is just the beginning of "good faith arguments" for mass, warrantless surveillance that a lot of money is flowing into.

"Inflation is outpacing wages, which means your quality of life goes down. Someone who is out of work is depressed, but someone who is working two f***ing jobs and can't pay for their health insurance, they're angry." -- Scott Galloway

"If you look at societal unrest, it's not when people aren't working that they revolt; it's when people are working and yet they're hungry." -- Scott Galloway

NEW! Trump is creating a $1.8 BILLION dollar terrorist slush fund with our tax dollars to pay his Jan 6 terrorists who beat up police officers and stormed the Capitol. This is exactly the same as if Bin Laden had created a fund to compensate his 9/11 terrorists.

It’s very depressing to think about how struggling Americans are being forced to visit food banks or cut medications in half while some Jan. 6 insurrectionist who took a shit in the hallways of the Capitol may get a payout from Looter-in-chief Donald Trump’s $1.7 billion slush fund.

Big day for criminals to get a windfall payout from taxpayer dollars so they can retire early and put their feet up after beating cops and smashing windows to storm the Capitol - orchestrated by Republicans. A transfer of money from hardworking law-abiding citizens to scum.

NEW! Trump is creating a $1.8 BILLION dollar terrorist slush fund with our tax dollars to pay his Jan 6 terrorists who beat up police officers and stormed the Capitol. This is exactly the same as if Bin Laden had created a fund to compensate his 9/11 terrorists.

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

An insane level of corruption—even for Trump. A $1.7 BILLION slush fund for Trump’s hand-picked stooges to hand money to January 6th insurrectionists and his political allies. Here’s the President’s priority as Americans sell their plasma to afford gas and groceries:

"The global use of contraception has reduced maternal mortality by 44%, saving between 200 to 300 thousand lives of women every year, because contraceptive use reduces high risk pregnancies by 30%, because contraceptive use has the greatest benefit for people who are young or living in poverty."

"Social media isn't the problem; the extractive profit motive is the problem. Banning under 16s is like putting a plaster on the bullet wound. Sure, it helps a bit, but you're still bleeding out. The real question is: how do you stop the bullets." -- Barry Ferns

I’m disappointed in the group that pulled off the Canvas hack. They should have just changed everyone’s grade to an “A.”

"It's like being in a sinking boat. The people on the left are saying 'we need the rich people to buy us bigger bailout buckets.' And the right wing people are saying 'just row harder.' Whereas neither side are addressing the real problem, which is the hole in the bottom of the boat." - Barry Ferns

also, i know we are all numb to this now and just accept it as a matter of course, but the president scheming with a major host of a cable news network to flip a US senator and trying to bribe him into it is an incredibly brazen display of corruption

Later breadboard prototype of a controller inspired by the Theremin & Ondes Martenot by one of my ECE senior design teams at Georgia Tech. In this version, the closer your hand is to the volume sensor, the louder. www.youtube.com/shorts/dKCR8...

Early breadboard prototype of a controller inspired by the Theremin & Ondes Martenot by one of my ECE senior design teams at Georgia Tech. In this version, the closer your hand is to the volume sensor, the quieter. www.youtube.com/shorts/yR39E...

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

I think we are human beings and it makes no sense to pretend we’re not just because we’re working. She gave an excellent address and simultaneously normalized women being both leaders and mothers. I’d say that was a stellar performance!

In news that absolutely everyone predicted…