Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.

It is profound to me how bad Amazon customer service is. It is a staggeringly inefficient and angering experience.

This video makes me feel an emotion I have never felt. Watching this video is the only time I can reliably reproduce it. I just think they’re beautiful and I’m proud of them and happy for them. It’s like I’m their dad.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

Delighted to share our discoveries about one of the brain's neurotransmitter systems: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Together with colleagues at the @alleninstitute.org, we have learned a lot about a tiny cluster of neurons in the brainstem locus coeruleus (LC) that releases norepinephrine (NE). 1

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Applications are open for the Junior Theoretical Neuroscientists Workshop which will take place July 21-24, 2026 at the Center for Computational Neuroscience, @flatironinstitute.org Travel, lodging, and meals will be covered for accepted participants. Application deadline: April 15, 2026

One of the problems with people not sharing things with attribution, AI etc is that we (rightly) don’t trust things that are real. This picture is making the rounds today and I’ve seen multiple ppl say it is fake. It isn’t!!!! www.nasa.gov/solar-system...

New over here so introducing myself with some commentary on Artemis II!

What a beautiful moment.

I really appreciated this video by Kihana Wilson (who is not on Bluesky, alas) about the mixed feelings of #Artemis II. Follow her on Instagram (www.instagram.com/the_astro_st...) if you're over there!

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

#NoKings After a fantastic week of hiking in the canyons near Escalate Utah we made it to the awesome No Kings demo in Salt Lake City:

No Kings Chapel Hill, NC

No Kings today in Oakland!

Holy shit! This is No Kings in Boston, Massachusetts. 🙌💪👏✊️👇

No Kings in Boston!!

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, and Tom Morello perform on stage

Bruce Springsteen performs "Streets of Minneapolis" at the #NoKings rally in St. Paul. Video by Neal Justin.

St. Paul, MN @reuters.com #NoKings

Holy New York.

Demonstrators denouncing US President Donald Trump's policies took over streets across the US on Saturday, for the third ‘No Kings’ rally. More than 3,200 events were planned in all 50 states against what protesters see as an authoritarian form of governance.

Gotta love San Francisco folks showing up in Ocean Beach for No Kings! Awesome! 🔥

HAPPENING NOW: ❌👑 Thousands of people in DC are marching to Fort McNair where Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth, Pam Bondi, and other leaders of this regime are living #NoKings #NoKingsDC

WAR DON'T SEX CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

#NoKings Cincinnati, Ohio. Protest matters. This will help to get us through.

#NoKings in Kyle TX. I estimate 250-300 protesters.

People out in large numbers at even one of the DC satellite #NoKings rallies. More to come this afternoon.

Captured by @jaredpoland.bsky.social: No Kings protesters are converging on the National Mall. Are you out at protests? Share your posters and messages here.

see you there

goooooood morning

The Villages retirement community in Florida have turned out in huge numbers for No Kings. William Steiner, our Villages correspondent, says that the turnout is twice as big as last year's.

Pittsburgh! #NoKings

Classy. 🤡 @politico.com

A photo from earlier today, at the start of the No Kings march from near Arlington Cemetery, just before demonstrators moved onto the Memorial Bridge.

No Kings protesters are out in Geneva, Switzerland

Northampton Massachusetts No Kings Rally #Northamptonma #nokings #westernmass @maddow.bsky.social

highly recommend an excellent brass band for all No Kings protests! (sent by a pal in Northampton Massachusetts)

"Gene Roddenberry wasn’t some starry-eyed dreamer. He was a decorated Army bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater. He had seen first-hand the grim consequences of the worst of human nature. And his vision of the future wasn’t just a promise of hope. It was also a warning." -- Alex Kurtzman

Google has patented a scheme where you can make a web page, and if they don't think it's up to snuff, they can use AI to dynamically generate a page they like better, and send searches to that one instead. www.wral.com/business/tec...

About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.

Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.

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This is the mouse brain on psilocybin. One dose rewires the brain, and it's not random. Researchers mapped exactly which neural circuits change with the help of #OpenScience & #OpenSource tools. 🧠📈 Dive into why it matters for mental health treatment: https://bit.ly/4cEsaN4

Our #CellLineOfTheWeek is beta-actin - illuminating actin filaments! 🧫 Our entire catalog of stem cell lines & plasmids are available to researchers for just the cost of shipping to reduce the barriers to discovery 📦 Distributed by @Coriell_Science and @Addgene