Happy Lunar New Year! It is the year of the fire horse and so Gilbert Adrian’s 1945 Roan Stallion dress seems appropriately flame like as it rampages across the surface of black silk @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Japanese Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi described the crisis and challenges the Indo-Pacific region is currently facing. I think the points he makes are applicable not just for the Indo-Pacific, so decided to share them with you. Today, the Indo-Pacific faces a crisis. Everyone fears it

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:

It’s an RNA world. RNA is posited to be the first genetic material, arising 4 billion years ago. It can store information and act as an enzyme. Eventually, it duplicated its information into a more stable form, DNA.

#Bluecrab #oyster #parasite "Oysters reduced parasite densities in the water...Our results jointly support that oysters benefit adjacent community members through feeding on transmissive stages of their pathogens" share.google/mpaHCGaeSn2K...

Today my students asked about AI advertising to student populations/campuses and I recommended that they read tech bro rhetoric about AI while swapping out "AI" for the terms "slavery," "pollution," "billionaire profits," or "deep state surveillance," and we had a great time. Highly recommend.

If you've got three minutes, I've got everything you need to know about the jobs report. What happened, what it means, how it'll shape your life, and what to look for going forward. Plus some wonky bits.

Call lies lies. Call murder murder. Call fascism fascism. Name reality.

这个有意思！基本就是外骨骼机器人的变种，很多年前我就觉得外骨骼机器人会很有前景，没想到一群搞机器人的更喜欢造玩具

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Incredible stuff from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/us-news/igno...

The fancy of reality in so many facets 🤣

Every American needs to watch this:

Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3

登月代表了人类的和谐、合作

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

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He fits those institutions perfectly, mediocrity in fancy packaging.

Y’ALL I have the best readers everrr, a lovely lady gifted me these amazing spices! What a great variety!

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

"It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism." -Michael Parenti (1933-2026)

This media digs its own grave aggressively.

Losing your religion, is a sign of spiritual growth... #music #rem youtu.be/xwtdhWltSIg?...

www.youtube.com/redirect?eve... They were here yesterday but I was ill so I coudnt go - but this is the show they are working on next - an imagining of Emily Dickinson put to music

wow wow wow. I had to find a longer version. youtu.be/xjAk67c3KPY?...

蠢驴拉磨的时候都是憧憬着美味的胡萝卜，没想过终有卸下来的那一天！

The internet is not as reliable as we have assumed.

The power of the powerless

Democracy is fragile.

Open source software is powerful, but only if people know how to use it. After publishing 12 R packages, I'm shifting toward open educational materials with monthly deep-dive videos on data science in R. First up: mixed data (continuous/categorical) Latent Class Analysis with tidySEM! What's next?

Huh? Historical document?

ST. PAUL MAYOR: “We’ve received reports of ICE officers going door to door asking where the Asian people live… I myself have received advice to carry my passport with me because they may target me based on what I look like.”

When can my fellow Asians realize that they are next in line on the chopping board?

American friends, you should start giving meshtastic a bit of thought for community organizing comms use over the next few years - even if for Plan B. You might need it. meshtastic.org/docs/introdu...

Get Flock out of your community. It's an illegal search company. Check out deflock.org and see how many spy cameras are in your county, with only a promise that the company won't give that data to the regime

One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.

旧金山的幼儿抚育费用未来只会更贵。价钱年年涨，直到拿着50%补贴的群体逼近可承受的上限。这个看上去很美的政策真正的受益者只有开幼儿园的，连老师们都不会受益。这就是如今美国医疗体系的缩微版。与之对照的是纽约的一刀切全免费。同样的花费，议价权天地之别。

How I'm dealing with my stress: I bought a 3d printer and am producing 100 whistles at a time. 1000 heading to Minneapolis tomorrow.

Amazing work by Erik Karlsson and co - a huge diversity of viruses in animal markets, detected through both sampling of birds, but also environmental surveillance approaches. 👉https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68245-8

Tech execs continue to struggle giving examples that make sense for why you should let their bot connect to every aspect of your online life.

快好好学学吧。关于蛋白质的摄入量，对身体的影响，亮氨酸和心血管疾病、衰老的关联……最有趣的“关于吃高蛋白增肌，牛天天吃草肌肉也不少😂” 唉，钱多人傻，那就用蛋白质掏他钱包呗

Every minute of daylight we gain comes entirely from nature. “Daylight Saving Time” saves no daylight (DST instead deprives sleep and costs lives).

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Posted by @liminalwarmth.bsky.social: “Someone I personally know in Minneapolis posted this to Facebook a few hours ago. This isn’t what orderly law enforcement looks like. No charge, no location info? How do you even know citizens are getting due process here?”

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot." – Carl Sagan

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies. For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

差点儿忘了屎壳郎喜欢屎，还会推几坨进自己的窝儿

People who work for OpenAI write like 12-year-old boys programmed with 1950s comic books exclusively.

"But we should know by now that to deprive any one of them oxygen will only cause a fire elsewhere." —Zadie Smith, "The Realm of the Unspoken" Talk about the end of an essay that is without question one of the best things I read in 2025: