learned from a student project on Hallow (the Catholic prayer app with extremely evangelical vibes) that there is a Catholic AI called "Magisterium," trained on church documents, which raises interesting questions about the status of texts in that religion

I love jammin with my console cowboys in cyberspace

Gone with the Wind is problematic

"British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced slavery merely for the satisfaction of abolishing it" - Eric Williams

The knowledge of how to fold a fitted sheet is the Fifth Noble Truth

Calling it now. Telangana chicken shops association is song of the summer

Chat, should I show the Videodrome clip in class today?

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

“The laws have always been the tools of whoever happens to hold all the chips.” Some more video game advisor

Daily dose of Bertolt Brecht (1940~)

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

Video Game Advisor:

Video Game Advisor:

“You may not see the world beyond your high walls, but that does not mean they mark its boundaries”

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

"International law is fake and gay"

Scientists failed to reckon that once we discover the gay gene, we'll turn it ON in everyone. Then we'll finally have our random sample

New headshot

You know who else went to the moon?

Inyalowda 👇👇👇👇

You know who else went to the moon?

Preparing for my role as the baddie (wicked child) at the family seder next week

Incredibly brilliant fucked up movie

Today’s infrastructure day and we’re watching Chaitanya Tamhane’s Court (2014)

Au cinema

Preparing for my role as the baddie (wicked child) at the family seder next week

I think Lewontin said it pretty well: "science is molded by society because it is a human productive activity that takes time and money, and so is guided by and directed by those forces in the world that have control over money and time."

There are too many Nazi tattoos in public life

The Computer Made Me Do It: A History

Let the children read Tamora Pierce and Diane Duane

Amazing calculations here: Sora lasted less than one Quibi sherwood.news/tech/sora-la... by @maxknoblauch.bsky.social and @jonkeegan.com

The heterosexual urge to write husband/dad/wife/mother in my bio

specifically being told he was losing to the literary theorists is villain origin story you could not make up to explain the present - improbable veracity

I think Lewontin said it pretty well: "science is molded by society because it is a human productive activity that takes time and money, and so is guided by and directed by those forces in the world that have control over money and time."

I like to remind people that the electorate, or the public, includes you. When people talk shit about "the public," they are talking about you!

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

I need a legal historian and a strong drink to explain to me law journals

I love watching “Pooja what is this behavior” videos translated across like 5 languages, countries. A lot to dislike about social media but the transnational memes and formats are great

demarcation problem will never go away because science itself should always change. Demarcation is also provocative. We love an apple of discord

I love watching “Pooja what is this behavior” videos translated across like 5 languages, countries. A lot to dislike about social media but the transnational memes and formats are great

Water and electricity are unlike other commodities. Data centers are fundamentally about the distribution of increasingly scarce resources that are themselves governed through natural monopolies. So they're also about local, regional, and global politics

It isn't that data centers use too much water (though they can and do). It's that the water could be used for other, more worthwhile things! Water used in one place might return through the water cycle elsewhere. So, the costs and benefits are distributed geographically and unequally

The knowledge of how to fold a fitted sheet is the Fifth Noble Truth

Unfortunately, it was considered a mainstream science, with university depts, faculty, research programs. This doesn't make eugenics right or true, but it was authoritative. We have so much historical evidence about this process b/c important institutions were producing them

Sorry to all the tall guys out there, but being 6'2" is not a personality

demarcation problem will never go away because science itself should always change. Demarcation is also provocative. We love an apple of discord

Unfortunately, it was considered a mainstream science, with university depts, faculty, research programs. This doesn't make eugenics right or true, but it was authoritative. We have so much historical evidence about this process b/c important institutions were producing them