NEW PAPER. Why do larger networks train better? "Because they contain more candidate *sub*networks that can learn the task" → lottery tickets This popular explanation uses an appealing but misleading metaphor🧵 We propose an intuitive alternative grounded in theory: escape dimensions

in honor of the country's 250th birthday, trump has obstructed the public's only view of the front of the WH for anyone who wanted to come to DC to celebrate.

Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”

That’s called a bribe.

said the former debate club nerd

In the last 18 months, Congress has given DHS $240 billion — a quarter of a trillion.

BREAKING: Thune just filed cloture on the nomination of Justin Smith — one of Trump's personal lawyers — to serve on the 8th Circuit. Smith is an election denier & anti-civil rights extremist, and he is deeply entrenched in Leonard Leo's dark money operation. He belongs nowhere near the judiciary.

Who was investigated for fraud.

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.

lmao

We often label fossil fuel firms as #climate criminals (and they are) but spare a thought for the bankers without whose mega-funding this would not be possible. They are every bit as criminally culpable. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Once again observing that no one ever ran "President Biden's approval ratings have tumbled. But here in West Baltimore, these black lesbians say he delivered on key promises.

Courts should make (even) clearer that citizens have a First Amendment right to film and document law enforcement activity in public places, but in the mean time Congress has a real chance to help.

The lesson here is if you want something like this: spin-up a nonprofit whose mission is doing and maintaining the thing, entrust the land to them instead of the city, and ask the city to fund the non-profit.

This is functionally equivalent to double charging and I should be refunded for the immediately preceding interaction or get the current one credited.

Yeah I don't know why anyone is surprised that the screwworm came back. I remember hearing about this program specifically being cut and it immediately being one of the clearest possible demonstrations of how these "cost cutting efforts" were doing the exact opposite of what they claimed.

None of this administration's bullshit holds up under scrutiny. Keep resisting. Do not comply proactively. Assert your rights.

Assistant Professor position available at Stanford University, in any area of Earth System Science. Apply by October 1, 2026. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

We are in the Age of Humans - the Anthropocene. Our new article (open access) shows how even with a moderate future emissions scenario, global temperature will still be elevated by 3-4°C in the year 3000! Lifetime of our CO2 in the air is that long. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

sounds like what we need is stricter regulations rather than just letting industries lie and pay fines.

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what a time to be alive

apparently this nonsense is still going on

“In this country, we have no ‘other people.’ We are American people, all of us.” This 1940s film warning against bigotry and fascism is more relevant now than ever.

It is, and Chloe East is one of the foremost experts on the issue : www.nber.org/papers/w35129

NEW: The Justice Department appealed federal court losses in Maine and Wisconsin Friday, ensuring that every major defeat in its nationwide campaign to obtain state voter registration data is now in or headed to a federal appeals court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BOSTON (AP) - Federal judge halts effort by Trump administration to force states to comply with conditions to get SNAP funding.

In the event of a medication shortage, insurers that normally only permit generics should be forced to approve brand name prescriptions. In what world can my insurer recognize that I need a medication, but not permit me to buy the only brand available anywhere?

52yo Sherpa hired as a cook for Camp II. Somehow ends up guiding 2 inexperienced clients to the peak. The foreign guides who hired him did not attempt a search nor did they even tell his company he was missing. When the family reached out to his outfit after 5 days, a search was finally attempted.

New: A federal judge in Rhode Island ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration had unlawfully barred applicants from 39 countries from receiving decisions on ​asylum, work permits, green cards and citizenship. www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

This week President Trump issued an executive order that transferred thousands of positions to Schedule Policy/Career. @nicholasbednar.bsky.social explains the impact of this EO on the civil service and how active litigation related to Schedule Policy/Career affects the order.

Noticing a particular grouchiness in myself today? Not sure where that's coming from. Feels like a good idea to sign off for a few hours. Hopefully this won't be one of those days where I sign back on in the evening to find the world has been on fire all day and I didn't even realize it.

methods in hypergraph research are just re-inventing the wheel. come at me, #NetSci2026. arxiv.org/abs/2602.16937

Screwworm’s return to the United States is a catastrophic failure by the Trump administration. They cut surveillance and control funding. They fired public health experts. They refuse to work with other countries.

Jail and prison are incredibly unsafe. There is no safe jail. The important thing to keep in mind when reading these stories is that the answer is always to let people be free (not to hire more doctors). apnews.com/article/ice-...

8 yrs after Trump’s forcible border separations came to an official halt following global outrage, AP has found that the government has re-separated dozens of children from their families, despite a landmark legal settlement meant to keep them together. Some of their parents have been locked in

Assistant/Associate Professor opening at the University of Southern Denmark in games & interactive technologies; focus areas Human-Computer/AI Interaction, data science, and AI. Deadline August 1.

trump: "we're making progress on an agreement" iran: "the US are terrorists and will face dire repercussions"

The Democratic position should be that this isn't a valid legal settlement but a fraud upon the court that won't be honored by a subsequent administration.

Oliver Darcy’s Status has obtained a statement from Scott Pelley responding to his termination by CBS News and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Nick Bilton. Full Story Here: bit.ly/3Qig8Qz (Side note: I will always be a paid subscriber to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social — worth every penny)

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

my man simply cannot stop scamming everyone who believes in him and I think that’s beautiful

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

> Ready for review: tests passing, hope failing.

"Spectacle is not a distraction from Trump’s real agenda; it is Trump’s real agenda. That does not make it any less dangerous. In some ways it is more dangerous, because the logic of spectacle is the logic of constant escalation."

y'all keeping up with this star wars lego collection fiasco?

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”