Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

HE'S 92????? JFC

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

Member of the Epstein class says what

My uncle, Douglas Colesworthy, on the AIDS Memorial Quilt. He died in 1987. Silence = death.

Sununu went from being the governor of New Hampshire to being an airline lobbyist?

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

a lot of these guys really envision a future where technology relieves us of the burden of human experience

Key point: The losses are so large bc the economic benefits of universities to their communities and our country are so great. That's why possible NIH budget cuts--expertly visualized by SciMAP--are so damaging. Check out their maps ⤵️ scienceimpacts.org

I cannot keep posting about this silly New England athletic association. Just assume that Harvard is flipflopping, Penn & Columbia are sacrificing students, Dartmouth is pretending neutrality exists during an authoritarian takeover, and the rest are trying to keep theirs heads above water.

for the love of fuck no, I'm not going to rewrite my answer to cater to your unhappiness about "they" pronouns (only men send emails like this, by the way...)

Convenient list of places where your donation would go the furthest

Earlier this year, @wendylrouse.bsky.social was one of the first to sound the alarm about federal censorship of historical work. Today at #AHAPerspectives, she writes about what happened with her own article on the NPS website and the longer history of LGBTQ+ erasure. 🗃️

roses are red peonies are pale forgive my delay, I was

This, but in real life.

Here, see? I teach medieval art. It's great. You'd prefer to read threads like this than another screed about "AI."

It's the end of the evening and I'm pinballing between apps, looking for one tiny hit of joy so I can go to bed, and I mindlessly kick over to bluesky before realizing "oh no, wrong direction." But then I see the top of my feed -- and you know what? Yeah, that's a little ray of hope. I'll take it.

It would be really cool if the Democratic Senate and House minority leaders from New York City stepped up to defend Mamdani from the fascist president threatening him

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Yikes yikes yikes #RAdminSky

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

To trulye builde a beare, you must firste create the universe.

Donald Trump, despite being the head of a party that has railed about deficits for decades, is about to pass a budget that increases the debt by $2.4 trillion. This happens whenever Republicans get into office, they reveal that a core tenet of their ideology is a lie.

you’re laughing? the leopards have resorted to cannibalism and you’re LAUGHING?

"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked my cat's anus looks like we both did our research

"The chatbot’s instructions tell it to “de-emphasize the climate catastrophe narrative,” to focus on “real pollution, not CO2.” The bot is told to frame these arguments in the most reasonable possible way" "chatbots are useless" is wrong. They're very, very useful, for a certain kind of person:

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

404 Media got to the bottom of it! www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...

Another week, another terminated grant – this time, EPA. #RAdminSky

60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%. Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.

Judge Session: I see no evidence of risk or danger of any kind. The court orders ICE to release Rümeysa Öztürk from custody IMMEDIATELY. She is free to return to her home in Massachusetts. Also free to travel within Mass and VT. I'm not going to restrict her travel, because I see no danger of flight

gotta be the first pope who conceivably has tried malort

you know the rules.

What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

Legit pleased that this is my most successful Bluesky contribution to date

Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

In 2024, "NIH research funding supported 407,782 jobs and produced $94.58 billion in economic activity in FY2024 — or $2.56 of economic activity for every $1 of research funding." www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/wp-content/u...

The moment Mohsen Mahdawi was released from ICE custody in Vermont.

The American Alliance of Museums is tracking terminations of grants to museums from all U.S. agencies: form.jotform.com/250924415963...

Please send me the funny/terrible Google AI/chat GPT search results you have spotted. For example, the one that suggests eating one small rock per day, or the one that suggests using an iron to smooth your scrotum wrinkles.

Soundtrack to working after hours trying to find a fix after losing all but three of our NSF grants in 8 days.

An immigration or administrative warrant is a memo that someone wrote ‘warrant’ at the top of.