Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my actions… (I have to go to work. Again. Because I wanted a career. What an idiot.)

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

GOOD HEAVENS! It's as if working one's ass off to *not* be able to afford basic needs while watching our freedoms whither away as they are consolidated to an uber-wealthy oligarchy and people die of preventable disease while AI takes jobs is depressing! news.gallup.com/poll/708221/...

on the one hand, this essay has a cursed genealogy (look at the "thanks" line); on the other hand, it is the most accurate essay about time management cultures every paulgraham.com/makersschedu...

Just a few paragraphs in, and this is already excellent: "I tried to get out of the conversation as quickly as I could, not least because he seemed frustrated that I didn’t see things exactly as he did — a new behavior and likely a symptom of LLM overuse."

One-year visiting position: "The successful applicant will have the ability to teach World History survey courses, and upper-level courses in their respective field, which can include Science and Society, History of Science, Global Environmental History, and/or Medical History." #HistSTM

[On the bench ⚒️ #BehindTheScenes] In honor of Apollo 16 landing on the #moon on this day in 1972: a throwback to my Apollo moon boot pendant! 🌕 Yes, it's on fire... 🔥 🔭🐡🧪🎨

if your type 1 error rate is basically zero it means your type 2 error rate is really high; this is not even sociology, it's just statistics

🧵 The MAGA Congress that voted for a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts will never be catheterized by a new grad on a float pool. They will receive VIP care for the rest of their lives while voting to make ours worse. This piece traces the full chain from DC to the bedside.

I don't think anyone would run this in another outlet, but if you're an editor and want it, please reach out.

The mets are owned by a billionaire oligarch who wants to build a casino in their parking lot in opposition of the community. Maybe don't support them this year.

I am "willing" to give them the benefit of the doubt on the childhood TDaP but the post exposure prophylaxis refusal? That's straight up child abuse.

Tremendous warning, sir, you should issue more of them, and more often.

where can i get one of those? i think, we will need one at one of the upcoming no queens rallies.

Ohhhhh ... love doing these. Left: Hubble Telescope image of a nodule in the Trifid Nebula. That's a thin stellar jet from young stellar object buried in the cloud Right: same, but from my backyard telescope. Can just see jet! Original: @esa.int - www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 #Astrophotography

This. N95’s can save lives from wildfire smoke. The scientific evidence of the damage caused by Particulate matter is clear and terrifying.

Our own @docbecca.bsky.social is quoted in this sad article about US science funding 😞 🧪

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It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

This brought back flashbacks to my carnivorous plant days, especially with nimtwits who specifically demanded rare Nepenthes species without having the slightest clue on how to care for them…and preferring wild-gathered plants because they were somehow “more authentic.”

The original Minions movie trapped the Minions in an ice cave from 1814 to the 1950s SPECIFICALLY TO AVOID THIS QUESTION

People who abdicate their willpower, their decision-making, their cognition to AI and LLMs are in the thrall of a kind of mass techno-delusion. They're thralls.

hey georgia, today's the last day to register to vote -- even if you THINK you're registered, check your registration! mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/

"Those 8 children in Shreveport aren't a natural disaster.They're the consequence of choices—legal, political, cultural—that can be made differently. The only reason it feels otherwise is that we keep pretending the alternative is impossible. It isn’t. We just haven’t been willing to want it enough"

Expanding on this: Teach quotation, summary, paraphrase, citation at the beginning of every class, first activity after syllabus overview. Logic of citation, being able to retrace scholarly steps, replicate their work.

*Chef kiss* Beautiful @bencollins.bsky.social! Absolutely beautiful!

Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Looks like the prosecutors couldn’t make it stand up in court

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

“Her [doctors] rec’ed surgery to remove the tumor, & the voices ‘told her that they were fully in agreement w/ that decision,’ according to the report…. As she regained consciousness after the operation, the voices relayed a final msg: ‘We are pleased to have helped you. Goodbye’."🧪

there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term. it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

Cars are also faster than people.

"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online." "Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."

I was a teaching grad student when screens transitioned from “the computer lab” to omnipresent, pushed onto campus by much of the same big money and rhetoric that we are now seeing with AI—we can’t fall behind, it’s inevitable, here’s a huge chunk of cash, etc.

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of: “people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

the cold war teachers and professors responsible for the program's original design excluded courses like this because they wanted their students to experience liberal education before professionalization or specialization

have you ever actually talked to a silicon valley guy? i have a bunch almost always against my wishes. they are aliens

We need a matriarchy run by lesbians with clipboards and earpieces who do not take any shit.

Don’t know where your vacation will take you? Maybe try the Heated Rivalry cabin.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Everyone who makes 45k a year and lives in an apartment last renovated shortly after Alexander Hamilton stole the cannons from the British thinks they're a temporarily embarassed billionaire.

First & foremost, @lindseyboylan.bsky.social is more than deserving of this endorsement. Second & just as important, fuck this headline. Lindsey didn’t accuse Cuomo of harassment. Cuomo harassed Lindsey. Period. She is not an accusor. She is a survivor-advocate. Show some respect. Report the truth.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

Remarkable words from a remarkable woman: www.972mag.com/stand-israel...

#GardenFlowers - absolute peak of the pre-rose season. This year’s pot tulips have been super disappointing - failures and stunted growth but luckily tulips of years past have done great in the corners I stuck them in. IMPORTANT these are not wild bluebells. Do not pick wild flowers!

this is how you end up paying the vet bills for a water buffalo that’s been blown up by a land mine (as actually happened to a guy I met once). and allow me to reiterate, I have no sympathy for these dumb men who falsely assume Foreign Women are meek and easy to push around.

251 years ago this morning just before dawn, 19yo William Diamond beat the assembly on his drum to call the Lexington Company of Militia out to the town green to form up as a British column had been sighted Diamond would fight through the whole war & have a family I’m his g-g-g-g-grandson