“There’s a broader and increasing sense from students that something is being stolen from them"
— @mattseybold.bsky.social
Polymarket, Kalshi and all the rest of these prediction markets need to be wiped off the face of the earth. They provide absolutely nothing of value and are corrupting everything they touch.
Today is Friday, March 13th. Six years ago today in 2020, Covid was declared a national emergency.
Much has changed since then.
Now we have measles making a come back.🧪
“That will be the 15th of never ever” is a goddam LINE
"Fathir, what were you lyke yn the 1390s?"
I had assumed the headline was a joke. But no.
people.com/new-dime-coi...
You don't see people attacking Russian Orthodox churches because they're pissed about the war in Ukraine, do you?
Some statistics, which indicate JWST is more than 10:1 oversubscribed (both in terms of hours and proposals):
2,855 proposals requested almost 100,000 hours in Cycle 5, compared to the 8,000 hours available.
254 proposals have been approved
This is hilarious and also, the complete rebuttal to "don't rewrite history"
For a thousand years we said the wrong emperor built the wall across Northern England.
If you don't know the story, it's brilliant
Is there anyone (preferably an ECR/grad student) in the wildlife sciences that would like a free 6 month membership to The Wildlife Society? I have one that I can gift.
Let me know!
"I got my PhD by writing prompts instead of doing research, I'm winning"
got some bad news, there still no jobs and now you also know nothing
It’s Friday night!
I’ve done enough this week.
You’ve done enough this week.
Andreessen is on the record saying that he spends a quarter of his media time 'talking' with LLMs, plus he is surrounded by sycophants who also 'talk' with LLMs
Then all these people hop into a chatroom together, like a hall of illiterate oligarchical mirrors
Rapidly moving back to a world where every essay has to be written longhand and every exam has to be viva voce. This is not in any way going to democratise access to higher education.
as a fully grown adult man i too get fussy and anxious when women refuse to act like mommy. that's actually very normal,
Operation Epic Fury is a stupid name but also an obvious fumble because it's so easy for the haters (me) to insult them by calling it Operation Epic Fail. it's like naming your kid Holden Cox and sending them to public school
A PhD is an apprenticeship in research – we can’t let AI take that away
#academicSky #scienceSky #AI
theconversation.com/a-phd-is-an-...
![Quote tweeted tweet
New tweet:
“Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feeder... •2h
We are now forced to close intake and not help anymore cats until we find homes for the adoptable cats in our care. We literally have no more space and I'm having to say no to cats who will die without us.
all these kittens are still here.
Please share.
SF Bay Area”
Quoting older tweet:
“Friends of Bear Cat Rescue • 3/1/26
SF BAY AREA
it makes me very sad that we still have 8 perfect, healthy big kittens growing up mostly in an enclosure here at the rescue.
They should be cuddling on someone's lap, zooming around, being happy babies.
Soon they'll be a year old and still sitting here, waiting” [pictures of adorable kittens]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:moxxymenkppwjub46t72oem3/bafkreiegwsmvqxxsr3o2nnazpolemm6nfdc7vbnhvcrpzrrslfatltg6sm)
🚨 SF area! (And anyone who can share). @friendsofbear.bsky.social (feederofcats) over on Twitter needs your help!
Adopt! Spread the word!
a reminder that a primary cause of the brutally tight housing market in the biden boom labor market years of 21-23 was roomates and people living with parents moving in their own places due to rapidly rising low-end wages.
✋ Former USG war crimes lawyer here.
Apropos of SecDef's remarks this morning:
Denial of quarter—even the declaration of no quarter—is a war crime.
And recognized as such by the US Government.
From DoD's Manual for Military Commissions.
![Comic.[A gantry straddles the intersection of two tectonic plates, one under water and the other on a mountain. A tether connected to a winch on the gantry making a “click click click” sound is connected to the oceanic crust and is pulling it up, causing it to fold. Two people are standing on the fold next to the hook, looking down toward the space between the subducted crust where a shining object sits.] [caption] PSA: Please stay out of the Pacific Ocean today. Someone lost their wedding ring in a subduction zone and USGS is pulling the plate back up to retrieve it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreie67d6xwt22jlu4svhviwf6xz4dxrhcyumr46lqeum3g7dddlav3e)
Subduction Retrieval
xkcd.com/3218/
your vote is rarely the single decisive vote
but sometimes it is! and you never know when that might be
Germany's leading business daily has this on the cover.
celebs hailing crabs instead of cabs: thread
People can get way too wrapped up in the perceived utility of science, and it's important to remember that's a dangerous instinct. It's a very narrow view and good science thrives only under free inquiry.
It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke.
This is not a joke.
We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.
Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)
PSA: if you’re somebody who runs air purifiers in your house all the time and you ever smell gas in your house even a little bit intermittently, get your house checked for gas leaks. They can apparently go otherwise unnoticed for a really long time if your HEPA filters are good enough 😳
