Itinerant Hammer

A black and white photo of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. She is sitting at her desk and looking up at the camera, which is in front of her and to her left. Payne-Gaposchkin is wearing a baggy, ribbed sweater and has a wristwatch on her right arm. A pair of glasses rests on the desk in front of her, next to open books and papers which are just visible at the bottom of the photogaph. Filing cabinets, drawers, and another desk are visible in the background. She has short, dark hair which is no longer than chin-length, pulled out of her face behind her left ear.

“There is no joy more intense than that of coming upon a fact that cannot be understood in terms of currently accepted ideas."

Astronomer Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who decoded spectral lines to deduce the elemental composition of stars, was born #OTD in 1900. 🧪 🔭 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

Image: Harvard Observatory

People are following federal agents around DC w/the Imperial March. 😘

CHICAGO!!

Will add some basic ICE melting🧊 resources below.

Plz add other resources/ideas, & let’s get sub threads by city, so eg one person can start a Boston reply thread and everyone can add stuff to that thread — ?

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This is not at all an exaggeration. Elon Musk, a single deranged billionaire, killed USAID and thus will kill millions globally.

Started playing #RobocopRogueCity on stream and just re-creating the "Our #Robocop Remake - Scene 27" scene 167 times and it gets funnier Every. Single. Time!

Plus there's an achievement for it!

so the techbros on this coup know how to admin an Exchange server, maybe, which is more competence than we could have expected

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Pretty much on brand for a Bolsonaro supporter.

DHS to cut 75% of staff in its intelligence office amid heightened threat environment DHS plans to reduce its Office of Intelligence & Analysis to just 275 personnel, four sources said.

In the middle of a heightened threat environment with Iran, DHS is gutting its intelligence office by 75%—and put a 22-year-old ex-grocer with no natsec experience in charge of countering extremism. What could possibly go wrong?

With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.

A spiral galaxy in a merger from the Galaxy Zoo 2 project, classified by 43 volunteers.

A spiral galaxy in a merger, observed with the Apache Point 2.5m Telescope in the SDSS survey.

It is at redshift 0.028 (lookback time 397.0 million years) with coordinates (156.44276, 13.71685).

43 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo 2.

That face screams exactly that!

Editors: trusted government agency sends out email full of lies to senior citizens is a front page story

Also, the "em dash = AI" thing is not particularly accurate, regardless.

bsky.app/profile/gram...

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

The asymmetry of Bouie having to delete posts for a bunch of journalists suffering zero consequences for horrifically unethical journalism is peak

Anyway, it strikes me that the best thing to do now that ICE has that big budget is to make it impossible for them to spend it, starting with manpower: anyone who not only works with ICE but works somewhere that has contracted with them *once* needs to be made a pariah

Never assume anyone has walked an easy path to get to where they are - we all have our own struggles behind the scenes. If you ever feel like giving up, I hope you find the strength to push through because you never know what the future may hold! 🥰

#mentalhealth #inspiration #srength #youcandoit

The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

Alt-text: Did you know that 41 million Americans have a disability? That's more than 12% of the U.S. population! Folks with disabilities are a part of a protected class according to the Fair Housing Act. #KnowYourRights

Disability Justice is Housing Justice! #KnowYourRights

You don't mess with the Zohran
#NewYorkCityMayor #election #Zohran #Mamdani #FuckCuomo

Thrilled to announce @booker.senate.gov @adamkinzinger.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social & @rokhanna.bsky.social are set to join Win The Fight LIVE

But we are just getting started..

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Oh, they're coming for Obergefell. How utterly predictable.

Text from article: It’ll be years before we can fully account for what all of this is doing to students’ brains. Some early research shows that when students off-load cognitive duties onto chatbots, their capacity for memory, problem-solving, and creativity could suffer. Multiple studies published within the past year have linked AI usage with a deterioration in critical-thinking skills; one found the effect to be more pronounced in younger participants. In February, Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University published a study that found a person’s confidence in generative AI correlates with reduced critical-thinking effort. The net effect seems, if not quite Wall-E, at least a dramatic reorganization of a person’s efforts and abilities, away from high-effort inquiry and fact-gathering and toward integration and verification. This is all especially unnerving if you add in the reality that AI is imperfect — it might rely on something that is factually inaccurate or just make something up entirely — with the ruinous effect social media has had on Gen Z’s ability to tell fact from fiction. The problem may be much larger than generative AI. The so-called Flynn effect refers to the consistent rise in IQ scores from generation to generation going back to at least the 1930s. That rise started to slow, and in some cases reverse, around 2006. “The greatest worry in these times of generative AI is not that it may compromise human creativity or intelligence,” Robert Sternberg, a psychology professor at Cornell University, told The Guardian, “but that it already has.” (Katie's added note: the sentences about reorganization of abilities and telling fact from fiction have been highlighted.)

Bleak.

nymag.com/intelligence...

TANK vs TESLA

"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"

- ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

That is in no way a "net positive"

Out at a show...in the pit, a personal first!

Oddly calm about it. Maybe I am getting a little better.