Kerry Lannert

I think it’s the same lack of humility and/or understanding that leads people to believe that “AI will solve cancer”

Like, no…it’s way more complicated and nuanced and you need to be practiced in critical thinking to be good at science. Being a scientist isn’t just about memorizing facts

I really hate this little plot line, not least because I feel like it can only go one of two ways: “AI medical transcription saves the day” or “brown woman gets put in her place.”

I have not been watching, but I am very happy to hear that Bad Bunny is winning the Super Bowl.

This used to be more common knowledge but i think the 00s resurgence is responsible for ppl not knowing. Basically whitewashed

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Join us on March 7th to rally to take back science!

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

I started offering career advice to two junior colleagues today in separate meetings, and both times I caught myself thinking that, if I'm honest, I don't have very good advice on navigating the current funding and job climate. I think it's important to say that no one does.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

Seattle’s ‘prosperity bomb’ may finally be fizzling. So now what? It’s the awkward thing about the affordability debate. Nothing makes a city cheaper faster than an economic bust.

The answer is for WA to become the anti-MAGA. Invest in higher ed, not cut it as Gov. Ferguson wants. Fund the research and health care that Trump and DOGE cut. Hire all the scientists and experts looking for a good job in a good place. Build a lot more housing so people can afford to move here.

An entire political movement founded on uncovering hidden messages in documents to discover the powerful secret pedophiles and meanwhile the powerful pedophiles out here sending gmails saying "Hi fellow pedophile when are we meeting to do pedophilia again"

It’s not particularly sophisticated but I kind of think that the most straightforward way to understand trumpism is that we have a morally depraved group of fascists who have successfully persuaded a significant chunk of the public to accept their psychological projections as reality

We are losing scientists from the government at an unprecedented rate - some were fired, but many more were forced out through trauma and fear. www.science.org/content/arti...

If you aren't familiar with what DARVO is, get familiar with it. "Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender." The govt is relying on DARVO as a tactic on a national scale, and it is also increasingly a conservative tactic to attack outspoken critics of their ideas, theories, & renderings of history.

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So Greg Bovino is back to his post at USBP in El Centro. There are many lovely hardworking Americans in El Centro but at a place to be it is not to everyone’s taste. I had a hearing in El Centro and drove there the night before because you can’t get there in the morning…../1

Amazon paid Melania $40 million for a documentary about her....

Brings a whole new perspective to Angel of the Morning

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.

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"The 'crystal clear conclusion' is that although languages differ widely in their encoding strategies, no one language is more efficient than another at delivering information…

The 'why' is another question. It's the limits imposed by our fragile biology— our brains are the bottleneck." #LangSky

Remember, homeowners, it's your duty to clear ice from the sidewalk in front of your house!

It's really obvious, on so many levels, how fucking stupid these ICE guys are. If you have even a high-school level knowledge of history, you know shit like what we're living through does not last, & bullies get their comeuppance. How fucking stupid do you have to be to think you'd get away with it?

Kash Patel going to a big meeting of the intelligence chiefs in England and asking if they can go jet skiing instead of having a normal meeting is really doing a number on my ability to focus

Whatever performative bullshit Jeffries did with respect to his own vote notwithstanding, not whipping this vote and allowing Democrats to be the difference between it passing and failing means that Jeffries doesn't give a fuck about what ICE is doing.

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That's because if a tree explodes and you weren't around to hear it, it didn't actually make a sound

I must be doing something right because I had no idea that was a thing

Reminds me of when people tried to give Melania a pass. She knows what she signed up for.