Catherine Slaughter, M.Sc.

I do this too! Pair it with a (preferably secondhand) kindle and it’s so great

Yeah that’s gonna be a “hell no” from me

The “video games make you violent” people ended up being accidentally right and in the most sickening way possible

“What’s your elevator pitch?”

Absolutely!

The wisdom of the crowd only works when the crowd doesn’t have incentive to artificially skew the wisdom

See also: exercise and sleep

a lot of critiques in aughts alleged that pentagon was influencing video games and in truth the relationship seems to be the other way around

For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.

How much people are willing to spend on a future for XYZ event is NOT THE SAME as the likelihood of XYZ event happening!!!! Oh my god stop calling it a fucking likelihood!!!!!!!!!!!

Knowing things is continues to be the worst part about existing in 2026

The polymarket stuff is further enforcing my belief that we should be pushing high schoolers to take stats instead of calc in the majority of cases

There have been MULTIPLE early leaks of scientific discoveries via DECORATED CAKE. Scientists are good at many things, but shutting up is definitely not one of them.

A siren against a dark cloudy sky with the text "It is Wednesday my dudes"

a white wolf is sitting in the snow with its mouth open . ALT: a white wolf is sitting in the snow with its mouth open .

The MSP feed rn

Okay I grew up in the midwest so I'm generally aware of tornado siren tests but this may be the first time since moving here that I've been WFH on a first Wednesday of the month because I cannot hear those suckers from my grad student office (our windows look into the building atrium, not outside)

Of all the "valid use-cases" for generative AI people have tried to convince me of, this got the closest

very telling that they quantify the number of billionaires "soaked" and not the number of middle-class folks getting checks

also how “believe women” became “believe (all) women” and “Black Lives Matter” became “only Black Lives Matter” in the minds of people inclined to disagree with the general sentiments in the first place. This rhetorical tic really hinges on the idea every statement or belief is an iron axiom.

Don't they have side markets on how high/low some markets will get, too? People are betting on the second coming of Christ this year because they also bet that the second-coming-of-Christ-this-year market will reach above 10% or whatever

A whole cohort of men (and some women) who decided leadership means going all in on their strength stat only to fail every intelligence and charisma check that comes their way

Idk if this is a generational thing, but Ray-Bans were SO popular when I was in high school that they've stuck around in my and many of my peers' minds as the sort of default frame style for glasses, that's gone now in damn near an instant

*you should, but I digress

Deeply unsurprising but it's also really funny how Ray-Ban is absolutely destroying their brand identity here. Like even if one has no moral qualms with the Meta glasses*, people aren't going to want to buy Ray-Ban-style frames because the iconic silouette is now going to scream "I'm recording you"

Like, the talking point or the real reason? The former seems to switch on an hourly basis, the latter is some combination of "to get people to stop talking about the epstein files" and "because the evangelicals decided it would start armageddon"

Side question: If the Pentagon can work with Chinese firms to produce freaking **cruise missiles**, why can’t I collaborate with Chinese astronomers to analyze public NASA data?

This grievance inspired by the terminal benchwarmer who commented “the WNBA does not generate revenue” with his full chest under an ESPN Instagram post on the matter

IF YOU DONT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN REVENUE AND PROFIT, STFU ABOUT THE WNBA CBA 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Jamaican!

Pokémon FireRed should let me join Team Rocket