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Every single conservative is a stupid Nazi hog and nothing they say will ever be worth listening to

I told you we’d be back

Elementary Particle Physics: The Higgs and Beyond Read online, download a free PDF, or order a copy in print.

MAJOR PARTICLE PHYSICS REPORT RELEASE ⚛️🧪

The National Academies particle physics decadal report is out! Read read!

(I was a member of the committee that wrote this report but resigned during drafting bc of a conflict of service w/my HEPAP appointment.)

nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2883...

nothing says "wash and go" like using your hair dryer with the diffuser attachment for 45 minutes with your head upside down

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump adm...

Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

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Hearing from a very credible local source that there may be ICE action tomorrow (Sunday 6/8) in the following areas:

5th and Washington Ave
7th and Snyder Ave
5th and McKean/Wolf
Chinatown

Let your neighbors know to stay safe and be vigilant. Be ready. Be water.

multiple people on the list of contributors have a record of sexual harassment. they don't say there is a war on science because they're delusional. they say it because they are retaliating for experiencing the slightest whiff of consequences for their actions.

a contributor to this book told me that me being harassed out of my field wasn't as bad as him experiencing consequences for saying women weren't good at physics while giving a talk at CERN. he is still employed in the field. this probably gives you an idea of what they think a "war on science" is.

I had this conversation with somebody yesterday. When I hear somebody talking about the midterms these days, my brain just turns off. like what are you talking about?

If there aren't going to be institutional consequences for these people there absolutely HAVE to be social consequences. It's the only arrow in the quiver. If they don't want to occupy the same world as us, don't let them.

People who don’t care if you die - or just suffer - don’t deserve your respect

some selfish, delusional, manipulative assholes never change 💅

Be mean to antivaxxers! I am so serious. They are going to kill us all. Children are dying and they’re in a tin foil hat circle jerk claiming to be the real victims of some malicious attack, when it’s just predictable and preventable childhood infectious disease as usual. They don’t deserve respect.

This is how stupid these people are. They do not know anything. They have always been this stupid! The problem is our institutions continued to demand harmful people and ideas be treated with civility that they don’t return, and that “both sides” be platformed even when one side is false and wrong.

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

lmao AND the audacity of you to have "I love woke Jesus of the bible" in your profile. yes, as the teachings of Jesus famously go "help everyone, except like 1% of the population, because it's not popular enough to help them"

hilarious how "we cannot turn on each other" doesn't apply to wanting to throw a vulnerable group of people under the bus but it does apply when people point out that wanting to throw a vulnerable group of people under the bus is fascist assholery.

"I really hate to say this but some vulnerable people need to lose their rights. Not me, of course, don't be silly." fascist ass behavior. fuck off

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.

Fuck these ICE stasi fucks. Never a day of peace of them.

www.reddit.com/r/Global_New...

A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa

www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

okay, machiavelli

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

"Let's not take the soul-sucking path of sacrificing the most persecuted for that which we deem to be most popular. I know that there are transgender children right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am."

I’ve seen a lot of assumptions in the media that Trump (and Musk) are targeting institutions with loyalty tests.

But that’s not quite right. They’re using dominance tests. And the difference between these two things matter. 🧵

Chuck Schumer Is Responsible | Defector Chuck Schumer was always going to come out of the budget showdown a loser. The only question was which of the two available forms of losing he would end up with: an organized legislative surrender to…

"The Democrats had refused to abolish the filibuster when Schumer was the majority leader, on the grounds that someday they might be the ones who needed it. Now the House and the public were begging Schumer to use it. And he refused."

The 'mindfulness exercises' seem to work because THEN the Chatbot is mirroring the language humans use in reply to mindfulness exercises in it's dataset.

The Chatbot is reflecting our responses to mindfulness back at us. It does not feel.

Repeat after me: The Chatbot is not feeling anxiety. The Chatbot is guessing what it's reply should be based on the responses to anxious and traumatic narratives that exist in it's dataset.

The Chatbot is reflecting our anxiety back at us. It does not feel.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

By their definition, any notable accomplishment achieved by someone who was not a straight white male -- no matter how or when it happened -- counts as "DEI" and "bias against whites."

It's racism, pure and simple. Stop pretending there's anything more complicated at work here. It's racism.