Nathaniel Comfort

You gotta admit, the guy has a genius for marketing.
He could complete the look by erecting a gold-plated lean-to amid the rubble

The destruction of the East Wing hits as hard as it does because it is a purely visual and immediately readable image of what Trump is doing to the country as a whole.

The pictures document the literal destruction the bricks & mortar that form the central symbol of US democracy.

He could get it covered up in half an hour.

TFW an email comes over the transom saying, "I have a check for you here for eighteen hundred bucks. Where should I send it?"
💰💰☺️

So, outspoken liberals who bailed on Twitter for bsky or other platform could potentially be reanimated on X by right-wing trolls, then. Awesome.

Elon: the grift that keeps on giving.

The Three Dreams You Need to Make a Drone: Forgotten Technologies, Towers, and Roman Shitposting Humanity has long dreamed of being able to see everything around us. From the perspective of a bird. From the perspective of a god. From the perspective of a vast network of god-like eyes. Today, we ...

Ancient Roman science fiction! Prester John getting mixed up with Mongol invaders! The pyramids of Cahokia! Foucault!

All this AND MORE in the latest entry in my series on the ancient history of drone technology:

Rly appreciate all who responded to my q about STEM ed. What I’m after is “STEM” per se. I’d like to get my hands on that 2001 NSF report & anything else relevant.
I have a hunch that the genome project and DNA day 2000 might have been an inspo.
All leads welcome!

thanks, I shld have been clearer: what I’m wondering about is “STEM” per se, esp the devaluation of arts and humanities and the extent to which it may have been inflienced by millennial genome fever
I’m a Sputnik kid too!

thanks!

Anyone out there know the history of STEM education?
I read of a 2001 NSF report, ≈ "The case for STEM," but haven't found it. Anyone know it? Is there anything earlier?

I'm esp interested in possible connexns to the Human Genome Project
@jeremymberg.bsky.social??
#icanhazpdf #HGP

Let us remember that one of the main reasons we have had #nokings in this country is because the US has treated education as a basic right and a social good.

#NoKings #MoreTeachers

Unfortunately, I have other commitments today and can't get out there, but I am going to use this space to share my favorite protest signs! Feel free to drop yours here, too!

No reft for the weary

no worries!
it really is nicely done

Thoughtful, deeply knowledgeable overview of innovation overload and how we got here. And, if I may say, a pretty fair model for the long-form essay review—not an easy genre.

MATIERE A REFLECTION POUR LES JONGIEURS COURONNEES quun sang impur abreuve nos Sillons. tundi 32 Janver 2793 a 20 heurer un quart du matin sur la place de la revolution, ci devant appele Lous TV. Le Tiran est tombe rous le glare des bono, ce grand acte de Justice a consterne Udrutocrate ancanti la rupertition Royale, eterce la republique. Il improne un grand cartetere à la convention natinale et la rena digne de la confiance des Prancals..... oe fut en vain que une faction audaticus et der Oreleurs mailiun enusserort tonder ler rasurou de la catomni, du charlatanisme et de la chicane; le courage der republicains triompha: la majorie de la convention demeura inébranlable dans ser principes, et le gene de lintrigue ceda au génie de la Liberté et a l'Ascendant de la wertu. Beur ait de la J'Fettres de Mazumilien, Robefpierre piser commetans. A Parue chex Villeneuve Cravcur rue Zacharie s'Severin Macon du passage Nze.

no kings, indeed

www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

pretty sure he meant "dangerous, intoxicating" in a platonic sense :)

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

we can make this happen if we believe

Thanks!

RESIST!

My DNA Contains Multitudes. So Does Yours.

The genetic variation within our bodies is often neglected in discussions of DNA. But each of us contains a fantastical number of genomes that keep shape-shifting throughout our lives. We should celebrate our intra-person genetic variability. Call it…

high hopes and low expectations

my review in Nature of Plomin’s Blueprint?
When I get to my laptop I’ll rummage through my zotero.
you could also check the anti-Bell Curve reviews and essays from the 90s

@adamrutherford.bsky.social, @philipcball.bsky.social, do you have anything that would fit the bill?

Note that I don't mean an "iq is genetic" manifesto, but the opposite. But the lack of answers reinforces my impression that a trustworthy resource toward which I could direct people who ask me about this topic doesn't exist.

So, the Nobel Prize for Scientism?

Lol I'm 1/2 surprised he didn't give them AWD, knobby tires, and gun turrets and paint them camo and sell them in the heartland.

Off-the-rack dystopian-future-mobiles!

#missedopportunities

OMM, it doesn't always see and load my music files. Sometimes I can bring them up by futzing with it, but so far it's not been the seamless experience I crave.

Quite possible that it's my fault. Maybe I'll try it again with my current setup. I so want to escape the Apple music universe!

I like Swinsian. Stripped down interface, sm footprint, good keyword mgmt., easy to navigate. And it just reads your Music folder, so you don't have to reorganize everything.

Plex seems like a great sol'n, but for me, it's been really finicky

David Crosby's "Almost cut my hair" has been in my head lately. Hearing Comey, Pritzker, James, the ICEblock guy, even MTG (!) saying "I won't be intimidated" makes me hear,

"But I'm not giving in an inch to fear
'Cause I promised myself this year
I feel like I owe it to someone"