Mark Scheuern

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

#annarbor #rollei35T #cinestill800T #photography #filmphotography

Take two Tylenol & punch a Nazi in the morning

Cars and Coffee at Pasteiner’s, Birmingham Michigan.
#pasteiners #carsandcoffee #leicaq2monochrom

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No, they definitely did not find fossils on Mars.

So what I glean about this Mars announcement is that chemicals were found on Mars that on Earth are due to life, and no one knows any other way to make them on Mars. However, this is very far from knowing they *were* made by life. Reminds me of phosphine on Venus; "we don't know" doesn't mean life.

AOC: Whether it is a member of congress, whether it is the President to assume and assert and cast blame when the FBI has failed to even apprehend the assailant, is absolutely an irresponsible action.

Though I have to say that it gives me strong motivation to try to learn things.

Intriguing data from the Perseverance rover on Mars, but too soon to attribute it to the existence of life. Science takes time, that's okay.

Reality avoidance is currently ascendant as a cultural strategy, but the opposition does have one lasting advantage: reality itself is always there, pushing back.

Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

Hey everybody! @drjuliawester.bsky.social and I have a new paper!

We surveyed over 800 scientists, science communicators, and science educators who use social media.

Conclusion: Scientists no longer find Twitter useful or pleasant, and many have switched to Bluesky! 🧪🌎🦑

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@gavinnewsom.bsky.social: "It's the rule of Don, no longer the rule of law. And people need to understand the lines that are being redrawn in Texas are not about party. They're about power. And you've got to meet fire with fire and power needs to be asserted in blue states, not just red states."

Are you really not able to understand that many people prefer the way 4o responds? It’s that simple. What’s actually good here, is that OpenAI listened.

First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.

What could possibly go wrong?

My prediction that by November it will no longer be possible to enter the United States to attend an academic conference is looking more plausible by the day.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached.

They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others.

Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further.

#UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

For Trump to go to these extremes to cover up the Epstein Files, including attacking his supporters and hanging his AG and FBI Director completely out to dry, the evidence against him must be incredibly incriminating. There is no other explanation that makes sense.

I'd just like to point out how weird it is that places with hundreds or even thousands of reporters — the NYT, WaPo, CBS, NBC, AP, etc. — are all getting pummeled on every major story by the dozen computerboys at Wired. To fumble the bag this consistently is, at some point, cowardice and a choice.

For MAGA, Ignorance is Strength.

The world has been extraordinarily fortunate that no nuclear weapons have been used against cities since WWII. It’s becoming less and less likely that our fortunate streak will continue.

In short: the longest-lasting legacy of Trump is the complete and permanent destruction of the US government as a credible partner on anything. This will last long after Trump and MAGA are gone.

U.S. abandons hunt for signal of cosmic inflation Now-canceled CMB-S4 project would have searched the afterglow of the Big Bang for signs of cosmic exponential growth spurt

Awful news: CMB-S4 is cancelled.

This experiment was massively exciting for the cosmology community. It would have told us about the state of the universe some 400,000 years after the big bang, at a level of precision we can now only dream about

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That’s it. The rapid establishment of ICE as an all-purpose, super well-funded secret police with zero accountability is *the* main story right now.

Poll: Most feel democracy is threatened and political violence is a major problem 76% of Americans think that democracy is under a serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low.

76% of Americans think that democracy is under a serious threat, according to the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll. And their faith in political leadership in the White House and Congress is low.

This is a real post from the official WH account. This is what he’s done to lower us all down to his base level.

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