Alexandre Adler

How the New Atheists Joined the MAHA War on Science A new anthology showcases the intellectual failures of a diminishing brand.

Fully entered a state of madness by the time I finished this essay, on the remarkable intellectual (and political) failures of New Atheism, and a new anthology edited by Lawrence Krauss nymag.com/intelligence...

Not speaking for UC of course. They have lawyers who can say such things more eloquently

As a UC employee, I would encourage anyone at the DoJ involved in that complaint to go take a hike in the Pacific with it.

The federal government’s demand of $1 billion from @UCLA would devastate the nation’s best public university, cut off life-saving care, halt tech and economic growth and reduce educational access.

Stand with UC to protect our vital mission: www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Nope. Nope nope nope I am not leaving work until it is night and that thing goes to sleep.

Someone at my brother's job got fired because he lied about something and his defence was "I answered emotionally instead of truthfully.".

"Look, are you gonna honour that coupon or not."

Oh that is fun.
N: Abisko, Sweden
E: Tsukuba, Japan
S: Le Morne, Mauritius
W: Tomales Point in California

"Chatte, j'ai pété" announced the man to his chartreux cat.

Plus our absolutely godawful accent when speaking English so you will clock a speaker as French easier.

Yann Le Cun + formal applied math training in most science college courses + better start up ecosystem than other large European countries (sorry UK)

A stock photo of a black man wearing a lab coat and some protective eyewear staring at a clear green liquid in a test tube. The meme caption says "Finally, LaTeX2"

Hear me out fellow scientists 🧪:

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAH Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - AAAAH

He literally did the thing www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah (from @smbccomics.bsky.social)

80% of all users are lurkers and don’t emit takes. We can only see their effect in likes on other people’s takes.

Hot DMs were thankfully ruled out.

The instructions are so foolproof even an idiot like myself can follow them and make beautiful babkas.

Thanks everyone looping me in on the Sean Duffy thing. Short response to various questions

1) Nuclear power for the Moon is not new. Look up e.g. Kilopower.

2) None of this clearly would violate international law.

3) It can be done very safely, and I suspect NASA would do it safely.

Hear me out: a movie where a vampire kidnaps Liam Neeson’s granddaughter and he must retrieve her.

It’s called Staken.

I back of the enveloped this earlier and 100kW is about a tennis court worth of solar panels (at zenith)
Your regolith comment makes me worried about the weight of a nuclear reactor, do you know how a very dense object like that would behave on the surface?

100kW? Oh you mean 250m2/one tennis court worth of solar panels?

Lyndon Johnson partitioning states in the Solid South to create black-plurality states as a misguided way to keep the segregationists on board.

Gobelins Manufactory - Wikipedia

Surely, as the menswear guy, you know all about the stitchwork that goes into the Manufacture des Gobelins deez nuts. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gobelin...

Could be worse, could be PEG.

I looked at their skyline and I think that person is not fully there. Or they are using social media in a way that I don’t understand.

Also, "Jewish zionists using their Canadian-American mascot"? Why are you bringing Judaism or Israel into this?

"Cultural differences lead to subversion of expectations" is absolutely a joke. If you don’t find it funny that’s a taste question.

Because Superman grew up in Kansas, he thinks American cheese is good. As such, while the French, and culturally upper-class people like Luther, would see it as a disaster if all their cheese varieties were replaced by American, the superhero doesn't mind.

Maybe we should stop, as a community, giving Loeb the attention he so desperately craves (it's difficult, it's so easy to make fun of those preprints). The media are sensitive to "there's a controversy there, I can get hate clicks by writing about it" arguments.

The guy is a an 88 year-old Israeli whose journalist son was beheaded on tape by Al-Quaeda. I sort of get how he can’t be rational about pro-Palestinian protests.

Timeline where the only president Kennedy is John, but he doesn’t feel the need to do the Southernisms.

Of course the architect is a tradcath. Who else but a Baroque fan could stand all that gold decor.