Michael Baudis

The “ultrabigbangize epochs” sounds slightly threatening.

The “ultrabigbangize epochs” sounds slightly threatening.

Trump's EPA revokes scientific finding that underpinned US fight against climate change The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

Very misleading headline. Obviously the EPA cannot *revoke* a scientific finding. They just can express their disregard.

Btw.: Anybody remember the Church vs. Galileo/Kopernikus story?

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My quote of the day

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

In other words, interchangeable techbro with a theory of mind on level with a concussed toddler thinks the Beep Boop Man what lives in their computer is sentient. Truly a philosophical juggernaut of our time

No cigarettes for me :-) But in 1983 as 15y old I rode one of those trains from Slovakia, drinking Slovakian moonshine from a coffee cup and chatting w/ some university professors about the miseries of East German acadmia.

Correct. RIAS Berlin, but the everybody (except in some far corners) watched West German TV (like, exclusively). But there was also Beat Street in cinemas.
(I was one of those kids, approximately, minus spilling beer I hope).

Since through cultural evolution all other licences derive from it: I pronounce that it’s valid.

K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.

Yes, they get a lot of vaccines in Europe you quack, but you didn’t mention that their child mortality is lower than ours, too.

For all those pesky farainers: “Zürich” is also known as #Zurich, w/o the (essential) umlaut. Now, locally it would be just “Züri”.
But: if you think that the possessive noun (as in “Zurich’s”) would be “Züricher” - high German and all - you’d be mistaken. It is “Zürcher”.
You’re welcome.

For all those pesky farainers: “Zürich” is also known as #Zurich, w/o the (essential) umlaut. Now, locally it would be just “Züri”.
But: if you think that the possessive noun (as in “Zurich’s”) would be “Züricher” - high German and all - you’d be mistaken. It is “Zürcher”.
You’re welcome.

Ha! But to Züri? Waiting now :-)

Thanks - they even ship to Switzerland ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes. But here we go; now we’ll have all those discussions about “see there was a prominent beekeeper in there too and that’s why … other beekeepers have been slighted” instead of talking about the teal horrors.

There are scientists in there, too. So the scientific method is wrong because of Epstein?

Also, atheism per se cannot be misogynistic; it doesn’t know about particular endpoints of reality.

#Opensource software and workflows are doing a lot of heavy lifting 🏋️ in the life sciences! Let's revisit ✨ ELIXIR's report on "Open source software and workflows: a driving force for innovation in life sciences" to find out the importance of #OSSWs 👉 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17570133

Quinta.

Solaris.

Well done. Though Drake wrecked Kendrick’s (mom’s) car, admittedly.

Didn’t write it himself. Not sure if this proves his point, though.

That’s the point of OpenClaw/MoltBot. My only problems here (not caring if user has horrible surprises) is that this keeps the shitty “AI” infrastructure services industry alive, for a while.

… first time I was in such a conflict - is science impartial and how “neutral” and only focused upon the topic at hand should we be.

Exactly. He contacted me about 12 years ago regarding some of our work in chromosomal instability in cancer. Having only ce to academia in the ‘90s I only learned his backstory then & let the discussion… slide.

My quote of the day

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

Carl Sagan

Stephen Fry at #FOG26: “It’s not what AI can do, it’s in whose hands it is.” … (and it is now in the same hands as social media; Musk, Zuckerberg… paraphrasing him here)

As a presenter at #FOG26 myself: My propsal for a best speaker award goes to Stephen Fry …

Best quote at #FOG26 so far - Ben Goldacre about time zoned video calls: “We should all be on beaches, we shouldn’t do this for a living.”

🎶 I,

I can remember
Standing by the wall
And the guns shot above our heads (Over our heads)
And we kissed as though nothing could fall (Nothing could fall)

And the shame was on the other side
Oh, we can beat them forever and ever

Then we could be heroes just for one day

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YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

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