Chris Ackerson

I don’t know what you’re talking about, and I’m not really sure that I want to know more about “milkshake duck”

Didn’t know this! Do you know how many years I pined for jstor access! Yes I am a giant nerd who pines for academe leave me alone with my papers and books

So exhausting..

Disney didn't respond to fascism; they responded to a $4 billion market value loss

“It’s nice to be liked, but it’s better by far to get paid”

“Looks like shit and it feels like America”

This is different from Trump, how?

I fell in love with Chicago the first time I went there in the summer of 1994. More in love than ever today

And, Murikami’s novel, “Pinball, 1973” is great.

I keep thinking about sending you a 2500 word e-mail about the mountain goats concept album about pinball that I dream of. And then I remember similar emails about the science I should do received from randos, which I think are nuts. And I refrain.

MAGA, you were right to be worried about an Epstein cover up. You were right to care deeply about the economy. You were right to want to put working families first. So let’s be consistent - It’s time to turn on Trump, he's failed you miserably every front.

It's insanely popular among the entire populace. And clearly it would be a loss for DJT for those to be released.

Dems need to demand full release of Epstein files.

Carl Jung ~
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

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

PAYWALLED: Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky academic.oup.com/icb/advance-... #twitter #bluesky #PAYWALL

I really need to know if the sandwich was a ham sandwich

They told us this would happen in order to use the threat of it to raise money and win elections, and now that it is happening they're telling us through their inaction that they don't give a shit that it's happening. There are a few exceptions

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

This shouldn’t be surprising. The only way to fight back is to… actually fight back.

If Democrats want to improve their approval rating (or far more importantly, make actual change), we need real leadership to put up real resistance to authoritarianism.
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Dem leadership RN: now how do we fake authenticity

If the Epstein files exonerated tяump, you know he'd be selling them on truth social.

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.
― Howard Zinn

Only one thing is certain: if we give up, we lose. Keep going.

Goodnight 💚

I mean, my general impression of AI for scientific research is that the hallucinations make it hard to rely on. Perplexity is better here, because it gives reliable citations. And, just yesterday, I told Perplexity that it would fail freshman chemistry because it couldn't write balanced equations.

Underrated tweet.

People should not be afraid of their government. The government should be afraid of its people.

Read it again.

All of this.

Damn. Thoreau is goood.

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

~Henry David Thoreau,

Floods happen and often with little warning. That's why they're called flash floods. But with the particularly deadly floods that just hit Texas it's important to ask to what degree massive DOGE cuts to weather reporting/emergency warning systems contributed to this loss of so much life.

Space X is short for Spaceship Explosion.