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I was only ever in the periphery of the chess community, but I've enjoyed my fair share of his chess videos. They were enlightening and entertaining without ever devolving into algorithm clickbait.

From what I could tell, he was a great educator and will be sorely missed.

29 is far too young.

I know your kink.

Zoom in on the Andromeda Galaxy with Hubble. What looks like a smudge of light to the unaided eye is actually a vast galaxy containing an estimated 1 trillion stars.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"

Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

I had this idea and figured it would exist already but couldn't find it, and I have an unearned sense of my graphic design abilities in powerpoint, so

Every episode of Fist of the North Star: “imagine there were some bullies but then the coolest guy ever showed up and exploded their heads”

A page of art from Crimson Reign #3, written by Charles Soule with art by Steven Cummings, explaining how the Jedi Order was forgotten in just eighteen years.

A page of art from Crimson Reign #3, written by Charles Soule with art by Steven Cummings, explaining how the Jedi Order was forgotten in just eighteen years.

This is how the Jedi Order was forgotten.

Always 💖

Don't make me tap the sign

…but without Instagram Reels, how will I find out whether 10,000 Harry Potters can defeat 1,000,000 Uruk-hai???

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

Family gatherings as a kid being the youngest one by far was awful.

I'm happy to report that I haven't had an academia-induced nightmare in quite a while.

Took nearly a decade after finishing my masters degree to get to that point.

Still wrestling with mental health, but I'm making progress.

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If I’m ever a professor again, I want to give a graduate seminar, topics to include:

- how not to say stupid shit about fields outside your expertise
- what is your expertise, anyway?
- how not to be an insufferable bore
- your PhD doesn’t make you a better person: coping with that

Other ideas?

This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often

A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

An Infrared View of the M81 Galaxy captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope

JWST just dropped a new photo of sombrero Galaxy

I really like these!

Please quantize responsibly.

#physics

Too many people haven’t touched a book since they graduated high school and it shows.

I've been trying to get into art, but I'm realizing that it is difficult to motivate myself without an active art community.

Maybe the ideal is to not rely on extrinsic factors, but when you wrestle with mental health, sometimes that extrinsic help is necessary. At least, for me, it is.

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