Daniel I. Pineda, Ph.D.

“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me” is one of MLK’s more underrated quotes because it’s a very good observation about the limits of politics.

Heisenberg on Bohr's occasionally excesssively generous nature. One of the first lessons learnt as a Nature editor about the "fringe" submissions is that this is exactly what will happen if you let it.

The atoms within you once burned in the heart of stars, chaotic and lifeless, and yet here you are, after half a dozen or so billion years, arranging them into love, questions, and hope. You are a miracle, a thermodynamic miracle.

Al Overview Willem Dafoe is not in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, but he has appeared in other Star Wars films, including The Last Temptation of Christ (1988).

I honestly can’t believe there are still any AI skeptics out there. This tech is obviously revolutionary

so the signal doesn't beam through your brain

August, notoriously the 8th month of the year that I always accidentally confuse with October because the word October is based on 'Octo' (8) and it was, once upon a time, the eighth month of a historical calendar

Anyway in case anyone was wondering why girls might have been depressed in the 90s, gifted or otherwise, see the replies and quotes of this thread where people tell stories about what it was like to be alive in the 90s, aka the 90s-era manosphere, since the patriarchs had a death grip on everything

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

It's a weird day for those of us who were only allowed to watch PBS as kids.

for those unfamiliar, this is a bit like if someone stated an AI takeover for the film industry is imminent and backed it up with "jurassic park included a fully cgi t-rex in 1993"

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Me: I had an interesting thought, I'll articulate it clearly and post it

My internet-poisoned brain: Come ON, it's 2025! Post that thought as a DIALOGUE, gurl!

Medieval authors: Actually, dialogue is a good format!

Socrates:πάνυ μὲν γ'οὖν, ὠ'γαθά

Me: cool, dialogue it is

Sickos: Ha ha ha.. YES!

Lots of wanna-be revolutionaries (not derogatory) don't think that the people who end up against the wall will be those they claim to have common cause with.

Given the alternatives, dying for a cause is easy when living for it is the real work.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

A version of a projection map of the globe titled "The world according to fish", using Elastic II projection. It's a blue blob of various shades of blue with land being white and featureless.

I am fascinated by alternative centering on maps, and this one captures my imagination: "the world according to fish", showing the rivers, lakes and oceans, with ocean floor elevations.

The world aquatic.

Final scene from season 2(?) of Twin Peaks. A man has bashed his head into a mirror. The image in the mirror is of a completely different person, slightly deranged looking, with long, stringy grey hair. There is some blood.

Talking to mirrors is Good, Actually:

LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Comics fans are always complaining that movies are 'not true to the source material' and 'pandering to broader audiences' but I suppose this is what happens when we try to remember the roots of who Superman is and why the original comics were made

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In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021.

They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."

Ice cream joke

Great poetry still exists

Changelog for Foxit PDF reader "Foxit PDF Reader 2025.1 adds a series of enhancements to AI Assistant and fixes some issues for a better user experience."

Ben Afflack is over it.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation. Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror... I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes. A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her. Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard. ... Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

got em

r/tipofmytongue u/chafos • 3y • 5 [TOMT] What are those dogs that look coconuts called? Solved They're not really dogs exactly but if a dog was made of coconuts and had a different shapes head, it'd be them. Edit: Sorry for the typos on this post. It was late at night and I was trying really hard to remember what Capybaras were called.

Checkpoints located ~100 miles from the border have been around for decades. Those who have spent any appreciable amount of time traveling to / from the border know this. They have always asked travelers for their citizenship. I am glad this is getting more attention, but it's not new.

At last: an NBA player who looked like he could've been on the Titanic

A package of coffee filters explaining their shape, with the words "Why cone shape?"

If not cone

I think this pretty much destroys the "no experience" narrative

The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

Questions to plan for your career

Some questions