Katherine Silkaitis

I absolutely hate that putting something in " " no longer gets you anywhere in google search. It literally gives you stuff other than the verbatim thing you asked for.

Why? It used to work. Why make it dumber?

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

OMFG….this is crazy!

He works at NIH & he was going for his green card hearing & he was kidnapped by ICE 😱

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

It feels both that nothing is shocking, but it’s still important to go through the motions of acting like it is because otherwise where are we left.

We've got hundreds of signatures in five hours... but if we can cross 1000 by morning when I send this to NSF that'd be great. The stories from past, current, and future applicants in the comments section are hearbreaking. Keep up the pressure, and please please sign!!!

Establishing a Fixed Time Period of Admission and an Extension of Stay Procedure for Nonimmigrant Academic Students, Exchange Visitors, and Representatives of Foreign Information Media Unlike most nonimmigrant classifications, which are admitted for a fixed time period, aliens in the F (academic student), J (exchange visitor), and most I (representatives of foreign information media...

Comment period ends on Monday for a proposed rule change that would terminate student visas after 4 years. It also puts limits on exchange visitors and reps of foreign media, and shortens the length of time at the end of the visa from 60 days to 30 days.

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

A Cathay Pacific plane.

"Heathrow, it's me, I'm Cathay"

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic.
m.xkcd.com/3056/

It could soon be harder for students to access the internet on school buses and for the public to borrow mobile internet hotspots from libraries.

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com

It's literally a transcript of the press conference.

10/10. No notes.

Are We Witnessing the Fall of the American Empire? 'Revolutions' and 'History of Rome' host Mike Duncan discusses the decline of the American empire, comparing it to Rome and other revolutions.

Was the fall of Rome this stupid? I spoke to Revolutions and History of Rome host @mikeduncan.bsky.social about the decline of empires, and the unraveling of America.

Full interview at @rollingstone.com

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

"Trad influencers gloss this unjust workload as a homage to homesteading (and leverage it to market unsubstantiated remedies) instead of calling it what it is: picking up the state’s slack. Cuts to education seem less threatening when you are convinced your role is to homeschool your children" #NCEd

we are the only usable social media platform — no, mastodon does not count — that is not controlled by a passive or active ally of the government

Holy moly. The current WNBA salaries are (accounting for inflation) still below the salaries of the ABL, a player-centric WBB league that preceded and, for a moment, competed with the WNBA.

In case you wonder which platforms are here to help creators thrive and which are here to tell us to eat shit, here’s the breakdown of likes for crab, 15 hours after posting. Follower count in () for more useful comparison.

TikTok(2k): 139
Instagram (22k): 719
Tumblr (13k): 12k
Bsky (52k): 22k

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

A photo of Charlie Kirk with the caption "Trans rights are human rights" in loving memory Charlie Kiek 1993 - 2025

If they're going to try and retcon Charlie Kirk, then we should try to retcon him too.

I can't stop thinking about 1 sentence in today's UN report regarding Israel's genocide in Gaza. "Israeli security forces shot at & killed civilians, including children who were holding makeshift white flags. Some children, including toddlers, were shot in the head by snipers.”

Nothing to add.

Trump administration set to tie Tylenol to autism risk, officials say The Trump administration plans to tie Tylenol to autism risk while touting another drug, leucovorin, as a potential autism treatment.

We can save RFK Jr some time here, because we already know a lot about acetaminophen and autism!

There’s no increased risk of autism from use of this drug. This isn’t based on some small study. It’s thanks to a beautiful study of literally millions of children…
wapo.st/4nkMdCO

Because Trump is either A) so weak that he couldn’t stop Israel from attacking Qatar or B) so duplicitous as to secretly join Israel in attacking our ally Qatar, he’s accelerating American decline globally.

Congrats?

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this?

PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information?

KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

thinking once again about one of the all-time great newspaper mixups, when Dennis the Menace and The Far Side got their captions swapped

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

me to my students: LLMs are like your worst ex. They will LIE to you with the most serene, most confident face

one of my students, quietly: I hate that guy so much

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

"As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald."