Realest Ben Shapiro (he/him)

While. Doing. Layoffs.

Brains are weird. Woke up this morning and my first thought was of Stephen Seagal.

Valerie (feat. Amy Winehouse) by Mark Ronson featuring Amy Winehouse on Apple Music Song · 2007 · Duration 3:39

I’d forgotten how hard this hits. music.apple.com/us/album/val...

If you listen, keep a scorecard to tally up the logical fallacies.

Listened to the latest episode of @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social’s podcast and he has the patience of a saint. Hearing him try to pull concrete & coherent answers out of Yoram Hazony is like listening to someone argue with a bad LLM: well-formed answers so vacuous and scattered they verge on evasive.

I’m a badfish too.

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Critical read: As noted by a colleague, from the examples in this article, it is amazing how quickly German physics collapsed (and US exploded) after 1934. #academicsky, #neuroskyence , is there time and a route to prevent the collapse of research in the US?

Kamala Harris won’t run for California governor in 2026 — San Francisco Chronicle Former Vice President Kamala Harris will not run for governor of California in 2026, she announced Wednesday, leaving in place a crowded field of Democrats with no clear front-runner. She left open th...

She’s running apple.news/A5prZ5QVvR1m...

Seeing this mass starvation go down in realtime is really hard.

Please talk us into/out-of buying a hot tub. Thank you.

If your international academic conference is in the United States starting this fall, demand hybrid accommodations now. #AcademicSky #EduSky

OneDrive sync for Mac just seems to be getting buggier and buggier.

Anyone have recent experiences with Syncthing... good or bad?

I like to think that Francis’s de-Europeanizing and de-USing the college of cardinals was in prep for this.

I’m reading a history of the modern Catholic Church and OMG wow were Ratzinger and JP2 much worse than I knew.

Of course uranium survived bombing. It’s an element and the U.S. dropped conventional weapons not Rumpelstiltskin.

Congratulations!

If anyone from Overdrive/Libby is reading this, please see Case 02868112.

A few years ago I wrote to Libby asking them to add an opt-in feature: take my CC# and every time I borrow a book, auto-donate whatever Amazon charges for it to my local library. They replied quickly but declined. Wish they would reconsider.

a ½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel

Scanner Darkly vibes.

Orit is an outstanding scholar and a delightful person. This would be a great postdoc experience.

We're going to need Nuremberg trials when this is over, yes, and to send a significant number of people currently in the federal government to prison. But we're going to need an unwavering commitment to ostracizing the supporters of it, as well. Never accept them again in polite society.

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

Too high frequency for me.

I thought it was AK-47s, no?

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. ”Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel)

What a tragic day for America.

Funny how the US has basically the government of Iran now: Supreme Leader who rules by decree, priestly council with token opposition that decides whether the decisions are okay or not on arcane scriptural grounds, and completely ceremonial legislature

Remind me to show you the text I wrote when one of our grants got flagged. 🤪

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.