Arun Mannodi Kanakkithodi

Sometimes good things happen

Screenshot of Mamdani with 50.4% of the votes.

AP calls it for Mamdani!!!

I’m in Mexico for work and pleasure.

ICE releases Purdue student after five days detained Yeonsoo Go, a rising sophomore at Purdue University, was released Monday after getting detained by ICE for five days. This news comes after many friends and family rallied together in support of her r...

Jesus Christ. If you're not constantly speaking out against this, you are part of the problem.

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Spent a few days in Santa Fe, NM, at the LANL-Purdue AI/ML workshop. Always love being in New Mexico as I can throw in a few quick hikes.

RIP. One of my all time favs.

Apropos of nothing, my dog Nebula.

This is an absolutely lovely read.

Attending the NIST AIMS workshop in Rockville, MD. I gave a talk on my group’s DFT-ML work.

www.nist.gov/news-events/... Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) Workshop | NIST

I long for the good old days of a few years ago when this insane sentence would not have existed

“What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?”: James Earl Jones Reads Frederick Douglass’s Historic Speech We begin our July Fourth special broadcast with the words of Frederick Douglass. Born into slavery around 1818, Douglass became a key leader of the abolitionist movement. On July 5, 1852, in Rochester...

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

Sometimes, very occasionally, things are good!

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani.

Curated collection of computational materials science papers featuring one of my recent review articles: iopscience.iop.org/journal/2515...

Indiana Pacers absolutely running riot here. If only they had held on to their lead in game 4!

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Lol. Who could have seen this coming?

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Using deep learning to increase the accuracy of computational chemistry and density functional theory Microsoft researchers achieved a breakthrough in the accuracy of DFT, a method for predicting the properties of molecules and materials, by using deep learning. This work can lead to better batteries,...

Breaking bonds, breaking ground: Advancing the accuracy of computational chemistry with deep learning www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Big turnout at Lafayette ‘No Kings’ protest, stays peaceful Several thousand people showed up at Tapawingo Park as part of the nationwide “No Kings” protests. The event went on Saturday morning without a hitch as the crowd protested actions by President Donald...

www.purdueexponent.org/city_state/g... Big turnout at Lafayette ‘No Kings’ protest, stays peaceful | City & State | purdueexponent.org

Overwhelmed and understaffed, the Louvre shuts its doors – a warning sign for global overtourism | CNN The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and a global symbol of art, beauty and endurance, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institu...

Feel bad about visiting two weeks ago and adding to this chaos…

www.cnn.com/2025/06/16/s... Louvre shuts its doors, overwhelmed and understaffed – a warning sign for global overtourism | CNN

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

Chicago

Scenes from ‘No Kings,’ the Greater Lafayette version Hundreds march Saturday, joining nationwide protests of Donald Trump, Congress

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Beautiful scenes from Lafayette, Indiana- absolutely massive protest against the fascist republicans, against ICE, against transphobia, against attacks on science, against funding war and genocide. No kings, no tyrants.

Pouring one out in his memory tonight.

Brian Wilson, visionary creative spirit for the Beach Boys, dies aged 82 Musician, who suffered from mental health problems, wrote and produced the 1966 album Pet Sounds – seen by many as the greatest album of all time

RIP to one of the greats.

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j... Brian Wilson, visionary creative spirit for the Beach Boys, dies aged 82 | Brian Wilson | The Guardian

Love being in a new country and learning a new word

Purdue refuses to distribute The Exponent after 50 years of doing so Purdue University told The Purdue Exponent last Friday they will no longer assist in the distribution of newspapers. Purdue has aided in the circulation of The Exponent for the past 50 years.

Pretty shocking and depressing stuff. It's interesting how the university admin is just a microcosm of the US govt.

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