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GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

what is your favorite episode of TNG and why is it Cause and Effect

Every human being deserves access to food, health care, and the ritual public shaming of ICE agents and collaborators.

Gary Larson dropping Cow Tools in 1982

i wish you whatever peace looks like for you.

a Drawn to Engineering comic for Chemical Engineering Education Worst-Case Scenario written by Luke Landherr drawn by Maki Naro Panel 1 STUDENT working on a computer. Smoke in the background. STUDENT: … actually, if I just enter in the right prompts, I can get this AI tool to solve all this work for me! STUDENT: And that’s before I even get into any writing assignments… STUDENT: The professor will probably want more accurate answers, after all. Panel 2: PROFESSOR working on a computer. Smoke rising from fire in a green hilled background. PROFESSOR: So there’s all these problems to write and this student work to review, but… PROFESSOR: … actually, I could just feed this AI tool the right prompts and have it do the curriculum design and evaluations for me! PROFESSOR: The students will probably appreciate unique problems and faster feedback, after all.

STUDENT at left, PROFESSOR at right. Circular arrows reflecting that the computers are doing all the work between them with no human involvement, surrounding a data center with smokestacks. Panel Two: STUDENT and PROFESSOR shaking hands with environmental consumption being revealed. TEXTBOX: This is the worstcase scenario for AI in education. STUDENT: Thank you for a great semester. PROFESSOR: Thank you for a great semester. TEXTBOX: All the learning and teaching self-contained within the AI tools, with no real human involvement. Panel Three Different PROFESSOR and STUDENT talking together, a back and forth to help showcase the continued learning and teaching together. Brighter colors. TEXTBOX: Let’s be clear, there are real possibilities for AI tools in both teaching and learning. AI tools can be great at helping develop codes for complex mathematical solutions, and can also allow for an all-hours tutoring tool for additional student support. And as an educational community, we need to consider what the best potential of these tools are, for all involved parties. TEXTBOX: But it is a potential slippery slope in rationalizing what is acceptable from all involved. And that is before we consider the devastatingly huge environmental cost in using AI, a somewhat ironic factor when we work to increase instruction in sustainability at the same time. TEXTBOX: So let’s work together in figuring out best approaches using AI. And let’s be careful to find the best limits at the same time.

Here is a comic on the use of AI in education that @makinaro.com and I made for Chemical Engineering Education. Maki's art is otherworldly in this one, and I'm very pleased to have gotten this published in the journal.

aw heck least i can do :)

4:51p: Tornado Warning just north of Burlington, with large hail likely in rural Kit Carson County as well…rotation looks a little less impressive last 2-3 scans

#COwx

so i ADORE kody’s comic, Keeping Time, about two estranged friends who come back together for the band and uh. maybe more?

aaaaaand if you join the patreon you get panels early and some fun exclusives. (even some spicy ones!) go check it out and see if it’s your thing :)

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

Square dancing is just acoustic DDR

I think it’s funny that Shakespeare has a nickname. The Bard. Like Bruce Springsteen. Or William “The Refrigerator” Perry

same, but i *was* seated, and we all felt the same way. it was a good day.

Oedipal Arrangements: now offering early Mother's Day specials!

honestly when do i NOT want to yearn for a butch with muscles

i was careful to distinguish that they are only smarties to americans who don’t know better! the look on your face was PRICELESS

Don’t forget to leave milk and cookies out for Earth, Wind & Fire tonight

why is my mouth an episode of pawn stars tonight

“i’m looking for the platonic ideal of a wendy’s hamburger from the 80s”

“best i can do is half a party bag of white cheddar popcorn”

try not to fly to any islands on your way through the parking lot

Read this. Do not respond until you’ve read the materials from the ACLU and EFF. The address list/RSVP is putting you in danger.
If someone with a clipboard is insistent, sign as Robert Redford, or Smedley Butler, or Eleanor Roosevelt. Put your address as 1060 W Addison St, Chicago IL 60613.

Happy 25th Birthday to Strange Horizons

Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉

Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!

It’s All Clowns and Holes From Here On Out, Folks by Fall Out Boy

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

*having a very smol existential crisis*

do you think we should repackage and do a special reissue? we could get in another photoshoot. i mean, i really dug the “wave almost washed us overboard right before the shutter clicked” aesthetic, but it might not be for everyone

you say they haven't changed much, but the simple fact remains: the boys that returned are NOT the same boys that left, nor is the town the same town they left. that chick that used to dance a lot no longer does
we're forever longing for the return of hypothetical boys to a town that will never be

Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

Oh HELL yes

well it deserves a quiet night!

when the cold steps well into your morning

and the days are noticeably shorter

WE shall come into our FULL POWER

and we will be

raising funds

not raising the dead

but selling the coins that take you THERE

⏳💀🎃🪙

october 1st - october 31st