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I don’t want to harsh anyone’s mellow, but the most common ways authoritarian governments respond when they realize the civilian courts are unwilling to enable them is that they cook up some kind of tribunals to replace the courts, or they just start taking people into the woods and executing them.

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment:

"To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."

He’s banning books and replacing them with guns.

Let me say that again for the people in the back: HE IS BANNING BOOKS AND REPLACING THEM WITH GUNS.

I cannot.

Pritzker: Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next

if you’re getting domestically deployed for 29 days at a time there’s reasons

“Recent events have strengthened the need to keep Flash preserved—for example, shutdowns of the Cartoon Network’s website wiped out hundreds of Flash games and animations that only existed on the site, and will never show up on a DVD or streaming service.” Jason Scott Free-range archivist

Once the lifeblood of online creativity—from silly games to iconic animations—Flash has all but disappeared from the live web. 🕳️

In our latest Vanishing Culture essay, free-range archivist Jason Scott @textfiles.com explores why Flash deserves to be preserved.

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hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

our country rn

I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is.

In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.

And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.

yeah this one is very bad rn. it's not funny or cute or "wow, these guys are wild" that there's a concentration camp in Florida. it's a horror. It's "the concentration camp at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport," but all major news outlets are going with "Alligator Alcatraz" in quotes.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Southwest Nebraska hospital announces plans to close, blames uncertainty over funding

While Republicans celebrate the passage of the largest Medicaid cut in history, the Curtis Medical Center in Nebraska announced it will shut down as a result of these horrific cuts — the first of many hospitals to close.

This is a dark day for rural America and for our country.

The death of Harambe was a pivotal point in history and our society has only gone downhill since

Folks, can we please get this funded! This is a VERY reasonable goal for a whole anthology of fantasy comics by Black women, and LOOK HOW COOL IT IS.

You are not more likely to be killed by a coconut than a shark. This is a statistical error.

Coconuts Georg, who lives under a coconut tree and is killed by 10,000 coconuts a year is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Book quote from kindle app reading: THE SORT OF RAGE THAT IS ONLY SEEN WHEN RICH FOLK THAT HAVE MORE THAN THEY CAN ENJOY SUDDENLY LOSE SOMETHING THAT THEY HAVE LONG HAD BUT HAVE NEVER BEFORE USED OR WANTED. J.R.R. Tolkien The Hobbit: 75th Anniversary Edition #kindlequotes

So just to recap:

- Parents can force schools to erase LGBTQ+ existence because ???

- The Court's opinion on birthright citizenship is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

- We're reverting back to the Articles of Confederation ig ??? Except our population is now 340 million and every court might be its own country.

Scientists Rose Abramaoff and Peter Kalmus protest on stage at AGU, with a banner stating "out of the lab & into the streets". (Both people shown have given written permission to share this photograph; original image credit: Dwight Owens).

If you read one paper this year, it should be this one: how to make scientific narratives more impactful and engaging by using storytelling.
It's written in accessible way, with examples, and it makes a strong case for new, better communication in science.
🧪🌏 #Academicsky

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Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT F...

A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says.

The frog is sweating.

The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature.

“He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs.

All books about frogs have vanished from the library.

A student doing work this shoddy for a class presentation would fail. Shouldn't the standards be even higher for people making decisions about the health of all Americans?

Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency

I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now.

Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it.

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I'm not a songwriter or anything but the new lyrics to We Didn't Start the Fire are kinda weird, right?

Most of my colleagues, too, follow the data and report what their findings indicate or show, however politically incorrect. A few examples: Race has some biological reality. Marriage reduces crime. So does hot-spot policing. Racism has been in decline. Phonics is essential to reading instruction. Trigger warnings can do more harm than good. Africans were active in the slave trade. Educational attainment is partly in the genes. Cracking down on drugs has benefits, and legalizing them has harms. Markets can make people fairer and more generous. For all the headlines, day-to-day life at Harvard consists of publishing ideas without fear or favor.

amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.”

that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.

It’s weird because for my whole career I was assured that a rising anti-intellectual fringe wasn’t really a problem because those people had no power to make any decisions that impacted my life

Huh

John Mulaney Says ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Deserves a Spot in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame John Mulaney feels it's high time that 'Weird Al' Yankovic receives the recognition he's due with an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

Yes.

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A flatbed truck carrying large, stacked logs secured with chains is driving on a highway. A black banner on the back advertises the movie “Final Destination: Bloodlines,” stating “Only in theaters May 16.” A sign beside it reads “How is my driving?” with a QR code. Other vehicles are visible on the road under a partly cloudy sky.

This is the only good ad in the last decade

2 versions of the same design, all of which say "Biology is bigger than binaries", with a central image of a bee, a clownfish, and a lily. The one on. the left is pink, the right is orange,

You asked for it, you got it.

Biology is Bigger than Binaries is now on a shirt!

Designed by @franzanth.bsky.social, printed here in Philly on 100% cotton Next Level Tees.

We've got... ironically 2 colors to choose from lmao.

Pre-order open until May 31!
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