Daniel Thorngren

Ojisan Kaichou & @OjisanKaichou • 6h @grok medically speaking, how likely is this to be actual fentanyl exposure versus the officer having a panic attack due to thinking she'd been exposed? Grok v @grok Medically, it's far more likely a panic attack from perceived exposure than actual fentanyl toxicity. Experts (e.g., Dr. Ryan Marino, ACMT) confirm no verified overdoses from casual skin contact or inhalation-fentanyl doesn't absorb that way quickly. Symptoms like sudden collapse match anxiety, not opioid effects (drowsiness, slowed breathing). Narcan helps but isn't needed here.

Grok has fallen

Where is the reporting of this in Australia?
Where are the condemnations of it by Israel’s supporters?
It’s an Israeli minister stating his intention to genocide.

"I wanted an answer, but I wanted it to be wrong some inestimable amount of the time"

Again, for anyone curious about Harvard Astronomer’s latest: he was told explicitly Juno does not have enough fuel to visit 3I/ATLAS.

So.

The absurd thing is that David Grossman could not say this at Columbia or else he would be accused of antisemitism.

Time’s ticking for American authors to get on the right side of opposing genocide.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Five students wearing medals stand holding the American flag, smiling after a competition. They are dressed in formal attire, surrounded by other participants in the background.

The US Physics Team won five Gold Medals at the 2025 International Physics Olympiad in Paris, France. Congratulations to Team USA! aas.org/posts/news/2... 🏅🔭

If hollow Earth comes back into fashion with the conspiracy theorists I'm doomed

For some reason I'm spared from getting these emails. It's possible they dgaf about planet interiors hehehe

Zotero has changed my life for the better. What a marvelous piece of software.

Tumblr normal-horoscopes Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture The whale looks delightfully round and seems to be smiling.

I present to you yet another of history's little guys for your viewing pleasure

a group of people wearing brown clothes and hats are gathered together Alt: The scene from Monty Python: Quest for the Holy Grail in which a man has just accused a woman of turning him into a newt. Everyone looks at the man, who is very much not a newt. He says "I got better..."

Life of Brian would also have fit here.

You can also tell when it's rocky planet people vs gas giant people from the units (GPa vs MBar), which I find funny.

I just caught myself thinking of Earth's core as being "low-pressure". Working on gas giants so much has really done a number on my brain 😅

A screaming cyborg monkey from Superman, part of Luthor's troll farm. Yes, it's staffed by cyber-monkeys, typing vitriol onto the internet. Yes, that's pretty on-the-nose.

Look they gave us this meme specifically for these moments:

A map of the local stars near us, stretching out to 10 parsecs, viewed from above the galactic plane looking down. Around 500 stars are shown, mostly m-dwarfs, and many in binary systems. A bluish blob forms the background, representing local clouds of interstellar hydrogen. Two red circles stand out, representing the Stromgren Spheres of Sirius and 40 Eridani, which are regions where the stars have ionized the surrounding hydrogen. Stars with known planets are highlighted in green; not many stars are highlighted, which is more related to our ability to detect planets than whether they are actually there (it's much easier if they transit, but that's uncommon).

Just found out about this fabulous diagram of the local stars from Reylé (2021). Stars with known planets are highlighted in green, and the brackets indicate how far above or below the galactic plane it is (in parsecs).

You can look at a few versions of the map here: gruze.org/10pc/resourc...

I hope they've budgeted in all the harassment and discrimination lawsuits the new employees are bound to generate.

Yes, the coma of 3I/Atlas is quite real, not just because planetary astronomers have somehow forgotten to do accurate non-sidereal tracking.

I worried about feeling rage against a government whose forebears suffered so much in the holocaust.

As this genocide goes on, i feel the same rage i felt when i learned about the holocaust.

In 1988 Umberto Eco wrote Foucault's Pendulum.

The plot is: a bunch of guys working at a self-publisher house, for fun, take their huge crackpot and crank slush pile and jam it all together using a simple markov chain program written in BASIC.

They create a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory.

I can't help but conclude that he probably just didn't know about non-sidereal tracking at all but won't admit it.

1. From the FDA to the NSF’s new priorities to Chan-Zuckerberg’s recent pivot, there’s a massive push — particularly on they political right — to hand off as much of the scientific process as possible to AI.

It’s not about competing with China in AI. Not while gutting the US research ecosystem.

Astronomers double down on claim of strongest evidence for alien life Are there aliens living on the exoplanet K2-18b? Some astronomers believe they have evidence for molecules on the planet that must have a biological origin, but others disagree

Ready for the latest K2-18b drama?

Madhusudhan is claiming *even stronger* evidence of DMS after analysing both near-infrared and mid-infrared JWST data. But another study finds no evidence at all.

Read on for a quick update on everyone's f̶a̶v̶o̶u̶r̶i̶t̶e most newsworthy exoplanet. 🧵

#exoplanets 🔭

That's some Australia level predation

Hell yeah that's the king shit, brah!

Wow TIL the Tarantulas' range is waaay wider than I thought

Clarification: Caelus is the Roman equivalent of the Greek god Uranus. It's dumb that they named exactly one planet after a Greek god and the rest after Latin ones, especially when the name sounds so bad in English (though it should probably really be ooh-ruh-nos).

KIE-loose :)

👀 would that have been at Boeing then? My grandfather was at Douglas at the time.