Aaron Laffin

“First cousin once removed” just rolls off the tongue.

A pardon is an official act.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

I had food from Cava once when visiting Denver. I recall enjoying it.

A short explanation of p-hacking and why it absolutely makes sense to ask HHS to release the study methods of their autism report in advance.

Right? What was I thinking paying for the whole year?

YouTube video by Mon Rovîa Mon Rovîa - Heavy Foot (official lyric video)

Please don’t Rich Men North of Richmond this nice man but this is a hell of a protest song.

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(Guardian) - Household electricity bills have increased by 10% since Donald Trump re-entered the White House, a new report has found, with its authors highlighting the impact of the president’s datacenter boosterism .. as part of the cause.

@theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This morning I listened to the @volts.wtf podcast about how grid operators are curtailing less expensive generation sources ahead of coal. Here we have the administration forcing not just the use of more expensive and dirty sources, but perpetuating their existence!

A photographer friend of mine had one of her sd memory cards die after a photo shoot. She’s tried Easeus and it can recover about 1300 of 1600 files, but she’s asking if there are other tools/tricks anyone knows from the forensics community that might be able to get the rest. I have a feeling […]

Big-Game Hunter, Eying His Next Trophy, Is Killed by Buffalo During Safari Asher Watkins, a real estate executive from Texas, was tracking a Cape buffalo in South Africa when he was attacked, a safari company said.

nature is healing

Minnesota, referring to what?

How a time bomb in Trump's signature tax law fueled mass tech layoffs Understanding the Trump-era tax tweak that quietly turned research and development into a liability — and rewrote the economics of tech employment

Some people say this is a significant contributor:
qz.com/tech-layoffs...

My rant on Justice Alito’s homophobic misreading of Uncle Bobby’s Wedding in a horrible Supreme Court decision that will censor LGBTQ books in public schools.

From UC Irvine Law’s Term in Review event last week! Watch the whole thing here: youtu.be/Zj3T7ZAxjYM?...

Leavitt: “As for the takeover of Gaza, I don't believe the President ever said that.”

Trump in February: “The U.S. will takeover the Gaza Strip.”

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

Plot showing the amount of power supplied to the CA grid from each source vs time of the day for July 16, 2025. Renewables dominate throughout the day, peaking at ~27 GW. But from 7:30-10pm, batteries are the largest single source, peaking at a new record of 10.4 GW.

It’s pretty wild that even on a really hot day yesterday, batteries were the largest source of power on the CA grid for a couple of hours. This has become pretty common this Spring. 🔌💡

Donald Trump does NOT want you to share this footage of his pathetically tiny birthday parade crowd.

speaker melissa hortman and her husband

Speaker Hortman was a bold and brave leader who made hard decisions and fought for the people of Minnesota every single day.

She and her husband Mark did not deserve to die. My heart goes out to their children.

A reverse-Robin Hood situation… Congressional Republicans are trying to steal from the poor to give to the rich.

MERKLEY: Are you gonna launch an investigation of the reported violation of the due process of several hundred people?

P: It is not for me to call the balls & strikes

M: You haven't read the Constitution? It says 'all persons'...it concerns me you're not familiar w/the core concept of due process

Possibly the greatest Tesla takedown video ever - maybe the best thing ever

RFK Jr and Statistics:

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

This looks amazing. The White Christian Nationalist I'm writing about who was chair of the OR GOP in 1978-9 ran a bunch of MLMs in his day through which he ripped off people who trusted him, and he also got ripped off by a bunch of rich MLM'ers he trusted as well. Financially it was a wash for him.

Mike Waltz has left the chat.

NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep

NIH has cancelled its participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep

www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/n...