Michael Tremmel

Me: I could survive being a fugitive. I’d use all my wits and cunning to outsmart my opponents!

Me when the doorbell rings: oh fuck oh shit I haven’t paid my TV license it might be them I don’t wanna pay a fine I’ll just pretend no one is home oh god are they gone y- oh it’s just a package

Ok but Pandora is a very ominous name for something related to alien life. Feels like the name you’d have for a telescope that finds aliens in a videogame where those aliens come to kill us all.

Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me

Mind blown

Opinion The New York Times Editorial Board: The Partisans Are Wrong: Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

"Win" what, in order to accomplish what, for whom.

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When an organisation gets those letters claiming that Transphobia “is the law of the land” you can just reply with the polite version of this meme:

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

romulan numerals

Green socks with Christmas light strings drawn on them

Socks with a sweater pattern and a picture of an elf with a green beard with ornaments in it. “Bearded and jolly” is written on the top

Forgot to post yesterday so today we will do the first two days of holiday socks!

Day 1: Xmas lights
Day 2: bearded and jolly

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Seconded. That last line hits hard.

The numbers in here are hilarious.

Do you use AI on the job?
Execs: 87%
Managers: 57%
Workers: 27%

Planned investment by 2030: $5T
"Necessary" annual revenue to justify that spend: $650B
Current annual revenue: $50B

“But the Trump administration cut the money, claiming it fell under DEI – diversity, equity and inclusion.”

I guess all one really can do is try to do things that give you meaning while adhering to your moral code… easier said than done…

I truly believe the university will not survive under capitalism. It won’t be dismantled just mutated into something profane for the profit of shareholders and businesses, not the pursuit and dissemination of knowledge. All we can hope for is that capitalism eats itself before too much damage occurs

As faculty I’ve come to deeply understand that the university is never on our side. They’ve turned into businesses run by conservative neoliberal fools who care more about clout and finances than about the mission of higher education. Sad but not surprising.

So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.

My flight got diverted to Shannon airport because it had a longer runway since a flap wasn’t working properly for landing. We are now in the process of waiting 2 hrs for a bus to drive us 2 hrs to Cork. FML

Well well well looks like astrophysics just became relevant to your daily lives.

Trump administration reaches deal with Northwestern University to restore funding U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Friday said it has reached an agreement with Northwestern University to restore hundreds of millions of dollars in research funds and close pending inve...

This is ridiculous, $75 million shakedown

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Ask Ethan: What's the point of exploring the Universe? There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?

What’s the point of exploring the Universe?

#AskEthan

With so much going on in the world and so many problems to solve, why should we be investing in exploring the Universe?

We must always remember.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#space #astro #physics

Corporate Media is going to pretend that Trump is heartbroken about the two West Virginian National Guardsmen being shot in DC, but the entire point of moving a standing army into a peaceful city was to induce violence by The People to justify more violence by Trump on The People in retaliation.

I’m traveling but I’ll try to remember to send pics of my office. I have five plants and several pieces of art (including a last supper Star Wars painting which I find hilarious in a majority catholic country). That said, my ceiling leaks and much of my furniture is old

No industry is perfect. But the imbalance is hard to miss. One sector must prove its products are safe & effective. The other profits by avoiding that responsibility. If we care about transparency and accountability, scrutiny shouldn’t be one-sided. (Source: For The Greater Glory of Science) #EpiSky

I need to remember that right now when I see people post about “MTG” they probably mean the congresswoman and not Magic the Gathering. Things could get very confusing for me.

There are about 400 photons and 300 neutrinos in every cubic cm of the Universe left over from the Big Bang 🧪

Dude I’m nearly 37 years old and I’m still fucking learning this…

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

Omg yes!!! Both of my parents were math teachers. I had this argument often in undergrad! It bugs me when people treat teaching as a hobby, something done before getting a “real” job or as a form of retirement. And the most underserved communities are always the ones that get these untrained fools.

kind of wish all the people who did teach for america and were super obnoxious toward those of us who were like "actually you should know something about teaching before you do it" would admit that they were wrong and strong about it