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No. No we are not doing that. www.upworthy.com/what-is-gen-...

Yes. I wrote about right wing disinformation agents who woked washed the pandemic.

Conflicting reports and a lack of transparency around the death of a lab worker at an anti-plague research institute in Russia have fueled concerns and speculations about a suspected case of pneumonic plague. https://to.pbs.org/3TENI58

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Just got out of a conversation w/ @davidhobby.bsky.social and @aarondsouza.bsky.social where we were effectively talking about how America is on a completely different tech/energy/innovation/science/medicine investment curve/trajectory from other developed nations... And it's not good for America.

Remember 25 years ago when nonviolent private citizens were getting sued into oblivion for file-sharing MP3s and now techbros are copying all human knowledge into plagiarism-bots?

You probably haven’t heard this name. Kizzmekia Corbett was the lead on the development of Covid mRNA vaccine. Recall that Katalin Karikó laid the groundwork for the vaccine. Dolly Parton provided the seed $ for the early development of the mRNA vaccine. 🧪 nul.org/news/kizzmek...

Virologist/molecular biologist Dr. Flossie Wong-Staal altered the trajectory of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic. First to clone HIV-1 & complete its genetic mapping, directly leading to life-saving antiviral drug cocktails. Most-cited female scientist of the 1980s. Born #OTD in 1946. #WomenInSTEM

Sigh. Taps sign. Again. You DO NOT want legislative term limits. They're bad. We know they're bad. We know this with as much certainty as it's possible to know anything in the social sciences. We have mountains of evidence from the 17 states that have tried it. No good comes from term limits.

Put simply -- either Democrats hold Republicans accountable for this mess when they retake Congress, or voters will blame Democrats for it down the line.

Dolly gifted $1 million to Vanderbilt to support the development of the Covid vaccine. She always loved us.

I don't think it's a good idea to let the wildly unqualified former host of Fox & Friends' weekend edition cull the military's leadership and insert cronies. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...

Many myths debunked in this paper. Paper finds that: -faculty partisanship has no effect on students -students ideologically sort into majors; majors don’t affect partisanship -faculty partisanship is uncorrelated with how left/rightwing course content is micah-baum.github.io/files/baum-e...

Hwæt! A new edition of the Electronic Beowulf has been released by Kevin Kiernan (University of Kentucky). You can explore it here: ebeowulf.uky.edu Beowulf is one of our greatest literary treasures, and the unique manuscript is held at the British Library.

Participants in our National Advocacy Institute for youth and our broader community joined us to honor our collective fight to build a more perfect union and to uplift key individuals' contributions. Our honorees included Bruce Springsteen and Colin Kaepernick for their tireless, powerful advocacy.

University suicide

I look for info on the McConnell situation about 5 times a day, because--legitimately--as a mystery writer I have a major interest in how you hide a dead body.

Seriously. Some of the smartest people in the world are working to make online gambling as addictive as possible. You aren’t immune.

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did, and promptly pulled it from their stores. The FDA didn’t even name the source until Taylor Farms outed themselves, and hasn’t issued a recall. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA.

Flailing autocrats often try to game elections, but then their failure to win a gamed election will often doom them. But it does not happen automatically. When Trump messes with elections in 2026 and 2028 (not if), fans of democracy must push back hard, forcing law enforcement into submitting.

This is a political project to disempower the educated middle class as much as it is an attempt to make money. It does not matter if it's inefficient. They will find a way to use their massive political power to plug any gaps unless we push back politically.

A lot of this is also rooted in the fact that left wing men would rather try to win back white working class men than build a coalition with white women with college degrees (who are decidedly economically progressive) and Black voters (older ones are conservative. Younger ones are more left-wing)

I'll keep my focus on the solution, not the problem.

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

Yes my darlings. You are too fine for this nonsense. Don't you EVER forget it.

looking forward to future SCOTUS discovering other exceptions when a future Dem POTUS tries to use the Slaughter powers

The real mindfuck is thinking back to 2000 and realizing that things are so much worse now than any of the most hyperbolic, apocalyptic predictions for how bad things would get after Bush v Gore

Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

Today’s SCOTUS opinion in Slaughter, allowing POTUS to fire commissioners at will, will harm other agencies, including EEOC, EPA, Consumer Product Safety Board, FCC, FDIC, SEC, Nuclear Safety Board.

The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios

I wouldn't have been able to afford grad school (and I got full tuition waivers) without federally-backed loans. Great to see the institutions that produced you methodically dismantled.