D. Hicks

This is a thread to illustrate the nuclear block. I'm going to reply with a throwaway account, then block it, and screenshot the results from my alt account.

VOR of this paper is finally live! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

VOR of this paper is finally live! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

INTRO TO NYT THREADS ON EPA FILES bsky.app/profile/did:... THREAD 1: The Air Toxics Rollback Cast of Characters bsky.app/profile/did:... THREAD 2: The Nuclear Option: Using Presidential Power to Wipe Out EPA Toxics Rules (Mislabeled it thread 1) bsky.app/profile/did:...

It is ok to decide that—in the middle of constitutional crisis—that the job of social media is not persuasion, but organization and organization. It is also ok to decide that listening and persuasion does not have to involve violence and abuse. You know why trolls hide under bridges, right?

If Americans need our little southern recipe for how to defeat fascism it goes like this: - Put people in the streets by standing for popular demands (wages, healthcare, public services) - Do not engage with fascists online - Do not succumb to doomsayers or media-driven narratives - Be happy

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I canot beleaf yu thenk itis funny that thay are serving bowls of poore babby tiggres fore houmins to eate! I thogt yu waz an ally!

I don’t usually teach classes where this kind of text fits well. Either I’m teaching lit/intellectual history, or I’m teaching how to do specific things with machine learning; “social impact thereof” is not my usual beat. That said, I would recommend this Naranayan talk to freaked out students

with 29 toes, Erebus is 45% better at being a cat than other cats. i'm worried that he might be too good at being a cat.

there's a Maine Coon kitten named Erebus Anomaly. he's in Wisconsin. he recently received recognition for having more toes than any other documented living cat. 29 toes. that's an awful lot of toes. like, wtf. i'm over here expected to make do with 10 toes, like some kind of schmuck.

My first five TTRPGs: 1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Other Strangeness 1A. Other Palladium stuff 2. Call of Cthulhu (purchased; didn't play for ~25 years) 3? Fallout 3? Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 3. Savage Worlds 4. Fate (technically) 5. Monster of the Week? 5. DnD 5e? Was around the same time

Charlie, my dear sweet orange boy, was just scarfing wet food while sitting on the windowsill. I hear him start to make the “barfy barfy” noise and look up. He proceeds to leap down and projectile vomit in mid air while soaring across the room. Speechless. I’d almost call it impressive. 😑😑😑😭😂

JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Still bewildered abt this wildly inappropriate design to address the research question. Peer review is an instrumental process. What does it mean to measure whether it's "good" if the "what for?" question is never asked? Why should anyone care how three editors and AI evaluate peer review content?

If you recognize this don't forget to take your pills today

Habby Caturday, we are enjoy birb. 24 October 2026. #cats #photography

This is one thing America has indisputably done better than the rest of the world (looking at you, Europe) over the last ~25 years. When I was a kid, restaurants still had smoking and non-smoking sections. Today, the idea of someone smoking inside a building is offensive to most people.

It might be true that “Democrats shouldn’t talk about border security.” I don’t think that’s true, but let’s grant it’s true for the sake of the argument. It does not follow from that that ”Democrats shouldn’t talk about ICE shooting people or sending them to foreign gulags“ (paraphrasing)

Happy Friday, here is a Very Important Question: Pomplamoose's cover of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is not only the best cover but arguably even better than Daft Punk's. But would it be EVEN BESTER if they had used a talkbox? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpd...

Under bizarro long division, every number that gets a terminating decimal expansion under normal long division ends up with repeating 9’s, while all other numbers end up with the same expansion they would have had under normal long division.

I don't think there are actually that many good uses of generative AI for undergrads in general. But "Use OpenAlex to find the 20 most-cited papers in X" might be one? docs.google.com/presentation...

This reminds me that, in the thick of the pandemic, @badaude.bsky.social and I flirted with reviving the Wages for Housework campaign and I just noticed this excellent-looking book about it was published last year www.penguin.co.uk/books/442807...

That the existence of dog breeds, their sense of smell, or really any concept in biology is not one or two things to be tweaked but several billion things all happening at once is a concept that will never, ever penetrate these peoples' minds.

I don't think there are actually that many good uses of generative AI for undergrads in general. But "Use OpenAlex to find the 20 most-cited papers in X" might be one? docs.google.com/presentation...

As we approach the midterms, remember that the Alt National Park Service is a merch sales operation claiming without evidence to be a group of federal employees, and is not a genuine source of news about elections of any kind. Please get your election info from a local, reputable source.

Related, here is the 6yo on his school halloween walk, with all the other kids dressed in fun, cute etc costumes.

Happy Thursday, here is a song you can sing to your cats: 🎶 Kitty kitties! (So cute!) 🎶 🎶 Kitty kitties! (Such fuzzy!) 🎶 🎶 Kitty kitties! (Very murder!) 🎶

Democrats have trifecta control of government in 16 states; but not one of them has done what Republicans in Iowa and Florida have done in pumping millions of dollars into the humanities. ballotpedia.org/State_govern...

theoretically there's at least one kid that hadn't really considered being trans until they opened the mailbox, saw the mysterious transgender mailer going around in texas, and went "hey, wait a second"

Here is Jasper head so you can do pets

Billionaires throw a fit at the idea of an annual wealth tax... but literally everyone else already pays one via property taxes (either directly as a homeowner or secondarily as a renter). The only reason securities aren't taxed the same is because that's where the rich keep most of their wealth.

And another test shot with new glass, this time the Viltrox 85mm F1.8. 16 October 2026. #photography #cats

And, indeed, SCMs and LLMs have a great deal in common, from their ravenous appetite for data to the black holes of responsibility at their centers. That's because they share a common heritage in the mid-century sciences of systems.

A couple things that surprised me: first, SCM exponents often describe a well-managed supply chain as intelligent, virtually sentient, because it reacts so precisely and quickly to changes in market conditions. In fact, you might say they view a supply chain as a kind of artificial intelligence.

Prop 38 gives half the money to an institute owned by a billionaire. We need more medical research, but giving the wealthy control of it has bad long term effects.

Y'all, the Cato institute is well known for dressing up laissez-faire anti-tax capitalism as moderation. It's their whole deal. They're on bsky to get dunk-quoted to spread their reach. Don't let them hijack yours. Block/ignore. This is the way.

to be clear, the supreme court justice says he decides cases by imagining himself hosting the 1776 version of fox news diner segments

I need to sort the next batch of photos but won't have time until later this week. So here's a test shot with a recent lens purchase (Viltrox 26mm F2.8). 9 October 2026. #cats #photography

since California ballots are now out: prop 40 is the billionaire tax, and you should vote yes to stick it to them but both props 41 and 42 are designed to retroactively cancel the billionaire tax because they’re afraid they can’t beat it at the ballot box yes on 40, no on 41 and 42