The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Elon Musk is a white nationalist. Anyone who needs more data points to reach this conclusion is beyond help or persuasion.

If you buy, rent, service, or supercharge a Tesla you are supporting the most powerful white nationalist on earth. Period.

Every blue-state legislature could do this literally right now.

Really excited to have this paper accepted for publication now in @natcomms.nature.com - stay tuned for the final version and huge congrats to @margestelzner.bsky.social!!!!

No no. No, we won't be doing that. We won't be brushing the last two years under the carpet just because there is a current ceasefire. This is appalling, Israel should not be allowed to participate until Palestine is free and Netanyahu is behind bars for war crimes, where he belongs.

In this article, @jadynpark.bsky.social et al find that emotionally arousing moments during a narrative are associated with heightened integration across functional brain networks, which in turn predict how well those moments are then remembered.

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Congress could, at any time, stop this shitshow by telling Vought to end the RIFs and impoundments. It has very clear institutional reasons to do so. But obeying to Trump rules all, and instead the Speaker of the House will pretend he does not know what is happening while opining on Bad Bunny.

It continues to astound and embarrass the lengths to which people debase themselves to stroke Donald Trump's ego.

To quote @aoc.bsky.social, they are clowns, and we need to laugh at them.

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

I don't get the determination to make Columbus relevant to US history. He never set foot on US soil. He "discovered" a place where millions of people lived and vikings and Irish fishermen knew about. He thought he visited India until his deathbed. His contemporaries considered him a violent weirdo.

Trump to the Israeli parliament today, gloating about U.S. weapons supplied to Israel over the past two years:

"You obviously used them very well."

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

I have a new paper out in @oxrepjournal.bsky.social explaining Agent-based models #ABMs and their advantages and disadvantages in comparison to standard models.

doi.org/10.1093/oxre...

The protests in a week are likely to be some of the largest in history. This time, instead of ignoring them, maybe Democrats could try something new: pointing out that a president who is facing some of the largest protests in history is definitionally deeply unpopular, and has no hint of a mandate

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

‘Science Under Siege’: Two Experts Sound the Alarm on Trump’s War on Science | My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I discuss our new book #ScienceUnderSiege with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social of @zeteo.com: zeteo.com/p/science-un...

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Trump caps international student enrollment at top US universities, limits set at 15%

www.businesstoday.in/nri/study/st...

Of course I disagree completely that the issue of physical determinism is not relevant for free will (as Dennett often argued, exasperatedly). Just because many people are compatibilists doesn't make that actually a viable position.

I'm glad to see his description of the Many Worlds Hypothesis as effectively NOT deterministic: "the underlying laws are perfectly deterministic, but what happens along any specific history is irreducibly probabilistic"

I think pain is a kind of "primitive story of self"! In that it's a homeostatic signal that is about the state of the body. But it also seems like it must have a raw feel to it. (And I agree it's almost impossible to know this for sure!)

The time machine is flying backwards at an accelerating pace.

This requires some underlying randomness to generate variation. Then you automatically get selection for configurations that persist better, which favors complex functionalities under dynamic conditions