Nicholas Bauer PhD
@bioturbonick.net
Computational biology and superresolution microscopy. Tech and politics nerd. Promoter of rationality. Progressive. Somerville, MA
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Nicholas Bauer PhD
@bioturbonick.net
· Jan 7
It ends:
"So, unfortunately, the only message that the public will receive from this “peaceful transfer of power” is: We surrender."
"So, unfortunately, the only message that the public will receive from this “peaceful transfer of power” is: We surrender."
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NBC News released new information of Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect in the shooting of 2 National Guard members near White House.
November 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
NBC News released new information of Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the suspect in the shooting of 2 National Guard members near White House.
Phone battery math: slow decline to 5%, then drops to 0% within minutes.
November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Phone battery math: slow decline to 5%, then drops to 0% within minutes.
Uhh... Some of my mutuals follow him. 😬
It's wild to me that this guy has reinvented himself as a resist grifter on this website
Senate candidate has history of sending racist, misogynist messages | Arizona Mirror
Arizona U.S. Senate hopeful Craig Brittain made headlines yesterday after he sent racist text messages to a potential campaign vendor.
azmirror.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Uhh... Some of my mutuals follow him. 😬
Tried both I Love LA and The Chair Company.
The latter has something interesting about it, but I utterly cannot stand the main character.
The former is just Girls: Los Angeles with less interesting characters.
The latter has something interesting about it, but I utterly cannot stand the main character.
The former is just Girls: Los Angeles with less interesting characters.
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Tried both I Love LA and The Chair Company.
The latter has something interesting about it, but I utterly cannot stand the main character.
The former is just Girls: Los Angeles with less interesting characters.
The latter has something interesting about it, but I utterly cannot stand the main character.
The former is just Girls: Los Angeles with less interesting characters.
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
I just saw a TV ad for a website that only sells licorice.
Is it the 2000s again?
Is it the 2000s again?
November 27, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I just saw a TV ad for a website that only sells licorice.
Is it the 2000s again?
Is it the 2000s again?
We like to think we're more than just animals, but every day humans prove that some of us would love being this rat.
November 27, 2025 at 1:50 AM
We like to think we're more than just animals, but every day humans prove that some of us would love being this rat.
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If for some reason you’re still subscribed to the Washington Post, you can get the same information from a local men’s room stall
very odd that the Post would write up someone’s speciation as if it’s news. What are we doing here
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If for some reason you’re still subscribed to the Washington Post, you can get the same information from a local men’s room stall
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What’s the over-under on national monuments he ruins?
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
What’s the over-under on national monuments he ruins?
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An Anthropologist's perspecive on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age after finishing it:
Excluding humans is rewriting the Ice Age as a "Pristine world free of humans." This is damaging and simply incorrect. There are millennia of Indigenous interactions between humans and other species all erased here.
Excluding humans is rewriting the Ice Age as a "Pristine world free of humans." This is damaging and simply incorrect. There are millennia of Indigenous interactions between humans and other species all erased here.
November 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
An Anthropologist's perspecive on Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age after finishing it:
Excluding humans is rewriting the Ice Age as a "Pristine world free of humans." This is damaging and simply incorrect. There are millennia of Indigenous interactions between humans and other species all erased here.
Excluding humans is rewriting the Ice Age as a "Pristine world free of humans." This is damaging and simply incorrect. There are millennia of Indigenous interactions between humans and other species all erased here.
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National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
November 26, 2025 at 10:14 PM
National Guard members should never have been deployed in Washington, DC.
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Remember that the Guard were originally deployed to DC to avenge Big Balls, who is meanwhile rifling through all our Social Security data.
AND ALSO, on Nov 20, Jia Cobb ruled the Guard deployment was illegaly, but stayed her decision until December 11.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
AND ALSO, on Nov 20, Jia Cobb ruled the Guard deployment was illegaly, but stayed her decision until December 11.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Remember that the Guard were originally deployed to DC to avenge Big Balls, who is meanwhile rifling through all our Social Security data.
AND ALSO, on Nov 20, Jia Cobb ruled the Guard deployment was illegaly, but stayed her decision until December 11.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
AND ALSO, on Nov 20, Jia Cobb ruled the Guard deployment was illegaly, but stayed her decision until December 11.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Sad. But also, shouldn't have sent your troops to invade the federal capital at the illegal behest of an illegitimate ruler to serve his propaganda?
“It is with great sorrow that we can confirm both members of the West Virginia National Guard who were shot earlier today in Washington, DC have passed away from their injuries.” - WV Gov. Patrick Morrisey
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Sad. But also, shouldn't have sent your troops to invade the federal capital at the illegal behest of an illegitimate ruler to serve his propaganda?
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I see the most predictable thing ever has happened
Exclusive: President Trump has argued with the architect he handpicked to design a White House ballroom over the size of the project, reflecting a conflict between architectural norms and Trump’s grandiose aesthetic.
Trump wants a bigger White House ballroom. His architect disagrees.
The president and James McCrery had argued in recent weeks over the project’s size, with Trump pushing him to expand the ballroom.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I see the most predictable thing ever has happened
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Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
The extremely poor judgment exercised by Fulton County DA Fani Willis in hiring a man she was dating as a Special Prosecutor to lead the case against Trump doomed the case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
The extremely poor judgment exercised by Fulton County DA Fani Willis in hiring a man she was dating as a Special Prosecutor to lead the case against Trump doomed the case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Judge Dismisses Georgia Election Interference Case Against Trump
The extremely poor judgment exercised by Fulton County DA Fani Willis in hiring a man she was dating as a Special Prosecutor to lead the case against Trump doomed the case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
The extremely poor judgment exercised by Fulton County DA Fani Willis in hiring a man she was dating as a Special Prosecutor to lead the case against Trump doomed the case.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
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as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
this might be the saddest story I've ever written, about a seal that I will be thinking about for a long, long time.
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
defector.com/why-wont-nor...
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
as so often, the explanation is probably 'animals feel emotions that are similar to ours, and when we disregard the evidence to avoid 'anthromorphism' it's fundamentally ideological, not scientific'
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Tesla's EU sales were down 48.5% in October, and are down 30% in a year-to-date when EV sales are up 26%.
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Tesla's EU sales were down 48.5% in October, and are down 30% in a year-to-date when EV sales are up 26%.
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
Tesla's China sales fell 35.8% in October, for an 8.4% decline year-to-date.
Tesla's US sales fell 24% in October, after incentives expired.
IT'S HAPPENING!
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against the demonic computers
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They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao
Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."
FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed
A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.
trib.al
November 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
They didn’t even try to name it something less obvious lmao
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Sounds less revolutionary than the fax machine
Anyway, tech-wise, AI will have a "positive effect on productivity growth", the OBR say, with a 0.2 percentage point impact in five years
November 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Sounds less revolutionary than the fax machine
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Kagi gives you the power to block domains, filter out AI slop, and keep search clean, relevant and human. All with no ads or manipulative algorithms.
November 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Kagi gives you the power to block domains, filter out AI slop, and keep search clean, relevant and human. All with no ads or manipulative algorithms.
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Officials from the Hong Kong Fire Services Department have said firefighters were struggling to get to the top of the residential buildings due to intense heat. Their efforts to contain the blaze were getting more difficult in hours of darkness reut.rs/4oXaEXD
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Officials from the Hong Kong Fire Services Department have said firefighters were struggling to get to the top of the residential buildings due to intense heat. Their efforts to contain the blaze were getting more difficult in hours of darkness reut.rs/4oXaEXD
What if unicorns had bumblebee wings?
What if RFK Jr. reacted to his cousin’s terminal cancer as JFK reacted to his baby’s death?
When President Kennedy’s newborn son died in 1963, it galvanized research. A new Kennedy family tragedy should spur RFK Jr. to support cancer research, not cut it.
www.statnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
What if unicorns had bumblebee wings?