We are in a new hell that I know we’d predicted we’d come to, but it still stings.

No one really knows what this administration’s definition of freedom of the press and speech is, but it isn’t the one we’d all understood it to constitutionally be.

State media is not freedom of the press.

Somebody set us up the bomb!

People who say "you can't possibly read everything you cite" are saying a lot about themselves, IMO.

It doesn't have to be a heavy lift. I spend about half an hour a day processing new-to-me papers by organizing them in my reference managers & adding topical tags so I can create bibliographies.

Leadership is hard, but is entirely learnable.

NEW: Despite falling crime rates, leaders at a nonprofit argued Dallas was descending into anarchy to sell voters on increasing police.

Some residents now fear the push could be used as a playbook for other cities.

Vaccines are safe and effective.

Autism isn't caused by vaccines, and autistic people and their families deserve our support.

When you want information, ask your doctor.

It's more important than ever for all of us to speak plainly, truthfully, and directly about public health.

They cannot talk about the shutdown without lying.

There is no connection between troop payments and federal employee layoffs. Zero.

They are paying the troops with multiyear R&D allocations within DOD. This is also illegal by the way! But completely disconnected to the layoffs.

On This Day in History: October 11, 1987
Two hundred thousand marched in Washington for lesbian and gay civil rights. The AIDS Memorial Quilt was displayed on the National Mall for the first time, and the day helped seed National Coming Out Day.

And...hybrid installation of solar on croplands increases yields.

~40% of the ENTIRE corn crop of the US is used to make ethanol. This gets blended with gasoline to power well under 10% of our vehicle miles. If we converted 100% of our vehicles to EVs installing solar on a small fraction of the land this corn is grown on would power them all.

Seriously ethanol is a scam

"Billionaires are dangerous. We should tax them until they aren’t. "

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

Why bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?

ATTN: PA VOTERS

🚨IMPORTANT🚨

VOTE YES TO RETAIN 💥DEM MAJORITY 💥 PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
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‼️If using mail in ballots, the Supreme Court Justices are
located on the flip side.

‼️In the voting booth, they will be located at the bottom of the screen.

I've had this experience too when hallucinated bibliographies cite to me - the entries are so much the least surprising prediction that I'm not sure for a minute whether I wrote the damn thing or not.

As someone who has been active online since the early 80s, I really appreciate this essay deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_o...

one will soon sink, unrecorded, in the sea

Six of my novels and an anthology I have a story in are part of the Anthropic settlement. I just filed my claim. It's easy, they have all the information you need to do it.

You can find the lookup here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

We can remember Goodall’s accomplishments and legacy while recognizing that National Geographic created a narrative that erased the local people who contributed to her research. Her African colleagues deserve to be credited, not erased (10/10).

When we hear about a lone scientist who made groundbreaking discoveries on their own, it’s usually erasing the truth that science is a team sport, and field research builds on the local knowledge and expertise of the people that live there (8/10)

This moment from our latest episode with science writer @edyong209.bsky.social is 🔥

We asked Ed — how do we talk up the benefits of science in the face of government cuts? He told us that's the wrong approach. 🧪

Listen wherever, or watch on Spotify 👇

open.spotify.com/episode/7Evh...

And they have emailed parents to say they are not in lockdown but investigating a security incident

Second one in recent weeks