I don't think AI can handle the transdimensional portals and demons that come out each time a student mistunes the NMR so badly. We know the battles NMR facility managers fight to keep us safe from evil. Thank you. No AI can replace that.

A comma would be a good idea.

Canadian telecom company? Sounds like a Canadian telecom company.

I have a spreadsheet. It is overwhelmingly highlighted in red for not funded. But, it's the way it goes. Back into the fight. The only good thing is that by the time I learn that, the emotional weight of writing is long forgotten. It would hurt more if it was an immediate response after submission.

So THIS is how OpenAI will balance its books. By getting Americans to pay their taxes to OpenAI "by accident."

I'm with Aristotle by the way, there is no void. There's just places where the sterics are a bit less hysterical.

Ok. Done. Like really done for the night. And I haven't had anything to drink. But I am probably not sleeping enough and feeling pretty down and sick. So blame it on that.

It's time to go to bed. But first I need to finish this lecture on the mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix components and how they are emergent properties of molecular self-assembly, and how it all arises from...a complex interplay of sterics and electronics.

Like, I publish on this stuff. I think about it a lot. I read about it a lot. And I just get deeper and deeper into not really understanding how any of this really works. Eventually I'll be stuck, like physicists, with a single particle in a box mumbling about how this is generalizable to inifinity.

Maybe when I start randomly yelling "KINETICS! THERMODYNAMICS! I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE PATH! CAN SOMEONE SHOW ME THE PATH????" that'll be when?

Or is that just me trying to understand the anomeric effect again? It's hard to tell.

All bonds are good bonds.

I don't really know what a bond is, but I know one when I see it, and it is good. Because if it is not good, there is no bond. Thus spake I.

So on that front, it hasn't needed new science to generate GDP by finding new ways to disempower labour and steal money from the vulnerable to funnel up to a few super-wealthy jerks and economic parasites.

The complete disconnect of the morons in charge to connect the fact that technological innovation decoupled from scientific or social science or humanities progress is impossible, is just mindblowing. Then again, tech innovation for the past 20 years has been better ways to grift.

But then in the last 10 years, suddenly a fascism appeared and the populations got scared of all the new brown people, and we shut down the international student pipeline just as China ramped up its education quality and capacity. So that money disappeared and now what is a University for?

For a while, I think we all thought "hey! Taking this money from poor countries in the form of tuition is awesome! Universities make money! And in this NeoLiberal hellscape, that's all we need to worry about. Now, what's another tax for the wealthy I can cut?"

"As an English speaking country" I think finishes the conversation. The entire anglosphere is trying, really hard, to kill its scientific and scholarly enterprises as hard as it can. Who needs universities or research once we decide we don't want international students, and TECHNOLOGY is the future?

America: The discount police state where you collaborate with fascists for cheap!

I also want a car without a computer screen. My 2006 civic doesn't have a fully networked computer or tablet. I like it. It has buttons. Mechanical buttons. And no screen. I think it will be hard to get another car like that. So...I'll be driving it until it rusts out.