Luke Yoquinto
@lukeyoquinto.bsky.social
yoquinto.com
Science writer/researcher
Books:
* Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
* Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
Science writer/researcher
Books:
* Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
* Longevity Hubs: Regional Innovation for Global Aging
Pinned
Unrelated, but this building looks like one of those 300-gallon water containers
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Unrelated, but this building looks like one of those 300-gallon water containers
my prediction? We'll see more of this Mr Beast-style governance. It's cheaper than actual policy and garners more publicity.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem handed $10,000 checks to more than 20 Houston TSA agents at George Bush Intercontinental Airport Thursday, thanking them for working through the 43-day-long government shutdown.
bit.ly/3LDBBAX
bit.ly/3LDBBAX
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
my prediction? We'll see more of this Mr Beast-style governance. It's cheaper than actual policy and garners more publicity.
always funny to realize you have a PPT slide show open that's been running for 15,000 minutes
November 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
always funny to realize you have a PPT slide show open that's been running for 15,000 minutes
I’ll say it again: It’s a generational opportunity for younger/outsider politicians who never had the chance to be (even indirectly) complicit in this scandal. Not because they’re necessarily good people; just because they’re too young to have been involved.
Donald Trump just called Lauren Boebert to ask her to remove her name from the petition to release the Epstein files.
She does not plan to do so.
She does not plan to do so.
November 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’ll say it again: It’s a generational opportunity for younger/outsider politicians who never had the chance to be (even indirectly) complicit in this scandal. Not because they’re necessarily good people; just because they’re too young to have been involved.
Sabre rattling is really just scabbard rattling
November 11, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Sabre rattling is really just scabbard rattling
Simple—you Search for Spock him. Turns out thru sheer force of will he uploaded his mind into the brain of, I want to say Q(?), and so we spend the whole movie with Q and M trying to put him into a new body that just so happens to belong to a younger/different actor. Bing bing boom
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Simple—you Search for Spock him. Turns out thru sheer force of will he uploaded his mind into the brain of, I want to say Q(?), and so we spend the whole movie with Q and M trying to put him into a new body that just so happens to belong to a younger/different actor. Bing bing boom
There is so much Gamma in Hulk comic books
there is so much Beta in (econometrics) books
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 AM
There is so much Gamma in Hulk comic books
Jealous of political systems that have votes of no confidence
November 10, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Jealous of political systems that have votes of no confidence
Inevitable, really, that the same people who claim to worry about population collapse also call for removing 1/3 of the population.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Inevitable, really, that the same people who claim to worry about population collapse also call for removing 1/3 of the population.
A side issue, but we need to have a conversation about people who use the word “human” like this. (Because they are wall-to-wall reductive thinkers with Big Ideas for the rest of us.)
November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
A side issue, but we need to have a conversation about people who use the word “human” like this. (Because they are wall-to-wall reductive thinkers with Big Ideas for the rest of us.)
Households in the 6-8 years prior to a dementia diagnosis wind up with HALF the household wealth compared to households w/o dementia. It's a huge effect and seriously underdiscussed. (Where the money goes, exactly, is still somewhat mysterious--explored here in my "leaky pipeline" diagram.)...
November 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Households in the 6-8 years prior to a dementia diagnosis wind up with HALF the household wealth compared to households w/o dementia. It's a huge effect and seriously underdiscussed. (Where the money goes, exactly, is still somewhat mysterious--explored here in my "leaky pipeline" diagram.)...
Speaking of Curtis Sliwa, if you've ever wondered what the deal was with "Red Angel Dragnet," the very strange Clash song about the Guardian Angels featuring weird line readings from Taxi Driver, here's a decent little writeup: faroutmagazine.co.uk/story-of-the...
The bizarre story of The Clash’s ‘Red Angel Dragnet’
Revisiting one of the most maligned tracks ever recorded by The Clash, 'Red Angel Dragnet', which combined a racially-motivated murder with 'Taxi Driver'.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Speaking of Curtis Sliwa, if you've ever wondered what the deal was with "Red Angel Dragnet," the very strange Clash song about the Guardian Angels featuring weird line readings from Taxi Driver, here's a decent little writeup: faroutmagazine.co.uk/story-of-the...
When you see that font you know these chairs are inside
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
When you see that font you know these chairs are inside
(applies to a lot of people this morning)
Their wet fingers are up to the wind
November 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
(applies to a lot of people this morning)
We need more cuts above age 65!! 65+ is a freaking 30-year (and more) age range! It is not useful!!! Gah!!!!
A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative.
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
We need more cuts above age 65!! 65+ is a freaking 30-year (and more) age range! It is not useful!!! Gah!!!!
Reposted by Luke Yoquinto
I'm not deep enough into this world to know whether the numbers they're touting represent a breakthrough, but there are other materials out there that can do this. The trick is whether they can do so profitably. So far the answer has been "no."
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm not deep enough into this world to know whether the numbers they're touting represent a breakthrough, but there are other materials out there that can do this. The trick is whether they can do so profitably. So far the answer has been "no."
For those of us craving some follow-up on this:
2 Massachusetts men are arrested in the weekend explosion at Harvard Medical School
2 Massachusetts men are arrested in the weekend explosion at Harvard Medical School
Authorities say they've arrested two Massachusetts men in connection with a weekend explosion at Harvard Medical School.
www.wbrc.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For those of us craving some follow-up on this:
Knowledgeable folks: is this a big deal or nah? @dechant.bsky.social @volts.wtf
www.openaccessgovernment.org/catalyst-bre...
www.openaccessgovernment.org/catalyst-bre...
Catalyst breakthrough turns CO2 into key ingredient for clean synthetic fuels
Researchers have developed a catalyst that transforms CO2 into CO, a building block for sustainable synthetic fuels such as e-fuels
www.openaccessgovernment.org
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Knowledgeable folks: is this a big deal or nah? @dechant.bsky.social @volts.wtf
www.openaccessgovernment.org/catalyst-bre...
www.openaccessgovernment.org/catalyst-bre...
Inextricable from the fact that there aren’t enough therapists, which is inextricable from the fact that therapists often have 6 figures of student debt (without surgeon-level paychecks), which is inextricable from the republican war on student debtors.
I had a 45 year old rideshare driver tell me recently that he uses AI for therapy.
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
I asked him which one. He said “Grok— I like the voice it uses, the tone doesn’t talk down to me like ChatGPT’s does.”
He bragged that he had a 4 hour “therapy session” talking to Grok.
Chat, are we cooked?
November 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Inextricable from the fact that there aren’t enough therapists, which is inextricable from the fact that therapists often have 6 figures of student debt (without surgeon-level paychecks), which is inextricable from the republican war on student debtors.
I don’t like the whole semiannual time change rigamarole, but I do like the extra hour of sleep we’ll get tonight. Suggestion: we simply “fall back” every night. After 12 days we simply switch am for pm and bing bong boom we’re right back where we started.
November 2, 2025 at 1:43 AM
I don’t like the whole semiannual time change rigamarole, but I do like the extra hour of sleep we’ll get tonight. Suggestion: we simply “fall back” every night. After 12 days we simply switch am for pm and bing bong boom we’re right back where we started.
This is great; also, it’s increasingly ridiculous to do a 65+ cutoff in these kinds of polls. At least do a 65-75, 75-85, 85+. I bet you’d see interesting differences among these groups. (My hunch is 75-85 might actually have the max turnout.)
Maybe it was way more than seven million? "8% of Americans say they participated in a No Kings protest on October 18."
p.s. Older people are really showing up.
p.s. Older people are really showing up.
November 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This is great; also, it’s increasingly ridiculous to do a 65+ cutoff in these kinds of polls. At least do a 65-75, 75-85, 85+. I bet you’d see interesting differences among these groups. (My hunch is 75-85 might actually have the max turnout.)
Low bar, but honestly encouraging that he appears to actually want to reopen the govt.
President Trump is pushing Senate Republicans to abolish the 60-vote filibuster rule in order to reopen the shuttered government without Democratic votes, but his own party is resistant.
Trump's push to nuke the Senate filibuster hits immediate Republican resistance
In a pair of late-night posts, Trump told Senate Republicans to use the "nuclear option" to eliminate the 60-vote threshold and pass a government funding bill without Democrats.
nbcnews.to
October 31, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Low bar, but honestly encouraging that he appears to actually want to reopen the govt.
There are tears streaming from my eyes idk why this is so funny
I was searching for French reaction videos to the Louvre heist and found this guy’s fantastically demented dog
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 PM
There are tears streaming from my eyes idk why this is so funny
It’s the “tranches” that are making my eyelid twitch
quite literally everything i hear about the economics of this feels insane, especially given the big issue of the tools not doing what boosters say they will do. so many details make me feel very not good!
October 31, 2025 at 3:43 PM
It’s the “tranches” that are making my eyelid twitch
Oh sure everybody likes “dressing up” for “Halloween” but curiously enough when I put on *my* favorite costume (Santa Claus) everyone’s suddenly got big opinions
October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Oh sure everybody likes “dressing up” for “Halloween” but curiously enough when I put on *my* favorite costume (Santa Claus) everyone’s suddenly got big opinions