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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
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Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.
November 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Another person who started down this path from the most “innocuous” advertised uses of ChatGPT: homework help. I have been struck by the cases of people getting lost in delusions after using this product for work or school: ie the use cases we are supposed to encourage as faculty.
time for everyone's favorite annual tradition: getting pissed off about how much AGU registration costs, then looking up their executive compensation and getting even more pissed off. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
American Geophysical Union - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
projects.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
time for everyone's favorite annual tradition: getting pissed off about how much AGU registration costs, then looking up their executive compensation and getting even more pissed off. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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Hear that, centrists? Your plans to run on a platform of “we don’t have room in the big tent for trans people” went down in fucking FLAMES, MOTHERFUCKERS
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Hear that, centrists? Your plans to run on a platform of “we don’t have room in the big tent for trans people” went down in fucking FLAMES, MOTHERFUCKERS
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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man these people are committed to evil, what is even the point of having the word “evil” if not for this type of shit
The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email
November 2, 2025 at 11:23 PM
man these people are committed to evil, what is even the point of having the word “evil” if not for this type of shit
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This is why we can’t have nice things
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 2, 2025 at 4:35 AM
This is why we can’t have nice things
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For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
November 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves
2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros
2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers
2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers
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I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me
October 6, 2024 at 2:24 AM
I think this is the truest baseball tweet for me
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oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
![screenshot of a Justin Klugh tweet from October 28, 2015:
JOE BUCK: Welcome to the top of the 47th
[Sun rises]
[Sun keeps getting bigger]
BUCK: yes
[World engulfed by flames]
BUCK: oh god yes](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2bjwvguncd35fna7ruckjtw/bafkreiczbp37nmuosnvgyrbv3nfdxupczam3ezjeri5cpio36htjuyiisy@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 5:25 AM
oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight
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If you have home plate seats at the World Series and they catch your ass dinking around on your phone back there a big claw game thing should come down and pluck you up and out by the head.
October 28, 2025 at 1:30 AM
If you have home plate seats at the World Series and they catch your ass dinking around on your phone back there a big claw game thing should come down and pluck you up and out by the head.
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I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is.
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
October 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I did! A good paper, but an even more essential one is Gambetta/Origgi on Italian academia and the preference for low-quality work. Literally everybody I know who has read this and has experience in China has remarked on how useful it is.
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
diegogambetta.org/wp-content/u...
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this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me
Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Exclusive: Stardust Solutions Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar Geoengineering System by 2030
A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize s...
heatmap.news
October 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
this question being led by a private firm (and potential privatization of rollout) is a worst case scenario if you ask me
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When TEA took over Houston schools, they replaced some of the school libraries with "detention centers" and funneled state money to their own businesses.
These state takeovers are utter crap, orchestrated by deeply disingenuous people, and Texans should fight back against this naked oppression.
These state takeovers are utter crap, orchestrated by deeply disingenuous people, and Texans should fight back against this naked oppression.
The Texas Education Agency is taking over Fort Worth ISD. It's the second-biggest district takeover in the state's history.
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...
www.star-telegram.com/news/local/e...
State will take over Fort Worth ISD, replace school board, commissioner says
Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced the takeover Thursday morning, which comes after one school received five straight F ratings.
www.star-telegram.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
When TEA took over Houston schools, they replaced some of the school libraries with "detention centers" and funneled state money to their own businesses.
These state takeovers are utter crap, orchestrated by deeply disingenuous people, and Texans should fight back against this naked oppression.
These state takeovers are utter crap, orchestrated by deeply disingenuous people, and Texans should fight back against this naked oppression.
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!
Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disaster dataset is back and now at @climatecentral.org!
Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
Through the first half of 2025, there were 14 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters across the United States, costing $101.4 billion. 1/2
www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
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Honestly, yes, one of the most personally embarrassing things is how a field so committed to parsing imaginary status distinctions suddenly cannot see that they’re pitching themselves as The University of Phoenix.
This feels like it should be so deeply obvious, and I don’t understand how an entire class of institutions obsessed with signaling prestige have not caught onto the fact that, e.g., one major way people now signal wealth is by their ability to consume and collect physical media.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Honestly, yes, one of the most personally embarrassing things is how a field so committed to parsing imaginary status distinctions suddenly cannot see that they’re pitching themselves as The University of Phoenix.
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Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702
Apply - Interfolio
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October 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702
Check out this new open access paper in Marine Geology reviewing all the cool things we learned drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater on IODP expedition 364: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
From impact to extinction to recovery: Discoveries of IODP-ICDP Expedition 364 to the Chicxulub impact structure
In 2016, International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 364, with support from the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program, drilled in…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Check out this new open access paper in Marine Geology reviewing all the cool things we learned drilling the Chicxulub Impact Crater on IODP expedition 364: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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“The water situation in South Texas is about as dire as I’ve ever seen it,” said Mike Howard, chief executive of Howard Energy Partners, a private energy company that owns several facilities in Corpus Christi. “It has all the energy in the world, and it doesn’t have water.”
Exxon and Tesla.
Exxon and Tesla.
This Texas Town Is an Energy Powerhouse. It’s Running Out of Water.
A severe drought has Corpus Christi scrambling to meet growing demand from companies like Exxon and Tesla that have invested billions of dollars in the region.
www.wsj.com
October 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“The water situation in South Texas is about as dire as I’ve ever seen it,” said Mike Howard, chief executive of Howard Energy Partners, a private energy company that owns several facilities in Corpus Christi. “It has all the energy in the world, and it doesn’t have water.”
Exxon and Tesla.
Exxon and Tesla.
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Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Courtesy of colleagues at Penn
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Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702
Apply - Interfolio
{{$ctrl.$state.data.pageTitle}} - Apply - Interfolio
apply.interfolio.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Happy #FossilFriday, the University of Texas is hiring two curators/non-TT professors for our Vertebrate and Non-vertebrate Paleontology Labs: apply.interfolio.com/175702
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that's why it's the best sport
baseball can turn on astounding feats of athleticism and "oh no that guy just drove up the off ramp" in equal measure
October 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
that's why it's the best sport