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Retroactive????
“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”
U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations
Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students
www.science.org
November 14, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Retroactive????
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How many professors haven’t advised a Chinese student in the previous 5 years?
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 AM
How many professors haven’t advised a Chinese student in the previous 5 years?
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It's time for MeThree
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
It's time for MeThree
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Not to vaguepost but I have an exclusive and *exciting scoop* about the university of Minnesota, the ongoing labor/negotiation issues, general shenanigans. DMs are open if you like to write about local issues and want the first details!
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Not to vaguepost but I have an exclusive and *exciting scoop* about the university of Minnesota, the ongoing labor/negotiation issues, general shenanigans. DMs are open if you like to write about local issues and want the first details!
I got to hear Blair Braverman talk today at a CLE and her 2019 tweet thread on dogs and body positivity is still something I think about from time to time.
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
This Woman Shared What Her Sled Dog Team Taught Her About Body Positivity, And It's Perfect
ALL 🐕 BODIES 🐕 ARE 🐕 DIFFERENT 🐕
www.buzzfeed.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I got to hear Blair Braverman talk today at a CLE and her 2019 tweet thread on dogs and body positivity is still something I think about from time to time.
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
I'm not going to check X to see if this is the complete thread, but the gist is still there www.buzzfeed.com/sydrobinson1...
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Le fait que Tigrane Khachatrian travaillait pour Trump devrait alerter, quand même. Son métier est scout de TRES jeunes filles russes.
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
November 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Le fait que Tigrane Khachatrian travaillait pour Trump devrait alerter, quand même. Son métier est scout de TRES jeunes filles russes.
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
Epstein à Daniel Siad : "tigran has the best taste next to you.. "
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Little Cover Girls Star in an Adult Reality (Published 2012)
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Wait a minute, you can't have spellcheck or autocorrect in Gmail anymore unless you grant Google access to use your entire account for training AI? Oh fuck no.
November 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Wait a minute, you can't have spellcheck or autocorrect in Gmail anymore unless you grant Google access to use your entire account for training AI? Oh fuck no.
The three options I was surveyed on this week were:
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
These new options make "Driven to Discover" sound like the work of Shakespeare...
Ski-U-Marketing: University of MN Shells out $15M for 'Vital' New Tagline Options - Racket
Plus right-wing prayer-mongering, 4-H kids in love, and a Deftones throwback in today's Flyover news roundup.
racketmn.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The three options I was surveyed on this week were:
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
Leave a Future
Unlearn Limits
Do Incredible
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The thing about the U is, however hard it’s sucking right now, if Walz faceplants the next administration will be phantasmagorically worse. I hate having the fate of my state lashed to a weakened third-term attempt but here we are.
November 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The thing about the U is, however hard it’s sucking right now, if Walz faceplants the next administration will be phantasmagorically worse. I hate having the fate of my state lashed to a weakened third-term attempt but here we are.
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Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).
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This is so instructive about the reality distortion field that happens at the NYT. People inside really can't see the difference in what gets covered, and how, and how the amount of emphasis/focus changes what a story *is*. The example of the panic over trans kids is such an instructive case.
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This is so instructive about the reality distortion field that happens at the NYT. People inside really can't see the difference in what gets covered, and how, and how the amount of emphasis/focus changes what a story *is*. The example of the panic over trans kids is such an instructive case.
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"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 AM
"Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein" is a phrase that first appeared in newspapers in March 2011 and appeared regularly from that point onward. it is INCONCEIVABLE to me that this many people were still associating with him!!
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I want someone to write an unauthorized biography of Larry Summers and title it MEDIOCRE WHITE MAN. He is the most listened to and promoted white guy who is consistently treated like a genius while being wildly wrong about nearly everything who isn't Elon Musk
Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I want someone to write an unauthorized biography of Larry Summers and title it MEDIOCRE WHITE MAN. He is the most listened to and promoted white guy who is consistently treated like a genius while being wildly wrong about nearly everything who isn't Elon Musk
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It’s so gross to see Wolff so chummy with Epstein, especially with his recent self righteous social media posts…
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It’s so gross to see Wolff so chummy with Epstein, especially with his recent self righteous social media posts…
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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👀 "And they won't be the last. My buddy, Lorin Stein, who runs the Paris Review [...] just went down [...] the playright Israel Horovitz--whacked. Big names on the horizon: Michael Douglas, Larry Gagosian, and still my favorite, Arthur Sulzberger." Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein, 12/11/2017
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
👀 "And they won't be the last. My buddy, Lorin Stein, who runs the Paris Review [...] just went down [...] the playright Israel Horovitz--whacked. Big names on the horizon: Michael Douglas, Larry Gagosian, and still my favorite, Arthur Sulzberger." Michael Wolff to Jeffrey Epstein, 12/11/2017
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So weird, I never thought I'd be sorry Ken Starr is dead.
November 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
So weird, I never thought I'd be sorry Ken Starr is dead.
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In 365 days from when Trump signs the bill, hemp-derived THC products such as gummies or beverages will become illegal. JFC.
$28 billion industry outlawed as Congress passes hemp THC ban
Nearly all hemp businesses in the U.S. are in mortal danger after Congress redefined hemp to outlaw hemp-derived THC.
mjbizdaily.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
In 365 days from when Trump signs the bill, hemp-derived THC products such as gummies or beverages will become illegal. JFC.
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Idk whether or how it’s possible to scale up marijuana (vs hemp) production in MN rapidly enough to save the THC edibles & beverages market here. But i will lose my damn mind if these fucks take away one of our only nice things
Congress Passes Bill To Recriminalize Hemp THC Products, Sending It To Trump's Desk - Marijuana Moment
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a Senate-passed spending bill that includes provisions to ban most consumable hemp products, sending it to President Donald Trump’s desk. Following a his...
www.marijuanamoment.net
November 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Idk whether or how it’s possible to scale up marijuana (vs hemp) production in MN rapidly enough to save the THC edibles & beverages market here. But i will lose my damn mind if these fucks take away one of our only nice things
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Seems like a massive deal to the state economy, to just destroy our THC beverage market
According to one estimate, it's a $200 million/year business! www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
For comparison, "snow activities contributed $238 million to MN's economy in 2023"
mn.gov/deed/newscen...
According to one estimate, it's a $200 million/year business! www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
For comparison, "snow activities contributed $238 million to MN's economy in 2023"
mn.gov/deed/newscen...
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Seems like a massive deal to the state economy, to just destroy our THC beverage market
According to one estimate, it's a $200 million/year business! www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
For comparison, "snow activities contributed $238 million to MN's economy in 2023"
mn.gov/deed/newscen...
According to one estimate, it's a $200 million/year business! www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
For comparison, "snow activities contributed $238 million to MN's economy in 2023"
mn.gov/deed/newscen...
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Is there a Twin Cities brewery that uses this font? It looks so familiar, but I am in nowhere exurban Pennsylvania
November 13, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Is there a Twin Cities brewery that uses this font? It looks so familiar, but I am in nowhere exurban Pennsylvania
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There’s a faint glow in Montrose but nothing impressive so far
November 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
There’s a faint glow in Montrose but nothing impressive so far
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At last: every American is getting to discover the joys of doing doc review.
(Can the Oversight committee load the trove up in a Relativity instance or something?)
(Can the Oversight committee load the trove up in a Relativity instance or something?)
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
At last: every American is getting to discover the joys of doing doc review.
(Can the Oversight committee load the trove up in a Relativity instance or something?)
(Can the Oversight committee load the trove up in a Relativity instance or something?)
Ah, he started it up 2 hours early!
Aurora visible right now in Ely MN: www.youtube.com/live/CevQg8I...
Live Dark Sky Views from Ely, MN
YouTube video by Larry Olson
www.youtube.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Ah, he started it up 2 hours early!