These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

Graham Platner has an ad tying Maine hospitals closing to "Big Pharma." As a person who follows health policy closely, I have no clue why and how he thinks Big Pharma is related to hospitals closing. No one with health policy expertise would say that's the cause of hospital closures. 1/ #mepolitics

Okay so why was I the only one in the theater tonight who gasped when Ryan Gosling ran a centrifuge with two tubes in the whole thing, sitting right next to each other? Sorry was I the only scientist in the film society theater tonight??

WHO’s New NPOC TB Test Could Transform Global Diagnosis Efforts Rapid near-point-of-care molecular tests using tongue swabs can help end TB, enabling diagnosis and treatment to begin within hours on the same day.

The amazing @drjudystone.bsky.social is out with a piece on a new test for TB that could make it easier to diagnose TB—and therefore to treat it faster and reduce transmission.

Lake Tahoe isn’t sure where it’s power will come from after the next ski season The area’s longtime power supplier, NV Energy, will cut off the region next year. It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

For the first time, professional women’s basketball players in the U.S. can make more than $1 million, and the average salary will be nearly $600,000 after the players’ union and the league agreed to a new CBA.

Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. Just Ask the Publishers Who Printed the Seventh Commandment as 'Thou Shalt Commit Adultery' in 1631 A new exhibition at Yale Library explores the history of typos across five centuries. Visitors will see corrections that were listed inside copies of works by James Joyce, Upton Sinclair and Nicolaus Copernicus

Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries. There’s the 1631 Bible that says “thou shalt commit adultery” but James Joyce resisted some of his corrections: “These are not misprints but beauties of my style hitherto undreamt of.” [smithsonianmag.com]

Photo of Alice Wong, disability rights activist and writer with a quote attributed to her for Women's History Month: "Advocacy is not just a task for charismatic individuals or high-profile community organizers. Advocacy is for all of us; advocacy is a way of life. It is a natural response to the injustices and inequality in the world."

Through her founding of the Disability Visibility Project, Alice Wong amplified the lived experiences and stories of people with disabilities.

In the wake of her passing last year, her advocacy continues to shape national conversations around accessibility and the rights of disabled people.

Black Rain and Health Fears After Strikes on Iran Fuel Depots

Oil has been a stated or unstated cause of recent wars, and many of the impacts come back to oil. We notice the growing gas prices but may not see the growing health harms in Iran, the region, or the military. We pay a heavy price for our reliance on fossil fuels.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/w...

🤯 what!?

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,,

Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

Flavor flav is wearing a blue basketball jersey, and a blue snoopy cap. his signature chains in team USA colors. He’s pointing to camera Right image: the women’s hockey team lines up to accept their gold medals A text bubble reads “but they accepted my invitation to celebrate in Vegas”

Excerpt from the daily mail 'People are so negative out there and they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing. 'Our relationship with them, over the course of being in the Athletes' Village, I think we are so tight with their group. 'After we won the gold medal, we were in the cafeteria at 3.30am in the morning with them and we go from there, pack our bags and we're on the bus. 'People are so negative about things. I think everyone in that locker room knows how much we support them, how proud we are of them and we know the same way we feel about them, they feel about us.'

Asked by the Daily Mail whether they are excited for their trip to meet Trump, Hughes added: 'Yeah, we're excited. Everything is so political. We're athletes. 'We're so proud to represent the US and when you get the chance to go to White House and meet the President, we're proud to be Americans and that's so patriotic. 'No matter what your views are, we're super excited to go to the White House tomorrow and be a part of that.'

Your hockey gold medal celebrations update:

Per Flavor Flav, the women’s team accepted his invitation to celebrate in Las Vegas.

In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Jack Hughes says he’s excited to visit Trump

“Yeah, we're excited. Everything is so political. We're athletes.”

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

People on Bluesky: “sPoRtS aReN’t PoLiTiCaL”

The United States men’s national hockey team: *parties in their dressing room with Kash Patel*

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

UNC-Chapel Hill Preps Policy on Recording Professors The school aims to clarify guidelines after a secret recording controversy and growing fear of surveillance.

UNC is close to finalizing its policy which outlines permissible circumstances to *SECRETLY RECORD FACULTY IN THE CLASSROOM.*

Faculty, students push University of Minnesota to denounce ICE and killing of alumnus Alex Pretti It illustrates the complex balancing act for colleges and universities in responding to ICE actions.

“It seems our university leaders cannot even say that it is wrong to murder a former student in broad daylight because some people might disagree,” geography professor Kate Derickson

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Memory is a fragile thing in this moment, so it is important to keep in mind that Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his caucus against ICE funding earlier this week.

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Signing_Of_The_Social_Security_Act.jpg

1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:

She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

The hell of being a target of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ A Maryland man from Colombia describes his journey from detainment to incarceration—and miraculous freedom.

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.”

This is Nick’s story.

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

NEW: After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area

Four million Americans live within 1 mile of a data center. The communities closest to them are “overwhelmingly” non-white.

capitalbnews.org/data-center-...

Dear [TEACHER], I want to make sure we're on the same page for the rest of the year, because I was surprised and disappointed to hear that you uploaded student projects to ChatGPT. We have always found [SCHOOL] to be a place that encourages students to express themselves creatively, to be responsible and aware of how their actions affect others, and to be intellectually honest – doing their own work, rather than copying from others. I know ChatGPT has been heavily marketed as an educational tool, but everything about it is the opposite of those values. AI tools are built by training models on stolen work. They have huge and terrible environmental costs, because their data centers generate enormous amounts of pollution and are cooled with drinking water. They're also incredibly dangerous: tools like ChatGPT have taught children how to start fires and even encouraged them to commit suicide. And in a classroom setting, it teaches students that a machine can express their ideas better than they can. I told [ CHILD ] I was interested in seeing what they had to draw, and my heart sank when they told me "but I can't draw that pretty." Children deserve to draw what they imagine. These environmental, ethical, and pedagogical concerns are why I don't want [ CHILD ] to use AI tools (or for you to use them on their behalf). For the same reasons, I respectfully ask that you stop using them in your classroom. If you do plan to use AI this year, please send home a permission slip requesting consent. There are important privacy concerns when you upload student work into a for-profit service like ChatGPT. Thank you, [ PARENT ]

I ended up drafting an email that didn't really lean on research specific to grade school education, but expressed my concerns in the most basic terms.

I removed the personal details and have shared it as a template here for folks who might find it useful:
bit.ly/TeacherEmail...