Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Why Yale’s term paper on what’s wrong with college gets a ‘D-’ | Will Bunch An Ivy League university's report on the loss of faith in higher ed ignores what really killed the American Dream of college.

That Yale report on what's wrong with U.S. college saw some trees (high cost, unfair admission, etc.) but missed the forest: the 60-year right-wing crusade to undermine higher ed, from slashing budgets to stifling speech

How to really fix college. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/yale...

The Supreme Court long relied on careful, time-tested procedures to issue decisions. But secret memos by the justices, obtained by The New York Times, show how the court decided to bypass those procedures and create its modern “shadow docket.” See key takeaways: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

6. No devices with you (or at least available) while exercising, walking etc. is such an easy win but so easy to fall out of the habit of doing

Elite higher ed has many problems, but the key factor driving down trust is political. Look at the graph - backlash against costs, admissions, etc. can't explain the changes we see. We should still reform our institutions and refocus on our core mission, but blindly blaming ourselves is abuser logic

It's worth engaging w/ the first contention of the Yale Committee Report: universities aggressively adopting personalized pricing has significantly reduced trust in higher ed: president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

This number is striking: half of Americans think college costs are the same for everyone

Families across the U.S. are getting college acceptance letters — and tuition bills NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with economist Judith Scott-Clayton about the cost of college in the U.S. They discuss the difference between sticker and net price and the opaqueness of tuition costs.

I just listened to an extended NPR interview w an education economist about 40 yrs of rising college tuition & student debt, and not a single mention that 40 yrs ago was about the time all states cut higher education budgets, privatized tuition, in order to pay for tax cuts and prisons

Why Hospital Policies Matter in States That Ban Abortion Our first-of-its-kind data analysis found that a seismic split emerged in how medical institutions in Texas' two largest metro areas, Houston and Dallas, treated miscarrying patients — and in their ou...

women are suffering complications from miscarriages dues to Texas' extreme abortion restrictions: www.propublica.org/article/texa...

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

The Biden administration led the U.S. auto industry towards strategies centered on EV innovation and competition.

The Trump administration led them to unwind those & pivot back to gas.

Then, admin policies caused gas prices to inflate.

Now, demand for EV autos is 🔥 🔥🔥 and China is reaping $$$

🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences.

Steps to counter this are in motion.

If you
- have an SBE proposal under review
- serve on an SBE grant panel

You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2

Side hatch of Integrity is open! And very shiny, it's saturating the camera

“The Alarm Bell”: Arizona’s Drop in SNAP Participation Signals Potential Nationwide Impact of Trump Legislation Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act imposes stricter food stamp work requirements and shifts a larger share of the costs to states. Arizona’s swift implementation has made it more difficult to apply an...

People who study social policy have been warning that the One Big Beautiful Bill is going to be an absolute disaster for rely on the safety net, and these numbers are the canary in the coal mine
www.propublica.org/article/ariz...

A screenshot of the Youtube live stream of the Artemis Two mission, it shows the Artemis 2 craft on the far left lit by the sun, and in the middle of a completely black background is Earth, looming fairly large half shadowed, with the brightly lit part showing blue ocean interlaced white clouds

hey kids

you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission

it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big*

they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight

www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

Caveat that I haven’t read the study, but that magnitude is *enormous* and I would be shocked if these findings are reproducible

The Ethical Implications of AI in Surgical Training and Practice YouTube video by HMS Center for Bioethics

Next was a thought-provoking panel on the ethical implications of AI in surgical training and practice at Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics with Theresa Williamson, @daniellebitterman.bsky.social, Rohaid Ali, and Krystle Tuaño www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx7U... (4/5)

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning..

We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance.

And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use!

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How many homepages that were never ever going to change are now updated thanks to vibe coding? ✋

“The optimistic timeline is that we are one step past human capabilities, and that means that there is a huge but finite pool of flaws that can be found and fixed,” Stamos told me. “The pessimistic timeline is that with every release there will be new classes of flaws we never even imagined. It’s hard to predict, because we are trying to model superhuman thinking.”

Anthropic's Mythos model represents a dangerous new moment for cybersecurity. Experts tell me that hackers and nation states may catch up within months — and that the cat-and-mouse game between attacker and defender is about to become much more high-stakes www.platformer.news/anthropic-my...

Sincerely hope this works!

And I'm old enough to remember Nawaz Sharif's (Shehbaz Sharif's brother) term as PM and the all-too brief period of cordiality and goodwill between India and Pakistan ..

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Iranians Voice Shock and Defiance in Face of Trump’s Looming Deadline

Dear GOP Senators and Congressmen, and Members of the Joint Chiefs:

Would it be okay with you if I listen in when your grandchildren ask you someday why you did and said nothing on April 7, 2026?

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

As someone who studies responsible AI, the most concerning things in the @newyorker.com piece on Sam Altman are about AI safety

AI safety should be part of corporate governance. We need standards for AI alignment, and push for transparency, reporting and audits

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Health Care Workers Are Reshaping the US Labor Market Fresh data on the US labor market and new research from the Federal Reserve suggest that the conventional wisdom around employment growth being sluggish is wrong. Rather than healthcare being the only...

Me in @opinion.bloomberg.com: If:

-the labor force isn’t growing
-healthcare adds at least a couple hundred thousand jobs a year

then:

-non-healthcare industries (85% of the labor market) have to be constantly shedding a modest number of jobs

www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Good read about the low quality of Anthropic's AI generated code and how much cruft is building up. Also, this is weird: "detecting user frustration with: /\b(wtf|shit|fuck|horrible|awful|terrible)\b/ Pattern matching for sentiment analysis. At an LLM company."

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour.

The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

Solicitor general: “It’s a new world."
Chief Justice: "It's a new world. It's the same Constitution."

BEST Supreme Court Exchange Ever!

A line graph showing awards over time at NSF's SBE. The line for this year, 2026, is extremely FLAT compared to prior years. By this time in 2025, 179 grants had been awarded. In 2021, it was 243. This year... 16.

NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Directorate has awarded only 16 grants since October.

No big budget cuts went through. No freeze. The courts have acted to keep funds flowing at every turn. The money just isn't going out.

Why...?

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source: grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
🟦🧠 #academicsky