Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

If you are researcher or student in Latin America apply for our Biodiversity Genomics course in Colombia from 27th-31st July 2026 (10 days left for registration) biodiversitygenomicslatam.weebly.com

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake One of the most popular videos made about data centers ever is a complete moment-by-moment disaster

Folks, infrasound issues are fake. This was truly an insane experience to write and I hope you enjoy blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-ben...

composite photo of an eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) flying horizontally across the screen against a vegetation background. Below the bat is a spectrogram showing the bat's echolocation calls over time

Happy 🦇 day to the bats!

truly what would we do without them

composite photo of an eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) flying horizontally across the screen against a vegetation background. Below the bat is a spectrogram showing the bat's echolocation calls over time

Happy 🦇 day to the bats!

truly what would we do without them

Happy Bat Appreciation Day from your friends at BCI! 🦇

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

terrifyingly insightful

Tax Day is a reminder of America’s unequal tax system. But we can fix it | Zohran Mamdani, Gabriel Zucman and Joseph Stiglitz There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us

"There is no justification for a regressive system in which the super-rich contribute less than the rest of us," write @josephestiglitz.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, and @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

kinda funny how Republican voters are inarguably happier when a Dem is president. they don’t actually want to be in charge of shit, they want to roll coal and whip themselves into a frenzy over wholly imaginary liberal tyranny. now they’ve caught the car and it fuckin sucks

i bet this goes crazy if you’re a dumbass

This is why the US has not, at all, acknowledged covid as a mass death event, and part of why it refuses to acknowledge it is also an ongoing mass disabling event (with millions more grieving for the futures it made impossible to them)

what this article is *really* about is how too much of what we think of as "nature-based tourism" is another form of extractive settler colonialism. The author is Lenape, & is writing about the Appalachian Trail, which passes through Lenape traditional territory

it's a good & thought-provoking read

These are the words of white supremacists going back for centuries. The exact words with a different target each time.

Former Syracuse basketball player to be deported after more than a month in ICE custody

26 years old from South Sudan. He has been in the US since age 13, when he was recruited to the country for basketball.

Now being discarded as if he was human refuse.

Shame on Syracuse for not intervening.

www.syracuse.com/news/2026/04...

Documentato in puglia il primo Rinofolo minore albino d'Italia, allattava suo piccolo con pigmentazione normale.
Questo dettaglio rende la scoperta pugliese un unicum a livello mondiale.
🦇
A horseshoe albino bat lactating her non-albino pup filmed in a cave : The first sighting in Italy

If you don’t know about this, you need to read up. It’s the single bloodiest massacre in the history of Reconstruction, and it was perpetrated to overthrow the results of an election. It was emblematic of the sabotage of Reconstruction. And SCOTUS nullified the prosecution of those responsible.

It is genuinely surreal to watch both the U.S. and Britain decide to destroy their own world-renowned and extremely profitable university systems at the same time.

these motherfuckers said it would splashdown at 8:07 and it splashed down at 8:07. after going to the fucking moon. fucking a man. god damn

Still no fish in here, but hope springs eternal. #mammals

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Why your Whoop might tell you to up your testosterone Whoop hasn’t changed so much as health tech at large.

This week on Optimizer…

This is a thing that happened. To whom? You just have to read.

www.theverge.com/column/90973...

It’s an attractive premise, and it has saved lives. But as I wrote in my CGM feature earlier this week, fulfilling this wearable vision is often harder than it seems and can come at a high personal cost. And this wearable promise is starting to shift. Over the last year or so, I’ve noticed a new cycle emerging. Tell people using wearables will help them take control of their health. To do that more effectively, collect even more specific and specialized data. To make sense of this massive amount of data, inject AI into the process. To justify adding AI, hop on wellness trends and frame this as a more personalized way to take control of their health.

From there, the hype cycle evolves. To reinforce the previous feature cycle, reemphasize that wearable tech will not only help people take control of their health, it will help them live longer. To do that effectively, introduce new scores that predict lifespan and aging. To make sense of new scores, update AI bots to dispense generic health advice as a resource. To justify adding AI, remind them that this personalized experience holds the key to living a longer, healthier life. Rinse and repeat with a new wellness trend.

Gotta say, it’s really affirming to see someone who covers wearables as their job point this out. www.theverge.com/column/90973...

being a guy in a mostly woman office environment is the greatest gig in human history if they can just get over the "treat them like people" hurdle

2001 Pontiac Aztek

the Pontiac Aztek - which entered production in 2000 for the 2001 model year and was cancelled from the lineup in 2005 - lasted longer than the confederacy

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant