Tape 05 YouTube video by Boards of Canada

New track — "Tape 05" — from Boards of Canada.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bgh...

UCSD professors face discipline in connection with 2024 pro-Palestinian protest encampment One professor is looking at a possible suspension for two years without pay.

Two years later, UCSD admin is still going after two of my colleagues who were brave enough to stand up for their students, aiming to suspend them for 2 years! w/out pay. Its shameful and cowardly.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/04/12/u...

I finally know what people mean when they talk about late-stage capitalism.

Been listening to two Prewn albums on loop—System (2025) and Through the Window (2023). Highly recommended! Current favorite: "Don't Be Scared" on System.

No one is more effective on television than Pete Buttigieg.

We further conceptualize ‘algorithmic bias’ as a novel form of implicit prejudice—in which human prejudices are 'laundered' via the opacity of AI—and introduce the idea of a computational level of prejudice that interacts with systemic and individual levels of analysis.

This aged as well as it’s possible for anything to age.

Now’s a good time to remind service members that they can be prosecuted for following illegal orders.

theonion.com/no-blood-for...

So excited to share this excerpt, which also contains the first identifiable book typo! What a year for me to make that one in particular too lolol (iykyk)

File under: saying the quiet part out loud

I understand there are political and ethical reasons to prefer Claude over ChatGPT. But there's also the fact that ChatGPT talks to me like I'm a little baby, whereas Claude gives me emoji-less prose like I'm a grown-ass adult.

Inshallah.

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Funny how "learn to code" became "for the love of all that's holy, don't learn to code" basically overnight.

Ship of Theseus-ass post

This is what happens when tech bros bring their “go fast and break things” ethos to science. It’s a fundamental mismatch. (I’m assuming tech bros had a hand in this plan, because the plan is bad.)

(or maybe bombastic *engineering* being placed before useful science.)

I’ll take more space telescopes any day

Seems like it’s not even so much a safety issue, right? We’ve already launched lots of radioactive material. It’s bombastic science being placed before useful science.

But, not really knowing jack all, I have no clue how the conversion to electricity works on a little spaceship.

Yeah, ion thrusters are better for course correction and station-keeping, right? Maybe that’s why they think they need a full-on reactor.

Cool. Intuitively, it seems like a reactor would be more dangerous at launch than a nuclear-electric generator, but I just read that it’s the opposite because stuff that decays energetically enough to make electricity is worse if scattered during an accident.

Huh. I know we’ve launched spacecraft powered by radioactive decay. From what I’ve read, decay-based power systems are riskier than fission during launch because the former are always “always on.”

Looks like the design may use fission to generate electricity for an ion thruster?

Like, actually using fission to heat reaction mass?

To this I'll add

www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dN...

BREAKING: Fermi Paradox No Longer Paradoxical

I hate this so much.