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Bravo New York!
Mayor Mamdani and NYPD Announces Fewest Murders, Shooting Incidents in Recorded History for First Three Months of the Year.
never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm
Christopher Penn wrote: Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
A different perspective.
Always helpful.
You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?
That’s how the internet was.
🫧 Smoke trapped in a bubble on water: surface tension, soap film physics and fluid mechanics in action
A chess edit where it's a war painting but chess pieces are photoshopped on top of the soldiers. The king says "u did great in the fight so I'll promote u." The pawn goes "really I'm gonna be a general?!" The king replies "no....my wife."
Tomgreg
I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...
Connect the dots
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
Charm: How Magnetic Personalities Shape Global Politics by Julia Sonnevend
The utilization—and weaponization—of charm in contemporary global politics.
Charm by Julia Sonnevend is now available in #paperback, with a new preface by the author!
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
#Sociology
Never forget that this what The Washington Post said when Noem was nominated.
DOJ's recent 6th Circuit filing misspelled:
Voters as “Votors”
Emergency as "Emeregency"
United States as "United Staes"
And, it included a non-party in the caption.
These are the people who want access to your sensitive voting records and who my team fights in court every day.
Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?
I made this monster of a chart to show the partisan split of the early/abs vote in the TX primary by age/race/gender.
You can see why Republicans must be worried about what they're seeing in the turnout data.
New Pre-Print:
www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...
We’re all familiar with having to practice a new skill to get better at it, but what really happens during practice? The answer, I propose, is reinforcement learning - specifically policy-gradient reinforcement learning.
Overview 🧵 below...
This aged well. Note the author.
If you are an elected official that opposes military strikes on Iran, the head of CBS News will clap back at you. Will be interesting to see if she does this for other objectors, or just Muslim politicians, but it does raise the question how much her views of the Middle East shape the news.
Musical ability and emotion recognition in speech prosody: The role of pitch discrimination link.springer.com/article/10.3... "Why does musical expertise predict enhanced emotion recognition in speech prosody? ...music training is an artifactual correlate of prosodic emotion recognition" 😮
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.
Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.
The military industrial complex is cheering today.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
The richest man owns X.
The second and third richest men control Google.
The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
why do nerds
suddenly appear
every time
I post here
"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
“As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says”
😕
Okay, but here is what is going to happen: mainstream candidates are going to win primaries, and if we say “vote blue no matter who,” people will accuse us of saying it as a secret trick to boost moderates. Establishing VBNMW NOW, before the primary, makes it clear the obligation is universal.
Moskowitz on Maria Bartiromo show's: "Americans voted to have people deported -- criminals and gang members -- they did not vote for people to be shot in the street by masked men. So I think Kristi Noem needs to go."
Yes! Let's have more discussion about the big things holding back neurosci so we can rally to find solutions.
I agree with @suthanalab.bsky.social that silos across species in both measures and the uptake of results into theories is on the "big problems" short list.
What do you see as solutions?
Really wonderful interview here about alternatives to capitalism. Mattei does a great job responding to a lot of centrist knee-jerk reactions here, and I think sounds really active on the ground in Oklahoma.
#econ
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
