The number of NIH competitive awards is down 50% from 2025, and down ~70% from prior years. Even if they catch up by the end of the year, only wealthy institutions can bridge these huge funding gaps.They're killing science-and violating the constitution-by weaponizing the bureaucracy
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An ai prompt answering a question about strawberries
Finally, closure.
An ai prompt answering a question about strawberries
Finally, closure.
I'm always saying this
A valentine's day card with a picture of a pig with five legs.
AI boosters: LLMs will revolutionize everything
LLM that made this Valentine card my kid received: pigs have five legs right? Five sounds right. Let's go with five legs.
A pig like this, you don't draw all at once.
A screenshot of a Spotify auto-generated playlist purporting to show music from the 1980s with a cover photo of decidedly non-1980s musician Gustav host (presumably because there's an album recorded in the '80s of his music)
Love to sit down and jam to classic '80s musician Gustav Holst. Algorythms!
Backgrounded by the dulcet tones of laughing Blippis:
"Dad I can't see the TV!"
Try moving yourself or whatever is in the way.
"I moved and I still can't see!"
What's in the way?
"An 'unexpected playback error'"
(the video had cut out)
From the mouth of babes, {an unexpected playback error}
Don't trust dogs to carry glassware; the first rule of lab safety, and, the first rule of Lab safety.
A old advert that has the words What the heck is Electronic Mail? With a man looking very scared by a sparkling trail flying around his desk
The first two hours this morning
Is the oscillating tool I bought this year my favorite tool of the year? I go back and forth on it.
"At last, we have invented the False Vacation Memory Chip, from the classic Philip K. Dick story 'Don't Invent A False Vacation Memory Chip' (that's not how we recall the moral of the story anyway)"
A photograph of a board game board and a dice turned to 8, from the game "Key to the Kingdom"
Revisiting a classic from my childhood at my own kid's insistence, and I now (hours later) regretfully see why my parents never wanted to play this (they were thrilled to play games, just not this one: "it will take hours and we won't finish, and also it's 95% luck and what isn't luck is bad").
Working on a theory: #Andor is gnostic “Star Wars.”
It is the Gospel of St. Thomas of “Star Wars”, where the Force is inside us, and all around us, not in Jedi Temples of wood and stone.
The Force is our connection to others, and the fire that we fuel guiding others forward.
Hot take: pie from a windowsill
The GOP eyeing the economy like, "we've already had first Brexit, but what about *second* Brexit?"
There is of course one correct course of action with this unnecessary section of I-95: tear it down.
Very apropos that "centered" here is actually way off to the right side
A screenshot of Spotify shown playing John cage's famously silent song.
How the morning is going: trolled myself by accident playing "liked songs" on shuffle and spent a few minutes investigating why my headphones weren't working.
A screengrab from the season 5, episode 8 1993 episode of "the Simpsons" showing the titular character, Homer Simpson, realizing that money can be exchanged for goods and or services, making it a viable medium of exchange for the efficient trading of goods (and or services).
Thinking he's Keynes, when actually he's channeling another luminary from the distant path of 1993.
All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.
Pro: set my doorbell to "spooky sounds mode" for spooky season
Con: forgot I had done that and spooked myself.
Pro: FedEx actually rang the bell!
Con: neighbor's package.
Pro: nice to help a neighbor!
Con: also forgot to tell anyone else about spooky sounds mode
Pro: everyone spooked (gently)
This remains my explanation for why technology doesn't change between the High Republic / Acolyte era, and the sequel trilogy era, over centuries: capital tied up in exploited droid labor and nobility. Star Wars is science fiction that asks, "what if an entire galaxy never invented economics?"
*holding up a heavy chain* Outside agitators are bringing these dangerous items into the city. Just last night one of them was floating at the foot of my bed, waving this around, and warning me that the chains we forge in life weigh heavy on us in death. I assume he was talking about someone else
Have you considered semaphore?
A Lego hospital, with a patient on a bed and two doctors in attendance.
"Dr. Child, will the doctors be able to help the patient recover?"
"No dad, it's only a Lego city."
Me and, presumably, the patient: 😱
an alien walks thru a hallway
a spaceman and spacewoman making space dinner
2 gentlemen having a discussion
mr peepers takes a look
A movie no one ever talks about - it might not even be THAT good - but you still love it. filmsky 📽️🎬
Star Wars (1977)
fun Hidden Fortress remake with a scifi twist made by a still green George Lucas (his 3rd movie) A lesser Alec Guiness vehicle but Peter Cushing is great in this piece of 70s pulp