Dude, we just scienced so hard

"You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone."

Someone please send Andy Weir a copy of Meditations

On one hand, this is exactly the sort of answer you’d expect from an evangelical Christian.

On the other hand, it’s not great that someone with a circa-19th century idea that UFOs are literal demons is one heartbeat away from being president.

I think that this list could have been much, much worse. But it also could be much better. Renewables? EVs? Biotech? Health?

That's unfortunate, since the countries that lead in science today will lead the future. And I sure would like my country and my children's country to be one of those!

What these people do:
CEOs/execs: 9
Engineers: 3
Research scientists: 2
VCs: 2

What industries:
AI & Chips: 4
Computing: 3
Nuclear energy: 2
Consumer internet: 2
VCs: 2
Crypto: 1
Agriculture: 1

I don't think there's much sense in overanalyzing this list, This admin is so anti-science that I'd be surprised if this council affects much actual policy.

But this roster gives us a perfect look at what science and technology this admin thinks is important…

And have you seen their skin? Fractally pointy, it's pointy all the way down

Sharks are the bouba/kiki of fish. I firmly believe if they weren't so pointy, we wouldn't be afraid of them and treat them so badly.

We Caught Elon Musk's AI Company Flouting EPA Rules Using a Thermal Drone YouTube video by Floodlight News

xAI running unpermitted and massively polluting gas turbine generators at one of their new data centers?

Elon Musk's xAI?

Flouting EPA rules?!

Noooo… that can't be. Color me shocked!

youtu.be/KitUtjFllbg

It certainly is quite a time to do this science communication thing, isn’t it?

Listen to us talk about it!

it’s the porntipsguzzardo administration

SPOILER: Their overriding priority is not actually "securing the future of civilization." You'll never guess what it really is!

If the overriding priority really is "securing the future of civilization" then I thought of 20 things billionaires can do NOW right here on Earth instead of far-fetched Moon/Mars dreams

Folks, if we can't reach prosperity within our own planet's boundaries, we'll never do it anywhere else either

Look how hard it is for him to say no. He looks like he's sucking on a lemon just to get that word salad answer out

When it is this hard for the people in charge of our national health research infrastructure to tell the truth about easy and obvious things, we are in deep doo-doo

Journalists arrested. Protestors murdered by the state. Religious nationalists at every level.

This administration has been stunningly bold in their assault on our rights. Not even trampling on one of the deep cut amendments that no one remembers, they’re just coming right after number 1

So many incredible applications of AI are being overlooked by the world because a few companies are obsessed with building slop meme machines and chatbot tamagotchis

1.24

The 1st, 2nd, 4th are not hypothetical. They are inalienable.

Today will not be forgotten.

Everything I Thought I Knew About Flavor Was Wrong YouTube video by Be Smart

@pbs.org has had my whole heart since I was little little, so it is very surreal to be writing for a PBS Digital Studios show! Here is my first episode of Be Smart:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SBX...

Thank you @drjoehanson.bsky.social & team! My nose knowledge now knows no bounds 👃

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

If the hollow souls on the authoritarian right are so certain that agents are acting within their rights when detaining or killing US citizens, they should have no problem with this

Tough weekend to be a team that lost to us

So… every single word of this is now true. We are now in that world.

Sorry, Carl

Linda Perry from 4 Non Blondes wrote and produced Christina Aguilera’s hits “Candyman” and “Beautiful”

I feel like more people should know this

"Let me read/watch that for you" content is so tiresome and destructive to actual journalism

I think people sharing their connection and reaction to events can really help news penetrate society's numbed attention, but barfing up someone else's work and saying "look what I found" is C- mindset

Can you DM a link? I will report

I WANT TO BELIEVE (that people were making nuanced distinctions between little grays and slime-covered exoplanets, but I can't)

Alien Invasion! A MAN WHO ONCE worked for NASA is lecturing a couple of hundred normal-looking Americans in the exceedingly normal-looking ballroom of the Asheville, N.C., Radisson.

In 1996 only 48% of Americans thought aliens were real so things are going great 🫠 www.newsweek.com/alien-invasi...

In 1996, only 48% of Americans believed aliens were probably real. Things are not moving in the right direction! 🫠

www.newsweek.com/alien-invasi...