Japan’s Hometown Tax: Weird Wins Podcast Episode · Invent · 12/23/2025 · 9m

Watching Japanese legal drama. Judge's office buried in boxes.

"Hometown tax."

I look it up.

Japan lets you redirect taxes for gifts. $6.3B moving.

Made it fun instead of forced.

New Invent episode on how weird wins.

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WNBA Players Have Voted To Strike When Necessary According To WNBPA The WNBPA has come to a major decision this week (December 18th) as its members have overwhelmingly voted to authorize calling a strike 'when necessary' during

WNBA players are responsible for the league’s skyrocketing growth and popularity. Pay equity is LONG overdue for the players.

Solidarity with the WNBPA in their fight for a new contract. America’s unions stand with the players! https://bit.ly/3MPWYzB

Despair is the Enemy of Invention Podcast Episode · Invent · 12/05/2025 · 16m

Despair is the enemy of invention.
I looked at the climate data.
We bent the curve.

But everyone’s in despair because we didn’t solve it completely.

When you’re in despair, you can’t see what to invent next.

#technology #leadership 🧪
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their behaviors are fascinating - defintely warrant a highlight to the science friday audience

i have a friend who photographs birds including many of our local SF nuthatches - let me know and I can ask if he's willing to offer us some pics for the love of the nuthatches & science

Pygmy Nuthatch (Sitta pygmaea); Santa Fe National Forest, NM, Thompson Ridge [Lou Feltz] There are four species of nuthatches in North America. Only two are widespread: the White-breasted and the Red-breasted. This Pygmy is strictly a western bird, and the Brown-headed is restricted to th...

here's the photo link and the author if you want to context them >> www.flickr.com/photos/lvfel...

not my photo, downloaded off the internet but can look for one

@scifri.bsky.social left you a pygmy nuthatch nomination voicemail as well 😀📞👑

pygmy nuthatches - energetic, fearless, even while being tiny, super-smart (were flying in front if the kitchen window demanding their water bath be brought back), work as a team / fascinating social structure, super-cute & perky - did I mention they hang upside down? (The Presidio of San Francisco)

Tell Us! What's your favorite common bird and why? [Collage of common bird species: a sparrow, blue jay, chickadee, and a male and a female Northern cardinal]

Do you love robins, house sparrows, blue jays, or even geese? Tell us why we should love your fluffiest, sassiest, most underappreciated neighborhood bird, and we might share your comment on our show.🪿

Leave us a message at 1-877-4-SCIFRI.

pygmy nuthatches - energetic, fearless, even while being tiny, super-smart (were flying in front if the kitchen window demanding their water bath be brought back), work as a team / fascinating social structure, super-cute & perky - did I mention they hang upside down? (The Presidio of San Francisco)

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No Kings protests Bay Area: Crowds gather early at ICE building in San Francisco See latest updates on No Kings protests around the Bay Area and California. In San Francisco, protesters intend to create a human banner at Ocean Beach ahead of the main march to Civic Center.

Hundreds of protesters gather outside an S.F. ICE building early Saturday after immigrants received texts ordering them to check in with officials this weekend. Follow our live updates on demonstrations around the Bay Area and California.

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with…

NEW: The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission.

ProPublica heard from more than 150 researchers to understand the work that’s been lost.

reprocessing a quote from the Wired article and putting the reprocessed quote out of context in an authoritative-looking presentation (also, likely without a license for using Wired content in Google's new products/features)

now Google AI offers a new explanation that the made up idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" "might mean reflecting your own biases back in the context of research led by [a source in the Wired article]" >>

now google ai pulls in a portion of the article out of context to make up an explanation that "licking a badger twice" now means "reflecting biases back" highlighting it as a quote from a PhD researcher in Wired (also w/o licensing wired content for use in their new product/feature)

in case you were wondering >>

give a loose dog a surfboard and he will long for the sea >>

great @wired.com reporting @brianbarrett.bsky.social @katie-drummond.bsky.social

now google ai pulls in a portion of the wired article out of context to make up an explanation that "you can't lick a badger twice" now means reflecting biases back highlighting it as a quote from a PhD researcher in Wired (also w/o licensing wired content for use in a new product/feature)

"you can't lick a badger twice" means google ai will change its response once outed (or tricked into a new one - e.g. here garymarcus.substack.com/p/april-fool...) >>

"give a loose dog a surfboard and he will long for the sea"

Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.

Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics

https://go.nature.com/4jGqiUc

bravo & thank you!

‘Scientists will not be silenced’: thousands protest Trump research cuts Researchers at Stand Up for Science rallies voice defiance against the policies of US President Donald Trump’s administration.

The mood was defiant at many of the rallies, where chants of “Scientists will not be silenced”, “Facts over fear” and “What do we want? Peer review! When do we want it? Now!” were heard.


https://go.nature.com/3F8T6FX

Had a great time Standing up for Science in San Francisco today! @standupforscience.bsky.social

Feeling super inspired from the @standupforscience.bsky.social San Francisco rally 🥼🧬👩‍🔬🏛️ #standupforscience2025

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rally details. stand up for science 2025 - san francisco, ca. friday, march 7, 2025 from 1pm to 3pm PST, Civic Center Plaza, 335 McAllister Street, San Francisco, CA 94102

March tomorrow at Civic Center in San Francisco with the Stand Up for Science rally from 1pm to 3pm.

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