HULK BEEN PERFECTLY CLEAR!

"Bit stabby in the Senate today" - Brutus

I really hate being someone who understood forty years ago that this could happen, and has had to spend a lifetime watching it get closer to actually happening, while powerful people go "Nah, don't be daft..."

Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise "The War on Science," ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary war on science from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.

I see we're discussing 'academic freedom' and 'free speech' again. Therefore, I am obligated to, once more, share this piece www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...

How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies? Trump is wishing away the Iran War the way he did Covid. What happens when the market finally has to tell the truth?

As badly as the rich want to be lied to, the mess Trump has gotten him and us into will only be evaded by a miracle. That miracle would have to begin with the people who want to be lied to the most getting a grip and recognizing they’re the imaginary bridge under Trump, who walked us off a cliff.

There is a tension between the uni critical view that university exists to produce day one work ready graduates who should be experts in [dice roll] AI and the uni critical view that it exists as a debate club where [dice roll] engineering students should be shocked and offended on a daily basis.

A tension resolved by knowing that, somewhere out there, a whole bunch of management consultants and professional contrarians are attending dinner-parties with journalists and politicians, and together inventing a whole world that only lives inside their heads.

They all went to Oxbridge, of course.

One of the things I most resent about this is that I know it to be a deliberate strategy by Netanyahu, he does not want Jewish people to feel safe living outside Israel. And it’s working, global antisemitism is rising. The antisemites are making his point for him.

This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.

It’s like a patient dying in a hospital bed and the doctor stealing their jewellery instead of saving their life.

Murray and Pierre return to the lab after an evening out to find a blue glow emanating from the aparatus

On this day, 20th April 1902 Marie Skłodowska Curie and husband Pierre successfully isolated one tenth of a gram of Radium, the first sample of a radioactive element, from 8 tons of pitchblende.
Artist: Frank Hampson
‘Madam Curie’ (1970)

Again, fascinating that in his defence here he says "look, we knew it was a bad system to announce ambassadors without vetting them so we changed it. We did however do it for a bit, as well."

*Well! Jailbroken Criminal Grok seems like a really handy chatbot to know

medium.com/@JimTheAIWhi...

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

how is this literally happening in real life

One more preemptive strike will heal me... Just one more preemptive strike bro... I swear I'm good after just let me do one more preemptive strike and I promise I'm good dude

And universities will be punished if their students, who are grown adults with political rights, dare to do something about this.

Universities should be places of education, not cash-machines for bigots. Go spew your racist venom on a street-corner somewhere.

while @jamellebouie.net isn’t wrong to note that this sounds like warmed over David Duke ca 1990, it is also very much vintage Peter Thiel circa 1988. these arguments were circulating in the debate over Stanford’s western culture program, a debate Thiel lost.

he’s been bent on vengeance ever since.

This is the inevitable endpoint of one of the truly unifying political projects of the 2010s: ensuring that comically bigoted far right crackpots should decide what is and is not racist, a thing almost the entire political/class bent their will towards.

Britain once stood against fascism. Decisively, courageously, without hesitation. Today, we face a modern form of the same hatred, often disguised as activism, sometimes cloaked in progressive language, but no less dangerous. And yet, it is allowed to fester. We see it on the far left. The poisonous legacy of figures like Jeremy Corbyn and the unhinged rhetoric of George Galloway We were told that era was over. It is not. It has simply evolved, found new platforms new voices, new excuses. And the government looks away. This is not just incompetence. It is a profound failure of judgement. Because leadership means drawing lines. It means enforcing standards. It means defending the values you claim to uphold. Tolerance. Fairness. The right to live without fear.

Every day, another fresh turd is pushed through the national letterbox

Post by @CNN.com: Lightning, a running robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, finished a 21-kilometer (13 mile) run in Beijing in a stunning 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes.

Bugs Bunny meme: I WISH ALL robotics engineers A VERY one day hunted through the forest and killed by the very model of military robot you helped to develop

NYTimes story on robot winning a half-marathon: “While the approximately 5-foot-5 Lightning crashed into a barricade and fell during its final stretch, it was able to pick itself back up with help from humans, swing its short forearms to rebalance, and stride across the finish line in 50 minutes, 26 seconds, according to the state-run China Daily.”

That’s not “picking itself back up,” New York Times

The one man who could keep Starmer in his job.

The post-Dearing project failed – not because it was implemented badly, although it was; not because it was underfunded, although it was. It failed because its mechanics were broken from the start. Like a badly-wired plug, it operated, but the longer it did so, the more likely it would spark. The current financial state of the sector suggests that, somewhere, the fire has already begun. English higher education has demonstrated that it has the power to change lives, enhance communities, spread prosperity, and stimulate transformation. But everywhere those benefits are achieved, it is in spite of the state/HE nexus, not because of it; driven by the altruism of public service, not the advancement of private interest.

"successive governments have attempted to manage the system through a single mechanism: student choice driving competition between providers. This mechanism has failed, by every metric its architects set for it, and its failure is structural, not incidental."

#UKHE post18.co.uk/blood-debt-t...

Reject it. Reject it whenever and wherever it emerges. Anti-modernity is conservatism, and conservatism is fascism. Anyone who sells you a vision of the Idyllic Before Times seeks to enslave you.

anti-trans, anti-gmo, anti-vax, anti technology especially with regard to health are generally just eugenicists in denial, angry at those who would play god by not letting the weak die or others improve their material conditions.

The appeal to "nature" is the siren song of fascism. It is the insidious lie of the so-called "transcendent" order that seeks to place humanity in its demented thrall, the idea that our desire and need to shape our world and our selves, which itself springs from nature, is somehow not "nature"

It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.

And antisemitism has always only benefited Netanyahu, which makes this stupid in addition to also being immoral