My condolences. I was formerly in her district and am now fortunate enough to be in District 1.

Great article! Surprised you didn’t mention the outrage over “black Aragorn” in the LOTR Magic set though, knowing you’re a fan of that game too

Why are there countdown timers on the products again? Is that how long until the line is unpaused?

Should have had a chemist proofread this article… there are many cringe-worthy errors.

You should make that your new banner image

It really seems like she finds a way to have a bad take on almost anything

I did too! I remember my dad mentioning that a coworker of his was fired and the next time I saw said person I was confused that he seemed ok and there were no visible burn scars.

Oh, I also remember looking at an atlas from the 80s and my mom telling me that the Soviet Union wasn’t around anymore because it “broke up.” I interpreted this to mean that huge fissures had opened up across the country, literally breaking it up.

I visited Carlsbad Caverns with my parents when I was about 6. Saw a sign saying the entrance fee for children was $5. I didn’t personally have $5, so I thought my parents would have to leave me behind.

Reading the whole thread in context, she’s making the same point as you

Yes! Proud of my old school district. Huge result for a suburban area that normally leans red.

Here are the links to folks who are tracking grant cancellations at both NIH and NSF censoring science. This team is tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants:

NIH:
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NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

w/ @noamross.net

Welcome to Save The U.S. National Science Foundation A Girl Looking at a Physics Model TAKE ACTION Save NSF is a coalition of concerned scientists and allies who are working to save funding for scientific grants through the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our mission is to support and advocate for the continuation of vital research and innovation in various scientific fields. NSF funding is critical to this work. Join us in our endeavor to ensure a sustainable future for scientific exploration and discovery.

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!!

Has a take action toolkit with:

1. Press outreach templates
2. Social media toolkit
3. Elected official outreach
4. Talking points

Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come.

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Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

Never mind, that was a short break! Had to come back to follow the news about the NSF grant freezes. I’m currently paid through an NSF grant to continue my research until I find a job. I’ll update if I learn of any details that I’m allowed to share. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Think I’m going to take a break from social media for a week or two. Been spending more time scrolling than I would like.

I applauded his filibuster. But voting against these confirmations would be effortless, and be consistent with what he claimed to be standing up for in his speech, so why isn’t he? That’s what I find strange (and frankly, indefensible).

1) doesn’t matter, they should still vote no

2) there are absolutely negative consequences in that it validates and normalizes fascist oligarchs

3) I agree that there are much bigger problems, but this is such an easy thing they could get right that it’s weird and concerning that they aren’t.

Those “meaningless” cabinet votes are more of the same equivocating crap. It doesn’t matter if they’re going to pass without any Democratic support. What do Democrats possibly have to gain by voting to confirm fascists? It’s not wrong to expect better from them.

“the Herculean effort she put into winning the election.” Are you serious? The effort was half-assed at best. It was a campaign built on the futile act of attracting the so-called centrists and alienating the progressive base. The messaging was largely weak, confused, and uninspired.

Please

Don’t feel bad for him. He got what he deserved.

Thank you! I actually edited the page last month because it hadn’t been updated since before the 2024 election, and all the links were broken because the county changed its URL structure at some point. Couldn’t figure out how to fix that graphic though.

How is that so different from the US? We have FPTP almost everywhere too (besides some recent experiments with ranked choice in a couple states), and that’s largely why there’s no viable third parties here.

Hey, I didn’t know that, that’s funny though

I bet he’s staying with his cousin, Celeste Maloy.

3/ Also, I actually tried doing a part-time AI training job for some extra cash, and I immediately gave up on it because most of the so-called “experts” on the LLM I was assigned to train had no idea what they were doing and appeared to be actively making it worse.

2/ the vast majority of users are not like you and don’t have a solid educational background in what they’re asking about, and thus won’t correct it. So overall the errors that it is fed will outnumber the corrections, and it will probably just get worse in the future, not better.

1/ It doesn’t directly “learn” from user input. Within a single session it’s supposed to “remember” what you’ve told it, but once you close that tab it’ll be right back where it started. They do use user input to train new versions of it, but that’s not as helpful as you would think, since

No, that’s absolutely not how it works.