This is lunacy.

how much money does the marine corps lose

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Over 40k people die a year due to cars in the US and that isn't even factoring in environmental damages. Instead of acknowledging the harm that cars cause to the populace cyclists continue to get demonized by people who can't even conceive of an infrastructure not centered around cars.

"RFK Jr. just wants to fight chronic disease!"

A startled ant looks down at a tiny woman, who says, "dude don't let Hopper take all da grains".

Me meeting an ant from A Bug's Life and giving some really good advice (I'm even smaller than ants).

I included this episode in my list of recommended listening for my Biology, Society, and Culture class last fall, great takedown of it

Right now, unfolding around us on a global scale, is a rich and unambiguous lesson on the dangers of fossil fuel dependence. The most obvious solution is for the affected countries to reduce their dependence through clean energy.

Are you seeing that message in media?

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

It's only going to get worse as we replace actual (police) work with AI.

Why developers using AI are working longer hours Studies find AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live

This feels like a helpful primer for understanding AI in general. It makes programmers more efficient on the front end because they can generate more code. But it makes them less efficient afterwards because it vastly increases the amount of time they spend tweaking and fixing bugs.

One of the main reasons I don't use AI is that you have to fact-check every single thing it gives you and by the time I do that, I could have just done the research myself.

It's Official: the Cybertruck is More Explosive than the Ford Pinto - FuelArc News We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to comp...

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold.

The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold.

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how does someone mow down a family of four, blame the car (no issue was found), transfer real estate to Nevada LLCs to avoid compensating the victims' families, and then walk away with nothing more than probation?

Many relationships went far deeper than the occasional cocktail-party photograph. Epstein and Kathryn Ruemmler, the White House counsel under President Barack Obama, swapped 11,300 emails from 2014 to 2019, with at least one direct message on 70% of days. Ariane de Rothschild, a banking billionaire, sent or received 5,500 emails; Larry Summers, a former treasury secretary, 4,300. In some cases Epstein grew close to family members: he was in touch with both Noam Chomsky, a linguist, and his wife, Valeria, and chatted with Soon-Yi Previn, Woody Allen’s wife, more than with Mr Allen himself.

I don't talk to anyone this much
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That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

[moistcriticial voice]: the 'trees see eclipses' situation is crazy

RFK Jr.’s Bizarre Trip With Epstein and Ghislaine Exposed in Files The trip took place on a Native reservation where collecting fossils without explicit tribal permission is considered looting.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

it’s a good day to be a Bari Weiss hater

you know what they always say: pedo wife, pedo life

new CBS contributor Peter Attia

(norman rockwell guy) i don't think we should replace human tutors with the lying robot that tells children to kill themselves

Mamdani shout out his wife in big speech When's the last time you made a statement about me

Zohran is already making Regular People's lives harder...

Honestly pretty shocking it was just 50% before the pandemic but falling by half in 5 years is horrifying

Picture of a wasp that has a black and white striped abdomen, white forelegs and black and white striped hind legs

Sericopimpla crenator - the Case Moth Larvae Parasite Wasp

One of the Ichneumon wasps, the female of this species will lay her eggs inside the case of a Case Moth caterpillar. Seen from n Perth Hills garden in late Dec

#ausinverts #wildoz #wasps #Hymenoptera #mothsmatter #inaturalist #invertefest

American Canto paperback cover

vigilantsycamore Dec 25, 2020 Ebenezer Scrooge: Goes outside 500 Muppets: There goes Mr Asshole! There Goes Mr Bitch!

still my favorite christmas post

How I fell into education reporting I knew nothing about education. I think that helped.

No it didn't, that isn't true.