a man wearing a baseball cap is standing in front of a blackboard . ALT: a man wearing a baseball cap is standing in front of a blackboard .

Trump: I'm rolling back progress towards oil dependence. Make oil great again!

Also Trump: I have now disrupted a significant portion of our oil supply!

a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills ALT: a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills

In the past just the fact the President publishes official government communication via a distribution platform he owns and makes money off of (Truth Social) would be scandalous.

Now all the more heinous scandals make that one seem tame. And that's partly the point

What are we doing as a society?

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I only trust using it in domains where I'm an expert already. I can scan through the output and understand what's going on

But, Claude's Opus flags prompts to generate code even when it has to do with benign biology/chem.

I think it's cool people are getting interested in this stuff. But there is some slippery slope stuff here which means access needs to be gated in some way. I Just wish they also had a way for verified scientists to bypass some of the restrictions.

People on X making really apparent why Anthropic is so strict about blocking science related content in its latest models.

(e.g. "Claude helped me set up a lab in my basement")

Which sucks for scientists with access to proper facilities who would benefit greatly from using these models.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

That the president of the United States is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system!

Do we think Trump can beat Suharto in terms of most money stolen? He’s certainly giving it a good try.

Nominally independent media institutions celebrating press freedom by serving canapés to president fake news is some bleak, black comedy but the venue is chef’s kiss

It’s late; I’m not gonna do a whole thread about this (1/3, dammit) but “security clearance” and “classified” are executive-branch labels that should be understood to have exactly no purchase on the rest of the world, *especially* Congress.

A privately funded presidential bunker?

Agree
Did some lawns of this one too and it doesn't excrete into the air like this but does have fuzzy aerial mycelia.

Definitely threw away some Actinos early in grad school, thinking they were fungi.

Streptomycetes are weird

For a candidate that convinced his party he was their only chance of avoiding war... the signs the US is beginning to wage actual war on the world escalate

Tariffs
Threats
Maduro
Actual war
Changing Draft requirements
Talking to auto companies to transition a to war-time production footing
etc, etc

The SBIR program spans multiple agencies and hasn't existed since last year (e.g. zero NIH NOFOs). As a result many promising small businesses were never formed, have gone under, and more are still at risk even with this news.

It does not.

Looks like NIH staff is trying, but the earliest potential funding date is April 2027

The question is what happens to this year's funds since there have been no applications this year and the earliest potential application date is September. Likely too late for me 🤕.

As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

Trump post on truth social: "I am working very hard with our Great Speaker, Mike Johnson, along with Chairman Jim Jordan and Chairman Rick Crawford, to get a clean extension of FISA 702 through the House of Representatives this week. I am asking Republicans to UNIFY, and vote together on the test vote to bring a clean Bill to the floor. We need to stick together when this Bill comes before the House Rules Committee today to keep it CLEAN! When the Dirty Cop, James Comey, the failed Head of the FBI went after me, he was using FISA Title I, the Domestic Collection, not FISA 702, the Foreign Collection, which needs to be extended today. While parts of FISA were illegally and unfortunately used against me in the Democrats’ disgraceful Witch Hunt and Attack in the RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA Hoax, and perhaps would be used against me in the future, I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country! Our Military Patriots desperately need FISA 702, and it is one of the reasons we have had such tremendous SUCCESS on the battlefield. I have spoken with many in our Military who say FISA is necessary in order to protect our Troops overseas, as well as our people here at home, from the threat of Foreign Terror Attacks. It has already prevented MANY such Attacks, and it is very important that it remain in full force and effect. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP"

2021
Biden: Please wear a mask to prevent the spread of a deadly pathogen

MAGA: "NO 🤬"

2026
Trump: "I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country! "

MAGA: "Okey dokey"

My last interaction with law enforcement about my stolen identity (also local) a couple of years ago ended with Chicago PD saying not to expect them to do anything, complaining about the DA, me requesting they add to my existing or open a new report, and then them hanging up on me.

barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face . ALT: barack obama is sitting in a chair making a funny face .

Every 5 minutes my estimated bus arrival decreases by 1 minute. Currently it says 21 minutes. How long will it take me to get to work?

Never had to navigate an IRB but I'm pretty sure that's not only not how that works but it might also be unethical.

This chart is stunning.

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Finally some, hopefully, good news.

The SBIR Bill has been signed. Now we see what NIH will do.

Iran War Has Cost Estimated $25 Billion to $35 Billion, Expert Says The Iran war has cost between $25 billion and $35 billion, according to the latest assessment from Elaine McCusker, a top Pentagon budget official during the first Trump administration who has been [t...

I keep talking to small biotechs and academic labs who are on the brink of shutting down due to lack of funding from government (e.g. NIH) and venture.

It's getting depressing.

It was good