Artemis ii

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

Love a good scorpion kick save (h/t @willempa.bsky.social)

A protestor holds a sign saying “Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer Put The Felon In The Slammer,” a reference to UA’s victory chant, at Railroad Park in Birmingham, Alabama on March 28, 2026 for a “No Kings” protest.

Via Solomon Crenshaw Jr.: A protestor holds a sign saying “Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer Put The Felon In The Slammer,” a reference to UA’s victory chant, at Railroad Park in Birmingham, Alabama on March 28, 2026 for a “No Kings” protest.

a sign at a thrift store of dubious morals that reads “queen size bottoms”

*not* to be confused with size queen bottoms

Preceding thread recommended.

My local industrial gas supplier also wanted people to know this recently

i think we entered the bad timeline in 2013 when the miami dolphins took the helmet off their little dolphin in the logo

The Maxx is so good, it STILL feels ahead of its time in 2026. Absolutely gutted to hear about Kieth. We keep losing comic book legends and it breaks my heart.

rip robert mueller you taught me it was okay to do nothing when faced with the most consequential task of my life

laminated flyer pushpinned to a community board. we see a photo of a coyote, and the text reads: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DOG? [photo of a coyote] DUMMY THAT'S A COYOTE. OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO???: —NO ACTION REQUIRED —IT IS WILDLIFE IN THE WILD (!) -HERE TO EAT DELICIOUS RODENT -LET HER COOK —NOT INTERESTED IN YOU, LOL GET OVER YOURSELF BABE;) —KEEP DOGS ON LEASH AND CATS INDOORS -(LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING ANYWAY) —YOTE IS A RESPECTED NEIGHBOR AND CRITTER CONTROL PROFESSIONAL

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

who up swanking like an heiress at blackpool

These Pernicious Gambling Apps Will Embed Themselves Deeper and Deeper Into Public Life, Disintegrating Social Trust In Unpredictable and Dangerous Ways vs. No It Won't

orange tabby cat with white legs, belly and sides lies curled at the based of a destroyed Roman pilar, just barely fitting in the shade cast during the early afternoon in Rome.

If you ever go visit Rome and go see the spot Caesar got got, it's a really great bonus that it's currently a sanctuary for feral cats like this one, who get to laze about in the crumbling remnants of a fallen empire. As we all do, these days.

D7200. May, 2024.

The rule for LLMs: Only use them in places where correctness doesn't matter or where the output can be checked for correctness automatically.

Having humans check MOSTLY right automated systems is the uncanny valley of automation that is a recipe for disaster.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

I just had virtually the same conversation with my nephew (humanities edition) - he’s graduating college in May and had wanted to go into academia but says it’s totally infeasible with so many departments not taking grad students and funding drying up.

We’re losing an entire generation of scholars.

an image of raphides, crytal needles. It says It's cause we are gettting stabbed by thousands of tiny needles called raphides!" to the right of that image is a photo of pineapple. on the right image is a sticker from The Onion of a guy whering a shirt that says "Sickos" looking through a window at the Raphides going "Yes ... ha ha ha ... Yes!"

Pineapples:

"To deter predation we've filled our bodies with countless crystal needles that will tear open the mouths of anything foolish enough to bite us, then with their mouth shredded, our flesh dissolving enzymes pour into the open wounds."

Humans:

"Jokes on You! We're into that Shit!"

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

Real patriots ride the train.

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Oscar Piastri has crashed out of the Australian Grand Prix*

*which does not start for thirty minutes

Twitter conversation between sj and Amarion: sj: Its true, the 1/3rd pounder burger failed in the US because ppl thought quarter pounders were bigger Amarion: Yeah cause they are???? sj: 1/3>1/4 .33> .25 Amarion: what are those signs

Wanna see the greatest tweet of all time

My idea to fix F1 is to just race Miatas the rest of the year

Dad’s home

Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.

What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.

Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.

People are missing the point in replying to this. Shes not a billionaire because she gives her money away to charity and help people ten times over.

But think about all the money she gives away TO help. She should have been one waaaaay before now

She is quite literally the billionaire that ISNT.

RTD has been paying contractor for rail service residents didn’t receive RTD did not specify how much it overpaid, under a complex contract, for services not delivered.

Denver residents could see train frequency double on the B and G lines from June 7 after RTD found it has been overpaying the private operator for service it wasn't providing