The White House proposed a $5.6 billion cut to NASA's budget for 2027, including a $3.4 billion cut to the space agency's science unit
TAT: [Attacking science | Hollowing state]
Big, fat asterisk next to everyone's name who is promoted past Major in this period. The wages of racism and misogyny in uniform will be paid this time. There will be no nodding past this and hoping "professionalism" or "honor" sorts things out.
Surf combines Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and other content into customizable open feeds on the web. I’ve been using it and love it. Let’s bring back the open web!
btw some jumping spiders will remember the shapes of past predators and pass some of it on genetically but if the predator is too big they just can't register it as a threat because they have to scan their eyes to make one big image, and they run out of literal memory to store it in
I’m going to be there mid May for a few days, is it still going to be on somewhere?
Why?
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Your customer isn't a million people who use your app or even like other businesses who buy a subscription, it's some plute who will give you a million dollars for a 10% stake so they can say you're now worth 10 million dollars which means you're on a growth trajectory
A common techbro line right now is that nothing matters except building and shipping stuff fast, and this may sound crazy except that it makes perfect sense when you realize that they've never been selling software or even business acumen, they're selling vibes to VCs for the next raise
And in horrifying news, Idaho's governor has signed the felony bathroom ban, with 5 year penalties for second offense bathroom usage, into law.
This is the most significant criminalization of trans people to date.
On trans day of visibility no less.
It will require a new "Do not travel" warning.
I started covering this last year, and I can't overstate how important this is: the Trump administration officially labeled some of the most commonly-used forms of birth control as 'abortion' jessica.substack.com/i/173447780/...
For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
The hardest part of a three week war is the first two years.
I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage
That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me
CSS is DOOMed!
I've build DOOM in CSS and every wall, floor, barrel, and imp is a div, positioned in 3D space using CSS transforms.
cssdoom.wtf
Try it out! But... not every browser can handle it. This is taking the browser to its limit. Chrome has some issues. Safari too. Bugs will be filed.
I know, but I get screwed by the same system because users are mad if I ask for cash up front, and also mad if I offer a trial (because of these apps you’re referring to).
Finns have been watching smoke rise on the horizon from these attacks. They are so close, the targets literally still have Finnish names from when they were still part of Finland
As an indie dev who offers a trial period, it’s literally just me wanting to let people try the app and see if it’s for them or not
Pilot on my flight: “Air travel is not fun right now. Please be nice to each other. I don’t want to be on CNN. Let’s just go home.”
Another reason not to chuck humanities out the window. The lesson is unavoidable if you had any contact with fields that study how humans actually behave (literature included).
What’s noninclusive about “soldier”?
Anyone know when the term “warfighter” became a thing?
Sounds like a badly translated 80s video game
Two maps of Europe showing the outcome of emission control of SO2, NOx, and NH3 between 1990 and 2010 presented as maps on exceedance of critical loads of acidity. The acid rain and acidification problems were for all intents and purposes solved. From Maas and Grennfelt (2016), Via Grennfelt, P., Engleryd, A., Forsius, M. et al. Acid rain and air pollution: 50 years of progress in environmental science and policy. Ambio 49, 849–864 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-019-01244-4
Us 40+ year youngs may also recall the 80s talk about acid rain.
SO2 pollution was so severe that in places, sulphuric acid literally rained from the sky.
Killing plants and forests. Even stripping paint from cars.
But scientists sounded alarm, activists acted, and politicians regulated.
Behold:
Ghost on tosi hyvä!
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Iran has circulated a letter to member countries of the International Maritime Organization saying “non-hostile vessels” can transit the Strait of Hormuz “in co-ordination with Iranian authorities”.
Yep, I meant “out of touch like crypto”
I’ve been wondering whether, once this sinks in for everyone,
- people will get skittish and leave the stock market entirely
- people will stay and make increasingly nonsensical bets to the point that the stock market will be utterly out of touch with any on the ground reality, like crypto
As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...
removing the real, faltering trump from the news and replacing him with an imaginary trump of their own invention. more he falters, the more the imaginary reasonable trump shows up in the stories and especially the headlines