Cartoonish evil will always be with us. But we must change things so that people like this are typing whiny manifestos to each other, not running the world.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Back to work to save science funding! All you need to know about the FY2027 Budget Request The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science...

From Tori Bonidie and Skylar Grayson: The president’s budget requests for NASA and the NSF were released last week. We summarizes the major cuts and their impacts while providing resources to help fight back against this attack on science. ⚛️ 🔭 ☄️ 🧪
astrobites.org/2026/04/16/budget-request-fy2027/

Famous polyglot Dr. Kató Lomb said that fear of making mistakes is the main factor preventing people from becoming fluent in other languages. I suppose this also applies to programming languages as well. Students need to accept that making mistakes is not just fine, it's actually great for learning.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

This is what happens at concentration camps

It's pretty dumb to see people still going after the bluesky team about yesterday's outage over them using AI for coding, when this had all the signs of a DDOS attack.

I also have HUGE concerns about the use of AI in society & software, but shouting at someone for the wrong reason persuades nobody.

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “The mistake that I made, you know, from all the movies that we see growing up about heroes & villains — is that I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses — I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre, & just dumb the architects would be”

Unless someone has a genuine need, they should use public transport more often

Ranks of Disparity An interactive explainer and tool to understand ranking fairness, detect bias, and explore equitable outcomes using examples or your own data.

I just came across this cool tool: Ranks of Disparity vis.csh.ac.at/ranks-of-dis... which explores whether applications to a job or conference were evaluated fairly compared to others from different backgrounds.
It nicely illustrates why choosing the best candidates is not fair!

"And where it is least accord with the catholic faith is where he condemns the pope, bombs school kids, kidnaps people, rapes women and pretends to be Jesus"

Best of luck, Tessa!

What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity We CAN have nice things - if we want them

New, from me: American taxpayers will spend billions of hours and hundreds of billions of dollars — not to pay their taxes, but to report them to the government.
Thank Trump, who killed Direct File, a free tax high-quality reporting tool that IRS had built. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

What to know about Rice's whale, a rare species in the way of Trump's plans for more Gulf drilling Scientists fear that expanding oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico could push the giant mammal to extinction.

One of the world's rarest whales lives in only one place: the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to extinction.
https://to.pbs.org/4sUKB5a

"Another [student] noted that they would “avoid using LLMs when thinkingabout the science I want to do, otherwise what’s the point of writing a paper?”.

Perhaps there's hope after all.

"students expressed concerns about how LLM use
might dampen creativity and reflection during the research process" has been and remains my biggest concern too (aside from the awful ethics)

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

well, it's very specifically anti-science nonsense. not only does space science always end up with random shit that can be used to improve life on earth, NASA is really not that fucking expensive.

do you know how many space agencies you can fund with one week of iran war.

If they declare LLMs have a soul before they allow that dogs can go to heaven I am going to lose it so help me god

Post from Dale Partridge claiming nobody wants to live in diverse neighborhoods

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries.

Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

people "have money", in that they have income. but the number of people seriously burdened by their rent is the highest it's ever been. the cost of living is so much worse than it was a decade or two ago. I know multiple people making the most money they've ever made who are barely hanging on.

Look at the women at NASA.

They are the ones pushing the boundaries of science, solving problems most people can’t even understand, and carrying this country forward, while our politicians right now posture and stumble through talking points.

And they are doing it all with joy.👇

Elon hates NASA because its existence and success counters the myth that we need billionaires or a profit motivation to do cool things in space.

Anyways, nationalize spacex.

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

if you want a shot of optimism remember that ten years ago Victor Orban's position seemed unassailable and today he and his movement are failing.

Split-image: On the left, a black-and-white historical portrait of Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005), the pioneering Black aerospace engineer and mathematician at NASA who became the agency's first Black female engineer in 1958. She is shown in her later years wearing large round glasses, short curly hair styled in soft waves, large hoop earrings, a polka-dot blouse pr scarf with a brooch, and a warm, confident smile. On the right, a color scene from the 2016 film Hidden Figures, depicting actress Janelle Monáe portraying Mary Winston Jackson as a young mathematician and engineer at NASA. She sits at a desk in a classroom-like setting, wearing a bright yellow cardigan over a cream blouse, bold pink lipstick, gold earrings, with her hair in a sleek 1960s bob, gazing thoughtfully ahead amid colleagues in the background.

Aerospace engineer & "human computer" Mary Winston Jackson became NASA's first Black female engineer in 1958.

Her life & work, along with those of Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, inspired the book and film Hidden Figures. She was born #OTD in 1921. www.nasa.gov/people/mary-...

#WomenInSTEM

FBI agent Denise played by David Duchovny and Dale Cooper, played by Kyle Maclachlan, Twin Peaks 1990

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.