The brain drain continues – the U.S. has lost arguably its most important scientific awards ceremony:
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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The brain drain continues – the U.S. has lost arguably its most important scientific awards ceremony:
arstechnica.com/science/2026...
I’m working with Governor Gretchen Whitmer on trying to save The Great Lakes from the rather violent and destructive Asian Carp, which is rapidly taking over Lake Michigan, and all of the beautiful surrounds. I’ll be asking other Governors to join into this fight, including those of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York and, of course, the future Governor of Canada, Mark Carney, who I know will be happy to contribute to this worthy cause. Separately, I am also working to save The Great Salt Lake, in Utah, which, in a short period of time, if nothing is done, will have no water. This is on top of everything else I am doing. Only “TRUMP” CAN DO IT! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump refers to Prime Minster Mark Carney as "the future Governor of Canada"
Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.
Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024.
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www.antihate.ca/air_force_ma...
“The moment a girl has her first period, she is at her peak marriagability...If you're ever designing laws for the ethnostate, let that be one policy we cleave to. Wasting women's peak fertility window on education is a disaster for birth rates.” - RCAF Major Tristan Armstrong
Barbie driving down the road singing, text reads "downloading data for reuse. bottom panel: barbie and Ken screaming with text reading "there's no README"
It's important for the public to be able to reuse #RescuedData, but the context a README or similar documentation provides is necessary for understanding.
Be like Barbie. Help yourself have a great day every day, and on this #MemeMonday, remember to document your data.
holy shit
😱 There was a chemical spill on a road in New Brunswick that contained chromium (exact type not clarified). It sat there for two days before the road was closed. It spread chromium waste over 14 kilometres (9 miles) of road and hundreds of cars. #ChemSky #ChemChat
A photo of a young Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting with a book on her lab staring into the distance.
A photo of an older Lilian Vaughan Morgan, sitting at a lab bench with a microscope and dozens of glass milk bottles bunged with cotton. Lilian is in the middle of applying ether to anaesthetize a bottle of flies.
This #InternationalWomensDay I want to tell the story of Lilian Vaughan Morgan. I learned of Lilian this past year - what a badass.
Lilian was a leading scientist when women weren't welcome in the lab, nor even the department. But she contributed immensely to the genetics of sex determination
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The network model for trust communities continues to be advanced. At the Linux Foundation they are developing a DID -based trust community for the Linux kernel project.
www.lfdecentralizedtrust.org/blog/decentr...
I thought they weren't at war with Iran?
It's a Schrödinger's war.
RFK Jr. wants the FDA - an agency that requires proof of safety and effectiveness - to weaken those standards so peptides can be sold “...where people have access from ethical suppliers.” Why not raise wellness industry standards instead of lowering the FDA’s?
www.self.com/story/peptides-rfk-jr-ban
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Images posted to Alpha Athletika’s Telegram channel show its members posing for propaganda pictures in the gym, with huge flags unfurled and Nazi imagery on at least one member’s workout clothes.
@rachelgilmore.bsky.social reports.
Ben Mulroney accidentally shares video with fake footage of him being a respected media figure
This isn't "Bob takes a long time to read something"
This is "Bob literally cannot understand that the villain of a story is doing bad things unless the villain stops and says 'I am doing bad things right now btw'"
A great thread about functional literacy.
And now made even better with AI chatbots! You think you are in a real conversations with a real person but they can't fix your problem! Harder-to-escape endless bs loops! Profit!
For now I've read you can put in a out of context question and a human goes huh? but a bot answers smoothly.
"A major function of the annoyance economy, the report says, is to make it harder for consumers to accomplish anything that’s against a company’s financial interest."
I think to myself 'this looks cool, but it could be such a hassle' and walk away.
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
omg
I will never connect a smart TV to the internet and buy a different brand if necessary.
A Samsung Frame TV (2024) was returned when it turned out the art picture was removed each day unless the TV was connected to the internet daily.
I, for one, am relieved that the office towers are continuing to recover. Thank you, human beings, for the sacrifice you and your families are making.
The screenshot of the release notes reads: A new version of TeX Live Utility is available! TeX Live Utility 1.55 is now available-you have 1.54. Would you like to download it now? Release Notes: Changes Since 1.54 • Fix bug 137, homepage link in Help Book. • First release in a long time, since I don't use TeX anymore and resent the very idea of paying Apple annually for the privilege of giving away free and open-source software. Also, I'm really lazy. Please accept my apologies for all the annoying issues you've encountered in this mission-critical software. • Updated mirror list, which was three years out of date. • Added missing legacy mirrors, which was even more out of date. • Added an alert on startup when user tries Homebrew's lobotomized MacTex, because those lunatics left timgr but removed its database. Thanks for nothing, guys. Bug 142 and 144. • Use a custom user-agent to work around the Anubis bot trap on texlive.info. Can't wait to see what else breaks because of this, thanks to the profusion of degenerate Artificial Insemination fetishists scraping websites to feed their models. • Lists of countries in Repository/Continent are now sorted. No idea how you people let me get away with that one for the last fifteen years.
There's a "is anyone even reading this" sort of honesty you get in the software update release notes from a project that's been around for a long time.
It's U.S. foreign policy that the whole world must serve up our data to the AI giants that are now an arm of the U.S. government.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
in honor of a certain surgeon general nominee’s hearing today, here is the story of (among other things) the time I tried to take her advice about milk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
Red and white tulips that look like the Canadian flag 🇨🇦
#RedWed #EastCoastKin #ColorADay #Photography #BloomScrolling #Tulips
The Canada 150 Tulip, gifted to Canada in 2016 from the Netherlands for Canada’s 150th birthday.🇨🇦
sometimes when i'm sad about chromatography, i go to the storage room to see the 3.0 kg pre-packed silica columns and remind myself that i will hopefully never have to use one
"More and more European countries are, she argues, willing to outsource sovereign tasks to a controversial security company – without any parliamentary debate. Palantir, Microsoft, and Amazon are using this momentum to build an infrastructure of control and surveillance in Europe."
"Palantir itself openly acknowledges that its tools are meant to “optimize the kill chain”"
"...using Palantir’s software would increase dependence on a U.S. provider. It also poses the risk of losing data sovereignty and thereby national sovereignty."
www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/h...
Perhaps of interest to @datarescueproject.org if they weren't already aware.
It’s wild that the enduring memory of these two hockey teams is probably going to be how the men’s team laughed at a misogynistic joke made at the expense of the women’s team.
