Amanda Falke

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

New Study Too Frightening To Release PALO ALTO, CA–Researchers at Stanford University are refusing to release a comprehensive three-year interdisciplinary study on the grounds that the results are "too terrifying to reveal to the public ...

New Study Too Frightening To Release

Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed After Confederate Generals WASHINGTON—In an effort to restore what he said were traditional American values that the previous administration had attempted to destroy, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday decreeing that all children born while President Joe Biden was in office would be renamed after Confederate generals. “Parents across the country were shamed by angry liberals […]

Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed After Confederate Generals
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Hotels! Regulated, in compliance with privacy laws, more secure, and usually cleaner.

The Elon techbro ethos: “things I don’t know about are stupid/useless/easy to understand” - could have some really nasty results.

BTW I love our dumb inside jokes lmaoooo

What about ketchup? What about mustard?

Fed employees now experiencing what tech is like - “move fast break things” bros, setting up mattresses in the office, layoffs and random firings, mostly of women and PoC. Sad to see.

There is no such thing as “masculine energy.” It’s imprecise because it’s a euphemism. He is saying there are too many women in the workforce.

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

How's everyone else's night going?

We’ve got to repopularize rich guys settling their grievances via pistol duels instead of being catty bitches on podcasts.

I keep telling you that you need to do standup comedy or something 🤣🤣💀

I have worked at a bunch of tech companies. Not a single one needed more "masculine energy," whatever the fuck that even means. Not one of them have had an equal number of female engineers, and most have been 90% or greater male engineers.

Turns out, Zuck is just an asshole. Always has been.

I spent too long on this.

❄️🦌 Enter a winter wonderland with Sierra On-Line's "A Computer Christmas" (1986). 🎄💾 This charming vintage software showcases early PC graphics & underscores the importance of preserving our digital history.

Enjoy the full classic. ➡️ archive.org/details/sier...

#preservation

the foundational myth of the tech industry is that smart people can't be evil

Yes!!

Looks good! Great progress so quickly too.

God To Delete Several Million Humans Due To Inactivity

God To Delete Several Million Humans Due To Inactivity
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i’m definitely the best shopper in this dunning-kroger

the brand emails are becoming increasingly frantic

Looking through Trump’s nominees my first reaction is that Pauley Shore is really getting left out here. Not fair.

Who Takes the Floor and Why: Gender, Power, and Volubility in Organizations - Victoria L. Brescoll, 2011 Although past research has noted the importance of both power and gender for understanding volubility—the total amount of time spent talking—in organizations, t...

Time to re-up compelling studies on power and talking time by Tori Brescoll @yalesom.bsky.social, which includes comparisons of male and female U.S. Senators:As men become more powerful, they speak more. Not women. Talkative powerful women get backlash, not men!
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Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb OKLAHOMA CITY—In an effort to provide all developing fetuses in the state with a thorough grounding in Judeo-Christian values, a new bill was signed into law Tuesday that requires the Ten Commandments...

Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb

Some angry lady just yelled at me and rolled down her window. “I’m gonna make your life a living hell”!

I yelled back, “no thanks. I’m not looking for a relationship.“

Sharing music is a love language

Jake Paul fight RFK Jr. next

Great concert last night! Oregon Symphony w Philip Glass Ensemble performing Koyaanisqatsi at Arlene Schnitzer