Reminder, the ACS Inclusivity Style Guide still does not include Gender & Sexuality nor Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality. They were removed almost a year ago. Something tells me, it isn't a pause on those two sections. Review & refinement shouldn't take a year. #ChemSky #ChemChat
Yes, it has been driving me crazy!
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
Thank you for putting this together! (it was only mildly alarming to learn you have a face, and were not just a disembodied skull). You've probably already seen this compiled list of ways to help, but if not, can you please share? www.standwithminnesota.com
I cannot stress enough to people who are not from Minneapolis that the news you have seen in the past week about things calming, and messaging from our electeds at *every level higher than City Council* that local agencies will protect us... That's all fucking LIES.
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
if you’re feeling inspired by the photos from minneapolis,drop a note of appreciation at www.standwithminnesota.com/send-a-love-... !
I want to format these all into beautiful things to be shared across the internet, but until I have the time for it, if you are from Minnesota and need to know that people love you and have your back, that you are inspiring people all over the world, here are some notes.
ARE YOU A NON-MINNESOTAN WHO WANTS IDEAS OF STUFF TO DO TO HELP MINNESOTA RESIST FASCIST TYRANNY? Have I got a blog post for you! With additional advice for how to get ready in case tyranny shows up at YOUR doorstep next!
naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...
Good morning from Minneapolis.
Abolish ICE.
Help people how you can.
For my out-of-state friends wanting to help Minneapolis, Sanctuary Supply Depot is a grassroots mutual aid effort to support unhoused folks here. They take cash as well as in-kind donations: linktr.ee/sanctuarysup...
For out of towners coming to Minneapolis or trying to learn about Mpls (ESPECIALLY JOURNALISTS), I recommend you follow @taylordahlin.com to get a deeper understanding of the situation here on the ground.
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
If you don't live in Minnesota, but have been watching the news with horror, and are looking for a way to help:
I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota.
If you have places for me to add, please DM me.
Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version?
I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/
It all started a few years ago... 🧵
Reports of Ice having checked into Fairfield in Northfield... just for enquiring minds.. keep your eyes open Northfield
Reports of Ice having checked into Fairfield in Northfield... just for enquiring minds.. keep your eyes open Northfield
Ice is now right outside of DIW & the Midtown Global Market. *headed towards Bloomington Ave. I heard they're setting up check points. I'm not sure of where but be cautious in the area!
Late last night, ICE agents stormed into HCMC past hospital staff security. They refused to leave on orders of staff, security, hospital general counsel, and all 7 county commissioners, even with half the elected officials in Minneapolis personally on site. MPD refused to trespass ICE from HCMC. The word is that can only come from Chief O'Hara. Who answers directly to Mayor Frey.
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best. It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
The Carleton College chemistry department is hiring! Come be my colleague next year! carleton.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Carlet...
First Pipeline post of the year! A statement of purpose, and science topics resume on Monday:
Ah, good point. Too bad their graphic designers are not on your level
Now we just need a graphic from @cpsc.gov
I'm not usually someone who's like 'look at how awful things are' but this video about how short form video might actually be breaking your brain is so well-done
I've been loving how Howtown has approached these kind of questions— definitely check them out if you haven't before!
The “Pines to Palms” in Northfield: A Biography of Highway 3: https://streets.mn/2025/12/29/the-pines-to-palms-in-northfield-a-biography-of-highway-3/
A personal and historical biography of Highway 3 in Northfield, exploring how a familiar road became a boundary shaping a community
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.
Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
"AI is a tool."
No. Empirically not. A tool empowers people; helps people. It solves an extant problem. Generative AI in creative mediums is being used as a cudgel that diminishes and eliminates people, and the only "problem" being solved is fiscal.
Stop validating it, even in passing.
