It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades. Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022. Extraordinary. news.mit.edu/2023/roman-con…

After showing America how not to pick a Speaker, McCarthy now shows America how not to design the Rules of the House. His Rules stack the deck for extremists & insurrectionists while turning federal workers into political targets on the House floor. raskin.house.gov/press-releases…

I called my dad to tell him about being genderless and how I came to this conclusion about myself and he said “I am blessed to have children who’s existence stretches beyond this realm” and I just want to say that if a 60 year old Jamaican Rastafarian can get it, so can you

1/ The 2022 climate data is out. And it’s terrifying. Overall, 2022 was the fifth warmest year on record. Below is a short🧵on 2022’s record-breaking droughts, floods, ‘rain bombs,’ wildfires & more Cc: David Wallace-Wells Jesse D. Jenkins Yann LeCun Dr. Leah C. Stokes [email protected] Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 Prof Michael E. Mann

The Georgia Grand Jury has completed its work so the mob boss starts threatening the key witnesses.

Did you know that ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance

I assume this is all in service of pretending that embryos and fetuses are entitled to all the same rights as fully formed humans who don't live inside other people's bodies?

Result: Democrats FLIP a state Senate seat in Virginia in a special election tonight. Aaron Rouse‘s win expands their majority by one seat to 22-18, more breathing room for the coming 2023 session.

"Humans are bad at it too" or "Not everyone can afford to pay a human" are not the arguments for throwing language models into sensitive situations that people seem to think they are. #AIHype #mathymath

RIP, @BlakeHounshell. He edited me in 2013, & I found him as smart, kind, & incisive as those who knew him far better have borne testament to him today. Garrett M. Graff captured a man who left us far too soon in this encomium: politico.com/news/magazine/… We will hold him in the light.

Many people are involved in winning elections but I think we all should be recognizing what L. Louise Lucas has done to bring Virginia Democrats onto the same coherent message- standing up to Governor Youngkin. Every Dem candidate is running on it and it is resonating statewide.

If we found out that common refrigerators were emitting poison gases that give kids asthma, would we have people angrily insisting that they need particular kinds of air compressors to get the air cold just the way they like?

All this stuff about getting rid of gas stoves is not coming out of nowhere. It's not meddling lefties worried about global warming. There's a rapidly accumulating body of science showing direct health harms, especially to the most vulnerable. It's a seat-belts-in-cars thing.

🚨BREAKING🚨: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker just signed the ‘Protect Illinois Communities Act’ into LAW 🎉 Illinois is now the ninth state to ban assault weapons! We’re clearing the pathway to live in a country free of gun violence in OUR future 👊🏽. #ProtectIllinoisCommunities

Funny how this is under attack in both us and uk huh

Update 3: The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system following an outage. The FAA has ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern Time to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information.

New GOP plan: eliminate income tax on the rich, giant national sales tax on all middle class families.

The minute Congress refused to expel the insurrectionists, it lost credibility. They keep trying to deflect from the fact that the people who conspired to attack the Capitol have yet to face any accountability. It’s all performative.

Democracy dies awash in fossil fuel propaganda.