The awesome power and stunning beauty of a humpback whale breaching seen up close. Credit: Beau Pilgrim

Oh look, Joe Biden didn't replace the politically-appointed Trump prosecutor who ran this investigation from the jump, allowing him to see the whole thing through. nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b…

Open protocols … to do what, exactly? Collect taxes? What about privacy? Military defense? What about opsec? Make laws? What about representative democracy? Enforce them? What about judgment? Honestly, does anyone in Silicon Valley actually know what gov’ts do?

There is absolutely no way in hell that this is practical, and it's probably not even more than an extremely stage-managed demo, but it's also about the most futuristic-looking thing I've seen in years.

In January I was diagnosed with a weird form of lacrimal cancer & while the US healthcare system being bad isn’t exactly a revelation, I want to give a glimpse at how that system actually functions from a patient & policy standpoint, along with legislative origins & options

An uninhabitable earth

Welcome back, Voyager 2. NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2. We shouted 12.5 billion miles (19.9 billion km) into interstellar space, instructing it to turn its antenna back to Earth – and after 37 hours, we found out it worked! go.nasa.gov/3Y9qP7D

NFTs, the metaverse, and web3 felt like that to me. And so did the AI insanity of Q1 2023. We are now well past the peak of the LLM bubble -- things have already came back down to a large extent. There's still some way to go until everyone sobers up completely, though.

This graphic is useful:

“A typical vaccine teaches the human immune system to recognize a virus or bacteria as an enemy that should be attacked. The new “inverse vaccine” does just the opposite: it removes the immune system’s memory of one molecule.” We might have a vaccine for type 1 diabetes!

Fahrenheit 451 was never my favorite Bradbury/dystopian fiction because it felt a little too blunt, too far-fetched in its metaphor— the state deploying high-tech 'firemen' to burn books to maintain its censorship regime? A bit on the nose. Currently reevaluating that assessment

Not only that. You will also lose access to a whole bunch of tooling you built yourself, to support your work style. Because your previous employer will have claimed it and/or your new employer has security frights. A new job is in many ways starting from scratch.

🙏🏿Lord please grant me the confidence to deny a brilliant woman prof / researcher tenure track, demote her, push her out of my school, to be the adversity that she had to overcome in life... and when she overcomes me and wins the Nobel prize, to roll in like I did something. Amen

excuse me one question, what did you just fucking say