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A few years ago, we heard nothing from Republicans but Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. The hearings went on for years and played a big role in shaping public opinion about the Obama administration and subsequently, Clinton as a presidential candidate.

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Another great read from Katrina. Vera Rubin doesn’t have the name recognition of some other giants of physics and astronomy, but her impact in these fields — on the science and on the people, particularly junior women — has been enormous. Very fitting for NSF to name a major observatory for her.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Did the senator make this statement from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with a large banner behind him?

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Anyone on a cooking show who says “umami bomb” should have to immediately stop what they’re doing and do 25 pushups, I think we can still course correct here.

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We have no idea what the world will look like in 20 years: it was 20 years ago that Kanye yelled “George Bush doesn't care about Black people” on stage at an awards show.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Very rare L for HEB, one of the greatest Texas institutions

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

The GWB admin spent a lot of time and effort to sell the Iraq invasion as a necessary response. This involved buy-in from serious people who had a lot of credibility with politicians and the public (think Colin Powell). Of course, they burned them all. But they spent a lot of energy making the case.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

A few years ago, we heard nothing from Republicans but Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi. The hearings went on for years and played a big role in shaping public opinion about the Obama administration and subsequently, Clinton as a presidential candidate.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

We will be getting the first images from the Rubin Observatory tomorrow! Details, including a link to the press conference, below. It’s an 8.4 meter telescope with the biggest digital camera on earth!

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Another great read from Katrina. Vera Rubin doesn’t have the name recognition of some other giants of physics and astronomy, but her impact in these fields — on the science and on the people, particularly junior women — has been enormous. Very fitting for NSF to name a major observatory for her.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Vance knows how to be a good toady while still shirking any possible responsibility that could lead to personal consequences

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Charlie Kirk is going to get innocent people here killed with this kind of talk.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Charlie Kirk is going to get innocent people here killed with this kind of talk.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

My “the bombings will continue until the peace improves” t-shirt has the press asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Did the senator make this statement from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier with a large banner behind him?

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Game recognizes game (derogatory)

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

“Get me some analysis by someone who could have come up with the ‘Mission Accomplished’ photo op or the ‘greeted as liberators’ line, stat!”

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

My “the bombings will continue until the peace improves” t-shirt has the press asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Did he really go with the equivalent of “no punch backs” in his truth social post announcing unprovoked bombing of a sovereign foreign power? Did I just write that sentence? What is happening?

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

He’s a deal maker! You’d have to be purposefully sabotaging things not to make a deal with him! Just ask all of those trade partners who’ve definitely signed agreements as part of the 90 deals in 90 days!

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Everyone yesterday: wow, I hope he doesn’t decide to bomb Iran in two weeks. <world’s largest monkey paw curls>

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

9 hours ago. It’s wild to do a first-strike bombing raid that can be figured out and put on social media ~7 hours in advance

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

In retrospect, I preferred “strategic uncertainty” or whatever he was calling it to this

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

That two weeks Trump was talking about went by awfully fast.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

“Donald the Dove” has really aged well

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Did he really go with the equivalent of “no punch backs” in his truth social post announcing unprovoked bombing of a sovereign foreign power? Did I just write that sentence? What is happening?

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

If only history could tell us which is likely to be the correct view

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

Using an LLM to rewrite the “entire corpus of human knowledge” and then using that corpus as a training set: definitely something that would be suggested by someone who knows how things work and not someone who understands absolutely nothing

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Time for a classic game of “Iran nukes, China tariffs, or Harvard grants?”

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Is this the world that Rufo and Weiss and company want? Students winning awards for saying the constitution should only apply to white people? If one believes “institutional neutrality” means there are no positions that the institution can hold, that feels more like nihilism than neutrality.

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Using an LLM to rewrite the “entire corpus of human knowledge” and then using that corpus as a training set: definitely something that would be suggested by someone who knows how things work and not someone who understands absolutely nothing

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Interesting thread. I wonder whether it says that the most important barrier to scientific literacy is (self-directed) interest, not availability of popular science. They’re related but getting people curious about (and interested in) science may be upstream of getting them to engage with pop sci.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Time for a classic game of “Iran nukes, China tariffs, or Harvard grants?”

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

A minor point amidst the fascism, but a good education fosters "viewpoint discrimination" because lacking the ability to adjudicate between good and bad ideas is how you end up with RFK making measles great again.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Is this the world that Rufo and Weiss and company want? Students winning awards for saying the constitution should only apply to white people? If one believes “institutional neutrality” means there are no positions that the institution can hold, that feels more like nihilism than neutrality.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Interesting thread. I wonder whether it says that the most important barrier to scientific literacy is (self-directed) interest, not availability of popular science. They’re related but getting people curious about (and interested in) science may be upstream of getting them to engage with pop sci.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments