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i am mystified by the influence of noah smith, among the most ignorant and incurious people i have ever seen on the internet. just a total dummy.

submitted 5 hours ago • 190 comments

Vast numbers of ppl in the US take Adderall regularly & don't commit financial crimes. Vast numbers of ppl in the US work "long nights" & don't commit financial crimes. What "drove" this dude to insider trading was greed & lack of moral compass. www.wsj.com/finance/insi...

submitted 1 hour ago • 0 comments

It is legitimately distressing to face what appears to be conflicting instructions from the Secretary of Defense and the White House, all the more so when the President's official statement is in the form of a Spongebob Squarepants cartoon.

submitted 1 hour ago • 11 comments

If there's one story to read this weekend, it's this one. Absolutely wild. "Most of the people involved in this story wind up either dead, maimed, spending months in a mental hospital, languishing in jail, or gone underground" Incred writing, years in the making, from Evan Ratliff for @wired.com

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Evacuated for a bomb threat from Proud Boys at the Principles First (Never Trumpers) conference in DC. Because the president pardoned and encouraged a bunch of terrorists, and that’s the new reality for any kind of prominent opponents of his.

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

Right after the election, I was in shock because I knew how dangerous Trump was. I thought, if all of these people actually want what Trump is going to bring, America is not the country I thought it was. But now I realize that actually they all just got conned. That's the America I know: gullible.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

This has been a big problem in Arizona. Suspect it explains some things about Florida, too.

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Yes and when you talk to long time idahoans they say that it's a more violent more reactionary strain of conservatism

submitted 2 hours ago • 9 comments

Portrait of a doge, c. 1460, by Gentile Bellini. From back when doges were elected, and wore more interesting headgear. Today is Bellini's day.

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

submitted 3 hours ago • 130 comments

The Secretary of Defense goes on tv to explain he is preparing to have the military break the law.

submitted 3 hours ago • 178 comments

The thing the right-wing took away from non-prosecution of W-era torture wasn't that they were fortunate that Obama was willing to look forward, it was that installing John Yoo's to write memos saying "[illegal thing] is actually legal" is a cheat code to rewrite the laws however you want

submitted 3 hours ago • 18 comments

Amongst other findings here, a(nother) new age for the Atitlan/Los Chocoyos eruption at 79.5 ± 3.4 ka - 'Ice core evidence for the Los Chocoyos supereruption disputes millennial-scale climate impact' www.nature.com/articles/s43...

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"despite being one of the largest sulfur emissions recorded in ice cores, the Los Chocoyos supereruption did not trigger a millennial-scale cold period" ⚒️🧪

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

...PhD holder Noah Smith believes getting into a PhD program requires "above average intellect"? I bet he was absolutely insufferable as a grad student.

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

Oh you don't have a completed financial conflict of interest form (OGE Form 450 or 278), that has been adjudicated and signed by an attorney in your agency's Office of General Counsel? Well then, you're not permitted to work as a Special Government Employee, and also you're breaking the law.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

you can tell the people trying to gut the government have never had a real job because they landed on "one micromanaging email" as the thing that would break regular people

submitted 16 hours ago • 18 comments

It’s a completely different universe. This is how people’s perception of reality is shaped, through headlines like this.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Help... in particular, any archaeologists. With the one exception of The Quarry near Shrewsbury. Do we have any evidence of these claims? There are so many "ruralhistoria" type pages, wiki entries all making these claims. I really want to find more academic papers supporting this.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I think people both within science and outside science don’t fully appreciate the miracle that were the Covid-19 vaccines. How much courage it took to get the sequence out, how much work had already gone into figuring out the best viral antigen and how best to present it. 1/

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

When universal asset owners flex muscle… @reuters.com “CEO Harmen van Wijnen said the companies no longer fit the fund's governance criteria. FD reported last month that ABP had sold its shares in Tesla (TSLA.O), opens new tab for the same reason.” www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Any talk you hear from the current administration about making the US more competitive in science and technology is utter bullshit. What they are doing is sabotaging our country for years if not decades to come.

submitted 22 hours ago • 37 comments

I think it's important to remember that the totalities & unities totalitarianism tries to signify are never actually total. They always fail, in every moment. This is why fascism requires so much violence. The violence doesn't signify totality; it signifies failure. "There's a crack in everything."

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

How will the funding freeze affect those who are going up for tenure? Will institutions be more hesistant to tenure someone who doesn't get funded as a result of the freeze and with anticipated substantial budget shortfalls? #AcademicSky #PublicHealth

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

At least 12 universities now have hiring freezes and nearly 30 have cut PhD admissions this year If you hear of other places you can add them to this google doc:

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

That's an awful lot of programs cutting graduate admissions in the biomedical sciences.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

An interesting hypothetical if you’re wondering if Elon Musk is a genius or not is to compare his behaviour in any situation to what a complete moron would do in the same situation

submitted 14 hours ago • 112 comments

My #Raspishake seismometer is about 2.050km away from the moderate M5.1 #earthquake in Iceland late yesterday evening. The seismic waves arrived here in Herne, Germany approximately 4 mins after origin time. 🧪⚒️

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

“No employee is required to report outside their department chain of command” should have been the universal position of every agency since Jan 20 considering how it is, you know, the law.

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Who knew, "Trump Take Egg" apparently is a fun thing?! www.dailydot.com/culture/trum...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment