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My crack team of coders has hacked into dozens of government websites and we can now reveal the following.

submitted 23 hours ago • 29 comments

Actually tickles me a bit to think of all the semi-reasonable republicans who laid flat for Trump, hoping to perhaps come out on top as a result, only for him to name Bongino deputy FBI director and Hegseth Secretary of Defense JFC

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 18 hours ago • 1161 comments

Beautiful video of inter-cellular signaling in a swarming response that I pulled from the other place, produced by @strickland-evelyn.bsky.social in collaboration with D. Irimia lab. The dye detects calcium flux that indicates a signal being received by each cell: you're seeing the 'alarm' go out.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 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 1 day ago • 8 comments

This story of sceptical eye towards one's own cultural mores is generally useful for thought methinks.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

If you go back and read the country’s original user manual it lists factors that help you identify monarchical malware and suggests solutions.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 2 days ago • 584 comments

Starting to think maybe Chomsky and those kooky leftists were right all along

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 3 days ago • 1497 comments

1. Då 2. Nu

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 5 days ago • 522 comments

I am scrutinizing school stats, deciding where to send my kids, with more rigour than DOGE is apparently capable of.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

#2 in Snyder's book on tyranny is to defend institutions. He suggests picking one you care about and supporting it.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Let's see how the intrepid Elon inspired team at DOGE - the folks who are currently examining your tax records - are doing! Today they put up their their idea of "open data" which they call a "Wall of Receipts". And look here - two cancelled DEIA contracts for $9,999,999. Wow, they saved $20M! 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 20 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 5 days ago • 99 comments

Har sålt lägenheten och letar nytt boende. Känner jag någon med koll på Enebyberg som vill dela med sig av sina tankar/erfarenheter?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Apparently the gutting of the National Science Foundation is underway at the moment. "More to come." One can debate whether cuts are warranted, but the mindless, know-nothing fashion in which they are being carried out is inexcusable. This will damage US science for generations.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1065 comments

67 years after Pardee, Jacob and Monod called this stuff “X” (pronounced “eeex” à la française), now we can actually see mRNA molecules wriggling about. Quite amazing. Source in linked post.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

EU bör förbjuda X på samma sätt som man med rätta förbjudit RT.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Don't forget the guaranteed walk-over victory against China, due to their impending demographic collapse.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.

submitted 7 days ago • 543 comments

Sweden doesn't exclude sending troops to Ukraine after a "peace" agreement says foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenergard this morning. Realities are dawning on the western European democracies.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

"The next wake-up call for the Europeans may be an air raid siren."

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the Royal Society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science https://go.nature.com/41dzNUx

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Zelenskyy: "I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine. Never."

submitted 8 days ago • 888 comments

Reminder: The Department of Energy is not about energy (majority of the department is about nuclear weapons and supercomputers)

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

submitted 8 days ago • 312 comments

Another part of tiny Norway’s gigantic environmental footprint:

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

You guys have fucked up so bad you made Quebec patriotic

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

If the White House press corps doesn't walk out in solidarity for the AP they're not gonna do it for anyone.

submitted 9 days ago • 120 comments

We are in a race with China on critical technologies, including those currently under threat. Why are we not bolstering, not undermining, science?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Europe stands with you for a just and lasting peace, with strong security guarantees. We will keep providing continued and stable support to Ukraine. And speed up work on your EU accession. Joint read-out with @eucopresident.consilium.europa.eu ↓ europa.eu/!MfPPPC

submitted 10 days ago • 89 comments