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Historian of evolutionary biology and scientific racism who has somehow turned into a historian of the physical sciences. Expect lots of cat pictures and general miscellany. Marylandic.
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every month now we get a breathless new article with a headline like, "Meet Curtis Yarvin, the Dark Prince of the Blogosphere Who Invented Being a Racist Libertarian."

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We're not gonna make it

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We just got an email that Hopkins is freezing salaries, hiring, and some construction projects. In addition to the 800 million USAID we lost, we’ve had another 50 million in grants canceled so far. And a 2/3 year over year decline in funded grants despite an increase in submissions

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Thiel's LoTR thing makes the most sense to me (not that it needs to make sense!) as a power move. He cannot bear to love something without doing violence to it

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US senator calls for the destruction of a civilian ship that intends to deliver humanitarian aid

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They likely just made a whole media to-do out of his "departure" because he wanted to stop getting so much negative attention. But he's still there and still doing long-term damage. www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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Fuck this, em-dashes are useful and wonderful, and we cannot let AI bullshit take them away from us

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Not to turn this into an exclusively Star Trek posting account, but the Enterprise-D really is peak starship design

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Happy Pride, Spock

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Hot damn, time to re-read the first two White Space novels

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Let's goooo

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Well would you look at that, Pinker appeared on a Nazi podcast

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Semi-regular reminder that the Viscount Ridley is an anti-regulation libertarian who ran a bank that had to be bailed out by the government after experiencing the first UK bank run in over a century, and who got into science writing as a coal-field owner opposed to climate science.

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the entire drugs discourse is so annoying to me as someone who takes amphetamines for ADHD my pre-frontal cortex has holes in it & the PFC is also where the guy in your brain who decides whether the thing you are about to do matches who you want to be as a person lives & he needs speed to work

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Rewatching TNG, and I had totally forgotten that O'Brien is a cellist in season 3.

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Oof

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David Dastmalchian is fantastic, but tbh, this is how I always pictured Gurathin in my head

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Yesterday’s moderately-sized (M8-class) #SolarFlare produced a massive eruption (a coronal mass ejection), currently en route to Earth. Forecasters have issued a ‘severe’ geomagnetic storm watch (G4 on G1-5 scale). Expect to see misinformation about this, so here are some facts:

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They’ve brought eugenics mysticism into the LLMs

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Thought we were going to get an actual brawl there

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Big co-sign

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Gracie is normally only mildly curious at best about non-dog, non-human creatures we encounter on our walks but this morning a butterfly floated past and landed near us and she instantly went into a full-on perfectly-trained-hunting-dog point.

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murderbot is the first thing i have seen in a long while that feels like each episode should be a little longer

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