Lauren Brown
@laurbrown.bsky.social
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The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
December 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The rate of return here is crazy: for a few hundred thousand dollars, this lab produces literally billions of oysters and supports a seafood industry worth hundreds of millions. And the Trump administration is just like "fuck all that, it's wasteful spending, you're fired"
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This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.
April 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This is mislabeled. Actually, it’s a map of where scientific discoveries, biomedical research, cancer treatments, and drug discovery come from. Also economic growth.
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There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
December 12, 2025 at 6:23 PM
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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I will never forget and never forgive these actions. And there are so many, with so many people carrying these orders out while others laugh and clap and post excited selfies about it all.
Justice has to be served.
Justice has to be served.
Read to the end. NPR asked why the Trump team ended a low-cost program that cured millions of tropical diseases w drugs donated by pharma. The spokesperson replied with an NPR headline—“Farewell to USAID”—and said: “What do you think farewell meant?” www.npr.org/sections/goa...
The fight to beat neglected tropical diseases was going well. 2025 could change that
The campaign to prevent and treat these diseases has seen great success thanks to a USAID program. Now that program is gone.
www.npr.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I will never forget and never forgive these actions. And there are so many, with so many people carrying these orders out while others laugh and clap and post excited selfies about it all.
Justice has to be served.
Justice has to be served.
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Point of contention here. People for years have had access to tremendous info & knowledge no one before them had easy access to
The result has been people actively getting less intelligent, believing more nonsense, and viewing intelligence/competence as conspiracy or, at the least, of less value
The result has been people actively getting less intelligent, believing more nonsense, and viewing intelligence/competence as conspiracy or, at the least, of less value
That's what software has always been, optimize tasks.
Now your boys will have access to every library in the world Everything they are curious about and want to learn, they can find out more from LLMs. As with every generation , they will invent new products, services and who knows what else
Now your boys will have access to every library in the world Everything they are curious about and want to learn, they can find out more from LLMs. As with every generation , they will invent new products, services and who knows what else
I agree with your statement Mark. I use Ai for a lot of menial tasks that used to suck up 5-10 hours a week. But I can't help but think of my 2 boys (15 & 13) and if this is truly the future. So a vast amount of graduates will all essentially do the same job for different companies.
December 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Point of contention here. People for years have had access to tremendous info & knowledge no one before them had easy access to
The result has been people actively getting less intelligent, believing more nonsense, and viewing intelligence/competence as conspiracy or, at the least, of less value
The result has been people actively getting less intelligent, believing more nonsense, and viewing intelligence/competence as conspiracy or, at the least, of less value
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I don't care if you think that AI can do some really nifty things. It's being rammed down our throats by obscenely wealthy men who are also, obviously, both dangerously right-wing and mentally unstable, and no rational society should be allowing that to happen. End of discussion.
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I don't care if you think that AI can do some really nifty things. It's being rammed down our throats by obscenely wealthy men who are also, obviously, both dangerously right-wing and mentally unstable, and no rational society should be allowing that to happen. End of discussion.
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What’s so pernicious about this is that science works by testing a hypothesis (call it H1) vs the null hypothesis (H0). The burden of proof is on those asserting H1 as correct. This gets our standards of proof completely backwards. This is an attack on the very foundation of scientific epistemology.
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
What’s so pernicious about this is that science works by testing a hypothesis (call it H1) vs the null hypothesis (H0). The burden of proof is on those asserting H1 as correct. This gets our standards of proof completely backwards. This is an attack on the very foundation of scientific epistemology.
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Mr. Altman, I'm selling electrons at 100 electrons per 1¢. This is an amazing deal. It's a limited-time offer so act now!
November 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Mr. Altman, I'm selling electrons at 100 electrons per 1¢. This is an amazing deal. It's a limited-time offer so act now!
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If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, you set up an experiment that would disprove it. If you can't do that, you shut your fucking mouth and learn something.
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, you set up an experiment that would disprove it. If you can't do that, you shut your fucking mouth and learn something.
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Your colleagues promised us — promised activists, promised social media influencers, promised organizations — that they were actually going to fight for the ACA, that it was non-negotiable.
You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.
You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Your colleagues promised us — promised activists, promised social media influencers, promised organizations — that they were actually going to fight for the ACA, that it was non-negotiable.
You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.
You lied to us. You betrayed us. And this is your plan? I know you're not this stupid Sheldon.
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The electoral college is bad, actually. The will of the people isn't properly reflected.
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The electoral college is bad, actually. The will of the people isn't properly reflected.
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Hey #ChemSky -- what is your department doing about the increasing costs associated with ChemDraw? Anything? Are there better alternatives at scale?
November 7, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Hey #ChemSky -- what is your department doing about the increasing costs associated with ChemDraw? Anything? Are there better alternatives at scale?
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Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
October 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Sorry I refuse to entertain the complete non-existent world where white people don’t know that countless cultures, including some of their own but certainly diasporic racialized ones, call their mom’s cousin’s friend’s sister they grew up with “cousin” and call close women elders “aunt/auntie”
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
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Hey so I think if we want to exist as a society we need to regulate the fuck out of GenAI and I think a big easy first step is keeping it a country mile away from political ads.
Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.
October 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Hey so I think if we want to exist as a society we need to regulate the fuck out of GenAI and I think a big easy first step is keeping it a country mile away from political ads.
[kiddo approaches with a giant glittery pink syringe]
"You need a shot."
"Whoawhoawhoa what kind of shot?"
"It will make you better"
"But what is it?"
"It's from Doc McStuffins!"
"Wow, cool but like is it a medicine or a vaccine?"
"A vaccine!"
"Oh ok, what will it protect me from?"
"Your face!"
"You need a shot."
"Whoawhoawhoa what kind of shot?"
"It will make you better"
"But what is it?"
"It's from Doc McStuffins!"
"Wow, cool but like is it a medicine or a vaccine?"
"A vaccine!"
"Oh ok, what will it protect me from?"
"Your face!"
October 20, 2025 at 11:40 PM
[kiddo approaches with a giant glittery pink syringe]
"You need a shot."
"Whoawhoawhoa what kind of shot?"
"It will make you better"
"But what is it?"
"It's from Doc McStuffins!"
"Wow, cool but like is it a medicine or a vaccine?"
"A vaccine!"
"Oh ok, what will it protect me from?"
"Your face!"
"You need a shot."
"Whoawhoawhoa what kind of shot?"
"It will make you better"
"But what is it?"
"It's from Doc McStuffins!"
"Wow, cool but like is it a medicine or a vaccine?"
"A vaccine!"
"Oh ok, what will it protect me from?"
"Your face!"
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BREAKING: USC HAS JOIN THE RESISTANCE!
That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted.
Stay tuned! 🍿
#DefendHigherEd
#StandUpFightBack
That’s four (MIT, Brown, Penn, USC) of the nine schools Trump targeted.
Stay tuned! 🍿
#DefendHigherEd
#StandUpFightBack
USC rejects Trump education compact aimed at shifting the university to the right
USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer.
www.latimes.com
October 16, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that
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The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter
September 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The label of a drug is close to a sacrosanct document. It represents the trust between the government and the user of the drug that the drug is safe and effective and that all risks and benefits are accurately outlined. Changing it to suit a political agenda is imo an earthshaking matter