Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Grothendieck wrote of how the gradual buildup of results in algebraic geometry is like a slowly rising sea.

But from the student's perspective, it looks like this. 😆

this suuucks

right now, it is literally the most important it has ever been to understand the intellectual histories of zionism and anti-zionism. and this bullshit scapegoating the admin is doing is making that harder.

this isn’t zionism either, it’s christofascist antiintellectualism

The script as provided by Chakobsa language creator David Peterson had the word Lekis “sand dune” originally.

They’re using American tax dollars to fund infrastructure in Argentina because that’s where they’re all going to flee when we kick them out of office

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

Not a joke but TIL that Isherwood translated the Gita 11:32 as

“I am come as Time, the waster of peoples”

Gloss for reference:

कालोऽस्मि लोकक्षयकृत्प्रवृद्धो

kālaḥ asmi loka-kṣaya-kṛt-pravṛddhaḥ

time:NOM be:1sg:PRS world-destruction-done-grown:forth-NOM

I feel like Joseph Heller had their number back in the 60's in Catch-22 and I still think of this quote whenever I hear farm owners complaining about socialism or benefits or taxes. It was a short little aside but it stuck with me for like 25 years.

This will be my new generic descriptor for LLMs.

America's oldest public school, devoting itself to trendy world-boiling brain-frying nonsense. Shame!!

🚨SPOILERS🚨: I wrote about the ~ENDING~ of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER; what it says about the past, present, and future of this country; and how beautifully it envisions an "I have friends everywhere" mode of resistance. again, SPOILERS. at @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/one-...

They didn't try to fix slavery, they forgot about the bill of rights until later, the only thing they cared about was if we're gonna have a real national government instead of a confederation staffed like a volunteer fire department, how do we avoid the Charles I Scenario, and now we're in it

If the President can raise his own revenues and direct his own spending without congressional approval we are squarely in the only situation the Constitution was actually drafted to avoid: English civil war territory

A FAST FOOD WORKER MAKING MINIMUM WAGE: I got fired for giving a customer Coke Zero instead of Diet Coke

A MIDDLE MANAGER MAKING SIX FIGURES: I made a report based on vibes. A robot wrote it for me. It is at least 55% correct

Fascism: assigning blame for all the problems caused by capitalism to minorities in order to defend the interests of the capitalist class.

Et voila.

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Mild Spoilers for One Battle After Another
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The lair of the CAC being located underneath the Reagans’ actual mansion in Sacramento is an absolutely fantastic joke.

Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

/smuð læŋ.ɡə.wɪd͡ʒ/

David Cross folks.