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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
This graph makes me want to cry.
davidho.bsky.social David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4d
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
January 20, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
People just getting through the day — walking the dog, eating sandwiches, combing their hair, things of that nature — in a world where the United States is making real plans to INVADE GREENLAND
January 14, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Or, as Ned himself puts it more provocatively: Can Only Meat Machines Be Conscious?

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Ned Block, Can only meat machines be conscious? - PhilArchive
Computational functionalism claims that executing certain computations is suf- cient for consciousness, regardless of the physical mechanisms implementing those computations. This view neglects a comp...
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January 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | December 2025. A few personal-advice questions (which I'm not great at), and several people who want to imagine they could be Laplace's Demon. My advice is that you are not Laplace's Demon. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape podcast AMA episode, Dec 2025.
December 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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drewtoothpaste.bsky.social
my guide to intermittent fasting
INTERMITTENT FASTING 1. No food for eternity 2. Eat as much as you want for 0-122 years 3. No food for eternity
December 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke.

IG bscomedian
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Featuring (among other things) something that AI is demonstrably better at than a typical human: talking people out of their conspiratorial beliefs. Unlimited patience really is a virtue.
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | October 2025. Hopefully this one answers once and for all why the universe isn't a black hole if it was so densely packed at early times. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape AMA episode.
October 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 331 | Solo: Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse. In which I shamelessly steal material from the #PhilosophyOfCosmology course I am teaching to talk about some big questions. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode on Fine-Tuning, God, and the Multiverse.
October 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 329 | Steven Pinker on Rationality and Common Knowledge. #MindscapePodcast

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www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape episode with Steven Pinker.
September 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape Ask Me Anything | September 2025. Entropic gravity, democratic equilibrium, discrete space, exorcising Laplace's Demon, and so much more. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape AMA, Sept 2025.
September 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Today in QM1: just a basic motivational overview. I will give a quick summary of what quantum mechanics actually is, then some (logically reconstructed) history: blackbody radiation, photons, Bohr atom, de Broglie waves.

We're using David Tong's brand new book: www.amazon.com/Quantum-Mech...
Quantum Mechanics: Volume 3: Lectures on Theoretical Physics
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August 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Mindscape 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics. We go on for a while. #MindscapePodcast

www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025...
Title card for Mindscape Podcast episode with Jacob Barandes
July 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
nofilternihilist.bsky.social
www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-as...
Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan
Telling children they will go to hell for not joining religious activities will be regarded as abuse. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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July 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
What does it take, man. They’ve arrested mayors, broken into Congressman’s offices. Does anyone doubt they would arrest governors or Senators? What line needs to be crossed before we all recognize this as lawless authoritarianism?
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 9
JUST NOW — Trump says Homan should arrest Governor Gavin Newsom: "I would do it if I were Tom. I think it's great. I think it would be a great thing.”
June 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
nofilternihilist.bsky.social
when pretty white women are targeted, the rest of us are in big, big, big trouble
youranoncentral.bsky.social Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Jun 9
Australian Journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social targeted and shot with a rubber bullet by LAPD, collaborating with Trump regime ICE forces, live on air. The regime loyalist took aim at the press and fired. #StopICE
June 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
We could have just had a normal president and a functioning country.

I hope that going forward, the “both parties are the same” motto gets laughed out of polite discourse as the cheap cynicism it always was.
April 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
Working on zeroing out all my trade deficits. Whenever I go to a store to buy things, I'm going to demand that the store buy goods from me of precisely equal value. I'm going to be so goddamned autonomous.
April 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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seanmcarroll.bsky.social
The United States is like that trope of the bully grabbing the weakling’s arms, hitting him with his own hands, and going “Stop punching yourself! Why are you punching yourself?”

Except there is no bully. Just us, the weakling. Punching ourselves.
March 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
nofilternihilist.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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despitewisdom.bsky.social
"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

Albert Camus

#Philsky
January 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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prettiewings.bsky.social
“The people who built their heaven on your land are telling you yours is in the sky “ ~Nina Simone #blacksky
December 13, 2024 at 2:08 PM