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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
April 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
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I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I'm painfully tired of honey bees still getting the most attention when they're not native to North America. They're basically livestock and outcompete our native bees. We do NOT need more urban hives.
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
So please, let's some some of our glorious wild bees for a change!
#Invertebrates
this is how I approached essays in undergrad (while deeply unwell)
Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…
pivot-to-ai.com
April 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
this is how I approached essays in undergrad (while deeply unwell)
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Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
Ilya Sutskever, ex-OpenAI, gets $2b funding not to release anything until he has ‘super intelligence’
Ex-OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever’s new startup Safe Superintelligence just closed another funding round. For $2 billion, Sutskever promises not to release any product at all until SSI has develop…
pivot-to-ai.com
March 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/06/i...
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BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
April 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
BREAKING: Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez has been released. This is the moment he reunited with his mom.
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Dems Don’t Get Outflanked to the Left By Recovering Neocons Challenge (Day 2)
i am going to Lose My Fucking Mind if the seed crystal for an antifascist general strike ends up being david fucking brooks
Opinion | Time for a Civic Uprising (Gift Article)
It will take a concerted effort by every sector of our society to respond to Trumpism’s threat.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Dems Don’t Get Outflanked to the Left By Recovering Neocons Challenge (Day 2)
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one of my sources of optimism right now is that the bedfellows are becoming powerful strange
Trump has turned the George Mason University libertarians into revolutionaries
April 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
one of my sources of optimism right now is that the bedfellows are becoming powerful strange
chaos is a ladder, except instead of petyr baelish it is always ralph wiggum climbing it
April 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
chaos is a ladder, except instead of petyr baelish it is always ralph wiggum climbing it
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An example of how dishonest RFK is: Vanderbilt had a very successful training program for neurodivergent researchers in STEM disciplines that had graduated two dozen Ph.D.s with autism, and was seen as a model for other institutions. Last week, NSF cut the funds and killed the program.
The full quote from RFK, Jr. is truly disgusting and this is 100% him calling for institutionalization of autistic people. This is horrifying.
April 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
An example of how dishonest RFK is: Vanderbilt had a very successful training program for neurodivergent researchers in STEM disciplines that had graduated two dozen Ph.D.s with autism, and was seen as a model for other institutions. Last week, NSF cut the funds and killed the program.
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the plan is to end American science research
all of it, no exceptions
other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole
all of it, no exceptions
other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole
The plan for NIH is in, source with full 64 page proposal for all of HHS is linked. Reported in WaPo. This is catastrophic. Reduction to 8 centers. 40% cut in budget. 15% IDC cap. This will decimate science across America open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
April 17, 2025 at 12:08 AM
the plan is to end American science research
all of it, no exceptions
other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole
all of it, no exceptions
other countries simply will not be able to fill the gaps here, this is just a shocking devastation of human scientific progress as a whole
is kevin hart just willing to take literally any ad contract he comes across
April 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
is kevin hart just willing to take literally any ad contract he comes across
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One of the things that really doesn't interest me about the current political moment is actually 'can we win?'
I mean, I think we can, but I don't care.
The weight of 250 years of suffering and striving propels us forward, it would do that even if the cause were hopeless.
I mean, I think we can, but I don't care.
The weight of 250 years of suffering and striving propels us forward, it would do that even if the cause were hopeless.
bluesky can be a bit of a torment nexus sometimes, so the conversation with kristol and longwell is a bit of a tonic: this guy can be stopped and we can stop him. you can be clear-eyed about the threat and also a happy warrior.
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-can-...
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-can-...
Trump Can Be Stopped — Here’s How | Bulwark on Sunday with Bill Kristol & Sarah Longwell
This week on Bulwark on Sunday, Sarah Longwell joins Bill Kristol to tell you exactly what to do to stop Trump’s corruption and chaos.
www.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
One of the things that really doesn't interest me about the current political moment is actually 'can we win?'
I mean, I think we can, but I don't care.
The weight of 250 years of suffering and striving propels us forward, it would do that even if the cause were hopeless.
I mean, I think we can, but I don't care.
The weight of 250 years of suffering and striving propels us forward, it would do that even if the cause were hopeless.
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For a second I was like where is this lunatic trash screenshot coming from and then I remembered that this is what they post on the official white house website now
The White House cites an NPR feature that states "banana slugs are hermaphrodites" as a reason to cease public funding of the network.
But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...
But banana slugs literally are hermaphrodites! Like that is just a scientific fact!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_...
April 15, 2025 at 2:43 AM
For a second I was like where is this lunatic trash screenshot coming from and then I remembered that this is what they post on the official white house website now
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men make their own history: haha fuck yeah!! yes!!
but not under circumstances of their own choosing: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck
but not under circumstances of their own choosing: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck
April 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
men make their own history: haha fuck yeah!! yes!!
but not under circumstances of their own choosing: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck
but not under circumstances of their own choosing: well this fucking sucks. what the fuck
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continue to be just dumbfounded that the fake problems election gave us the real problems presidency
April 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
continue to be just dumbfounded that the fake problems election gave us the real problems presidency
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"One of the darkest days in American history" is absolutely right.
April 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
"One of the darkest days in American history" is absolutely right.
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It's completely fair to speculate that things like anti-vaxxer cultural indulgences, & talk of needing a more masculine military are all expressions of this lack of perspective. Even Elon Musk pretending Polytopia is a smarter game than chess is part of this inescapable moral levity.
In short, we are governed by children. Even the Boomers had Vietnam, & the bad old days of the Cold War, now the closest thing to a harrowing experience our prime-earning generation ever had is COVID.
April 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It's completely fair to speculate that things like anti-vaxxer cultural indulgences, & talk of needing a more masculine military are all expressions of this lack of perspective. Even Elon Musk pretending Polytopia is a smarter game than chess is part of this inescapable moral levity.
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This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
April 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This, from the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
great energy at the hands off march in DC today. but also, in the thick of the crowd by the Washington monument, about 20 yards from a group of protestors energetically doing the 'no fascist USA' chant to some drums, a guy set up an amp and started playing Wagon Wheel
April 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
great energy at the hands off march in DC today. but also, in the thick of the crowd by the Washington monument, about 20 yards from a group of protestors energetically doing the 'no fascist USA' chant to some drums, a guy set up an amp and started playing Wagon Wheel