I love this new world we live in where when I call a phone number, a robot speaks to me in English and I respond with a series of beeps and numbers

Whoa. That’s an Overton Shift.

Jay Willis@jaywillis.net · 4w ago

Kind of a buried lede in the results of this Supreme Court approval rating poll from Marquette: Overall support for Supreme Court expansion, which even Democratic politicians were dismissing as "radical" just a few years ago, is now at 53 percent today.marquette.edu/2026/09/marq...

Russell Vought is helping to rig the midterm elections. He is trying to hurt disabled & elderly voters because the fascists know that their policies are screwing these groups of people.

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last mo.

A new rule from OMB would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restrict voting access. This rule would disproportionately affect disabled and elderly voters. Fight back: buff.ly/vLsBDoC

The specifics of this are pretty bad, but “a rule against using federal money to register people to vote” is already on its face pretty inexcusable; declaring voter registration to be outside the federal interest is a bold and ugly move.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.

Hi don't use VoteSafe dot org Elon Musk created it to capture all your personal data for his pro-fascist super PAC

VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE! The Missouri Supreme Court just unanimously ruled to reverse the gerrymandered, anti-democracy maps until THE PEOPLE have a chance to vote. This is only possible because of the work done by our neighbors to gather signatures and fight back!

Aaandd we’re back! Excited for this seasons line up of stellar speakers! 🍝🤓 Sign up: idpseminars.com Hope to see you next week!

IDPSeminars@idpseminars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

IDPSeminars is BACK for its 22nd season (!!). A fantastic new line up of speakers for Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec! Register at idpseminars.com. First seminar NEXT WEEK (Sept 3rd!) at 10 AM Pacific/1 PM Eastern/ 7 PM EU!

YouTube’s RSS feeds are broken. I wrote about it. alexkeeley.net?p=2026-07-07_0

Fantastic except from @thomaszimmer.bsky.social’s great two-parter on Reconstruction thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/multiracia...

Papers are like buses... You wait for ages, then two come along at once. Huge congrats to @bornanovak.bsky.social and @jefflotthammer.bsky.social for pushing and driving every aspect of this work, preprinted ~1 year ago to the day (Friday before BPS), now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Accurate predictions of disordered protein ensembles with STARLING - Nature

The deep learning model STARLING can generate accurate ensembles of intrinsically disordered regions of proteins using only protein sequence as input.

nature.com

Borna Novak@bornanovak.bsky.social · 2y ago

Excited to announce the newest member of the flock - STARLING (conSTruction of intrinsicAlly disoRdered proteins ensembles efficientLy vIa multi-dimeNsional Generative models). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

It's hard not to feel like I have a responsibility to be a better writer about the state of the world. Paradoxically the only way to improve is to write, so I'm trying to write about things, and maybe in doing so learn to do it better. Some thoughts on modern American protest…

Extremely jarring to learn that Mark McCloskey, previously best known to me and mine for brandishing an assault weapon at BLM protestors in my hometown, is now representing the pardoned January 6th rioters in their pursuit of retribution? Not surprising, necessarily, just jarring.

“What really comes out of the National Security Strategy… is that the priority of the U.S. government is U.S. corporations… What this government is essentially saying is that governments are neoliberal puppets of corporations. And so we need to apply this to foreign policy.”

Trump’s Monroe Doctrine 2.0 Outlines Imperial Intentions for Latin America

The administration’s National Security Strategy signals a return to more outwardly interventionist policies.

truthout.org

Great @voiceofsandiego.org piece on hostile architecture in SD (and all over) and how it does nothing to actually alleviate homelessness! We can all benefit from more empathy and better public spaces. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/12/04/s...

San Diego Doesn’t Want You to Take a Seat

The lack of benches is a small piece of the larger culture of exclusion that’s been embraced in cities across the nation.

voiceofsandiego.org

In retrospect I do think it was confusing to be taught the words manifest (list of things and people on a ship) and manifest (destiny) around the same time as a child

Just heard a pet insurance ad use the line “your pet is your therapist”… I hope they know a therapy dog is VERY DIFFERENT than a dog who is a therapist

I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ

Almost every time I wonder aloud why some terrible staircase or path was built on the UCSD campus (primarily constructed in the early-mid 60s), I’m informed I’m looking at anti-protest architecture. Sometimes things work poorly because they’re meant to.

Lol, Zillow tried to rate the climate risks facing individual properties. The real estate industry *hated* it, precisely because it worked -- it made selling risky properties more difficult. So they rebelled & Zillow caved. Don't look up!

Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings

nytimes.com

Did you just get THAT misleading text from the Republicans? If you believe that out of state billionaires have no place in Missouri politics, ignore them and sign a petition to defend your constitutional rights as soon as you can! Who listens to random texts anyways?

Had the amazing opportunity tonight to meet a personal hero, the inimitable @moiradonegan.bsky.social , who it turns out is even cooler in person!! Thanks for a great show and for being so kind!

Ah yes; everyone’s favorite science communicator… Tom Yum @tomlumperson.bsky.social

I love discovering a Wikipedia page which was clearly written with love.

A little worrying to see newsrooms (ie NPR today) conceding Charlie Kirk’s murder as an act of “left wing political violence” in the face of the admin repeatedly claiming that, when the evidence we have is at best indicative of an anti-right wing bent, which is not actually the same.

@xylafoxlin.bsky.social so many congratulations on getting your medical and for all your hard work helping so many others do the same in an unfair system— we’ve all been rooting for you!

The US government suing for the right to racially profile brown folks, winning the court case, and then self righteously denying any racial profiling in ICE operations is preposterous. They’re asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes.

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

Is there any evidence that candidates blindly chasing poll numbers (and then letting that guide their eventual policies) actually wins elections? It's one thing if it's a necessary evil, but I'm thoroughly unconvinced that things like "don't talk about x because it isn't polling high" are even real.

This @motherjones.com story and specifically this plot that sums it up is... pretty stunning. Sevenfold spending increase by ICE on small arms this year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@tpwky.bsky.social hi friends, love the pod! No idea how much control you have over this side of things but it is a little bit jarring to keep smash cutting from firsthand accounts of the horrors of famine to cheery LEGO ads about spaceships… maybe a gentler transition or different ad order?