I couldn’t help but wonder if this was an Onion article. At its root this is terrifying, and could be the way AI really does end us, by turning us against each other. This is no longer a movie, it is reality.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5h ago

Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights

With all this talk of dangers of AI, the 80s movie War Games should be required viewing.

My quote of the day It was working men and women who made the 20th century the American century. It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. Barack Obama

Trump promised “America First” but his administration is now secretly trying to steal money Congress legally obligated for cancer and other medical research to help cover the costs of his reckless and unnecessary war in Iran. It's wrong and illegal.

Bloomberg Government@bgov.com · last wk.

The Department of Defense is attempting to redirect National Institute of Health money to bolster the Pentagon’s budget, according to the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee.

My quote of the day Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation. Loren Eiseley

This is spot on! We need to change our reward structure and redefine what is truly important in #academia! Our #future as scientists depends on it. We are failing ourselves and failing the next generation!

Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last wk.

THIS

My quote of the day The best mind-altering drug is the truth. Lily Tomlin

My quote of the day The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on. Warren Buffett

My quote of the day It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. Charles Kettering

My quote of the day It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment. Ansel Adams

Seeing posts about #Dolly and was she political. And I think we all completely miss the point. #Dolly didn’t tell us who she voted for or what political party she supported. She led by example, did good for this world and didn’t attach a party label. We should #ListenToTheWoman and follow her lead!

My quote of the day Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting. Martin Sheen

Today is #WomensEqualityDay. We’re proud that women make up 9 of our 20 Officers and Board Members, five of the last 10 AACR Presidents have been women, and #WomenInScience constitute 45% of our membership.

The field is set and I’m ready to bring this election home.

so rare and beautiful when someone famous dies, and all the secret GOOD things they did start to surface. RIP Dolly, you were an icon and an inspiration

Meatwad Ron: Summer of Ron@wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fuck she was just so pure

Live your life so that when you pass, the world joins together in a solemn remembrance of your good work, charity, and love. Don't live your life so that when it happens, the opposite occurs.

#Dolly also supported my kids first #library while I was a PhD student in Nashville. I couldn’t wait each month to see what book we would get to read to them each night.

Thomas Lecaque@tlecaque.bsky.social · 3w ago

I started my PhD program with an eight week old at home, sole income being my doctoral stipend, in a history program, in Knoxville, TN. And every month we got a new book to read to my son, free, mailed to us, so my kid, my kids, grew up in rooms full of books even when I had no money. That's Dolly.

This feels like Betty White all over again. Just whyyyyy

I’d also like to note: everyone in higher education, science, biotech/pharma, STEM anything, etc. who is trying to appease this man and his crew of grifters, you look dumb now and you’re going to look OBSCENELY STUPID later down the line. Preserve your dignity. Fight back.

What a different world we would live in if we believed the women.

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 3w ago

My quote of the day Eunice Newton Foote (1856) [Carbonic acid gas is CO2]

I am talking to my MoC! Are you? #repeal #OMB #StandUpForScience

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · 3w ago

The OMB Rule will put all federal grant funding in the hands of political appointees, not experts. We need MoCs to permanently #RevokeTheRule. Visit the link to contact your MoCs: zurl.co/JayNi #OMB #Vought #Science #StandUpForScience

Couldn’t make it up if we tried

My quote of the day Sally Yates

Just posting this because, as of yesterday, the US national debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time. The GOP: the party of fiscal responsibility. 🥴

My quote of the day I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend. Robert Redford

These results fall into the category of 'overwhelming evidence.' #GlobalHeating

Good evening (Apostle Island, WI)

Congress established the Kennedy Center as a living memorial for President John F. Kennedy. Do you know how much a depraved pathetic immoral evil scumbag one would have to be to keep trying to illegally put their disgusting name on it?

"All In The Family".......

My quote of the day My belief is in the chaos of the world and that you have to find your peace within the chaos and that you still have to find some sort of mission. Ta-Nehisi Coates