You would imagine that this would increase the media’s negative coverage of Trump, but the most likely scenario is that we get an interview where a journalist earnestly asks “are you concerned about the safety of your pool” and he’ll say “no, I don’t care about you” and his approval will jump 10 pts

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

NEWSMAX: The media is freaking out over the president swapping planes in Turkey. Some are saying journalists' lives were put in danger. What's the White House's reaction? KUSH DESAI: Leave it to the mainstream media to try to make the story about themselves

It’s embarrassing to admit, but I’m becoming more accepting of data centers as the reasons for opposing them become more and more nebulous. “Data centers are bad because they use too much electricity, which is why everyone should switch to running their own servers for AI”

Nature@nature.com · 3d ago

Researchers must take the lead on how to deploy AI tools, while reducing the reliance on massive data centres go.nature.com/4g3BAlo

The Mitch McConnell situation is the ultimate litmus test for determining if someone cares about governance or just vibes. McConnell being dead weight in the Senate is basically the best case scenario! Why would Beshear want to call an election to replace him?

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Garcia: This is ridiculous. I think Governor Beshear is right. We need proof that McConnell is actually serving the people. We had another member of Congress who was out for months. No one had any idea what was going on. The public deserved transparency.

They should have included the LeVar Burton full frontal and BlueSky would’ve added a zero to these numbers

The Numbers@thenumbers.bsky.social · 6d ago

One Night Only, featuring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner, launched with an estimated $2.81M on Friday from 3,012 theaters, including previews. www.the-numbers.com/movie/One-Ni... #BoxOffice #OneNightOnly #MonicaBarbaro #CallumTurner @thenumbers.bsky.social

I have a “friend who is too woke” take about this but it’s not important because the rest of the paper is so overwhelmingly obviously created by AI. Also there are a handful of “red flag” fields that I basically assume to be junk science if the results are not published in a notable journal.

Sholto David@sholtodavid.bsky.social · last wk.

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

This is actually very upsetting to me because how does this animation fit with the declared meaning of the logo? The “overlapping rings” is not part of the logo! The logo is supposed to include 4 “atoms” connected by the arcs.

Brendan@chemscrapes.bsky.social · last wk.

Did folks realise that when you mouse over the ACS logo on their header, it’s animated. I need a cold shower. #chemsky

This Wolf Alice cover of the Roches’ “Hammond Song” is exceptional. open.spotify.com/track/2aR3Hs...

Hammond Song

Wolf Alice · The Clearing (B Sides) · Song · 2026

open.spotify.com

They’re calling this the Most Bluesky Discourse of all time

gwen pepperoni 🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼🍕@gwenpepperoni.myatproto.social · 2w ago

I wish people who care about trans people could understand that playing nyt games is still an insult to trans people

It’s baffling to me that non-Republicans want Mitch McConnell to be replaced. He’s hoarding a seat and not voting, so the best case scenario is that he does this for as long as possible.

Maybe someday ChemDraw will have an AI “Generate” feature which lets you generate a structure that you can spend your PhD trying to synthesize.

Adobe Illustrator has some of the most egregiously annoying AI features in the 2026 edition and I might roll it back to an older version. If you crop an image but extend your crop further than the original, it automatically switches to “Generate” mode. That’s the opposite!

It’s gotta be relatively simple to vibe code something like ChemDraw with AI, right? It’s a bunch of lines with a sample library and pre-set constraints.

BCCE’s in town but there’s no Al D. Hyde and the Keytones? What a waste.

Let me tell you, this match does *not* help soccer’s reputation in the U.S.

Oh now they’re using the kids because we can’t talk shit

This is like when you do a group project but your group doesn’t actually get together to meet until the day before the deadline

This might be the most shameless attempt I’ve ever seen to please as many people as possible

It smells like every person on this bus has extreme body odor. Yet another item added to my list of reasons to not work on weekends.

There are several variables in play*, but I got a cat (that I’m allergic to) and have been feeding him the Purina allergen-reducing food and after 3 weeks I don’t really notice any extra allergy issues. (I’m taking ~2 Claritin or Allegra per day and it’s possible my body has just accepted its fate)

I keep getting emails “from” Chris Pappas telling me about John Sununu and I need New Hampshire to keep their Dr Seuss politics to themselves

Am I missing some reason that X-rays would be uniquely impressive in space? I can’t understand why this is an achievement for anybody other than the x-ray machine maker

Gizmodo@gizmodo.com · last mo.

Behold: The First Medical X-rays Ever Taken in Space https://gizmodo.com/behold-the-first-medical-x-rays-ever-taken-in-space-2000785035

I think we should just be irradiating all of our food with gamma rays (I’m not joking)

I think the Daylight Saving Time issue is very silly because it already works very well. Maybe we can go back to the pre-2007 schedule but I can’t be convinced that the twice yearly clock change is that big of a deal.

This is wild but the responses to the person being injured are even more wild

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last mo.

A tourist was seriously injured after being thrown 8 feet into the air by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Professional photographer Mike Macleod filmed the incident.

It’s really funny to me that they included the newspaper but tried to make it look casual enough and not like an obvious proof-of-life thing (that’s today’s WaPo)

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: Mitch McConnell says he was hospitalized because of a fall and developed mild pneumonia, in first statement on his condition. His office released this photo:

Novichok would be the most dramatic development to this. I don’t know if the country would survive whatever happens after that.

Lindsey Graham couldn’t help himself from stealing the spotlight one final time

The business school may be winning in the degrees conferred metric, but here at UW-Madison the physical and natural sciences are winning in the more important metric: access to chilled water and air conditioning

Chemjobber@chemjobber.bsky.social · last mo.

NCES: "Of the 2.0 million bachelor’s degrees conferred in 2021–22, some 58 percent were concentrated in six fields of study: business (19%) health professions/related (13%) social sciences and history (7%) biological and biomedical sciences (7%) psychology (6%) engineering (6%)

This thread is about pedagogy, but I think it’s applicable to about everything that involves interacting with people and work created by people. “Trust but verify” is well known!

Jake Wright@bcnjake.bsky.social · last mo.

So there are a lot of people talking about this IHE story because, like @kjhealy.co says, this is basically lab-grown to stimulate The Discourse. I want to say something about how what happened here relates to what Jeff Moro calls Cop Shit and why this was handled exceptionally well.