Also this oral history of the making of cutscenes is a fantastic read. Complete with unexpected appearance by @astrokatie.com and a side discussion of whether there’s capitalism in space?? Everything an oral history should be down to the fantastic kicker.

gwen howerton@kissphoria.bsky.social · 2w ago

I will always love this oral history of how Tim Curry's Command & Conquer Red Alert 3 came to be: www.vice.com/en/article/a...

I wrote “Codebreaker” as a commission from the West Point Jazz Knights. I thought long and hard about whether I would accept a commission from the U.S. Military Academy, and if so, what that piece would be. I settled on a musical tribute to Alan Turing. He was, and remains, my favorite antifascist.

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 2w ago

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

The distinction is important and has been a know issue for years. “Measles” is rarely the cause recorded on an autopsy record or in household surveys; pneumonia or diarrhea (dehydration) at the more likely proximate causes due to secondary infection.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

RIP to a legend

This whole thread, but especially this part. "We're going to steal the intellectual property of your faculty, then demand those faculty find use cases for our lying theft machine."

Kate Jackson@katejackson.bsky.social · 3w ago

It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.

Reminder as fall semester is starting that teaching materials (including lectures + exercises etc.) for my textbook EPIDEMIOLOGY BY DESIGN are available FOR FREE at epidemiologybydesign.com as well as by request to me (including additional, non-public materials if you're a teacher!)

I'm recruiting a postdoc to join a small and collaborative team at UNC focused on causal inference and measurement error in HIV research. Come work with us! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/324... #episky

In honor of the start of the year, reposting my assertion that this scene is the most accurate representation of pre-tenure faculty life that has ever been filmed.

The Good Place Chidi Anagonye

ALT: The Good Place Chidi Anagonye

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Insanity is writing the same regex twice and expecting the same results.

Alina Chan worked hard to remain ignorant of her fellow lab leakers. She knew she couldn’t defend their disinformation so she pretended it didn’t exist and refused to learn about it even though I handed it to her on a silver platter. Toxic apathy.

Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 3w ago

Listen how Jay Bhattacharya treats a low rate of a mild, temporary vaccine side effect more seriously than a higher rate of *literal death* from COVID.

Preparing my pep talk for the incoming grad students. (The joke is that the explanations will fail.)

Woah.

I knew I saved this for a reason!

Spokane residents impacted by the wildfires can replace lost or destroyed birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates at no cost. Under the governor’s Emergency Proclamation, we can waive fees for replacement certificates for those affected by the fires.

It's so cute when people on the east coast talk about mountains

Applications for the 2027 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships are open! Katrin Schmelz just completed SFI’s Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowship, and she reflects on what the experience meant to her. Deadline: September 30, 2026 Requirements & application: santafe.edu/sfifellowship

Academic lies I tell myself: "This paper is like 400 words over the limit, but that'll be easy to cut." Reader, it is never easy.

GUYS. www.science.org/content/arti...

Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet

“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder

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The whole "We must work with MAHA" takes aged like Taylor Farms lettuce.

I've met Dr Fauci and have two publications with him He has advised seven U.S. presidents across 50+ years of public service The man is a public health legend To see him being treated so badly is gutting

Any "If public health could only communicate better..." talk I go to from now on actively needs a section on robustness (or more accurately lack thereof) to bad actors in positions of power to have any credibility whatsoever.

Somewhere there's an interesting study to be made of trends in propaganda and misinformation in Quora questions.

In my opinion, the appeal of the lab leak hypothesis has always been that it makes the world deterministic, and moves the pandemic back into the realm of politics. Someone Bad did a Bad Thing and Needs to Be Punished. It is soothing in its righteousness.

In retrospect, the weirdest part of turning 40 as a dude was suddenly possessing the ability to fall asleep in chairs with remarkable ease.

The fact that this image is not of Matt Damon but of his lil ripped lady stunt double is 🤌

DiscussingFilm@discussingfilm.net · 2mo ago

‘THE ODYSSEY’ is now tracking to pass $1 billion worldwide in its box office run. It is expected to become Christopher Nolan's highest grossing film ever.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands