Yf you spye a fadid signe at the syde of the roade that saith 'V short leagues to the Shack of Love'
A Chinese shoe manufacturer made this video to show how indestructible their shoes are and y'all I'm much too gay for this 🥵
Common loon coming in for a landing: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...
“I have done all of the things that one is supposed to do to earn a tenure-track position. And I have done approximately 85% of them by typing prompts into a large language model and then moderately editing the output.” 🤣🤣🤣 brilliant 👌🏽 open.substack.com/pub/inprepar...
Opinion: I Was Not Allowed To Type Prompts Into ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk And This Is Discrimination
By Dr. Rachel Simmons, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
open.substack.com
Gift link to the NYT summary of “Magnifica Humanitas,” Pope Leo’s encyclical on A.I. and humanity, and here are some extra significant bits that have to do with labor and the dignity of the worker www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/w...
His delivery was excellent, but if you’d rather read the speech there’s a transcript up as well: www.wesleyan.edu/about/news/2...
Chris Murphy Hon. ’26: “Don’t Just Take the Slow Road; Design It”
wesleyan.edu
I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)
"At some point if the ship doesn’t turn around, maybe it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along and is named Donald Trump."
The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
theguardian.com
My column in Chemistry World reads a little differently this month:
‘The truth is supremely valuable and we cannot lie our way to it’
As a scientist with family in Iran, Derek Lowe finds his own government's approach to truth alarming
chemistryworld.com
"I was told in no uncertain terms what my vote would unleash. I then cast that vote for Harris, and today, as the world map again looks like a supercharged holiday display of twinkling critical alerts, it’s hard not to recognize the throughline from my ballot to cable news chyron."
Congratulations to Me, a Kamala Harris Voter, Who Got Exactly What I Voted For
“Trump’s best foreign policy? Not starting any wars… He has my support in 2024 because I know he won’t recklessly send Americans to fight overseas....
buff.ly
“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead… “All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away
Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.
statnews.com
THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...
Michelle Obama says the US is not ready for a female President
Crystal clear reflection & pastel tones from Greenland… Perfect set up to compliment our red sails boats ☺️⛵️.
Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇
The front page of the New York Times, July 31, 1965, showing LBJ signing the Medicare and Medicaid Act of 1965 into law in the presence of Harry Truman.
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA’s Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information wit...
theonion.com
When political cartoons are a perfect reflection of reality based on the fictional book you wrote…
New Orleans students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson, credited with solving the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, have discovered nine more solutions to the problem
Louisiana students who solved the Pythagorean theorem discover nine more solutions to it
The student's discoveries were confirmed by the math community this week after their proofs were published in the American Mathematical Monthly.
nola.com
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day. On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)
Look I don’t care how you spell it I just need to know where to go
Did you feel the EARTH MOVE this morning? That is but a TASTE of MY POWER. If MY DEMANDS are not met within the next 72 HOURS, then I shall BLOT OUT THE SUN. The clock is ticking.