Our long national nightmare of minimizing toxic chemicals in our food is finally over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
FDA may allow some toxic chemicals to be added to food without safety review. Experts are alarmed
Regulator looks to expand loophole to allow dangerous compounds in food as long as they’re not carcinogenic
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#9albums sourced by data from the amazing #MusicBrainz Music influences arising in places where I’ve lived 1. Farmington, New Mexico 2. Salt Lake City, Utah (early) 3. Salt Lake City, Utah (later) 4. Berkeley, CA 5. New Haven - NYC 6. London 7. Pittsburgh, PA 8. Smithville, TX & SAMW 9. Houston ,TX
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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A useful approach to the limitations of LLMs trained on what we already know. That the DOGE punks confidently gutted science because "AI will cure cancer" incenses me. Science advances precisely at the margin between what we know and what we don't -- any real advance depends on a *surprise*.
Today, 1,152 NAS members/Nobel Laureates (as private individuals) sent a letter to Congress regarding the cuts to science being proposed by the Administration, and currently going through the House and Senate Appropriations Committees. tinyurl.com/5n7y7853 @standupforscience.bsky.social
Letter to Congress Requesting Protection of Science Funding in the FY26 Budget
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Lab meeting here today.
(Screams From The) Burning Ambulance@burningambulance.bsky.social · last yr.Houston people: Matthew Shipp will be performing two solo shows at Rothko Chapel today. His new album The Cosmic Piano comes out today; I wrote about it (and about his solo work more broadly) last week: burningambulance.substack.com/p/the-solo-m...
Sharon Dent inducted to the National Academy of Sciences #nas162 @ekoutelou.bsky.social @srdent47.bsky.social @angelating.bsky.social @francescacole.bsky.social
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks. https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
go.nature.com
Rustling in frustration because you missed #yearinmusic? If you are a #lastfm user then you’re in luck! We (re)generate YIM next week, so there’s still time to sign up and import your 2024 listens and get a YIM: listenbrainz.org Not a lfm user? Sign up now and we’ll get you sorted for YIM 2025 🍃
Listenbrainz keeps track of your listening and is non-commercial free, and is great fun. 2024 stats out today. @listenbrainz.org #yearinmusic
Happy holidays! Who is doing some holiday MusicBrainz editing? You’re not alone, it seems a lot of people unwind by entering some data - me included! MusicBrainz just hit an all time high, with 43,000+ daily edits. -a
Most “favorite of year” lists came out in November; now that it’s mid-December, here’s mine. Ten 2024 “jazz” releases that I especially enjoy: #bestof2024 #jazz 2024 Geoff Stradling & the Stradband – Nimble Digits (Origin Records) Josephine Davies – Weatherwards (Whirlwind Recordings)
