There's an exclusive, closed-to-media MAHA summit tomorrow. Here's the full agenda I was leaked
In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations,” says Cory Doctorow.
Do you think unbending Clippy until he was a long piece of metal would be painful for him. Or do you think it would cause him to feel a great sense of relief
NSF GRFP deadline published! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
End of October! Solicitation seemingly on the way
join us for our Science Fair for Suspended Research, sponsored by the UCLA Faculty Association and the UCLA Brain Research Institute! We are reaching out to the public to show the life-saving research that is at stake in the Trump admin's attack on UCLA research!
"We are entranced by such ‘existential risk’ discourse when it comes from a Musk, a Bezos, or others who have fallen into the orbit of the San Francisco consensus. And if we take their dream, we have to take their nightmare too."
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lately I cannot recommend 'The Utopia of Rules' by Graeber often enough. The first two essays were absolutely formative for me and make sense of the cliches about bureaucracy Project 2025 is weaponizing right now
Very efficiency
This guy's only discernible qualification is having worked for Thiel, and his only discernible agenda is to inject "technologists" into the scientific apparatus at every level
Lol
Court accepting updated list of plaintiffs/grantees impacted! MUST BE SUBMITTED BY AUGUST 1st 5pm EST! Please disseminate!!!
Message from ACLU team below:
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Have any major scientific meetings announced plans to leave the USA?
Water has receded to expose the reef in Hanalei Bay as another flight lines up to land at Lihue. Seemingly no issues for aviation over 30 minutes into the tsunami
UAL1805 has landed safely with UAL1170 on final
Most flights have diverted back to mainland except a few over 3 hours out from Honolulu which are still transponding as heading west
Top tracked plane on FlightRadar24 is UAL300 which just diverted back to San Francisco about halfway through the flight
Interested to see what these flights to HNL do as they're slated to land around the same time the first waves do
Utterly infuriating
Lol
Yeah, I don't know how else to interpret the inset figure
Having trouble understanding why anyone would choose to work at Palantir
ChatGPT?
I don't feel that "ChatGPT is dumb to me, actually" is a particularly incisive response to what's happening
I get why everyone is cringing at the New Yorker AI essay but I've noticed that the point some critics are most excited to make is that they simply don't reach for the crutch of AI in their practice; it's not useful or impressive to them; it's dumb to learn from it or even be amused by it, etc
Six minute review of six grants.
Orbit diagram of interstellar object A11pl3Z
FACT THREAD on New Interstellar Object #A11pl3Z
This story unfolded pretty fast yesterday for a few reasons. The object was discovered on July 1st UTC by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS team. A #NASA funded survey at the University of Hawaii. atlas.fallingstar.com 🔭🧪
follow up question: how much does it matter
2P rig question: does anyone have a quick way to assess alignment between pixel clock and laser pulse?
