While the recent 3–7% budget cut for US research is better than the 33% reduction originally feared, money isn't the only thing at stake.
We’re seeing a massive shift at the NIH toward top-down control that risks gutting the decentralized model that made US science a superpower.
#AcademicSky
THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!
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“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking
One cannot make sense of this without understanding white supremacy
At long last, I sent my first story in for submission this year.
NEwVoRK GOLD RUSH Is This the Year the Oscars Finally Embrace Hunks? By Nate Jones from VULTURE For too long, one group of actors has been cruelly locked out of Academy Awards consideration: young hot men. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images, Samir Hussein Wirelmage
ok I MUST SPEAK ON THIS: love that little freak timothee downnnn down down but in what WORLD is he a HUNK???? a hunk!!!! @kn8.bsky.social I’m sorry pal but I could not stay silent (great piece tho)
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Gah, it is a guilty pleasure.
Keeping a human fed and trained so that they can work and pursue their various life aspirations, is an objective, not a method.
May I add Julian Corbett, for Clauswitz of the seas?
There has been a real reluctance for people to say too much about ICE’s continued occupation in Minnesota because the headline was that ICE was leaving.
But ICE has consistently made statements themselves that they are only changing tactics—not withdrawing altogether.
Photo of 7 year old Diana Crespo sitting with her parents at a table in a restaurant. Her dad is giving a thumbs up.
The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley.
Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo.
Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles.
Get them out!
Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined).
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This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Yeah, welcome to the club.
every Signal chat of laypeople is losing their minds over the wildest opsec advice imaginable and every Signal chat of security professionals is like “dude wtf”
The vast majority of problems can be avoided by not being foolish, being aware of your surroundings, and using common sense
Every Holocaust scholar I know emphasizes that the reason to study its singularities, but to connect it to other past and present forms of violence, to try and learn from the former and stop the latter. Whereas bad actors try to use its singularities to avoid both learning and stopping.
When your “rights” are used to justify your public extrajudicial execution, it only becomes clearer what this has always been about: power
Rest in power. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.
it's easy to blame rubes in flyover country for the nation's current predicament, but the fact of the matter is that a lot of it is down to years and years of elite moral and epistemic derangement, elite cowardice, and elite failure to overcome the collective action problem
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Wow, that really is a picture for our times - a woman evidently in one of the care-giving professions standing off - if even for a moment seven over-armed paramilitary thugs who are trying to invade her house.
Nah, you good. Thankful my parent's marriage (and other Fil-Am marriages in the local community) was relatively "nice" and "normal".
Just going back to Philippines, I see the side not on tourist's brochures.
Yeah. I know from personal experience.
...why is always a Filipino woman they are married to?
Rhetorical question, with me being half-Filipino.
Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:
Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.
Please donate what you can.
www.2harvest.org
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it? So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
I completely forgot to post this one! Complete with the mandatory Honor Harrington gag.
The illustration shows a wedding ceremony. There's a woman in the left side of the image. She wear a headpiece decorated with flowers and holds a large egg in her arms. There are stairs leading to an elevated stage with musicians playing lute on both sides of the stage. There's a skeleton in a festive clothes riding a white horse in the center of the image. There are festive robes behind them. The room is decorated with tiles and there are two roosters in front of the stage. There are some poppy flowers in the foreground. The artwork is colorful with much red, blue and beige.
Nuptial Rites
This piece was inspired by "The Color of Pomegranates" by Parajanov.
