Dr. Teddy Kareta

really enjoyed 2023's "Slotherhouse", a movie in which a sloth puppet kills 30-40 co-eds

probably how the ancient egyptians feel about us thinking we found hale-bopp in the 90s

Every single paper is like this. We couldn't reproduce the age-depth model in their second PNAS paper. They regularly report spikes from one layer without analyzing layers above and below. Their results can't be reproduced in the rare cases they do share samples. They get really basic things wrong.

exactly. if I found the aliens, I'm telling my barista, I'm talking the ear off the guy at the bus stop, I'm calling my mom about it. everyone would get sick of me talking about aliens.

Have you raised hell today?

still from doctor strange love in which soldiers are firing guns in front of a billboard that says "Peace is our Profession". a subtitle adds [Guns firing]

Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

Let me remind that in the run up to Iraq 2003, 'realist' scholars who opposed the war, some of whom had been regular oped contributors before, couldnt place in the NYT or WaPo at all, eventually paying to run an oped as an advertisement.

LT. SURGE: MY RAICHU GOT GULF WAR SYNDROME FROM WORKING THE BURN PITS! THIS IS WHAT MOTIVATED ME TO TRAIN HARDER THAN EVER!

lt. surge telling the player character that his pokemon helped him "during the war", making his Raichu a vet

sorta figured that the new old Pokemon games getting released for the switch might be a pleasant break from america's most recent foray into regime change -- mixed bag

America can, must, and should blow up the Moon

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

"your scientists were so obsessed with whether or not they COULD..."

this post was made onboard a fully electric northeast regional train, the poster's paradise, the last vestige of free speech in this country

a peak at how fossil fuel companies will continue to destabilize our democracies in a post-peak-oil world until we destroy them and scatter them to the winds

A white, glowing egg-shaped object lies in the centre of the black-and-white image, on a dark, starry background. Glowing streaks spread upwards from the object. In the top left, a yellow arrow marked ‘Sun’ points straight down, and a blue arrow marked ‘Velocity’ points towards the 7 o’clock direction. In the bottom left, an inset shows the same object on a lighter grey starry background, filled with ragged-edged, concentric egg shapes gradiented black-to-white.

Our first glimpse of comet 3I/ATLAS from Juice's science camera 😍☄️

The precious data from the mission's November observations of the interstellar comet arrived on Earth last week. Teams are now digging in to discover what they reveal.

Stay tuned for updates!

More 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
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I always wanted to be a regular at a place so I could get recommendations on places to eat, farmers markets, etc --not so that I could hear that I have an Evil Clone Who Shares All My Traits

My local coffee shop has informed me that I have a doppelganger who looks just like me, has a similar order to me, shows up around the same time as me in the morning -- a perfect clone, except he's apparently a huge asshole

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.

Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”

Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.

Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.

They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

GO DONATE.

tcpipeline.org

When you look back on your years in college, which will fill you with more pride and joy: - Letting a computer write you a boring-but-sort-of-accurate essay about Stonehenge which gets you a C+ and fills you with a deep sense of emptiness. - Joining the millenia-long tradition of humans admiring the night sky and seeking to understand it together through hard work and curiosity.

the most recent version of my increasingly unhinged anti-AI statement that goes in my writing-focused assignments, this time about ancient astronomical sites

a plot of confidence as a function of competence (e.g., the dunning kruger effect). the location of lowest confidence (but not lowest competence) is labelled as indicated in the post

somewhere around the valley of despair, specifically

for the first time in a while, I'm working on a paper draft about stuff in a part of the solar system I haven't worked on before -- a real treat -- but I'd forgotten about that critical part of the lit review stage in which you learn enough to realize you know barely anything

It is 1981. Transition care is "new and experimental".

It is 2019. Transition care is "new and experimental."

It is 2026. Transition care is "new and experimental."

recession indicator: a company I bought an umbrella from two months ago just emailed me to say they had "separation anxiety" from me because I hadn't visited their website in a while

I feel like I've been taking penalty kicks to the head for about a decade at this point

A picture of Kyle Maclachlan as Dale Cooper in the pilot of Twin Peaks. He's driving, and the subtitles read "Diane. 11:30am. February 24th."

Entering the town of #TwinPeaks

Quakertown student protesters likely detained until Monday. Here's why Parents of Quakertown high school students arrested in the ICE protest melee say their kids won't see a judge until Monday. What the law says.

Pa. high school students are *still in custody* after being *arrested* during Friday anti-ICE walkout www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/l...