John Timmer

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

Here we are folks: demand gold standard science from others, say "fuck it, anything goes" for their own ideas.

If you were wondering about the lack of opposition to massive research cuts from the investor class, and you think "surely they can't be so stupid that they fail to realize that most startups that get launched arise from government-funded, fundamental research", well, maybe it's time to think again.

Ford Escort.

Now, I have no legal experience at all, but I have the sense that a judge (JR here) telling you this is probably not a good thing for you.

Abolish ICE. And fire everyone up the chain of command at DHS that allowed the culture of ICE to flourish.

On a bike path yesterday I came across a group of teens riding dirt-bike style e-bikes unsafely (bunching up to block both directions, randomly crossing over to the pedestrian path, etc.) About half of them were so committed to not getting exercise that they'd removed the bike chains entirely.

I'm not sure it's a consolation that he's too stupid to realize how closely he's following the Nazi playbook.

Ukrainians showing that it is possible to limit data center growth.

This is a very cool finding, and has echoes of the Nobel Prize for optogenetics, 1/3 of which went to the person who found a sensory ion channel in a single-celled algae.

I can echo this. Both my parents died before they hit 71, and my one older sibling has dementia. A lot of _my own_ history is now unavailable or disjointed because I can no longer get any help with putting my earliest memories into context.

I swear I've read this article an average of every eight years for the past.... when was it I was waiting in the car with my mom in line for rationed gasoline during the Arab oil embargo?

I hate to hijack this guy's well earned celebration, but I suspect that most of the public has no clue that _this is what a typical lab looks like_. A diverse bunch, many immigrants, from a huge range of backgrounds. And they're the ones coming up with new cures, new facts, new technologies.