I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
28.02.2026 16:09
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
The Social Security website just tried to make me give them my ID to "verify" me and I have never noped out of something so fast. Absolutely NOT.
I'm also upping my donations to both the @aclu.org and @eff.org just for our gov't's sheer audacity.
Science is not truth.
Science is finding the truth.
When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.
Now before you get all worked up about how bad these numbers are, it's important to take a minute and remember that they're also very funny.
I just need to go on the record and say all these ads that feature AI graphics look awful.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
My hometown paper is doing a better job covering what's happening right now than CNN.
Or that a freshman college physics student could tell you why data centers in space is a really stupid idea
But he said that he could have been a physicist if he wanted to but was too smart. Are you telling me he <gasp> fibbed?!
There's this Miss Marple episode where the murderer always says the opposite of the thing that they actually did. So if they say, "I didn't do it," it means that they absolutely did.
This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Guys, the American Institute of Physics is looking for a new Science Policy News Director to produce their fantastic FYI newsletter. I personally need this high-quality news source to continue apace, so help them find someone good!
In the past, when the US acted illegally, social media wasn't as accessible as it is now, so Americans had a harder time expressing their disgust and dissent at their government.
Well, social media is here now. I'm disgusted with the US administration and support them being tried for war crimes.
Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes?
I...love it?
Just a little piece of advice to nonprofits. If you make it really difficult or impossible to cancel a monthly donation, I am never going to donate to you again.
When I applied to grad school, it was the same year that Larry Summers was claiming women were biologically less capable of being scientists than men.
I still remember my anthropology professor’s favorite joke from college:
“What did Watson and Crick discover?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes.”
The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.
Yeah, I'd absolutely rather boil off more of our planet's fresh water making delicious al dente pasta than pointless slop videos
Wrote another blog post! Hoping that maybe some of the insights I've gained from getting better at understanding my brain will help others. In this case, thinking about our brains like they were computers.
#neurodivergence #adhd
kateyalatalo.com/blog/your-br...
Southwest, thank you for letting me know that the gate has changed yet again for my late night flight tonight, but at the moment, I'm not sure it's pressing information.
I know that this is a little silly, but it GRINDS MY GEARS that the lies being spouted are not just lies, but ignoring that neurodivergence makes the world a richer place to exist.
I made a friendly wager with some friends in March about the trajectory of #genAI. And I have to say, I'm beginning to feel pretty confident that I'm going to be getting that box of cookies 😎
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
Really tough time to be an adult who actually did all the assigned high school reading.
Like the radio telescopes I used to observe at, brains also have varying degrees of limits. But some brains those limits are not wired very well. You can read more of my thoughts on it on my blog! #radioastronomy #adhd #blog
kateyalatalo.com/blog/limits/
