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by pmags 2y ago
I posted this previously as it's own thread but it got no uptake, but the sentiment is so appropriate here: https://boingboing.net/2025/03/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-news-o...
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by pmags 2y ago
If you want to read more about Chief Justice Robert's statement yesterday: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/politics/john-roberts-donald-... And related info on EOs attacking law firms with ties to th
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Defiance and Threats in Deportation Case Renew Fear of Constitutional Crisis(nytimes.com)
4 points by pmags 2y ago|1 comments
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Tom the Dancing Bug: Local Crackpot Takes Trump Seriously (Comic)(boingboing.net)
2 points by pmags 2y ago|1 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
It's easy to feel like the "Pete Schneiber" of this strip these days!
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Kennedy's Alarming Prescription for Bird Flu on Poultry Farms(nytimes.com)
7 points by pmags 2y ago|3 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
LINKED IN THE COMMENTS (I was trying not to repost stuff that was in the prior thread): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/nyregion/columbia-univers... A direct quote from the letter the Feds sent Columb
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by pmags 2y ago
The Trump administration is similarly trying to purge / stifle academic institutions and bend them to their uses. For example, the Trump administration has told Columbia to dissolve specific academic departments. See this earlier discu
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by pmags 2y ago
The US has become such a f*cking joke. See also: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/mar/17/conor-mcgregor...
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Doge Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts(nytimes.com)
20 points by pmags 2y ago|1 comments
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The Deadliest Infectious Disease Is About to Get Worse(theatlantic.com)
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by pmags 2y ago
Lots of people in tech here in the US are on H-1B visas. It this case with the doctor stands, this would seem to put anyone here under such a visa in an uncomfortable position in terms of due process. Also see the following for more example
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by pmags 2y ago
Academic purges are a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. References and examples are too numerous to list so I'll just post a couple from the recent political history of Turkey (this thread and post likely to be flagged in any case): A
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by pmags 2y ago
CDC pages on histoplasmosis are still up for the time being: https://www.cdc.gov/histoplasmosis/about/index.html Fungal meningitis of all kinds (not just histoplasmosis) is hard to treat. Simply because of phyloge
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by pmags 2y ago
Un-f*cking-believable... The current administration is shameless in their attempt to silence dissent, stifle institutions likely to criticize them, and grab power. We're no longer on the slippery slope...We're tumbling down the mo
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by pmags 2y ago
Universities are legally obligated to spend endowment money according to the terms set by the funders ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/endowment.asp ). Unrestricted endowment is typically a tiny percentage of
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by pmags 2y ago
We're going to see a wave of such reports (either partial or full loss of incoming graduate students) across the country in the next week or two. Strap in...
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by pmags 2y ago
The first economic victims of the Trump administrations dystopian policies are blue collar workers. In addition to the domestic workers mentioned in the article (e.g. the folks who regularly clean office and labs), many major universities h
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by pmags 2y ago
This is a dumb statement posted time and again on HN... Universities are legally obligated to spend endowment money according to the terms set by the funders ( https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/endowment.asp ). U
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by pmags 2y ago
Pimping Tesla's in exchange for big donations. What ever could be wrong with that? /s
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Mahmoud Khalil's Detention Is a Trial Run(theatlantic.com)
20 points by pmags 2y ago|1 comments
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Measles outbreak in Texas and New Mexico now 208 cases, 2 deaths(arstechnica.com)
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Trump administration seeks to slash NASA's budget by 50%(arstechnica.com)
23 points by pmags 2y ago|6 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
> Further I can't imagine Trump is going to be cutting engineering research, they're more likely to cancel gender/DEI research, which isn't exactly regarded as especially high quality research (even if it's only
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Trump administration drawing up plans to provide sanction relief for Russia(reuters.com)
100 points by pmags 2y ago|3 comments
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by pmags 2y ago
The level of down voting on verifiable information is out of control here.
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by pmags 2y ago
Poorly thought out USDA cuts are also going to hamper our ability to develop improved crops in the future, as discussed in this article: https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-gene-banks-key-n...
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by pmags 2y ago
At least one generally well informed source -- Jeremy Berg (former NIGMS Director, former EiC of Science) -- suggests that there was a a DDoS attack against NIH: https://bsky.app/profile/jeremymberg.bsky.social/pos
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by pmags 2y ago
Wow! Thanks for posting this. Stanley Jordan is one of my favorite guitarists. I had no idea about his his ties to computer music, but according to Wikipedia he worked with Paul Lansky at Princeton. This in turn led me to stumble upon this
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Gutting NIH: Cutting senior scientists, summer internships cancelled(science.org)
7 points by pmags 2y ago|0 comments

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