Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12hIf Democrats win, johnson will not be speaker at the point where they are swearing in the new Congress. They are sworn in by the speaker elect, who is chosen by the member elects 492656543
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈STAT @statnews.com · 14h"The mysterious pneumonia in Russia deserves attention, not panic. There is zero evidence that this is the start of a plague pandemic." www.statnews.com/2026/10/06/russia-…statnews.comInfectious disease expert: The mysterious pneumonia in Russia deserves attention, not panicChill out about reports about plague in Siberia, writes infectious disease doctor Krutika Kuppalli. 3164
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 22hThe state of Alabama imposed a state law that requires pubic schools and universities to use the term “Gulf of America.” And obvious and flagrant authoritarian move and textbook example of what Barrett Taylor and I call postliberal governance. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...insidehighered.comAlabama’s New “Gulf of America” Mandate Impacts CollegesRepublican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too. 2518187
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 07/10/2026webRios 1.2.0 is off to the App Store for review! It's an R editor for iPhone and iPad, built on webR. Now with: R 4.6, a Stop button for runaway loops, plotly and leaflet widgets, and httr2 on the device. Fashionably late to the party, but on its way. webrios.caffeinatedmath.com 1133
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The Censorship-Industrial Complex theory is an embarrassing misreading of complex dynamics, and (ironically) it's quickly become a tool to shut down legitimate discourse and criticism by framing it as a conspiracy against free speech. 210732
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈EPDiogenes @ericpauldennis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026You would assume this car belongs to a terrible person and you'd be right. 111516
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why do you think Honda quit selling the Fit in the US? 000
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 07/10/2026(Politico) - ABC programs are already tempering their election coverage ahead of the midterms to avoid angering President Donald Trump, a lawyer for the broadcast company told a federal judge on Tuesday .. @politico.com $DIS www.politico.com/news/2026/10... 1151495660
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In an authoritarian regime, people publicly debase themselves to signal loyalty to the ruler 518135
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026I really hate to admit it but yeah, it isn’t a conspiracy. For a lot of reasons there aren’t enough Americans willing to buy small cars. (And it’s not just Chevy or EVs, beyond a few staple sedans, few makes have found traction with new small models) I don’t know how you change that. 470
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈STAT @statnews.com · 06/10/2026Can you live longer for $5,500? Longevity clinics are the buzzy new trend at nonprofit hospitals www.statnews.com/2026/10/06/hospita… 033
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈STAT @statnews.com · 06/10/2026Technology took us from a ‘road atlas of the brain to something more akin to Google Earth.’ Nobel-winning optogenetics research has led to experimental treatments for blindness and Alzheimer’s www.statnews.com/2026/10/05/2026-no…statnews.comNobel-winning optogenetics research has led to experimental treatments for blindness and Alzheimer’sOptogenetics is now the foundational way through which we are able to understand how the brain works 0144
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 06/10/2026“That has an effect of making you feel less invested in the output and that takes away much [of] the joy of coding.” I’ve been saying for a few years now that I expected a lot of chickens to come home to roost from the AI coding tools, and this is a big reason why. 2114
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026So when a neutrino is just flying through space unimpeded it has a mass but it is “oscillating” among the different flavors and it doesn’t have a defined flavor until it interacts with something in a way that gives the flavor away. Neutrinos are slippery little things! 2342614
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026A fun fact about neutrinos is that they come in three “flavors” (types) and also in three masses and you would think that this means each flavor has its own mass and you would be absolutely wrong about that. 1763368
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20264/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck. 6725291240
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The IceCube neutrino detector has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in physics. The Trump administration has proposed slashing its budget in half in 2027. 382012706
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 06/10/2026If Nidal Hasan is executed by firing squad, as the Pentagon spokesman says Hegseth and Trump have decided, it will be the first death sentence carried out by the U.S. military since 1961, and the first by firing squad since 1945. www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi... 2920573
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointee in New York, rebukes ICE for arresting two people erroneously — including a U.S. citizen — and later claiming "mistaken identity." "ICE agents falsified official records," he says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 612665919
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay." 180748901887
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Photograph 51 was not the result of an experiment in need of analysis, but was refined documentation for calculations that she had already performed on the earlier photograph." link.springer.com/content/pdf/... 33518
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8scim.agHow did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’tNew analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51 412169773
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈CBS Philadelphia @cbsphiladelphia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Dennis Hastert — the former House speaker who was later sentenced to prison time over hush money payments made to cover up sexual abuse of teen boys — has died at age 84.cbsnews.comDennis Hastert, disgraced former House speaker, dies at 84Former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, who represented Illinois for two decades in Congress and was later jailed for violating banking laws, has died. 176410118
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Pretty rough news for the hypothesis that bad economic vibes are just caused by innumerate social media users 0112
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Breaking: Mark Thompson, who has led CNN for the past three years, will remain at the helm as the Ellison family acquires the news network's parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. Full story here >>> www.cnn.com/2026/10/05/m...cnn.comMark Thompson to remain CNN chairman as Ellisons take control of Warner Bros. Discovery | CNN BusinessMark Thompson, who has led CNN for the past three years, will remain at the helm as the Ellison family acquires the news network’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery. 4279
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026lol well there’s the whole other thing where it seems like in certain cases that affirming language can prime a model for better performance. Either way, I’m doing it for me not for them 110
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 05/10/2026A long time ago I decided to say please and thank you to Siri for no reason other than thinking it’s a good way to practice and reinforce a good habit 1421
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈crunchy @crunchypeanut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Kant had an ethical theory about animals where he thought it was an impermissible category mistake to treat them as ends in themselves as if they were persons, but every "disrespectful" treatment of animals is impermissible anyway because we're obliged to not habituate ourselves for disrespect 110713
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈alison 🏳️🌈🏴☠️ @bluishorange.bsky.social · 03/10/2026they sell professional cheese now 2030465
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Old enough to remember when the media freaked out over Jon Ossoff making a brief mention of Natalie Harp 1642672
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Schnörrfried&Oi! @gutzpe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I added vatican's models into yesterday's graph and it might confuse people 623740
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026 316318772
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026Trump: "I take an aspirin a day. I don't know if it works but psychologically I need it. It thins the hell out of your blood I guess ... They want me to go down to the 80. I take the 386. I don't know what the hell it is. It's a monster. They said, 'Sir, you don't need that!'" 7271833296
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026someone should ask if he thinks Vivek being religiously vegan is bad 222110
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The NYT dropped 5 major Senate polls this morning — and they tell you exactly why the GOP is freaking out about the Senate. Alaska: Peltola up 50/43 Texas: Talarico up 51/45 Ohio: Brown up 49/46 Kansas: a 45/45 tie Iowa: Hinson up 48/47. 401454309
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy 167123872643
Reposted by J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2026USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. www.404media.co/usps-to-put-...404media.coUSPS To Put Cameras in Trucks That Scan Roads for ‘Community Safety’USPS says the cameras, put on USPS truck dashboards, will scan roads, signs, and more. 3618999
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For sure, but is that because those things are inherently related in that kind of way? Or is any dependency there just an accident of the way our brains are shaped? With sufficiently advanced neuroscience could we separate them? I think that’s a really interesting question. 000
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Or like if you had a scifi technology that allowed you to turn on or off individual groups of neurons in a human brain, how much could you turn off while remaining conscious? Could you get to a state where you’re not conscious but still capable of speech and logical reasoning? 100
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I wonder if it would be possible for an alien species to develop advanced technology and space travel on pure instinct. Just massively parallel basic neural structures. And if we ever met a species like that what would it be like? 110
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026For example I think often about the remarkable specificity of the sequelae of specific brain injuries, like certain aphasias. It makes me think “consciousness” may be an extremely modular kind of thing. Ie, maybe it does make sense an organism could develop complex speech without being “conscious” 110
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I agree on that. But which I call him incurious (which I also agree is maybe unfair) I mean that I don’t think he’s adequately considering a lot of additional approaches to these questions that a robust understanding of the messiness and complexities of biology would contribute 110
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I think also re eco psych: I don’t think it’s controversial to believe evolution likely shaped human consciousness per se. The problem with that is you can’t test or prove any of the specific scenarios you imagine so that field became a refuge of folks mostly who want to justify stereotypes. 100
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And maybe wanted to build on an ethical framework that starts from principals similar to human treatment of animals. But you’ve got to convince me we’ve reached that level before you start talking to me about something as complex and nuanced as consciousness or moral judgement. 200
J. Emory Parker 🏳️🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And I think it’s salient that in out of billions of years, we have one uncontroversial extant example of it. So it seems rare! I’d be more interested if someone was trying to convince me a we might be able to build a neural network complex enough to experience pain signals at like an arthropod level 100