Reposted by Fullerton BeardtSilverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Big Balls' grandfather was KGB Colonel Valery Martynov. He was coerced back to Moscow under false pretenses after the Ames affair, arrested, & executed for being a double agent. His grandmother was stripped of all assets & forced to do drudge work to support herself, his mom. & uncle. Details👇1/jacobsilverman.comProminent DOGE Staffer Is Grandson Of Turncoat KGB SpyEdward “Big Balls” Coristine happens to be the descendant of Valery Martynov, a KGB agent who spied for the US. 15225
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026Man, imagine you're minding your own business, getting kind of drunk with your friends at a picturesque brewery in Maine, when suddenly John Roberts walks by and you get to start heckling him. Must have felt incredible. That's the dream. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u... 1505366811
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/09/2026(*laser eyes intensify*) 041
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtGreg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 24/02/2025Mm-hm, this is the way. 411015
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtJ. R. Moock, jr. @jrmoockjr.northsky.social · 27/09/2026This has fucked me up more than once. If you have a coconut allergy, you NEED to be careful about anything with “activated charcoal” anywhere near the label. 10650434
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtTyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As there is a new cat, so is there a new mouse. The cycle is unbroken 101476580
Reposted by Fullerton Beardt"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026As an aside, I think one of the essential skills being trained in college that the 'college is for training workers' paradigm devalues to its peril is the ability and willingness to treat dry, academic matters as serious and worth getting right, rather than dismissing them. 4868112
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually 11896971920
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 11/09/2026whenever I’m discussing child safety laws with a mentor they remind that a lot of people think women (and others) are like children and will extend those rules 520776
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtA Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That magical category “Real Americans” increasingly excludes people who do science. 1206
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtCarl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026WSJ, with an ice-cold graphic: @wsj.com 15236001039
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtSomething wicked this way Ken (Lowe) 🐦⬛🐴 @illusiveken.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The first foe a writer must defeat is Doubt. The last is Microsoft Word's Formatting. 011
Reposted by Fullerton Beardtan appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026sun tzu, editing the art of war: "should i put in here that you shouldn't pretend to have unlimited supplies when you clearly don't and the enemy can see that? no, nobody would be that dumb" 716524
Fullerton Beardt @lunchpail.bsky.social · 30/08/2026You can't spell "brain" without AI ! Some nightmare somewhere probably. 000
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtAngry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Lord beer me strength. I return to the homeland of the Buckeye state this weekend which means I shall have to drive past confederate flags flying in the land of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Stanton, Custer, Bingham, McKinley, Garfield, Hayes, and all the McCooks Ain’t no heritage there; just hate 1329437
Reposted by Fullerton Beardtgamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Never forget the Luddites, one of the most powerful organized labor resistance groups in history, who attacked machines because employers were using mechanization to deskill their trades, depress wages, and eliminate jobs. Now their name is used as an insult instead of a call to action. 16710211
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 21/08/20262/2 Probably just coincidence, but John "Balls and Strikes" Roberts was part of the GW Bush Florida-recount team in 2000. Along with Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett. Again, probably just coincidence—as historians of our era are not likely to say. 820343
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026I want to be able to require IT support people to look at what I do for a living before they start talking to me. I literally fly a spaceship. I promise I tried "look through the menus and click on the options." 5818
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtProfessor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Hey, you. Yes, you. Did you start teaching this week? You should get a drink of water. You're welcome. 0123
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtDoctorBOOwring @doctorbowring.bsky.social · 17/08/2026this should be mandatory viewing for anyone who writes software intended for other people 151
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtPile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 17/08/2026How to win at most all things: 93102933418
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtMichael Busch @michael-w-busch.bsky.social · 15/08/2026It's never aliens. 0102
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Thank god it’s Friday. Seriously, this week has been ridiculous. 041
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Update: Labcorp drew the test without batting an eye. Also the phlebotomist was like frighteningly good, I can’t remember the last time someone stuck me like that and it worked 1141
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026My physician ordered me a SARS-CoV-2 nucleiocapsid blood test. The local LabQuest informs us that not only do they no longer do that test, they do no COVID testing of any kind. We have the tools, my ass. 191
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam" 183142532638
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtRebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026fwiw I always rec taking a break between undergrad and grad school. doing so can help you realize later, if you do get a faculty gig in academia, that all workplaces are sort of hellscape microcosms of broader social issues and that higher ed isn't really unique in this regard. 523423
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Once again "there's aluminum" is not a strong argument for going to the Moon. If there were bars of gold on the Moon's surface, it would not be worth it to get them. Why don't these articles ever talk to an economist? Or just a boring person? fortune.com/2026/08/06/p...fortune.com‘Pure insanity’—Elon Musk details SpaceX’s plan to turn the moon into its newest manufacturing site | FortuneSpaceX’s SEC filings describe lunar satellite factories, electromagnetic launchers, and robotic mineral mining. The founders building space equipment say the science checks out—even if the timeline do... 73882155
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtInside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 07/08/2026GAO Report: Athletic Programs Bleed Money A new government report shows that the vast majority of colleges lose money on athletics even at the highest levels, with students and the academic enterprise subsidizing sports. bit.ly/4wMGavu #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd 041
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtJim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026is out of the bottle and now there should be a moratorium until the morality, ethics and safety of this approach can be discussed and established. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/s...nytimes.comThis A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in NatureScientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses. 0215
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtJim Alwine @jimalwine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026“This A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature.” As a virologist the future use of AI in designing viruses worries me. It was inevitable that it would be done and now we know AI can design viruses, albeit bacteriophage at this point. But whats next…? Can a human pathogen be designed? But 65318
Reposted by Fullerton Beardt👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 29/07/2026"finally, we have created Fahrenheit 451 from the cautionary tale," 7669265
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Wrote about the Masculinity Scam, or how selling reactionary ideas about what makes a man helps a small number of bad people profit and makes everyone else (including men) miserable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... 582537624
Reposted by Fullerton Beardt👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 26/07/2026Really hate this “nobody has ever figured out how human feces is getting into the food processing” framing it’s incredibly simple if you pay a single molecule of attention to the working conditions of the majority of agricultural workers in the USA 17641160
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtEmily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 25/07/2026It also will cripple all of our robotic missions beyond Earth’s orbit. The DSN was already oversubscribed - time and bandwidth books out months in advance - and there simply is no substitute for it. The Spain station is 1/3 of the DSN. 216468
Reposted by Fullerton Beardt✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 24/07/2026I would not have thought to make this analogy but its so on point that its mildly frightening 1383121
Fullerton Beardt @lunchpail.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The first line hits hard: "On the one end, the companies are using surveillance pricing to determine how much we should pay for our food, and on the other end, they're using surveillance wage fixing to determine how little we might be willing to accept. If that isn't dystopia, I don't know what is." 000
Reposted by Fullerton Beardtshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/07/2026yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction marketscnn.comPeople are making wildfire bets on prediction markets. Experts say it could lead to disaster | CNNAs the catastrophic Los Angeles wildfires raged last year, people placed bets on how how many acres the fires would consume, which locations they would reach and when they would be contained. 5342261096
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtAlexandra W. Logue @lexalogue.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A 6-HBCU consortium is allowing its students to take online courses from any consortium member without transferring, helping students finish degrees expediently: buff.ly/0Lcerr5 The 20 @cuny.edu undergrad colleges have been doing something similar for decades: buff.ly/Q5ihFeB #highered #AcademicSkybuff.ly6 HBCUs Launch Course-Sharing PartnershipThe new initiative lets students take classes across institutions without transferring or losing progress toward a degree. 0103
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtShane @mcclellandshane.bsky.social · 16/07/2026There’s poop on the lettuce. There’s worms in the beef. There’s glass in the bread. What kind of Upton Sinclair timeline is this 1462890443
Reposted by Fullerton Beardtbobby @bobbylewis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026i remember scientists saying 20 years ago that climate change-fueled wildfires would darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away. but republicans said that was a lie, so now climate change-fueled wildfires darken and poison the skies hundreds of miles away every summer 4130191011
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtPatrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 16/07/2026every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries 4375821720
Reposted by Fullerton Beardt🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/07/2026I hate going to a website and immediately some bot is like "Hi! Can I help you?" yeah you can go away. 321112114
Reposted by Fullerton Beardtthe beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.wired.comSam Neill Inspired a Generation of ScientistsThe actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park. 232762798
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtIra Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 13/07/2026A nightmare for anyone who has ever worried about usability. Don Norman is probably cringing without even seeing this example; just that it exists. 372
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 10/07/2026FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this 2437342167
Reposted by Fullerton BeardtPlague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 09/07/2026As the outbreak of cyclospora grows it has been reported that last year due to a lack of funding the CDC made tracking it optional, with means this outbreak (which causes explosive diarrhea) is just further proof that cutting the CDC’s funding was a really shitty idea. 511324388
