Nature article on cuts to Science funding under the Trump administration. Cuts of 25% to 35% this year. Fewer new grants funded. Science agency staff cut 20%. International students down 17%. Nature analysis.
“From today until 2030 big tech firms will spend $5trn on infrastructure to supply AI services. To make those investments worthwhile, they will need on the order of $650bn a year in AI revenues, according to JPMorgan Chase, a bank, up from about $50bn a year today.” link
How to Make Repeat Patterns: A Guide for Designers, Architects and Artists. by Paul Jackson. Designing tessellations : the secrets of interlocking patterns. by Jinny Beyer.
“My Turtle Pancha will, my love pick up my new mover,Ginger”
“my movie monkey plays in, a favorite bucket
ship my puppy michael to sullivan’s backrubber
a really open music video cheers jenny F. jones
have a baby fish knife so marvin will marinate the goosechick
Using word length: Pie, I wish I could remember pi, “Eureka!” cried the great inventor, Christmas pudding, Christmas pie, Is the problem’s very center.
Scientists just cracked the mystery of why cancer immunotherapy fails. “Unlike ordinary stress responses that slow protein production to help cells regain balance, TexPSR drives protein synthesis into overdrive. The result is a relentless buildup of misfolded proteins, stress granules, and toxic aggregates ¾ similar to the amyloid plaques seen in Alzheimer’s disease. This overload poisons the T cells, crippling their ability to attack tumors.”. Nature 01 Oct 2025.
Pluralistic: Apple’s unlawful evil (06 Oct 2025) by Cory doctorow. Apple has removed ICEBlock, a totally legal app that helps people track the movements of the masked snatch-squads who illegally terrorize brown people in America’s cities, capitulating to a warrantless demand from Trump’s DoJ boss Pam Bondi. link.
No Californian gentleman or lady ever abuses or opposes a [Chinese person], under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East. Only the scum of the population do it – they and their children; they, and, naturally and consistently the policeman and politicians likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum…
Political books that look interesting: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Anton Schmid. “He was one of only three Wehrmacht soldiers who were executed for helping Jews.“
How SUVs Are Making Traffic Worse. As larger, taller sport utility vehicles took over US roads, they also aggravated highway congestion, according to a new study. It’s yet another ill effect of “car bloat.”
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” -Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” -Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism
Measles outbreak in low tax, low government capacity Texas, link
Facilitate Insight by Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation “insight problem solving task while receiving transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) to the anterior temporal lobes (ATL). Only 20% of participants solved an insight problem with sham stimulation (control), whereas 3 times as many participants did so (p = 0.011) with cathodal stimulation (decreased excitability) of the left ATL together with anodal stimulation (increased excitability) of the right ATL.”
Sterilizing seeds “My recommendation is 10% Calcium hypochloride or 5% Sodium hypochloride for 30 minutes, and for complex surfaces of bigger seeds, it is essential to add 2% Tween 20 as detergent (a small drop for 1mL bleach in an Eppendorf tube with seeds).” “Sodium hypochlorite (1-5%) or 10% Calcium hypochlorite are most common. Mercuric chloride 1% is also probably the best, but use of 3 compounds: Sodium hypochlorite, KMnO4 and H2O2 with washing by water after each one gave best results for nuts and beans.” “Glass container, clean. Place seeds into it and pour hydrogen peroxide 3%. Soak for five minutes. Drain, pour distilled water and soak for five minutes.” Growing Seed Sprouts at Home, link.
