@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-20 18:51:57
Response to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”
The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-11-21 10:34:41
An evening discussing falling enrollment in #STEM courses at universities across Europe, especially traditional studies like chemistry, geology and meteorology. I wonder if young people are unaware of just how interesting #STEM careers to be? Or do they have the perception it's "too hard" compared to other subjects where easier grades may be had? Or is it simply they think they can have "better"* jobs in other fields?
#AcademicChatter
*Where better might mean higher paid, more prestigious, more certain of employment, or less workload or some combination of all of these... ?
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-21 02:23:50
The two top Democrats in Congress on Saturday demanded a meeting with President Trump ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline to fund the government,
warning him that Republicans would be blamed for a painful shutdown if he refused to negotiate with them.
“It is now your obligation to meet with us directly to reach an agreement to keep the government open and address the Republican health care crisis,”
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and Representative Hakeem Jeffries of New York,…
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.social2025-11-21 15:19:17
An updated Classic.
@jby@ecoevo.social2025-10-20 14:17:53
Facing down a new week of too many deadlines like this chestnut-backed chickadee (Poecile rufescens) in Stanley Park, Vancouver
#naturalist #wildlife #photography
@paulwermer@sfba.social2025-10-21 13:56:54
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
@PaulWermer@sfba.social2025-10-21 13:56:54
The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-19 15:47:03
Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals says Gemini 3's gains come from better pre-training and post-training, contradicting the idea that pre-training gains are falling (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-unseats-anthropic-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-19 10:06:02
Sources: South Korean antitrust officials visited Arm's Seoul offices as part of ongoing scrutiny of its licensing practices, following Qualcomm's complaint (Josh Sisco/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-17 05:24:24
The privately funded National Trust for Historic Preservation last week asked the U.S. District Court to block Trump’s project.
“No president is legally allowed to tear down portions of the White House without any review whatsoever
— not President Trump, not President Biden, and not anyone else,” the lawsuit states.
“And no president is legally allowed to construct a ballroom on public property without giving the public the opportunity to weigh in.”
Trump had the East W…
