Carsten FrankeOh, look, the Washington Post writing an opinion piece for their billionaire owner Jeff Bezos
Marc Abrahams
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editor of Annals of Improbable Research, organizer of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. I write about research (and other stuff) that makes people LAUGH then THINK. https://improbable.com/whatis/about-marc-abrahams/
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Bob Blaskiewicz 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇬🇱It's the "implications for the study of somersaults" that really puts this over the top for me.
Michael E. Mann 
I’ll be speaking about my book with @peterhotez, #ScienceUnderSiege, at the Rutgers University SOE/SAS/SEBS Spring 2026 Seminar Series on Cinco de Mayo (Tues May 5):
Prof. Sam LawlerNo mention of atmospheric pollution, of course, because the FCC doesn't give a shit about that. With SpaceX's 5 Starlinks a day a few months ago, we were well above natural infall rates of most metals, so 1 (presumably) gigantic satellite per hour will be a lot worse than that.
My colleagues and I wrote a bit about using the atmosphere as a satellite crematorium here, and it's bad: https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366
Charlie StrossHoly shit.
Hungary’s New Leader Reveals Viktor Orbán Was Paying CPAC
Magyar noted that his government will be investigating Orbán’s expenditures, and will no longer finance CPAC or other right-wing institutions abroad.
https://newrepublic.com/post/209035/hungary-prime-minister-victor-orban-paying-cpac
Chuck DarwinOne hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests. An area larger than Texas. The largest public land agency in the country. Just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.
And they did it with a press release on a Tuesday
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263
Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the agency’s 121-year history. Not a budget cut. Not a policy shift. Not a “reorganization.” An execution.
Bob Davidson
Mark Dingemanse@MarcAbrahams As @davidgerard of Pivot to AI likes to say, it can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong
Also see this on prompts as incantations https://zenodo.org/records/19560684
Inertial Properties of Athletes Who Somersault https://improbable.com/2026/04/14/inertial-properties-of-athletes-who-somersault/
