Here's a very in-depth and well-reported profile of Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, a superstar astrophysicist who has done pioneering work for decades in the US ...

... but recently left to work in the Netherlands, in the wake of the Trump administration's huge cuts to funding for scientific research

Powerful piece, super depressing

i hope scientific research funding gets serious attention in the upcoming congress

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/07/science/space/holley-bockelmann-astrophysicist-space-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.O1E.RW_B.7lf4gG9XMdY3&smid=url-share

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

@georgetakei

A real President would have more important things to do, a never-ending list of them, than to call into a TV show in the middle of the day.

@oppen "tradition is just peer pressure from dead people" can't remember who said it.

@djsundog Someone over on Bsky wondered if Nvidia’s board will require Huang to hand over his leather jacket when he’s canned, like a suspended cop turning in his badge and piece.

I am not ashamed of the way I burst out cackling.

@marie4AV - gawd, could you imagine? Drowsily waking up from a nap, opening one eye to see a wonderful person next to you reading an ebook from the library. The glow on their face as they're engrossed in a good book. And then slowly drifting back to sleep next to them.

15 mins ago, the wall street journal says “Exclusive | Nvidia Is Preparing to Oust CEO Jensen Huang” like we haven’t been clowning on this motherfucker getting the boot for an hour already now. exclusive bullshit, wall street journal.

@tinker It's a targeted hit job, coordinated by the government and media. Pay attention to who they ultimately replace him with. I'm betting there will be strong ties to Israel.

@atax1a how are you this afternoon

@davidrevoy The phrase "three LLMs in a trench coat" (or more specifically "oh great, another product that's just three LLMs in a trench coat") has been swirling around in my head for a while, and this is probably the most accurate depiction of it!

Republican U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith has conceded the U.S. Senate election to her Democratic opponent, Scott Colom.

"I want to congratulate Scott Colom and wish him well as he takes on the tremendous responsibility of representing our great state.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/rolling-cov-entry/cindy-hyde-smith-concedes-u-s-senate-election-to-scott-colom/?rc_source=364555

https://www.ms.now/opinion/mississippi-scott-colom-senate-win

#USPol #Mississippi #ScottColom

@davidgerard omg the after hours trading on nvda is

@helenczerski @emma_cogdev My husband has never let me forget that I killed his fish when we first married. Accidentally of course. I tried to wipe the side of the aquarium down, and erm, there was clearly more than just water on the sponge. :(

@sun it's just very convenient to point to cuba as an example of failed communism but leave out the reason that they're impoverished is that the cia threatened anyone who would trade with them

@ivory Finally fixed it by deleting Ivory and reinstalling. It's now following the in-app size controls.

@mpjgregoire for sure. And PSPP did perform fairly well on the campaign circuit, imho