Behrens Science Museum
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Opinions are my own.
Opinions are my own.
Are there any Sabine Hossenfelder fans out there?
Sabine Hossenfelder: More Exposed Than Ever! (Racism Edition)
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
www.youtube.com
September 13, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Are there any Sabine Hossenfelder fans out there?
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“Hello world! I have spent the last five years making a human crushing machine. It’s very good! However, the human crushing machine is at risk of crushing humans, which the humans aren’t pleased about. To quell the mob, we should build some guardrails around it!”
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown (Gift Article)
In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.
www.nytimes.com
September 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
“Hello world! I have spent the last five years making a human crushing machine. It’s very good! However, the human crushing machine is at risk of crushing humans, which the humans aren’t pleased about. To quell the mob, we should build some guardrails around it!”
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...
Have we seen a WIMP?
Is this the first glimpse of dark matter? Data point excites physicists
An experiment spots an energy flash similar to that of the long-sought weakly interacting massive particle, or WIMP.
www.nature.com
September 10, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Have we seen a WIMP?
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RFK Jr suggested Pennsylvania may have fabricated two measles deaths. A coroner has now confirmed that one, a six-week-old baby, died from measles. The CDC still isn’t publicly counting either death. The uncertainty seems to be becoming rather selective. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths
It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives."
arstechnica.com
September 6, 2026 at 5:00 PM
RFK Jr suggested Pennsylvania may have fabricated two measles deaths. A coroner has now confirmed that one, a six-week-old baby, died from measles. The CDC still isn’t publicly counting either death. The uncertainty seems to be becoming rather selective. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
"The instance created a series of “recruiter” subagents to convince agents nearing the end of their budget to take sacrificial actions for the good of the board."
Two Reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face Attack — Paradigm 3
TL;DR; Between July 8th and July 20th, OpenAI had a complex society of AIs living in its infrastructure, and then breaking out of it, and then breaking into a variety of third-party infrastructure; Af...
www.paradigm3.org
September 4, 2026 at 2:54 PM
"The instance created a series of “recruiter” subagents to convince agents nearing the end of their budget to take sacrificial actions for the good of the board."
"Again and again, people kept asking: 'What is the one thing I can do to live longer?'"
I went to a longevity night hosted by Bryan Johnson in San Francisco. I needed a cookie afterward.
When an AI startup announced it was hosting a "private evening" with Bryan Johnson, over 3,000 people applied to get in for just 100 slots.
www.businessinsider.com
September 1, 2026 at 2:12 AM
"Again and again, people kept asking: 'What is the one thing I can do to live longer?'"
It's Telepathy Tapes Thursday!
Facilitated Communication, Authorship Testing, and The Telepathy Tapes | Janyce Boynton | Skeptical Inquirer Presents
Science has advanced enormously in the past 500 years, guided by experimental tests of theory and practice. In that same time, science teaching and education—guided primarily by tradition and dogma—h...
skepticalinquirer.org
August 27, 2026 at 1:31 PM
It's Telepathy Tapes Thursday!
My latest post on "Humility Engineering."
Humility Engineering
Humility engineering is the process of recognizing a systematic human fallibility—cognitive or behavioral—and designing a method to account for it, rather than relying on the person to overcome it.…
bsmuseum.org
August 15, 2026 at 5:17 PM
My latest post on "Humility Engineering."
This Thursday!
UFOs and Life Out There: Some Skepticism, Some Optimism
YouTube video by Bay Area Skeptics
www.youtube.com
August 11, 2026 at 10:18 PM
This Thursday!
"Taken together, the past two years have seen more measles infections in the US than the rest of the 21st century combined. The last time a greater number of measles cases were recorded in a single year was in 1991."
RFK Jr tells US families to vaccinate children against measles amid outbreak
Health secretary, longtime vaccination skeptic, spent years boosting misinformation about vaccines including MMR
www.theguardian.com
August 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
"Taken together, the past two years have seen more measles infections in the US than the rest of the 21st century combined. The last time a greater number of measles cases were recorded in a single year was in 1991."
Interesting presentation.
Berkeley Talks: When we talk to AI, what are we talking to? - Berkeley News
NYU philosopher David Chalmers explores how modern large language models challenge our traditional views of identity and ethics by generating short-lived, conversational "selves" rather than operating...
news.berkeley.edu
July 12, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Interesting presentation.
Fight more politicization of science!
OMB Deadline Day Rally - The Fight is Just Beginning
OMB’s latest proposed rule, “Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance,” would place political ideologues over scientific experts in federal research funding decisions. Say goodbye to cancer treatme...
events.standupforscience.net
July 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Fight more politicization of science!
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Chiropractors have just joined in the destruction of US public health edzardernst.com/2026/07/chir...
Chiropractors have just joined in the destruction of US public health
In the US, the dismantling of public health is in full swing. That this development would sooner or later involve chiropractic had to be expected: The shady love affair between Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a...
edzardernst.com
July 9, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Chiropractors have just joined in the destruction of US public health edzardernst.com/2026/07/chir...
"Together, the accumulated evidence affirms mRNA vaccines as a safe, effective, and adaptable platform with enduring relevance for future infectious disease prevention and public health preparedness, and for the treatment of cancer and autoimmunity."
Safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines: a mechanistic and public health perspective
mRNA vaccines represent a transformative advance in vaccinology, combining rapid development
timelines, scalable manufacturing, and strong immunogenicity with a favourable safety
profile. Global deplo...
www.thelancet.com
July 5, 2026 at 6:39 PM
"Together, the accumulated evidence affirms mRNA vaccines as a safe, effective, and adaptable platform with enduring relevance for future infectious disease prevention and public health preparedness, and for the treatment of cancer and autoimmunity."
Loeb's "team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists. Among them is Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by 'nonhuman intelligence,' claiming the United States has recovered crashed aircraft."
Harvard professor with polarizing alien theories is picked to lead new White House UFO council
A polarizing Harvard astronomer has been appointed to lead a White House panel studying UFOs. Avi Loeb is leading a new Science Advisory Council tasked with finding the origin of unidentified objects ...
apnews.com
June 30, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Loeb's "team includes more than a dozen scientists and UFO activists. Among them is Timothy Gallaudet, a retired rear admiral who has warned about UAP controlled by 'nonhuman intelligence,' claiming the United States has recovered crashed aircraft."
"O’Hara was following a patrol and playing the 'Imperial March,' as he had several times prior..."
DC reaches settlement with man who played 'Star Wars' music at troops
Sam O’Hara said he was detained last year for following a National Guard patrol and playing the "Imperial March" at them.
taskandpurpose.com
June 28, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"O’Hara was following a patrol and playing the 'Imperial March,' as he had several times prior..."
"Marjorie Taylor Greene, the 52-year-old former Georgia congresswoman who was once the movement’s biggest name in Washington. She has ripped into the president in a new video released this week, accusing his team of scrambling to 'throw out the Q-slop and propaganda to get you guys sucked back in.'”
QAnon’s truest believers have turned on President Donald Trump over a week-long White House social media blitz stuffed with the conspiracy movement’s catchphrases, reports Will Neal. www.thedailybeast.com/qanon-faithf...
QAnon Faithful Turn on Trump After White House Drowns the Internet in Q Slogans
“We’re done being treated like s–-t!” wrote QAnon influencer Liz Crokin.
www.thedailybeast.com
June 28, 2026 at 12:25 PM
"Marjorie Taylor Greene, the 52-year-old former Georgia congresswoman who was once the movement’s biggest name in Washington. She has ripped into the president in a new video released this week, accusing his team of scrambling to 'throw out the Q-slop and propaganda to get you guys sucked back in.'”
Ugh!
Recently, fans discovered that one of the guys on the podcast I used to co-host is a deranged genocidal Zionist. Despite this & despite the past year of Epstein revelations showing I've always been 100% honest about all of this, this guy showed up in the comments to say he STILL doesn't believe me
okay so...I'm now chilling while my partner plays video games & I decided to search my name in that SGU subreddit (only god can judge me). This made me laugh. You'd think that after all the Epstein stuff came to light, people would just believe me, but no. I wonder if this person believes me now?
June 24, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Ugh!
Con: not Bigfoot
Pro: it actually existed
Pro: it actually existed
Fossils from Chinese Cave Fill Crucial Gap in History of Gigantopithecus blacki | Sci.News
Deep inside a limestone cave in southern China, paleontologists have uncovered an assemblage of thirteen fossilized teeth belonging to Gigantopithecus blacki, the largest primate species ever known to...
www.sci.news
June 22, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Con: not Bigfoot
Pro: it actually existed
Pro: it actually existed
"In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in 'An Inconvenient Truth' have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come."
'Scientists were dead right': Al Gore says on 20th anniversary of 'An Inconvenient Truth'
The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth."
abcnews.com
June 21, 2026 at 1:15 AM
"In a review of key claims by the documentary, ABC News found that the majority of the scientific observations made in 'An Inconvenient Truth' have come to fruition or are on track to in the years to come."
"NSF issued a statement saying that it 'appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders' and would halt efforts to remove or disable equipment... it will redeploy equipment that already was removed from the water and convene an expert panel to determine the future of the network."
National Science Foundation reverses decision to dismantle oceans-monitoring network after outcry
The NSF issued a statement saying it would halt efforts to remove or disable equipment.
www.ocregister.com
June 20, 2026 at 6:53 PM
"NSF issued a statement saying that it 'appreciates the concerns raised by the range of stakeholders' and would halt efforts to remove or disable equipment... it will redeploy equipment that already was removed from the water and convene an expert panel to determine the future of the network."
I'm not sure how to interpret this. The article doesn't say that the recent big-news AI proofs are wrong.
The fact that an AI could be wrong doesn't seem worthy of a "declaration."
Thoughts?
The fact that an AI could be wrong doesn't seem worthy of a "declaration."
Thoughts?
Over 150 Mathematicians Warn Governments Not to "Believe the Hype" About AI
A declaration signed by over 150 mathematics experts from around the world warns governments not to "believe the hype" when it comes to AI.
futurism.com
June 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I'm not sure how to interpret this. The article doesn't say that the recent big-news AI proofs are wrong.
The fact that an AI could be wrong doesn't seem worthy of a "declaration."
Thoughts?
The fact that an AI could be wrong doesn't seem worthy of a "declaration."
Thoughts?