CEOs of big tech companies: You almost certainly have incels as employees. What are you going to do about it?

— Ellen K. Pao (@ekp) May 2, 2018

To think this was a real tweet that someone made on purpose. Someone who is respected. Fuck me (not in the incel sense, already well taken care of, thanks).

Scientists screaming at philosophers is like grown up kids screaming at their parents.

Virtually every science was done by philosophers first, when they made it relatively reliable (read: easy), it became a separate discipline.

— Ian Welsh (@iwelsh) February 23, 2021

I wouldn’t say “easy.” That’s not fair in many ways, though there is something to that idea. However, I think philosophy and philosophers make a problem space tractable, something that can be thought about coordinatedly at all, and then scientists take over. Of course this is only one branch of philosophy, and there are others that are just as vital.

There is also the output side. Once scientists “know” something, philosophers are needed for contextualizing what is known, why it is known, how society can deal with this knowledge, and how it relates to the rest of knowledge. This is called epistemology, and is as crucial as (for lack of a better term) speculative philosophy.

So, no, I wouldn’t say science is ever “easy,” but without philosophy it’s not much at all nonetheless.

Pfizer vaccine doesn’t need ultra-cold storage after all, company says.

Well that’s great news.

If people or nations send costly signals, believe them. Costly signals are hard to fake and should be believed unless there is a very good reason not to do so.

Pros: I get shit done

Cons: People know I get shit done

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) February 23, 2021

I hear you, brother.

No, you never leave help desk. I have “Director” in my title and guess what? I still do some help desk, because after it goes through 7-8 other people, it gets to me. And that happens because I can and do solve it. Every time.

In a research note, prominent Apple prognosticator Ming-Chi Kuo says that both HDMI port and SD card slot will be returning to the MacBook Pro in the second half of 2021. Halle-fucking-lujah.

Yeah, no ports is assclownishly idiotic and I will never buy a laptop so misconfigured. Firefoxing your fucking high-end laptop is even stupider than Firefoxing your Firefox.

31/ Deaths in US are falling fast.

US has vaccinated over 1.5 million people a day for more than a month. Nursing home residents, elderly, essential workers were most likely to die when infected, & now by the miracle of science, they live. Vaccines work. https://t.co/Iz01dBhyTx pic.twitter.com/iQE7cwN4zM

— Albert Pinto (@70sBachchan) February 23, 2021

Vaccines working as expected. Nice.

Liberals getting angry about NASA and the space program is the lib version of the conservative’s “welfare queens” mythologizing, I guess.

‘Skynet Is A Private Company, They Can Do What They Want,’ Says Man Getting Curb-Stomped By Terminator.

Yeah, that’s a right-wing site, but sometimes that come up with some incredibly incisive satire. And that, my friends, is some good shit.

periodic reminder that Facebook is pure unadulterated weapons-grade evil and you should stop using it

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) February 22, 2021

Yes it is. I’ve been saying this for a decade. Was right the whole time.

The vaccines are a medical miracle and we will all be able to go back to normal after enough people get them. How hard is it to say that? https://t.co/jBGvBF39A6

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) February 22, 2021

Fear-mongering drives clicks and views, not a realistic assessment of future possibilities. It’s what makes the $$, so it’s what’ll mostly be out there.