Daily Tech News 4 June 2025

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We can remember your pet for you, wholesale. (The Atlantic) (archive site)

Your pet can live forever. Except when it dies. But then we can bring it back, better than new, ready to chew on your shoes and piddle on the rug all over again.

Also, race horses. Because that's where the real money is.

ViaGen just missed one thing: The name.

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Nvidia suggests you turn down the settings on the demo of new game Hell is Us on their cards or it kind of won't work. (Tom's Hardware)

The game also requires an RTX 4090 to achieve even 30fps at 4k resolution, so this is not entirely Nvidia's fault.
Add -noai or ?udm=14 to stop Google's "helpful" AI summaries. (Tom's Hardware)

Also includes a guide on how to tell Chrome and similar browsers to do that automatically.
We are Harvard researchers. We'd rather discriminate against Jews than save lives. (The Times) (archive site)

That's not the worst of it, either. Of a scientist bewailing the loss of her $60 million research contract thanks to Harvard's illegal bigotry and intransigence, the article says:
The Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.
Your choice, Miss Fortune.

But:
But now, "all the data and knowledge" her team has gathered "is gone".

"It's as if those studies never happened," she said.
As if.
Facebook is planning to revive an old nuclear power plant. (The Verge)

And refurbish is volcano lair.
Facebook (and Yandex) are spying on you. (GitHub)

Using the old Zoom trick.
You can't copyright Eleanor. (Car and Driver)

A design patent, maybe?

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: It's still there. Lurking. Doing nothing. Menacingly.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:46 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2025 04:47 AM (Na5xP)

2 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at June 04, 2025 04:47 AM (Hhezz)

3 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 04, 2025 04:49 AM (lIgBp)

4 G'mornin all y'all here.
And people are crazy.

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 04:51 AM (NC/it)

5 Breakout?

Yeh. I would call it that. Just begin reading from the latest post down:

https://x.com/EthicalSkeptic

Be well, everyone, and your loved ones.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2025 04:53 AM (Na5xP)

6 Pssst!

Wanna see a pre-confirmed jackass TV squawk host?

https://tinyurl.com/nhd67k9f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2025 05:03 AM (Na5xP)

7 Drama professor at Arizona community college accused of making female students undress on stage in front of classmates: report

https://nypost.com ^ | May 30 2025 | Daryl Khan

An Arizona college professor allegedly made his students to strip in front of him and their classmates, flirted with several coeds and forced them to watch orgy porn, all during class, according to a shocking investigative report. Mace Archer, 56, a drama teacher at Mesa Community College, is currently under investigation for the allegations by school officials, according to the damning report written by the Arizona Republic. But students accused the college of ignoring their complaints of inappropriate behavior by the professor for months before the probe was opened

Posted by: Mister Ghost at June 04, 2025 05:05 AM (TGPs7)

8 Psalm 13:19/-24

19 How abundant are the good things
that you have stored up for those who fear you,
that you bestow in the sight of all,
on those who take refuge in you.
20 In the shelter of your presence you hide them
from all human intrigues;
you keep them safe in your dwelling
from accusing tongues.
21 Praise be to the Lord,
for he showed me the wonders of his love
when I was in a city under siege.
22 In my alarm I said,
“I am cut off from your sight!”
Yet you heard my cry for mercy
when I called to you for help.
23 Love the Lord, all his faithful people!
The Lord preserves those who are true to him,
but the proud he pays back in full.
24 Be strong and take heart,
all you who hope in the Lord.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 05:12 AM (r69/0)

9 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 04, 2025 05:22 AM (sAmhv)

10 Luke 10:23. Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see what you see!”

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 05:28 AM (NC/it)

11 But now, "all the data and knowledge" her team has gathered "is gone".

"It's as if those studies never happened," she said.
................................
Gone? Was it erased? Not backed up? Sounds like important research that can be picked up where you left off, when/if funding arrives again. Or, because it's important, keep working on it, for the greater good and all

Or is all that talk of 'collective good' all bs?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 04, 2025 05:28 AM (sAmhv)

12 "Listen"-

A caregiver reflects on 1 Samuel 3:1-10 and being aware of God's messages to us. Appropriate devotional for both interested Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/yc57nja2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 05:29 AM (r69/0)

13 Was telling people about &udm=14 here a couple of weeks ago. Additionally, it gets rid of sponsored links, which is what it was primarily used for before the AI nonsense results got added to Google's slurry.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 04, 2025 05:31 AM (O7YUW)

14 Sadly, the RePet idea is not out of the realm of possibility as far as growing a new animal.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 05:31 AM (+4yJ5)

15 This old world and it's so called leaders...becoming really absurd. Incredible to me how wrong things are. Perhaps more scales falling from my own eyes. Such corruption. Such evil.

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 05:32 AM (NC/it)

16 Or, because it's important, keep working on it, for the greater good and all

Or is all that talk of 'collective good' all bs?
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 04, 2025 05:28 AM (sAmhv)

You aren't going to get anywhere if they know that you're not willing to kill the hostages.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 04, 2025 05:32 AM (jeWRt)

17 Looks like an overcast morning sky ahead.

ICE says the terrorist family arrested in Boulder is set for "expedited removal", pending approval from President Boasberg.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 05:34 AM (fweVu)

18 Thank you Fen.
A Blessing you are 😊

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 05:34 AM (NC/it)

19 "We're doing cancer research. Gimme money."

"OK cool. Just don't be racist about hiring people."

"Why do you hate cancer research!?!?"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 04, 2025 05:34 AM (jeWRt)

20 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at June 04, 2025 04:49 AM (lIgBp)

We need a birdbath live cam.

Posted by: The lone KwaKer! at June 04, 2025 05:35 AM (89Sog)

21 WaPo says it is going to reprint viral substack pieces as opinion columns going forward, in an effort to diversify views and perspectives. Learning from The Free Press, I guess.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 05:37 AM (fweVu)

22 WaPo says it is going to reprint viral substack pieces as opinion columns going forward, in an effort to diversify views and perspectives. Learning from The Free Press, I guess.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 05:37 AM (fweVu)

Going out on a big fat sturdy limb and assuming BAP ain't one of them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 04, 2025 05:39 AM (jeWRt)

23 We look like a newspaper.
But we're not.

Posted by: The Washington ComPost at June 04, 2025 05:39 AM (lIgBp)

24 A Chinese couple was arrested in Detroit smuggling in a bio pathogen capable of devastating farm crops. They claimed they just wanted to research it at UofM.

Reliable sources say Chinese government is asshoe.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 05:41 AM (fweVu)

25 The devotional for June 4 ( Post number 12) has some questions for interested folks:

1. What do you do when you struggle to sleep? Where do you find peace on sleepless nights?

2. What sounds of nature do you find most peaceful and comforting? How do these sounds remind you that God is speaking to you?

3. When have you received a message from
God that helped you get through your day? What was the message? How did it help you? How are you encouraged to know that you don't have to face life alone?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 05:41 AM (r69/0)

26 Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 05:34 AM

Thanks, John. That's ver kind of you. You are a blessing as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 05:43 AM (r69/0)

27 It used to be said "don't believe everything you read". With AI writing articles now maybe it should be said as "don't believe anything you read."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 05:44 AM (fweVu)

28 Regarding Meta buying that nuke plant:

The plant, called the Clinton Clean Energy Center

I laughed at that. It must pain them to admit that nuclear energy is clean.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 05:44 AM (+4yJ5)

29 The sounds of robins make me feel good. It sounds like they are saying "cheerily, cheerily"
It's a good reminder of- through God's grace-of how as much as possible- to approach the day.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 05:47 AM (r69/0)

30 Peruvian fisherman credits faith in God and his love for his family in surviving over 90 days lost at sea:

https://tinyurl.com/y84n5jzx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 05:51 AM (r69/0)

31 But now, "all the data and knowledge" her team has gathered "is gone".

"It's as if those studies never happened," she said.

Wow. It's as if all that brain power never thought of having offline backups in case something like this happened. Mind you, the only thing that the media will focus on is that a cure for cancer was taken away because Trump hates grandma.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 05:53 AM (+4yJ5)

32 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 04, 2025 05:54 AM (/Ghsb)

33
Good morning, Hordians.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 05:55 AM (QnmlO)

34 It's "Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 04, 2025 05:57 AM (ZmEVT)

35 Just drove my elderly mom to the hospital. Chest pains, plus some others she's been ignoring for a week or two, possibly longer.

Not one to normally ask but...

For those so inclined, could you please offer a prayer for my mother (Lynda) asking to give her strength and to heal her? Also for the medical staff to be prompted to do complete and thorough job in diagnosing her.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 04, 2025 05:58 AM (O7YUW)

36 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers. It's Woden's Day yet again.

$50K for a clone of your beloved cat? First of all, even if it cost $5000, it wouldn't be the same to me. The cloning can't replicate the personality of the late cat, can it? The new animal would have new experiences in new environments, and could vary. Suppose you bring back Fuzzball -- and she hates you?

Second: Fifty thousand dollars?????

(Though I have no doubt that Miss Linda would be willing to bring the late Chekov D. Siberian back if she could.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 04, 2025 05:58 AM (omVj0)

37 "Seeing is never believing: we interpret what we see in the light of what we believe. "

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 04, 2025 05:59 AM (sAmhv)

38 When I seem overwhelmed, I try to pause, find something to be grateful for. Look for some pleasing "coincidence ". This helps me be able to be useful in some way to somebody else.
I just talk with God, he did save my life for some reason. Probably not some GRAND thing, maybe just to be useful. OR a friend, or a listener.
Of gratitude is > expectations = peace.
Sorta math tho.
lol

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 05:59 AM (NC/it)

39
Mind you, the only thing that the media will focus on is that a cure for cancer was taken away because Trump hates grandma.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 05:53 AM (+4yJ5)

__________

And my six-year-old daughter came up to me with tears in her eyes and said, "Daddy, am I going to die of tuberculosis because of Trump's hatred for Harvard?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 06:00 AM (QnmlO)

40 78 F., heat index of 83. I'm looking for my motivation to go work out. Looking . . . but not very hard.

Doctor visit this morning, to see about what I think is a mild hernia. If I have to have surgery, I'd rather do it sooner over later. It'll delay my road/scouting trip to Indiana and environs anyway.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 04, 2025 06:01 AM (omVj0)

41 Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 05:59 AM (NC/it)

Wonderful thoughts! Thanks so much!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 06:01 AM (EJtBU)

42 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. 56 degrees and cloudy here at Stately Poppins Manor, with a high in the mid 80s expected. I'll have to put the A/C in the bedroom window pretty soon.

Another couple of hours' work from yesterday still to be done, but at least by 8.30 the day is half done.

I'm looking forward to a nice long nap this afternoon, if I can get my mind to shut down and not obsess over all the stupid things I've done yesterday, last week, last month, last year. . .well, you know what I mean.

Hope you all have a lovely day.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 04, 2025 06:02 AM (Dg2sF)

43 Prayer done for Lynda
Wow really miss her bless her and her caregivers and those who love her May the skills you in part to them be pressed on to her

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 06:02 AM (NC/it)

44 And my six-year-old daughter came up to me with tears in her eyes and said, "Daddy, am I going to die of tuberculosis because of Trump's hatred for Harvard?"

I dropped to my knees and began crying as well. "I don't know, sweetie."

Then the room clapped.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 06:03 AM (+4yJ5)

45 Yesterday on my way to do the Bible study with the dear folks at the assisted living I saw in my back yard a male cardinal. ( the bird not the clergy 😉

That bird always reminds me of the Holy Spirit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 06:04 AM (r69/0)

46 As a side note: The only thing the wailing about Harvard has done for me is reveal that we have a single point of failure for research.

There are schools in the US other than Harvard that don't feel the need to discriminate. Invest in them instead.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 06:06 AM (+4yJ5)

47 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 04, 2025 05:58 AM (O7YUW)

It's more than ok to ask for prayer, and of course I will pray for healing for your mom, Lynda.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 06:07 AM (r69/0)

48 Teens from. a Christian school in Texas sing a lovely song in an acapella version, "Jesus will carry me through":

https://tinyurl.com/3dfeuvv2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 06:09 AM (r69/0)

49 "But now, "all the data and knowledge" her team has gathered "is gone"."

what, exactly, is she saying, here? she and her team destroyed it all in a fit of pique?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 04, 2025 06:12 AM (/Ghsb)

50 on the way, G&R!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 04, 2025 06:14 AM (/Ghsb)

51 what, exactly, is she saying, here? she and her team destroyed it all in a fit of pique?

Would you be surprised?

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 06:17 AM (+4yJ5)

52 w00t

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:18 AM (CQE5S)

53 Well that didn't quite come out the way I spoke it. Nevertheless prayers were said.

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 06:19 AM (NC/it)

54 36 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers. It's Woden's Day yet again.

$50K for a clone of your beloved cat?

My favorite Norm Macdonald joke: having given his typical lengthy windup in which he's asked by a neighbor to look after a cat and one morning finds it very sick, he takes it to a vet who gives him good news and bad news: the bad news is that there's a medication, but it's expensive and only has a 50-50 shot of working. The good news is, it's just a cat.

Posted by: mea culpa at June 04, 2025 06:19 AM (TOGmQ)

55 49 "But now, "all the data and knowledge" her team has gathered "is gone"."

what, exactly, is she saying, here? she and her team destroyed it all in a fit of pique?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

No notes. No backups. Nothing. Just gone.

Or never was. Cashed those checks though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at June 04, 2025 06:19 AM (sAmhv)

56
she and her team destroyed it all in a fit of pique?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 04, 2025 06:12 AM (/Ghsb)

__________

AND painted their hair green!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 06:20 AM (QnmlO)

57 >>>Add -noai or ?udm=14 to stop Google's "helpful" AI summaries. (Tom's Hardware)

I learned this from G&R--a couple of weeks ago?

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:22 AM (CQE5S)

58
I was an inventor on a patent involved in a Hundred Years War of litigation. The patent rights to the invention came down to a few days difference of whether we or the other company came up with the idea first. Believe me, all those old notebooks got exhumed from storage and were subjected to minute examination.

So don't tell me the data are "gone".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 06:25 AM (QnmlO)

59 So don't tell me the data are "gone".

"But we'd have to be relocated to a school that isn't Harvard. How can you be so cruel to subject us to that humiliation? Our ideas can only be nurtured here!"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 06:29 AM (+4yJ5)

60 FenelonSpoke: Thank you!

OkJohn: Speech to text obviously did a little mangling there, but God heard those words accurately. Thank you.

Okay, I'm off to work. Going to trust in God and the doctors to do a good job, while I ask for focus and concentration to keep my mind on doing a safe job for those kids I'm transporting.

Later everyone.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 04, 2025 06:29 AM (O7YUW)

61 Why isn't Deborah Birx in jail?

Posted by: I gotta ask at June 04, 2025 06:32 AM (lIgBp)

62 27 It used to be said "don't believe everything you read". With AI writing articles now maybe it should be said as "don't believe anything you read."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 05:44 AM (fweVu)

Except for ... Huck Follywood's comments?

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:33 AM (CQE5S)

63 Blessings on your mom, G&R.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:34 AM (CQE5S)

64 G&R, prayers sent that everything goes well.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 04, 2025 06:38 AM (+4yJ5)

65 54 36 My favorite Norm Macdonald joke: having given his typical lengthy windup in which he's asked by a neighbor to look after a cat and one morning finds it very sick, he takes it to a vet who gives him good news and bad news: the bad news is that there's a medication, but it's expensive and only has a 50-50 shot of working. The good news is, it's just a cat.
Posted by: mea culpa at June 04, 2025 06:19 AM (TOGmQ)

!!!

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:38 AM (CQE5S)

66 Except for ... Huck Follywood's comments?
Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:33 AM (CQE5S)
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Ha! Right.

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Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 06:38 AM (VO2sD)

67 54 My favorite Norm Macdonald joke: having given his typical lengthy windup in which he's asked by a neighbor to look after a cat and one morning finds it very sick, he takes it to a vet who gives him good news and bad news: the bad news is that there's a medication, but it's expensive and only has a 50-50 shot of working. The good news is, it's just a cat.
Posted by: mea culpa at June 04, 2025 06:19 AM (TOGmQ)

It really is endlessly funny.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:45 AM (CQE5S)

68 This is one of those good news bad news days
The good news is I have a wet vac to get all the water out of my house from last night's rain. The bad news is I have no electricity .

Posted by: Ben Had at June 04, 2025 06:47 AM (NVNRw)

69 I miss Norm.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:47 AM (CQE5S)

70 Canada has expanded Pride Month to "Pride Season". The whole summer is now to be devoted to pole smoking on Georgian Bay.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 06:50 AM (oP2SA)

71 Sorry to hear that Ben Had! Day drinking might be a consideration.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 06:52 AM (oP2SA)

72 Why isn't Deborah Birx in jail?

Why isn't Fauci in jail? Why isn't Ilhan in jail for immigration fraud? Why isn't Hillary in jail for treason?

Because Trump believes in the 'rule of law' and doesn't have the will to arrest the criminals who have destroyed this country.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at June 04, 2025 06:52 AM (Dg2sF)

73 Huck, that is definitely on the list

Posted by: Ben Had at June 04, 2025 06:53 AM (NVNRw)

74 Believe us the Data IS Gone. Disappeared! We have no idea what happened to it!

China has it. Hunter sold it to China.

Posted by: Case at June 04, 2025 06:55 AM (kDs7V)

75 Apparently, Lindsey Graham, Stolen Valor Blumenthal and Mike Pompeo are visiting Ukraine for some reason.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 06:56 AM (Wvwtw)

76 Apparently work has blocked AoS. Great, thanks.

Posted by: BChasm Phone at June 04, 2025 06:56 AM (qy7yX)

77 Test

Posted by: Don Black at June 04, 2025 06:58 AM (AOsQT)

78 Did we pass, Don ?

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 06:59 AM (NC/it)

79 76 Apparently work has blocked AoS. Great, thanks.
Posted by: BChasm Phone at June 04, 2025 06:56 AM (qy7yX)

uh-oh

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 06:59 AM (CQE5S)

80 Isn't it Harvards job to talk to those people? Or maybe the researchers might want to talk to the peers and dmin supporting discrimination and hate?

Posted by: Vivi at June 04, 2025 07:00 AM (cpunl)

81 Well the forecast is for Fairly light winds this afternoon so I'll get to go fly my little RC plane with a flying betty. Everybody else have a great day I'll try not to crash again.

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 07:00 AM (NC/it)

82 Flying Buddy not Betty.
Sheesh

Posted by: OkJohn at June 04, 2025 07:01 AM (NC/it)

83 "Five years and $35 million into her research, Fortune is now in the process of closing 21 labs and “figuring out where to put the monkeys” from her study — while mourning a potential cure for the world’s deadliest infectious disease."

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:02 AM (CQE5S)

84
Canada has expanded Pride Month to "Pride Season". The whole summer is now to be devoted to pole smoking on Georgian Bay.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 06:50 AM (oP2SA)

Dear heavens. It's like, let's have Adultery Month. We can celebrate great figures who had lovers and mistresses, workshops on how to cheat on your spouse and Story Hour for the kiddies on seducing someone other than your partner. And the rest of us have to celebrate tomcatting. No more furtive sneaking into cheap motels, let's be Out and Proud of our adultery!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 07:02 AM (QnmlO)

85 Russia's economy grew 4% last year says the IMF. USA was 2.8%, as an aside.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 07:03 AM (Wvwtw)

86 “ See, the Sovereign Lord comes with power,
and he rules with a mighty arm.
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.
He tends his flock like a shepherd:
He gathers the lambs in his arms
and carries them close to his heart;
he gently leads those that have young.”

Isaiah 40:10-11

Posted by: Marcus T at June 04, 2025 07:03 AM (eMh8N)

87 Laptop unbooted itself

Posted by: Don Black at June 04, 2025 07:03 AM (AOsQT)

88 "As researchers desperately seek funding from other sources

Yes, do that."

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:03 AM (CQE5S)

89

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at June 04, 2025 07:04 AM (5hfjS)

90 I'm amazed I can access AoS from my workplace.

Top Death Merchant

Posted by: pawn at June 04, 2025 07:05 AM (QB+5g)

91 oops

"As researchers desperately seek funding from other sources."

Yes, do that.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:06 AM (CQE5S)

92 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

93 "Nadeau worries it will come down to “what trial is more important to save”"

Well, yes.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:07 AM (CQE5S)

94 Hillary Clinton

Ah, one of the Great Old Ones has arrived.

No one gets a saving throw for sanity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:07 AM (u82oZ)

95 “It’s an *incredible* waste of taxpayer dollars to interrupt research,” said Rice, who estimated she would need half a million dollars to complete her work. “For my trial, more than $2 million has been spent on this *incredibly* complex study. It’s so *incredibly* wasteful.”

Incredible.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:10 AM (CQE5S)

96 m

Her grants gained a lot of overhead money to the school.
If her research was that great, then she should be paid from the endowment fund.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

97 Maybe they are there to tell Zenlensky that "the jig is up."

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 04, 2025 07:13 AM (ZmEVT)

98 *Who* is politicizing this?

Weisskopf said he was frustrated that Trump had put “a target on Harvard’s back” because his research “is not political in any way. The questions we’re addressing are not liberal or conservative. It doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on.”

[John Quackenbush said,] “This claim of antisemitism is being used as a political tool."

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:13 AM (CQE5S)

99
Harvard would rather incredibly wastefully incredibly interrupt research that is is incredibly complex than not indulge in discrimination and Jew hate.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 07:13 AM (QnmlO)

100 {{{Ben Had}}}
🎼 ♭ 5/4 ♫♫ ♫♫ Good evening! ♬♬ ♩ ♪

May a fit lineman with a small portable generator knock on your door offering help.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

101 96 m

Her grants gained a lot of overhead money to the school.
If her research was that great, then she should be paid from the endowment fund.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:10 AM (u82oZ)

from the article:

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has called the federal grants a “gift”, and argued that Harvard’s research should instead be funded by its $53 billion endowment.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:14 AM (CQE5S)

102 Hadrian the Seventh

A passive - aggressive research institution.

Harvard, I do not care.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

103 m

It is so blindingly obvious. This is how we separate the bad research from the good.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:16 AM (u82oZ)

104 102 Hadrian the Seventh

A passive - aggressive research institution.

Harvard, I do not care.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:15 AM (u82oZ)

Hahahahaha: I don't really care, Harvard.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:17 AM (CQE5S)

105 They have opened a "Gay Season" in Canada?

What's the limit?

Posted by: Case at June 04, 2025 07:18 AM (kDs7V)

106 "The Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis."

Oh, wait. *Could* have.

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 07:20 AM (CQE5S)

107 In college hockey games whenever the Harvard goalie allowed a goal our school tradition was for the entire crowd to stand and point at the goalie and chant in unison "It's all your fault! It's all your fault!"

Hey Harvard, it's all your fault! It's all your fault! It's all your fault!

Stop your illegal discrimination. Stop victimizing Jews.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 07:22 AM (1V/rV)

108 Listening to Rachmaninov Symphony No.1, Kochanovsky conducting. NRPO.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

109 mornin yall. Muslims believe it is ok to lie to Christians. Muslim journalists doubly so.

Posted by: fd at June 04, 2025 07:25 AM (vFG9F)

110 JJ's birthday party must have extended late last evening. Hope everyone can sober up in time for work today.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 07:26 AM (IeKyt)

111
SEF
TON

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 04, 2025 07:29 AM (gbOdA)

112
Listening to Rachmaninov Symphony No.1, Kochanovsky conducting. NRPO.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 04, 2025 07:22 AM (u82oZ)

A symphony with an interesting history. Glazunov conducted the first performance while drunk. It was a disaster. Rachmaninoff fell into a long, deep depression because of it and basically disavowed the piece.

When he left Russia, the score was left behind and forgotten until the mid-1940's when the orchestral parts were found and the work reconstructed. Eugene Ormandy led the American premiere in 1948 in the first televised concert ever.

I first heard it in Ashkenazy's interpretation. That'll knock you through a wall.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 04, 2025 07:29 AM (QnmlO)

113 *Hope everyone can sober up in time for work today.*

Why would you want to do that?

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at June 04, 2025 07:29 AM (lIgBp)

114 "The good news is I have a wet vac to get all the water out of my house from last night's rain. The bad news is I have no electricity .
Posted by: Ben Had"

Well, crap. Is it possible to rig up a generator powered by a horse on a treadmill?

Posted by: fd at June 04, 2025 07:29 AM (vFG9F)

115 @106

>> Oh, wait. *Could* have.

If the research is truly useful, the school can fund it directly or the research can be transferred to another school, Harvard is not the only school that does research.

There are numerous joint studies that research schools conduct.

This is of a piece that whenever budget cut are discussed the first thing that goes on the chopping block are teachers and cops, even those entities typically have alternative funding mechanism outside of the general budget.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 04, 2025 07:31 AM (XV/Pl)

116 "Hope everyone can sober up in time for "work" today."

"Work" is a four letter word. It's in the lost Data Hunter sold to China.

Posted by: Case at June 04, 2025 07:33 AM (BXeMA)

117 05:39 AM (lIgBp)

24 A Chinese couple was arrested in Detroit smuggling in a bio pathogen capable of devastating farm crops. They claimed they just wanted to research it at UofM.

Reliable sources say Chinese government is asshoe.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 04, 2025 05:41 AM (fweVu)

----

Well, that's one - we caught.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 04, 2025 07:33 AM (iEZQ8)

118 29 The sounds of robins make me feel good. It sounds like they are saying "cheerily, cheerily"
It's a good reminder of- through God's grace-of how as much as possible- to approach the day.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 04, 2025 05:47 AM (r69/0)

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Agree. I've particularly enjoyed them this Spring.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 04, 2025 07:36 AM (iEZQ8)

119 I rock in the tree tops all day long, hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singing my song.

Posted by: Rocking Robin at June 04, 2025 07:45 AM (lIgBp)

120 Sock off

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at June 04, 2025 09:24 AM (w9Wax)

121 @FenelonSpoke, OkJohn, sock_rat_eez, m, and NR Pax:

Thank you for the prayers for my Mom. They've assessed her and it looks like a valve issue in the heart which can be fixed with an endoscopic procedure (they'll go up through a major vein or artery and perform microsurgery that way.)

Bottom line: Not immediately life threatening, but serious enough. I told her to agitate seriously for getting the surgery done sooner rather than later, because our health system up here will absolutely put you off for years if they think they can get away with it. (I'll be advocating on her behalf too if need be, and that might well be the case, and I am not put off easily.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 04, 2025 09:47 AM (O7YUW)

122 Yay, G&R! Good luck.
There were lurkers praying, too, I'll bet!

Posted by: m at June 04, 2025 10:41 AM (CQE5S)

123 A guy on my investment board has the cloned pets. He keeps 3-4 living clones at any given time. I think he is a few generations down the line now and has used both Viagen and the Korean lab.

I think he said they are something like $50k a pop IIRC.

Posted by: Thatch at June 04, 2025 10:43 AM (jaD5Q)

124 Cloned pets really are pretty common. I got an otherwise totally normal Christmas photo from a friend last year, showing her family gathered for the holiday, and there were 3 cloned dogs in the frame - one a direct clone of the original, 2 who were clones of the copy. Must be nice.

Posted by: bittergeek at June 04, 2025 11:06 AM (NFXcl)

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