Jennifer Ouellette

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I cover science and culture at Ars Technica. Former science editor, Gizmodo. Ex-vangelical. Rodeo fan. Married to @seanmcarroll, servant to two cats, Ariel and Caliban. Baltimore, MD. She/her.

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A detailed news story at CNN about record breaking heat across the US, yet no mention of #ClimateChange? 🤔

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Congrats to other country’s liberal coalitions for ever being able to get their shit in gear tell us what that’s like

Breaking news: The first projections after polls closed in France’s legislative election put a leftist alliance in the lead, as the populist, anti-immigration far right falls behind and performs far below expectations.

France election live updates: Left-wing bloc leads in results projectionswww.washingtonpost.com The populist, anti-immigration National Rally party had been hoping to install France’s first far-right government since World War II, with 28-year-old Jordan Bardella as prime minister.

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FASCISM IS NOT INEVITABLE

Baron Pierre de Coubertin, The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics daily.jstor.org/the-french-h...

The French Historian Who Invented the Olympics - JSTOR Dailydaily.jstor.org Pierre de Coubertin harnessed an enduring fascination with ancient Greece to create a new institution that blended national pride with global unity.

Review: Catching up with "Doctor Who" and Ncuti Gatwa’s stellar freshman season. The "Sex Education" actor brings sparkling energy, charisma, and superb style to the role. arstechnica.com/culture/2024...

Review: Catching up with Doctor Who and Ncuti Gatwa’s stellar freshman seasonarstechnica.com The Sex Education actor brings sparkling energy, charisma, and superb style to the role

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The “Pompeii of paleontology” preserves a time when rhinos roamed Nebraskaarstechnica.com 50 years of excavation unveiled the story of a catastrophic event and its aftermath.

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He doesn’t even bother to disavow Project 2025’s aims, but the fact that they’re shying away from direct association with it demonstrates that it’s a vulnerability. If the press is looking for something new and substantive to report on, they could start with the dystopia that these folks want for us

Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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If you like to learn about the universe in ~5 minute videos, check out my new series!

The first episode of my new video series, Cosmology 101, is out now! This one is about cosmic expansion. Check it out and subscribe to the Perimeter Institute’s YouTube channel to get the whole series! youtu.be/7GC8XOKwRpM?... #Cosmology101

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1youtu.be In this episode of Cosmology 101, we dive into the concept of an expanding universe. From the first moments of the Big Bang, our cosmos has been stretching i...

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Well this is grim

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I'm going to end up sharing this everywhere, but look how easily it *could* be done donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

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Exactly this

The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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"RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS" is, to me, a deranged and instantly disqualifying thing for a presidential candidate to say, but on the other hand joe biden looks and sounds very old

In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034 arstechnica.com?p=2035383

ITER fusion reactor to see further delays, with operations pushed to 2034arstechnica.com Full fusion power won't happen until nearly 2040 on new timeline.

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This is a picture of a newly discovered pool never seen before by human eyes 700 ft deep in Lechuguilla Cave a part of Carlsbad National Park here in New Mexico

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If you enjoyed my piece on the grid in art (artologica.substack.com/p/on-the-grid), check out this work by Henry Segerman, using stereographic projection to create a grid on a flat surface using a 3D printed sphere and overhead lighting. youtu.be/VX-0Laeczgk?... #sciart 🧪

Stereographic projectionyoutu.be This shows a 3d print of a mathematical sculpture I produced using shapeways.com. This model is available at http://shpws.me/q41V.

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No coincidence that Robinson is using the same "you made us do it" rhetoric as Kevin Roberts--it's a textbook strategy for persuading people to get over their moral scruples and just do it.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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What is Heritage rebelling against? - Civil rights - Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust - Marriage equality - Fair immigration - Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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I'm old enough to remember when everyone agreed it would be unprofessional and unethical to diagnose Trump as a sociopath

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I actually think people are getting a bit over their skis on freaking out over Biden! We're talking about one terrible debate performance, something that can be turned around with a few good TV appearances. And bowing out could hurt Dem polling more than it helps. bsky.app/profile/bikm...

Staying with Biden is now the most suicidal option. We will lose all 3 branches simultaneously.

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the fact that the same people pushing Biden to drop out immediately are also proposing shit that wouldn't fly on The West Wing makes me think we need a complete and total shutdown of the nation's op-ed pages until we can figure out what's going on

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Say what you will about the UK, but the quick transition of power and the lack of election denial are refreshing to see.

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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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"there's a huge amount of hype — but so far, the only companies making much actual revenue off AI are the ones selling the hardware it needs, like Nvidia." futurism.com/the-byte/ai-...

There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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Yascha Mounk joins the ranks of political pundits who are making it clear they have no idea how elections actually work. Anyone who can come up with a way for a party to self-organize a democratically legitimate primary in a month should just go ahead and lay it out!

Another asinine 'solution' to the Biden Problem, this time from Yascha Mounk. Again, these people think their *entire job* is political strategy and predicting poll numbers. Yet they somehow think that spending months drawing attention to their own party's weaknesses is a good strategy!

Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imagined hyperallergic.com/930487/abiga...

Abigail Dudley’s Paintings of the Observed and Imaginedhyperallergic.com I can think of no other painter who can so effectively pull the viewer into a space where clarity and puzzlement cannot be separated.

Excerpt: When Two Famous Physicists (Robert Millikan and Arthur Compton ) Faced Off in Mussolini’s Rome over revelations about the strange interstellar radiation dubbed cosmic rays and their implications about the nature of the universe. undark.org/2024/07/05/e...

Excerpt: When Two Famous Physicists Faced Off in Mussolini's Romeundark.org A gathering of leading scientists in 1931 would pit two Nobel winners against each other over the origin of cosmic rays.

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Washington Post has more on the story first in Politico the other day about the clashes between the Christian right and the Trump campaign/RNC on platform drafting. It's getting heated, but what will it amount to? 🧵1/x www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Tempers flare as Trump team revises abortion plank for Republican platformwww.washingtonpost.com The former president wants the platform to endorse leaving the issue to the states rather than a federal ban in the wake of Roe v. Wade’s demise.

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New from me for Live Science. 🏺🧪

Missing pieces of 6th-century Byzantine bucket finally found at Sutton Hoowww.livescience.com Archaeologists at Sutton Hoo, a 1,400-year-old boat burial in England, have discovered pieces of a broken bucket from the Byzantine Empire.