Also barely fits in the bag, but it's what's there for now: koolstop.com/products/koo...

Kool Stop Tire Bead Jack

The Kool Stop Tire Bead Jack is an articulated tool, with a comfortable grip, for installing really tight tires. The articulated end uses the rigid piece against the rim edge as a fulcrum while the hi...

Both Sam Altman (OpenAI) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) have made some version of the argument that AI will give us the power to "fix the climate". I find this a deeply problematic position, as the challenges of mitigation are as much political as technological.

I must be missing the lab. I had a dream I was setting up and organizing a bench last night, in spite of it having been a few years!! I woke up both a little confused and a little nostalgic.

Nickel?

WeWork?

i've been thinking about these tweets for days

For the umpteenth fucking time, why are agents of the state allowed to kill us on a whim?

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

Under Trump, EPA scientists say managers pressured them to "delete evidence of chemicals’ harms, including cancer, miscarriage & neurological problems, from their reports — and in some cases, they said, their managers deleted the information themselves." (Via @propublica.bsky.social)

EPA Scientists Said They Were Pressured to Downplay Harms From Chemicals. A Watchdog Found They Were Retaliated Against.

Three reports issued by the agency’s inspector general detailed personal attacks suffered by the scientists — including being called “stupid,” “piranhas” and “pot-stirrers” — and called on the EPA to ...