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Out of His League and Clueless: NIH Staffers Speak Out on Director Bhattacharya

https://www.importantcontext.news/p/out-of-his-depth-sold-his-soul-clueless
45•SubiculumCode•1d ago

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MOARDONGZPLZ•1d ago
interesting
duxup•1d ago
I think incompetence comes when personal loyalty to Trump is the most important requirement.

It also helps that he can use any of these folks as fall guys, they’re not smart enough to realize it …

Reminds me of the attorney who signed the paperwork declaring that they checked Trumps home and he didn’t have any secret documents. Ambition got the better of them and Trump could discard them as needed.

maeil•1d ago
> I think incompetence comes when personal loyalty to Trump is the most important requirement.

It is the only requirement. Loyalty to the party and not a hint of anything suggesting shared views with any of its opponents.

The "defense of the West" narrative has become entirely laughable. The only places left to defend are parts of Europe, Taiwan and Japan, and maybe Korea at a stretch. And those now need to defend against the US, which has become a bigger threat than Russia.

duxup•1d ago
> “He claims that we're not canceling grants, and yet we have whole slates of grants (per grants management) that we have to cancel…He's claiming not to be responsible for the illegal RIFs, but as far as I can tell, has done nothing to help bring RIFed employees back.”

It’s hard to imagine how the firings can be legal if the head of the agency didn’t participate.

At least in one court case another agency head said they “did not know” who ordered firings at their agency.

fabian2k•1d ago
One part of the government apparently wants to simply destroy all institutions involved in scientific research. The other half wants to promote their pet ideas, no matter how unscientific they are.

They're coming for the vaccines now, it's still cloaked in scientific-sounding language, but in the end they will make vaccines less available and potentially even completely prevent access. This doesn't have to be direct, the current strategy seems to be to demand unreasonable and unscientific levels and types of evidence to recommend them or even making them available.

Vaccines are the first target, I strongly doubt they're the only one.

svara•1d ago
I have some visibility into what goes on at different science institutions in the US.

I sense a lot of fear. But the curious thing to see is how people just try to keep calm and carry on as if nothing was happening otherwise, while the government is killing the best parts of American science.

Who would have thought it was that easy to turn the 'land of the free ' around.

croes•1d ago
The „land of the free“ was always about being free to do something not about being free of being harmed by something.

In close living societies that favors those with money and power.

svara•1d ago
Reread my comment. The point is that people being intimidated and clinging to hope while the things they believe in are being taken away from them is what happens in authoritarian regimes, not in a country of free spirited people.
Teever•1d ago
You can see a combination of "keep calm and carry on" denial and outright attempts to hide what's happening right here in the form of the flagging that this post got.
dunkeltaenzer•1d ago
Good journalism would ask the funny question "how can the newly appointed guy be responsible for the state of an organization, grown over decades?"

Incompetent bureaucracy is an expression of the competency of those working it. That's rarely the temporarily assigned political figurehead, assigned to that organization

zippothrowaway•1d ago
Rarely? Citation needed. But in this case the issue is not incompetent bureaucracy, it's incompetence put in charge to actually affect change, and be the exact opposite of a figurehead.
spacemadness•1d ago
“We fired people that did what you said you want to do” is straight out of corporate America's idiotic playbook.

Tokasaurus: An LLM Inference Engine for High-Throughput Workloads

https://scalingintelligence.stanford.edu/blogs/tokasaurus/
17•rsehrlich•27m ago•0 comments

The impossible predicament of the death newts

https://crookedtimber.org/2025/06/05/occasional-paper-the-impossible-predicament-of-the-death-newts/
350•bdr•8h ago•116 comments

APL Interpreter – An implementation of APL, written in Haskell (2024)

https://scharenbroch.dev/projects/apl-interpreter/
12•ofalkaed•31m ago•0 comments

Seven Days at the Bin Store

https://defector.com/seven-days-at-the-bin-store
98•zdw•5h ago•40 comments

Show HN: iOS Screen Time from a REST API

https://www.thescreentimenetwork.com/api/
58•anteloper•3h ago•35 comments

Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX

https://github.com/hyperdxio/hyperdx
105•mikeshi42•3h ago•20 comments

Programming language Dino and its implementation

https://github.com/dino-lang/dino
18•90s_dev•4h ago•4 comments

Converge (YC S23) Well-capitalized New York startup seeks product developers

https://www.runconverge.com/careers
1•thomashlvt•54m ago

SkyRoof: New Ham Satellite Tracking and SDR Receiver Software

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/skyroof-new-ham-satellite-tracking-and-sdr-receiver-software/
13•rmason•2h ago•0 comments

Understanding the PURL Specification (Package URL)

https://fossa.com/blog/understanding-purl-specification-package-url/
58•todsacerdoti•5h ago•47 comments

Aurora, a foundation model for the Earth system

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/climate/ai-weather-models-aurora-microsoft.html
54•rmason•2h ago•12 comments

The Universal Tech Tree

https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-universal-tech-tree
27•mitchbob•3d ago•10 comments

A proposal to restrict sites from accessing a users’ local network

https://github.com/explainers-by-googlers/local-network-access
576•doener•1d ago•330 comments

Phptop: Simple PHP ressource profiler, safe and useful for production sites

https://github.com/bearstech/phptop
90•kadrek•13h ago•13 comments

Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast could be 100k years old

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/black-iceberg-labrador-coast-1.7551078
84•pseudolus•5h ago•37 comments

Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device

https://networkedartifacts.com/airlab/simulator
301•256dpi•14h ago•142 comments

Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini/pro/
267•jcuenod•5h ago•159 comments

Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first

https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-delft-defeats-human-champions-in-historic-racing-first
291•picture•1d ago•234 comments

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/openai-says-court-forcing-it-to-save-all-chatgpt-logs-is-a-privacy-nightmare/
1047•ColinWright•1d ago•854 comments

LLMs and Elixir: Windfall or Deathblow?

https://www.zachdaniel.dev/p/llms-and-elixir-windfall-or-deathblow
215•uxcolumbo•22h ago•108 comments

From tokens to thoughts: How LLMs and humans trade compression for meaning

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17117
96•ggirelli•13h ago•21 comments

parrot.live

https://github.com/hugomd/parrot.live
203•jasonthorsness•22h ago•47 comments

End of an Era: Landsat 7 Decommissioned After 25 Years of Earth Observation

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/end-era-landsat-7-decommissioned-after-25-years-earth-observation
96•keepamovin•17h ago•37 comments

Myanmar's chinlone ball sport threatened by conflict and rattan shortages

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/6/5/myanmars-chinlone-ball-sport-threatened-by-conflict-and-rattan-shortages
4•YeGoblynQueenne•49m ago•0 comments

Cysteine depletion triggers adipose tissue thermogenesis and weight loss

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42255-025-01297-8
77•bookofjoe•5h ago•54 comments

Neuromorphic computing

https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/1269-neuromorphic-computing
44•LAsteNERD•3h ago•32 comments

Reproducing the deep double descent paper

https://stpn.bearblog.dev/reproducing-double-descent/
3•stpn•3h ago•0 comments

Show HN: I made a 3D SVG Renderer that projects textures without rasterization

https://seve.blog/p/i-made-a-3d-svg-renderer-that-projects
191•seveibar•19h ago•66 comments

Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/04/apple-notes-markdown
224•robenkleene•8h ago•129 comments

Prompt engineering playbook for programmers

https://addyo.substack.com/p/the-prompt-engineering-playbook-for
397•vinhnx•1d ago•155 comments