Hank Green
@hankgreen
This account is not actively managed, it sometimes reposts from my Bluesky, a Twitter-like thing that’s built on an open platform, giving its users more control
A LOT of kickass scientists, creators, and engineers here at Open Sauce who are in the US on green cards or student visas and are making arrangements to not live in the US long-term. Making immigration into a culture war was so goddamn dumb.
When people found a way to make safe vaccines with no mercury, he renamed his anti-vaccine organization from “the world mercury project” to “children’s health defense.” Responding to his fear mongering never ends his fear mongering because fear is his only product.
RFK Jr.: "I spent 30 years trying to get mercury out of the fish in this country, and nobody ever called me anti-fish."
Internet controversy in 2015: Oh no, I did something wrong and people are mad at me on the internet. My career is over!! Internet controversy in 2025: Excellent, my carefully crafted outrage bait has landed. I get to have a career for another month!!
If, at some point today, someone you respect or admire wrote or shared a tweet with information that turned out to be false and inflammatory, check to see whether they’ve apologized or at least deleted their tweet. If not, perhaps they are not so worthy of your admiration.
I think everything we thing of as “science” (the scientific method, replication, peer review, etc etc) is emergent of one single thing. What do you think that is?
Every businessy guy I have ever met who finds out about Crash Course tells me that we're not just decreasing our revenue by not building a paywalled business, we're also decreasing our impact. This is wrong...and this video shows why! complexly.info/CCcoin25-5
Hosting Crash Course has hope-pilled me... complexly.info/CCcoin25-5
My Bluesky: “Generative AI is just fancy autocomplete.” My YouTube: “Generative AI will deliver century of progress in the next decade” I’m going to go out on a limb and say our situation somewhere between these two.
Hello! Elon said yesterday that he would help fix it if people aren't getting HIV and TB support from USAID. This is great, I'm glad he wants to do fix this because funding for that support has been cut significantly. @elonmusk Please keep us up to date on how that's going.