It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

COL. JESSUP: You want answers? SCHUMER: I think I’m entitled! COL. JESSUP: You want answers? SCHUMER: I WANT THE TRUTH!! COL. JESSUP: You can’t handled the truth! SCHUMER (defiantly): No further questions, you honor.

"political violence is never acceptable," is a phrase you don't hear politicians say after cops beat the shit out of peaceful demonstrators

Google image searches have been… less than useful, so I’d not used it in a while. I saw this cheesy AI image supposedly of Stephen Hillenburg, drawing SpongeBob, along with an ‘inspirational biography.’ Just curious, I tried a search, and, Oh my!😳 I took a screenshot of the results…

As tech firms keep adding the largest and most compute-intensive AI models into more and more aspects of our digital lives, they are increasingly dependent on a growing share of existing energy and natural resources, leading to rising costs for everyone else, write Sasha Luccioni and Yacine Jernite.

I just use AI for making people think less of me.

(Old man voice): Back in my day, we didn’t have object-oriented #programming, so we just misused global variables.

You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? CONTACT (1997) ARRIVAL (2016)

Apropros of nothing, what’s the plural of “apocalypse?”

AI is the apotheosis of the Dunning-Kruger effect and some day (not today), y'all are going to learn that the hard way, maybe in a Michael Crichton-esque Gell-Mann amnesia-awakening moment. Maybe.

I don’t want to alarm anybody, but in think the Dow is in afib

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

if I just refresh the timeline enough maybe someone will do something to stop all of this

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

NEW: Extraordinary drone footage from Pacific Palisades in LA showing hundreds of homes burned to the ground. The death toll has now risen to five and damage is already estimated at over $50 billion. This is likely to be the costliest fire in US history. (📸 Kit Karsten)

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

Happy New Year to the west-coast-best-coast!

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

My Christmas tradition is screaming out loud at the scene in The Muppet Christmas Carol when the Marley brothers show up. Somehow, not everyone remembers this is my tradition, which only makes it a better tradition. One or two of my kids might not speak to me until Christmas.

If you’re reading this, post a gif from a video game you love.

NASA’s take on the holiday fireplace video youtu.be/_cgTVTwu4nw?...

I caught a rainbow during a ferry mission in #msfs2024 #flightsimulator

It's time

#GoHawks!

don't poison yourselves ☠️ my best friend regularly ate lindt dark chocolate. another friend linked me: www.consumerreports.org/health/food-... lindt's defense is you'd have to be stupid to believe their claims about quality www.foodandwine.com/lindt-chocol... lead poisoning is cumulative, serious

one thing bluesky does better than any other app i’ve ever used is drive conversation. why? because it _incentivizes_ conversation. not through algorithms or through some technological trick. but because the community itself thrives off of that conversation.

Alright I’m just gonna say, as my first post, that as a developer I find a lot of what @bsky.app is doing to be pretty fascinating, and I’m looking forward to figuring it all out! Now all I need is some free time so I can figure it all out.