Umm... That's not how copyright works

Some of the white pines, symbols of peace, that are around my house located on the traditional land of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ may have been here in the 1820s when Erie canal was built and the Haudenosaunee were cheated out of their lands, displaced, and largely decimated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/n...

Only in Finland: the single biggest taxpayer criticises government for cutting taxes

Far as I can tell, Robert Redford was: * successful at everything he tried * genuinely intelligent & insightful * desired by women * envied by men * an absolute mensch to everyone he dealt with * a tireless, lifelong philanthropist ... and he died peacefully in his sleep. 10/10 life. No notes.

I hope this is accurate

No way

We seem to circling back to this

Global business should be all over climate change, particularly the financial sector. Risk management is their core. Climate change is very bad for business and their economic analysts see the writing very clearly on the wall.

Why are the Nordics happier and healthier than most countries? Lower inequality. It's costly but generates huge benefits for all.

A keeper

Research agents are here!

Awesome!

Small government, eh?

JFC. Chatbots don't "lie" or "roleplay", they predict what sequence of words you want to hear/read.

Will the absence of functioning public transport in the US mark the moment it's citizens notice how far their continent has fallen behind?

Wow. All scientific journals appear to be in LibGen

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

This is a helpful take

"I'll alsso ssay that the pressident is in incredibly good health."

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

Je suis Lisa

Gen AI as the wah-wah pedal!

AMS State of the Global Climate in 2024. Continent Scorecard Nth America: Hottest on Record Sth America: Hottest on Record Europe: Hottest on Record Africa: Hottest on Record Asia: 2nd Hottest on Record Australia: 2nd Hottest on Record Antarctica: 2nd lowest sea ice www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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We need ACTUALLY open AI!

The good old "bluebberry" test for AGI...

Excessive logging turned Finland's vast forests into carbon sources

Geez... Not good

Literally every academic peer review ever:

🚨 I’m excited to announce that, “The Enshittification of Work: Platform Decay and Labour Conditions in the Gig Economy” is now available online ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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You may not feel it, but the ground beneath you may be sinking. In fact, the surface of California’s Central Valley is nearly 30 vertical feet lower than it was a century ago. Why is this happening? Because our planet is rapidly drying. THREAD/

This is an excellent analysis of the sources of tech profits in 2025

NEW FROM ME: new research has found millions of ex's of personal info, including credit cards, passports, résumés, birth certificates etc in 1 of the largest web-scraped datasets used to train image generation AI models. It's a major privacy violation. www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/18/1...

I have a goal of adding one new visual per day at zacklabe.com/united-state..., and this one was particularly eye-opening - sea surface temperatures averaged by year for the Caribbean... 🌀🌊 Data from @noaa.gov OISSTv2.1 (downloads.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/noa...).

The trend is still in Bluesky's favour. X is still larger but very regularly Bluesky easily eclipses it in terms of research being shared. Linda Yaccarino claimed X had 600m users in April. Bluesky has 36m accounts created in total.

“Flexible schedule” in academia means you are free to work whenever you feel guilty.

One step at a time

It’s hard to go from thinking of climate action primarily as charity and/or a great business opportunity, to reckoning with the fact that it’s rapidly destroying lives and municipal budgets

What will it take to get to a lifestyle of 2.5t CO2 per person by 2030? - Public transport - Renewable energy heating/cooling - Vegetarian diet It's doable.

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Cornell, one of the best universities in the world, is laying plans to fire staff and close programs after the Trump regime illegally violated dozens of contracts and anticipating new massive taxes on its endowment. Likely the first of many similar headlines www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/l...

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

We’re wasting the remaining carbon budget on war and AI.

Think through what will happen to property values. Insurance companies know something about risk

Musk keeps bumping into the quandary of his LLM pushing back against his lies and propaganda. He’s a canary in a very large coal mine.

Even the most conservative estimates of turnout (4-6 million) make No Kings the largest protest in American history www.thedailybeast.com/data-guru-g-...

Seems like we need Magna Carta v2