Did you imagine the day we might choose a German automobile over an American maker because the American company is run by a nazi? Me either, and for the love of Edison we need range more than 0-60 times to shame a 90’s sports car.

So actually there is no plan you mean?

The sailors of the Marshall Islands navigated the vast network of islands by feeling the rhythm of the waves. At one time it was believed they relied upon observation of the currents however the currents were subsequently shown to lack the necessary coherence. They actually use proprioception. 🤯

Local color

This trail has the best start. There’s no sign. You park on a shred of gravel next to the road, bust a bush and go underneath a giant bridge log then up log jam cascade before the trail is clearly defined. It’s primitive so no blazes and climbing 1000’/‘mi the further up the less worn it is.

“suggests that safety filters rely on features concentrated in prosaic surface forms and are insufficiently anchored in representations of underlying harmful intent.”

A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.

I have a vivid memory from childhood when I first realized how many cars on the road and how many are produced each year. I couldn’t wrap my mind around the quantity of resources this required nor imagine how such excesses were sustainable. Because it’s not, we just do it anyway.

Way to look suspicious as hell Mr. Coyote

Another significant entry point of PFAS into the food supply is via sewage solids. Shit, pesticides and PFAS, awesome right?

We drove 3,000 up a steep forest road to see a lookout, quite the view as you can see 😹. It’s always worthwhile to get off the beaten path though and you can’t know what’s there without seeing for yourself. Rather brisk up there.

An elfin saddle, a Matsutake, and a delightful ring of Fomitopsis. Matsutake smell like red hots or atomic fireballs.

Sheep

Went for a ride to see the world and ended up at the top of a logging road. This was just cut this summer and what I thought was plastic marking tape trash was in fact some orange peel fungus just growing out of the rock. At 2,200’ ASL the Salish sea is so expansive it’s almost vertigo inducing.

An example of where Ai can be really neat: caring for our chickens I started wondering about their vocalizations. After reading a few papers on the topic I noticed the researchers often used spectrographic analysis which gave me an idea. I made some high fidelity recordings with a scarlet 2i2 and

This is basically my thesis for life except that in my mind I call it entropy. We live in fear of our own and others intentions so we develop elaborate customs of control to regulate society, but in doing so crowd out room for the unexpected. Yet the unexpected is where beauty and purpose exist.

We need civility and courtesy like we need a president who can form complete sentences and not call journalists piggys. Like leading by example isn’t a thing.

“Survival of the fittest” is often used to justify capitalist society, but this wasn’t a phrase that Darwin used. He described it as “better designed for an immediate, local environment" and wrote of groups that survived through empathy and sharing rather than greed. We must change Or die

My theory is that corporations aren’t inherently evil, rather they act as organisms with the prime directive of survival. It’s the aggregate outcome of individuals acting in their own interest, and the culling of those who cease to align. Yet unlike individuals, the corporation doesn’t have../

You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?

I have this idea about a platform for forming ad-hoc buyers cartels. Totally sidestep retail, get commitments from 5,000 tv buyers, assign a sourcing agent who negotiates an optimal deal on their behalf without the games. Flip the script basically

I mean come on, if ever there was a time to bring this back

An answer so obvious the Oregon department of Highway Maintenance demo team has an SOP for it.

The amount of power Trump appears to hold over Johnson is unseemly, lurid even. What skeletons in his closet could account for such obsequiousness? It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if in his private meetings Putin passes him dossiers of kompromat just to watch Trump single handily destroy us.

Wow, so DHS awards a $145M no-bid contract to an LLC with zero prior history or public record of work who then subs the work out to the husband of the current DHS SPOX? To call this administration fraud ridden is a dead horse that doesn’t need beating.

In training we had these anatomical manikins that another dude had to push a plastic baby through when we first started on the OB unit. And to think I’ve actually delivered a couple of human babies that weren’t my own.

lol

Do you think these two birds of a feather are sharing diet cokes and commiserating over the joys of senseless murder?

Come on Chuck, do actually have any heat in you?

I find it totally weird that with all the capabilities under his purview the president could target the “clandestine” points of origin for the supposed drugs but instead he chooses to pick off the odd boat here and there. It’s pure theatre, murder for prime time, what a plot.

Bravo!

Subscription malware, bad clippy.

The barn greeting committee.

Wool and sheep are surprisingly fascinating. The wonders of the material need no explanation but animals are exceptional in their own right. Humanity would not have achieved what we have without the humble sheep.

As we decay towards a zero-trust society, at least with respect to our digital lives, beware the push for a identity token under the auspices of security or credibility. It’s a wet dream of big-tech to irrefutably tie our digital presence to our human identity. We must avoid this at all cost.

A coyote walks past the little owl buffet, where yesterday we saw the owl eat a rodent.

White fang and the one bite snack.

The whistles go “whoop whoop”

Stepping implies dignity, how about shrinking, slithering, seeping.

It took a lot of intellectual horsepower to come up with that zinger. And we trust this man with national secrets.

Puta vaqueros

Pamphleteers in the colonies would publish the quantities of home spun cloth women produced (in stead of bought) to avoid paying the crown’s tax on cloth. action + media Now we’ve got the media bit hacked, let’s do the action, or inaction as it is. Black out Black Friday, share the pain.

The cost of making the unreal believable is the real less so. I don’t think it’s an equitable trade.

While we’re at it let’s dress us ICE vehicles with Home Depot and Amazon logos, just go whole hog into the abyss.

Tenure generally has moral turpitude exceptions. Talking about how to get into the pants of a student with a sex offender *should* meet that standard. However, Universities are their own little moral world.

Good for her!

You look like you need to see a pocket owl eat a mouse, enjoy the owl. From last night on the wild way.

coastalwatershedinstitute.org/beavers-in-o... While study C. Canadensis populations in the Elwha river watershed the Coastal Watershed Institute observed significant decreases in activity during the summer season. Turns out dogs were scaring them off.

POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success