RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116596660944708472 Should #presidenttumor be allowed to extort $1.8 billion of your taxes to set up a #traitorfund?

The Santa Cruz Mountains are just exploding with California tortoiseshell butterflies right now. The reason is that their favorite plant, ceanothus (aka California lilac) is also exploding since the huge fire of five years ago. Today at Big Basin park there were […] [Original post on sfba.social]

@waldo.net #fascism250 ( the memes write themselves )

🗽 The Statue of Liberty’s Silent Protest — By Judith de Leeuw in Roubaix, France 🇫🇷 35 Street Art Gems Across France: https://streetartutopia.com/2026/05/17/street-art-from-france/ Judith de Leeuw, also known as JDL Street Art, titled this mural The Statue […] [Original post on mastodon.online]

Useful quiz for figuring out where governor candidates stand versus your stance on issues... https://calmatters.org/california-voter-guide-2026/governor/quiz/

RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/116579227765667435 Anyone else feeling like this marks the death of television?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116564617044673472 Guess what happens when the rich pay their fair share of taxes…

RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116562179332588859 #metaworry misallocation …

From @sjamieit.bsky.social: The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers […] [Original post on mstdn.ca]

Update. See the Open Letter to Congress Demanding the Restoration of the National Science Board. https://www.standupforscience.net/nasem-letter-to-congress/ The letter is hosted by Stand Up For Science. It was initially signed by “elected members of the National Academies of Sciences […]

If it weren't for your Mother, you wouldn't be here (Happy late Mother's Day)... https://davideagleman.substack.com/p/celebrating-mothers-day-in-deep-time

The best presents : Doing things you love with people you love.

The biggest lesson from the Covid pandemic was don't let anti-science liars run the country. But a plurality of American voters didn't learn it, or didn't want to.

@RonSupportsYou If he runs again, I look forward to voting for Obama.

Why we need to build our own social home on the #opensocialweb … “On X since 2020 engagement saw a "72% shift to the right, which is just insane." And humans posting on X & FB "dropped by 50%" with huge "botification of those platforms" […]

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116546269459919639 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them.” --Exodus 20:4-5

@petersuber Potential incentized correction : Discovery of a fake citation during review leads to instant rejection.

"...she is every piece of institutional knowledge your transformation just deleted, walking around in a fifty-five-year-old body..." (too close) https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

Isn't she lovely? ( homegrown #monarch )

This is an example of The Trust Trap: the person invoking declining trust is actually further damaging such trust through their actions

May the fourth be with you...

The Strait of Epstein crisis meets cheap solar panels and batteries. And boom 💥 - #DemandDestruction "But to really max out on demand destruction, you need both rationing and a cheap, easily installed substitute, and that's what the Strait of Epstein crisis […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Yeah, I finally joined the union... ( Happy #mayday ) https://www.aaup.org

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

I'm still working on this AI data center environmental effects talk (which, let me tell you, is seriously fucking depressing), but I wanted to share the best article I've come across on this topic, in case anyone else is interested in knowing exactly how much to hate slop-AI* use […]

One aspect of driving an EV that doesn't get enough attention is regenerative braking. The Kia app has started showing how much power is fed back to the battery for each of my trips and it's typically around 40%. I'm surprised how high it is. ICE vehicles in contrast […] [Original post on mas.to]

LMFAO audio up

Jeremy Faust got a copy of the censored paper and published it: https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-heres-the-covid-19-vaccine. Faust’s source says that they think RFKJr doesn’t want to publish the study because he wants to weaken CDC recommendations for the vaccines this year […]

"Thousands of shady ads sell paper authorship for cash, large-scale investigation finds." https://www.science.org/content/article/thousands-shady-ads-sell-paper-authorship-cash-large-scale-investigation-finds PS: This article from _Science_ reports important news about paper mills. But it draws […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116472516077930220 Coming around to the idea of saving lots of money by replacing the #billionaires with #ai …

Everywhere there are large numbers of international Chinese students, there is excellent contemporary Chinese food. https://maps.app.goo.gl/XwAwywUUczL7X1ud7?g_st=ic #food #chinesefood #cambridge

#til Candidate Stephen Hilton's original surname was Hircsák. ( #bayarea ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Hilton

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116466964252249075 If you were an enemy trying to destroy American scientific progress, what would you differently?

Imagine how much we could save if we replaced the billionaires with #ai …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grheavyroller/116451261921292561 #psa ( for #earthday ): Once you buy an #electricvehicle , you’ll never have to buy gas again …

Comrade Trump: Burning down the American empire to save it. By Cory Doctorow @pluralistic Trump's bonehead maneuvers are driving the world toward solar power, away from dependence on American technology companies and putting spine into the Democratic Party. "Look, all things being equal, I would […]

Everything old is new again ( 20 years later, might as well be #blacktrump )... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DLuALBnolM

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116423118484797163 My mom is losing her short term-memory, and (much to our relief) has agreed to move into an assisted living facility (this true subpost is also about our current government)…

#wizardofoz vibes up here in #kcmo ...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marie-potel-saville_tiktok-knows-exactly-how-much-time-it-takes-share-7450423802775285760-y2Q3 #tiktok knows exactly how much time it takes to get you addicted to their algorithm : 35 minutes. According to internal documents revealed in a lawsuit, a user is […]

#popeleo said going to the mosque showed that while “we have different beliefs, we have different ways of worshipping, we have different ways of living, we can live together in peace.” He added: “I think that to promote that kind of image is something which the world needs to hear today. #iran […]

Moral: When leaders try to take away your vote, vote to take away their leadership…

Good news for democracy (and congratulations to my Hungarian colleagues)... https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@nickofnz/116390605062278492 Land if Oz set to escape potential Mad Max future ( #gosolar )…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116389416128065655 Ben's description is spot on and everybody needs to listen to this video of Will Hollingsworth now. I said NOW, dammit!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116371575484902362 Now they’re comimg for our forests … when we need them most.

"We argue [computational functionalism] fundamentally mischaracterizes how physics relates to information. We call this mistake the #abstractionfallacy. Tracing the causal origins of abstraction reveals that symbolic computation is not an intrinsic physical process. Instead, it is a […]