Sighs - I am reading my student evaluation* of instruction. One student doesn't like how I set up the course and writes a whole essay about requiring rubrics from me. I provided rubrics, in 3 places, and spent class time - twice - on the rubric. And this reminds me why I really dislike the SEI.

CARB is rolling out a $1B Medium and Heavy duty ZEV rebate funded by the LCFS. This update is my most proud accomplishment from my time in the program and I am so glad it stuck. Will it be quickly run out of $? Absolutely and that would be success. content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAR...

This month, five Indian states have hosted or will host regional elections. On the ground, heat wave warnings have reshaped campaigns. Across states, parties adjusted schedules, doctors prepared for a surge in heat-related illness, and workers described mounting difficulty operating outdoors.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

The photos at Flickr from the Artemis II mission are truly incredible! flic.kr/p/2s6971B

Not often that fuel use in LMICs makes the front page of the NYT: www.nytimes.com/video/world/as…

I've wondered if we're living through a different sort of epistemic closure: not one of the right cocooning itself in participatory nonsense, but rather one of billionaires grown confident that closing on—i.e., purchasing—the means of knowledge production will let them dictate what's real or true.

Abolish ICE Before They Kill Again, Impeach Trump & Noem Before They Incite More Murder Renee Nicole Good was a 37-year-old award-winning poet, a mother of a six-year-old, and a wife who had recently moved to Minneapolis. That all ended yesterday when a masked ICE agent murdered her in broad…

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

we are entering a golden age of people being so open-minded their brains leak out

summed up: unrestricted funding minimal reporting no donor driven agenda and I’d add: let the group decide how many years they’ll spend it over

I am seeing more and more opinions bubbling up about how throwing trans people to the wolves would be a winning strategy for Democrats, and I just want to quickly say: Fuck off with that absolute dog shit.

Science friends in the U.S.: we have two months to make sure data, code, and websites are saved somewhere securely. This isn't going to be pretty.