not happy with the pics i got of him today but this is a Louisiana Waterthrush #birds

I love being a Luddite tbh

This administration can rot in Hell. A special level created specifically for them.

Listen, those billions for war have to come from somewhere

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget ❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH. ❌ EPA: -4.6B ❌ NSF: -3.8B ❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion ❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M) ❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100% And there's more.

Iranian student informed me that the health center she grew up getting vaccines at was destroyed

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How many times have you heard US fossil fuel supporters say, "Why should we lower our emissions when China is not?" Meanwhile: "Decline of emissions from China's power sector was offset by an increase in U.S. power sector emissions, according to the announcement."

It has been wild watching the decline of American civilization tbh. Very hard to cope with as someone who grew up very proud of the idea of America

My mom is like obsessed with butter lambs

Gas shall be $17/gallon

SNAP Now Requiring Recipients To Spend 80 Hours A Month In Hypoglycemic Coma https://theonion.com/snap-now-requiring-recipients-to-spend-80-hours-a-month-in-hypoglycemic-coma/

Simulator of the following (attentional) models: 🔎 Rescorla-Wagner 🔎 Pearce-Kaye-Hall 🔎 Mackintosh Extended 🔎 Le Pelley’s Hybrid 🔎 Rescorla-Wagner with a unified variable learning rate (integrating Mackintosh’s and Pearce and Hall’s quasi-opposing conceptualisations). github.com/cal-r/PALMS-...

Step 1 to selling off public assets:

They did the prisoner's dilemma on a grape

#hailuotoorganum tonight

Waiting for the AI bros to come in and well-ahktually this one. It's bad to burn lots of carbon for absolutely no benefit, period.

my main take away from the claude code leak is WHY am i being denied my mystical creature tamagotchi daemon code buddy, i want it now!

I love that you can see people wearing camo

"U.S. Weighs Banning Chinese Air Bag Parts After 10 Fatalities" well surely this means they will also ban Teslas

Good

"With the LNG drought pushing up electricity prices and photovoltaics providing a cheaper, easier alternative, a boom in rooftop solar is far more likely than a return to coal. Don’t look under the ground for the solution to the LNG crisis. The answer is in the skies." agreed!

the purpose of a system

le sigh

hard to overstate how extensively this regime is remaking the usfs

"A young tech entrepreneur who recently moved to Florida got upset when he ran into obstacles while trying to build a house on the habitat for the endangered Florida scrub-jay. So he filed a lawsuit attempting to strip the bird of its federal protection."

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Mad Men is Office Gatsby

I think I am worried about the economy lol

I’ve been thinking about the construal of LLMs as tools for research automation, and as someone who’s put a lot of effort into research facilitation tools, I don’t agree

I think it is good that we send money to seniors and unqualified criticism of social security is a sin tbh

Number of 80°+ days in March in Denver: 1972-2025: 7 days 2026: 8 days #COwx

I"f we truly want to be free of wars over oil and the damage they inflict on people, the environment and the economy, we need to not just liberate ourselves from relying on foreign oil, but also from our deadly and destructive addiction to oil." hcn858.activehosted.com/index.php?ac...

Goodbye to all the little hole-in-the-walls with the best food you’ve ever eaten

Interesting question: At what price for gasoline does ridesharing becoming a money loser for drivers. This article say $4. Will this push the US taxi/ridesharing industry to electrify?

Kessler Syndrome time

Asia was where they were all betting that LNG demand would rapidly expand. It wasn't going to happen anyway due to the impossible economics of LNG vs renewables but now they all apparently realize this. Good news for the planet!

Fiat was a bad idea

These fights are so triggering, the Midlandification of America is underway

Reading comprehension is hard

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/euro...

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I dream of a world without data centers or highways

I would kill to see this as a time series

I like that the WSJ, in outlining a shoe company's decline since its IPO, states that it "gradually lost its footing" following "a series of missteps"

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Jesus Christ

the market manipulation stuff is really funny