GitHub Copilot moves to token based billing on June 1, and its users have now got a calculator that shows how much they've been actually burning every month - some $39-a-month users have spent $1500 to $5800 in tokens a month. Microsoft's subsidies are insane. www.wheresyoured.at/premium-what...

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I feel 90s movies mislead us about the frequency of entire rooms of people making bawk bawk chicken noises at someone. Cuz like,

Ooof... this paper on AI use in academic writing, based on submissions to the journal Organization Science. Sadly agrees with my anecdotal observations as an editor. AI-tinged submissions have increased, and readability and quality have decreased. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....

I'm so very, very, very tired of every device and service making me feel like The Fugitive.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

OK, so I was at the first court hearing over the NCAR lawsuit this morning in Denver. I, uh, am not a legal reporter so bear with me as I try to recap a few things. You can view all the court documents here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

Michael Shellenberger gave a talk on how you can tell if conspiracies are real and it’s amazing. Amidst the usual crank takes ab “former” CIA officials (lol) and their secret demands for mASs CeNsorShiP is breathtaking logic: @vermontgmg.bsky.social wrote a book on UFOs AND Watergate?!Suspicious!

A river of fog flows and fades in Oregon. Beautiful visible satellite imagery, today from GOES-18.

Fagan, O'Hagan, O'Hoolihan, Flynn

Public attention vastly overindexes gas prices.

Once upon a time, I wrote about why this range is so fascinating, if you want a little help thinking about this gorgeous map: arstechnica.com/science/2015...

Letting text association compression algorithms take the moniker of "AI" may not have been the most intelligent move.

When the thing writing all your code is an I Think You Should Leave sketch.

Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.

When even Möbius-spined chatgpt has a stronger spine than you.

If you're waiting for the dead internet to arrive, you missed it. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/d...

Bring back derisively calling people script kiddies.

"We have always believed in the power of imagination. In discovery. In the joy of a child pressing a button and hearing a satisfying sound. Today, we are proud to announce that we are taking that same spirit of wonder and pointing it at our geo-political adversaries."

Everything is stupid. Everything is so stupid.

Solomon: there is nothing new under the climate denial Sun Bessent: land is woke

✍️I did my best to lay out the absolute state of things. (Come jump in the comments, there's a good therapy session in there.)

I just don't know that Martin Luther would have had quite as much success if he'd prompted ChatGPT to write 95 theses and post them to the Facebook wall of the Wittenberg church.

⚒️🧪 Got an @earthscope.org email saying that the #ArtemisII re-entry shockwave may be audible in coastal southern California between 17:00 and 17:15 PDT or so today! If you're in this area, fill out a USGS felt report with details of what you do (or don't) hear! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

NEW: Microsoft Is Pausing Carbon Removal Purchases The tech giant has been the overwhelming buyer of carbon removal technologies, accounting for 90%+ of industry volume last year. Now sources tell me it’s pausing its voluntary buying. a @heatmap.news exclusive heatmap.news/carbon-remov...

Seeing big diffs in implementation: MS Word--text box with a "generate" button, you see the result and click save (with edits if you want) after Adobe InDesign--unless disabled, now just quietly does this automatically to all images, and you'd never guess the menu path to edit in a million years

🚨New preprint and our results are rather concerning.. We find the "boiling frog" equivalent of AI use. Using large-scale RCTs, we provide *casual* evidence that AI assistance reduces persistence and hurts independent performance. And these effects emerge after just 10–15 minutes of AI use! 1/

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

We don’t even have a declaration of war and the President of the United States threatening ”a whole civilization” with death. I would say that this constitutes an emergency that Congress and Cabinet must deal with asap before he can follow through on this insane threat.

NSF LTER program “archived”. LTER=“Long Term Ecological Research”. This program has been incredibly successful, incredibly frugal for what they accomplish, and…of course…targeted by evil know-nothings. My heart is breaking.

As humans round the Moon, the US president continues his personal campaign of terrorism in order to get the only thing he values: attention.

Kansas.

I, too, did not anticipate that a country could wage a war that verbatim copies a bit Suzy Eddie Izzard hasn't written yet.

I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter. Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

Currently, the PDF preview interface in Google Drive has 8 buttons. 4 of them are AI crap. (2 are for the same thing!) Download is not one of the buttons.

Lots in here but this bit on asking ChatGPT about news stories that occurred after training: "is the worst hallucinator (87% of post-cutoff responses generated confident-sounding answers about events it couldn’t possibly know about), and 88% of those were inaccurate"

lol

We've seen this a few times.

Disable it. community.instructure.com/en/kb/articl...

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In this whole retrospective, there isn't a single mention of long covid. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

European sports league uniforms beat everyone to the final phase of enshittification. What can the value of the 17th color-clashing logo possibly be? Does it not drive down the sponsorship price of the other 16? I refuse to believe this works out for anyone. 📸 eishockey-magazin.de/fischtown-pi...

this is completely insane: since when is it acceptable for a tech company to rewrite news outlets' headlines without their consent? especially at a time when audiences are sensitive to how stories are framed in headlines? (ie Israel/Palestine, the Trump admin, ICE) www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Really cool stuff in here, from fault-following drones to game engine physics simulations of earthquake rock toppling.

When your bread and circus options are dwindling.

The invisible hand sure does seem to be visibly flipping off life on Earth these days.