Saw some cool canids today in Chattanooga -- endangered Red Wolves

Russ does not *have* to do any of this. Because he is in fact not *authorized* to do any of this.

The most important thing I learned in law school was to scrub your own metadata, and look for others' metadata on documents.

Feel like this should come with a warning label, specifically for @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Saw something a while back that was a good line, and felt compelled to add to it slightly You can cave and feel regret, or fight and feel good about yourself, even if you lose. Plus, every second spent making folks do it the hard way is time they're not screwing someone else over.

Did you know the House is poised to pass a bill putting our drinking water and wildlife at risk of even more pesticides and toxic discharges? 🚨 Tell your representative to vote NO on the PERMIT Act! 🚨

I've worked 2nd shift, had some friends who worked night-shift. Blew my mind that WHO considers long-term night-shift work a contributing risk factor for cancer. Requiring that of workers who produce one of the most basic inputs for human civilization seems like an incredibly dire warning.

At the House Natural Resources hearing, the Foundation of American Innovation's Thomas Hochman let it slip: constraining NEPA is about powering AI datacenters to fuel Silicon Valley's latest bubble. Hochman was a speaker at last week's abundance conference, and FAI was a co-host

I'm confused, there's NOTHING about permitting reform in here...

Given the prevalence of Real Estate and Construction company owners in local politics, these efforts are *all* about short-term grift for the already-privileged. Tucson *just* defeated (like, last week) such an effort. The self-satisfied smarminess of the "pro" politicians in interviews is awful

Should have gone with "wanna know how I got these cars?"

The power stuff with AI gets really crazy if you connect the dots to other resource consumption issues (brief thread)

Real quote from a former Open AI C-suite guy I spoke to: "We don't owe them [the communities where hyperscale data centers are being sited] anything except a fair wage during construction...we actually need to be using MORE electricity, not less, if we want to solve these big problems."

"together with AI we..." Lemme stop you right there bud, you and I ain't doing shit together if you're doing anything with AI.

@devintoshea.bsky.social think this might be from VP Fair 83. This photo is dated Dec. '83, but doesn't seem to be from winter based on the tree in the background.

Tonight's cooking music: m.youtube.com/watch?v=52eU...

Okay, I bet right on #WOTUS last time, so I'll lay my chips down here -- they'll be rescinding the endangerment finding

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social, @lanierisom.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: How. Ould a proposed hyperscale data center affect Bessemer?

U14 State soccer tournament finals, pouring down rain and the field is a muddy mess. I have the ball on the right wing roughly 24 yards out. Sending in a cross, but know I'll have to get something extra on it, so I take my time to square up and thwack it. Overhit it, sneaks under the crossbar, goal.

I consider myself pretty well-versed in environmental disasters, but I literally had never heard of Coldwater Creek or Westlake Landfill before moving to Missouri. Glad RECA was expanded (hate the bill it was attached to) and glad national outlets are talking about this.

I guess it should have been obvious where we were headed when a supervisor once told me "no, we're facing NW" because that's the direction the google maps icon indicated, when the map showed we must be facing west if we were facing the end of a street, which we were.

You've inherited a movie theatre, what's your first double feature? The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle) (1974) and Barry Lyndon (1975)

Why do these eggs come with a zine?

Great boat name: "Change of Heart II"

“The lack of clarity around how much water this project will use is the product of one thing: the secrecy of this developer, and whatever big tech company is actually behind this,” Miller said...

This is good advice about any science news that you read.

"How long can the world go on under such a subtle God? How long can the world go on with no new word from God?" open.spotify.com/track/6EJ24u...

Tulane University questioned whether Kimberly Terrell’s research on racial disparities was relevant to the law clinic’s mission—despite it being cited in legal arguments for the clinic’s clients.

“It’s long past time for Alabama to align its water quality standards with current science and protect communities from these harmful toxic pollutants.” ~ @charlesmiller.bsky.social , @alabamarivers.bsky.social

Lots of people already assume that everything is a scam and the idea of the public good doesn’t exist, regardless of what the facts are. This is one reason Alabama is Alabama: the deep cynicism about government (however justified) means people will tolerate an I-got-mine attitude from leaders.

Baby bison zoomies alert! 💨 Meet Samson, the newest (and speediest) member of our Free-Roaming Area herd. Born over Memorial Day Weekend, this fluffy little calf has already mastered the art of sprinting joyfully across 435 acres of forested fields like he owns the place. 🦬

"You can’t have an economy without a society, & a society needs somewhere to live. Nature is our foundation, providing food, water & air, as well as the raw materials & energy... Threats to the stability of this foundation are risks to future human prosperity which we must take action to avoid"

What's going to push this over the edge is that people keep actively lying about things you can actually just see. Events you can watch raw video footage of.

An entire generation of people raised on memes and Fox News who are just completely unable to separate propaganda from reality. If there is a crisis, it’s epistemological. Fascists will try to bend reality to their ideology, but this always fails in the long run with tons of damage along the way.

"Alabama politics has no concept of the common good."

“For the federal government to take over the California National Guard... to put down protests is truly chilling,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, one of the nation’s leading constitutional law scholars. “It is using the military domestically to stop dissent.”

This latest OPM memo is just the next step in this administration's scheme to politicize the civil service entirely. www.chcoc.gov/content/meri...

For the last decade, the Environmental Protection Agency has had a budget about 1% as big as the military. Under Trump, it will be cut to less than 0.5% of the military's budget.

On the importance and practical conservation of nongame fishes academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad... by Clancy et al 2025 in latest @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social

One of my favorite things about Birmingham is that when it rains for weeks on end, buried springs and streams reemerge.

After this kid said this, Neil Postman began spinning in his grave quickly enough to power a hyperscale AI data center

One of the things that Spotify is very good at is putting some earworm you'd forgotten about from two decades ago on a playlist for you, which is where this came from: open.spotify.com/track/6q2IOc...

Late for Memorial Day (which isn't relevant to him anyway, since he survived and went back to being a farmer North Carolina), but apparently my great-uncle Bud's stuff from WWII is all in a private collection now: warrenshaymilitarycollection.omeka.net/items/show/76

We love to see it.

I really like that Harvard is opening its online government classes for free, and I wonder if we could do more along the lines: more opportunities to teach broadly, more opportunities to show people what we really do, perhaps in person so that people can see we’re human. I would be glad to do that.

Rebecca Solnit on compromise: "If I think the world is round and you think the world is flat, I don't really make the world better by saying it's kind of a squashed oblong."