"...amid the frenzied AI infrastructure gold rush, “no” does not always mean no."

🔥🔥 talk at @princetoncitp.bsky.social on the #politicaleconomy of #AI, turning #safety and #regulation into decoys, and how to see the new market-making strategies of monopoly. Joint work with @zephoria.bsky.social, Alex Taylor and Ben Shestakovsky. #academicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ju...

Climate change impacts are here, but public support for action remains polarized. Which climate messages move people? In a ~13,500-person megastudy, we tested 10 of the most-cited messages. Six increased pro-environmental attitudes in the U.S.—but only by 1–4 percentage points. 🧵

Fixed

What the hell www.newyorker.com/culture/prog...

Deep Sage Nine Starcast Episode 047 In this episode of the Deep Sage Nine StarCast, Jay Shaffer and Mike Lewinski explore the "golden age" of distributed astronomy, discussing how interconnected camera arrays and crowdsourced data from amateur observers are revolutionizing the way we track meteors…

Great Sand Dunes National Park #photography #sanddunes #sand #clouds #nationalpark

Brown thrasher showed up this morning and caught my eye, and has stuck around through the day

When you put water under pressure, it forms an endless bounty of possible patterns. “The physics and the chemistry of water can be completely different” from one environment to the next, said physicist Livia Bove. “It’s topologically beautiful.” www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-d...

The clouds were fantastic yesterday! May 1, 2026 from Crestone, Colorado USA 12 hours in 6 minutes, worth a full watch #timelapse #COwx SOUKAKY by CANTOS PENSAMENTOS RODADOS is licensed under a Attribution 4.0 International License.

Two years ago today 🌿 Crotaphytus collaris, an Eastern Collared Lizard, off Rimrock Road in Colorado National Monument

New auto-reply for LLM-generated marketing spam ✨

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

Watching the rest of the world live in the future is annoying. insideevs.com/news/794295/...

Still the sun it shines and the moon it sinks with grace It's such a shame that all this shit exists Here on this earth, this magical place I'm doing fine www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zfP...

I premiered my latest time-lapse film "Into the Night" during International Dark Sky Week. You can now watch on YouTube. Watch it in full screen mode or better yet, cast it to your TV. youtu.be/v5EMnqPpCLU?...

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘴, 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴, 𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘢𝘮 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦; 𝘐 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘰𝘯.” —𝘓𝘶𝘤𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘵𝘰𝘯 #moonlight #photography

For those who enjoyed the Red-Winged Blackbird photo from yesterday, here's a slow motion video that gives you another perspective. #wildlife #birds (No sound as it was captured at 120fps).

Paul Osborne Jones (1921-1997) Morning Glory, 1950. oil on paper.

“Meta’s refusal to follow the laws that protect our kids tells you everything you need to know about this company and the character of its leaders.”

Ukrainian artist, Alexandra Velichko

Baby Falcons at the Great Spirit Bluff Cam!

Took younger daughter (who wants to be a paleontologist) to a lake near Peterborough last night. We found these Jurassic microfossils-teeny ammonites & crinoid ‘ossicles’-these little rock stars were part of the stems of crinoids/sea lilies-animals with 5 axes of symmetry related to sea urchins 🐚

Tonight is Walpurgisnacht / Beltane eve. If you are celebrating, I hope your bonfire burns bright and that the spirit of the dance fills you to overflowing. 🔥 youtu.be/nLgM1QJ3S_I?...

This painting is titled "Big Step II" and is part of the "Fractured Light" series by contemporary artist Michele Poirier-Mozzone. The piece captures a dynamic, low-angle perspective of a figure in a red swimsuit stepping through water. It is known for its impressionistic style.

Microwaves: here’s your hot bowl of cold pasta.

RIP my keyboard

Got up early in hopes of catching this photo before work this morning. There's only a few days each year where it's cool enough in the morning to make this shot possible. Thankfully, today was one of those days! #wildlife #birds

my bf freaked out in the car bcos he thought he saw a ‘tiny dancing cow’ but it was actually just a border collie running across a field 💀

Imagine if dudes did this.

I lived a couple years in Milo, ME with tagline "A friendly town". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo%2C...

Always a treat to see Comanche harvester ants. These are found only in the sandiest habitats in Texas and Oklahoma.

JFC www.motherjones.com/politics/200...

Organizing everything I own into 26 boxes labeled "misc junk"

Scottish.fungi with a time lapse of mycena mushroom growth: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

"The best way to protect kids is to arm them with knowledge, critical thinking skills, and the confidence to set healthy boundaries, question authority and communicate about their struggles. Protecting kids without empowering them usually just means silencing and controlling them."

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Can anyone guess which country will dominate the global auto industry going forward?

Bird tetherball: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

For @theflytrapmedia.com today I wrote a personal essay about my beloved cat Samwise and how he saved my life at the lowest moment of my life. Come for the Lord of the Rings references, stay for our tear jerking goodbye. theflytrapmedia.com/who-rescued-who/

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As AI license plate readers spread across Colorado, grassroots movements push back

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... The largest Sunday School class in history is currently in session