One of the many beautiful creeks in Willamette National Forest, Oregon TT: Matt Swack

Banned from holding this discussion live in London (presumably for demonstrating Insufficient Support of Genocide!), Hasan Piker & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation on free speech, antisemitism, zionism and the sorry state of liberal democracy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMmQ...

Hasan Piker was recently banned from entering the UK. Two years ago I was banned from entering Germany (even via... Zoom). Our crime? Yes, you guessed it: We refused to support the genocide - a heinous crime in today's deranged Europe. Join us tonight at 2100CET www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMmQ...

Trump allows more pollution in your air, water, & the natural habitats around you Trump allows A.I. to be unregulated against you Trump took what was left of news & made them STATE T.V. because he loves the poorly educated & NOT getting news keeps the public uneducated His DOJ protects Pedophiles

Just back from Eurelectric Power Summit 2026. Gave scene-setting talk after President Stubb opened with a sharp conversation. Also bumped into Alastair Campbell and ended up at dinner with him, an unexpected bonus! The consensus: Europe needs to get its act together.

🖼️ Araminta Fogden

Pakistan is a fascinating case: Same neighbourhood 3 years apart. May 2022: grey rooftops. Sep 2025: solar everywhere. No national programme drove this. People did the maths as grid power got pricey & panels got cheap. More in next newsletter: janrosenow.substack.com

Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape).

This is not normal. This is not right. This is not democracy.

🔊ON & UP 🪶👇🏾'200 yrs (or so) That’s how long it’s been since our Clan, once on the verge of extinction since smallpox epidemics, has raised a #TotemPole..' (2 b Raised Jul 11/26 Skidegate) (IG: totemdesignhouseofficial. May 26, 2026) #HaidaGwaii #Haida #Indigenous #FirstNations

Timeline cleanse: handses! Video captured on my after-work walk today in Acadia NP, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot territory. Be sure not to mistake the tail for a lily pad.

Just saying…. #BookSky

Excellent choice Mr. President? www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...

This is just mapping out what it's like to be an IC

it’s less that than trying to limit context window. claude spawns agents to go and do a certain thing and return just the results sans “thinking” to avoid poisoning the context of the main agent. that’s not just claude, either - all coding harnesses do this.

Having multiple AIs cross examine each other is effective in removing hallucinations because it is unlikely that two AIs will hallucinate about the same precise thing. So it is kind of like high n canceling out noise

This is the obvious evolution of these ideas. An ML algorithm that can test other ML algorithms. Folks aren't understanding and seemingly purposefully misunderstanding what these things represent. Another layer of abstraction. Bell Labs' first C compilers weren't what C compilers are today.

What a great turnout for a LIFE AFTER CARS bike ride with @sgoodyear.bsky.social in Portland, Maine. Thanks to everyone who showed up! www.lifeaftercars.com

Northern lights in northern Minnesota.

I’m old and can’t count on my fingers and toes how many times the information media system has changed and/or overhauled. Don’t get attached to media sources or delivery methods. Change is the first law of media since the invention of the printing press.

"The tech elite are pouring billions into dispensing with inconvenient humans. Now governments want the same trick to wish away the migrants their economies desperately need" www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Feel free to report and block this transphobic piece of shit. @energyscholar.bsky.social

Hilarious! Btw, How did the once stalwart investigative news show miss the Minnesota and California fraud stories? Kids cracked the cases so 60m etched their own tombstone. www.foxnews.com/media/scott-...

Saw this log from far away while geocaching #fungifriends

Driftwood on a Lake Superior beach

Donald J. Trump and Gavin Newsom both agree, PFAS Chemicals are not something they will address nor restrict. They both side with the polluters to poison their people. Which one represents "We the People" here?

OUR TOP STORY TONIGHT! BENJAMIN FRANCISCO FRANKLYN de la FRANCO IS STILL DEAD! goodnight and have a pleasant tomorrow.

If you’re interested in defeating the pedophile warmongering elite, you’re going to have to give up your political party and unite.

Yes, that’s true of a lot of these turds, but Massie wasn’t exactly holding back even before losing. He’s like Rand Paul - an actual maverick who loves 90% of the MAGA agenda but will absolutely not shut up about the 10% where he has sincerity held disagreement ls. That’s why Trump targeted him.

I’ve noticed that. It’s confabulation to cobble together something plausible while missing the point entirely.

And of course, if garbage is put into the programming ( or political bias or religious beliefs) garbage will come out.

Google still goes haywire. And there’s a paradox at work when a student hasn’t enough native intelligence to know whether or not Grok is feeding them worthwhile ideas.

I remind myself of the limitations of AI with two observations. One, that all it takes is a single wrong letter in your search term to throw it into a nonsense result. The other is that a robotics expert told me that no AI has yet been able to make sense of our typical junk drawer in the kitchen.

Right. And response bots on social media give themselves away immediately by their restating in good English the content of the original post, absent any contribution at all.

I guess the crux of the AI question is that we should use it for data gathering and cross referencing and information storage, but not for projects that should be creative and original.

Yes! As a former research assistant in the days before the internet, I am so grateful for the instant gathering of information and references. Yet teachers now work in a hellish cycle of plagiarism and AI Paper producing that you need another AI program to identify its own output!

It’s very difficult. If it’s being made illegal to object to data centers on environmental grounds, that’s not the same as being a violent opponent of AI in all its forms. I am ravished by the AI imagery bringing to life history, famous portraits, the cities of the past, etc. But academic use? No.

Would you object to a massive data center in your area? You just might be an anti-AI extremist to be arrested.

So, the same guy that, during COVID, set up a hotline for people to snitch on their neighbors, friends and family who had too many people in their house or didn't wear masks, is making it a crime to report crime because his fraud is coming to the surface. You can't make this up.

This is the Toxicity Bell Curve. Every organism is on it somewhere. Toxins that are harmless to some devastate others.

Big autism fraud bust in Minnesota. Seemingly the perps were a roughly even mix of locals and Somali pirates.

I noticed an elderly woman using a mobility scooter on my bike route was always getting jammed up and walked over and missing her chance at crosswalks. I bought and installed a horn on her handlebars that sounds like a train. I just saw her scare the pants off like six people and then scoot on by! ✌️

What's wild about the vaccine debate is that the data do not matter. The medical freedom movement has won every scientific debate for 25 years. Doesn't matter. @AaronSiriSG is 1,000% right that vaccines are a religion. Vaccination is a profession of FAITH, data are irrelevant to them.

There is no evidence linking vaccines to autism. Except these 110 studies ...

The biggest threat to any powerful network isn’t a journalist. It’s ordinary people realizing they have more in common with each other than with the ultra-rich who profit from keeping them divided.