This isn’t journalism. This is creative writing by fascist sycophants.

I see you all discussing authorship but I think Donald Trump constitutes 100% of the White House staff who’d throw “Praise be to be Allah” into an Easter post threatening war crimes

people understand that this is intended to target EVs, right? It gets rid of the gas tax, which only affects internal combustion vehicles, and replaces it with one that disproportionately hits EVs, which are much, much heavier for a given body size. That is why GM and Toyota are promoting it.

When Xavier Rodriguez, a federal judge in Texas, prepares for a hearing, he usually begins by turning to AI. Judges say they’re aware of the risks, even as some experts worry that AI’s unreliability could compromise their authority.

The very obvious evil shit being done directly in our faces is part of my frustration with people committed to conspiracy theories.

“But video surveillance is only a portion of her job at a company that promises security over surveillance: she now says it’s convincing consumers that the company watching over their home isn’t watching them.”

I have long felt that it wasn't particularly useful to speculate on Trump's mental state or cognitive decline the moment however has come to face this squarely the global hegemon is run by a mad king his madness threatens to take the whole world down with him

Tuesday is officially war crime day everyone!

I wonder what else is in there

Turns out that Tweeting 100+ times about RCTs is easier than delivering a single one.

very good @madisoncondon.bsky.social piece here about why high-emissions scenarios are so useful, and why criticism of those scenarios ended up forming part of the broader push to delay climate action and support fossil fuels -> progressivereform.org/publications...

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

Wow, crazy. Hard to believe.

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

I’m pretty sure he’s alive but it’s still good that we have these preparedness drills once in a while

*movie trailer guy voice*

TMZ asked John Cena if he thinks WWE is ready for a transgender wrestler.

Particularly alarming that this includes Lebanon & Gaza. I had just shared imagery from March 18 showing the demolition of villages along the southern border of Lebanon by the IDF and now not even that imagery is available: bsky.app/profile/godi... Mass demolitions haven't stopped in Gaza, either.

This sucks and is stupid - should schools teach pager skills? fax machine usage? best practices for MySpace and Friendster? - but the flip side is that it'll probly be imposed in a boring cookie cutter way that deepens a lot of kids hatred of AI.

Fox News was just talking about Soleimani’s niece and grand niece getting arrested by ICE: “Both were granted asylum in 2019 under the Biden administration.” The question of who was actually president from Jan. 2017- Jan. 2021 continues to perplex Trump supporters.

“Secretary of State Marco Rubio terminated their lawful permanent resident status, department says”

Wayne Thiebaud, Coffee, 1961

In southern Ethiopia, women are reversing land degradation by planting fruit trees and fodder. By joining the GLFx network, the Integrated Women’s Development Organization is strengthening local livelihoods while restoring vital soil and forest cover.

In a Working Scientist profile, conservation researcher Anne Poelina speaks with Nature Careers about giving first authorship to a source with deep knowledge about water, the river itself. 🌍 🧪

i think there is an aspect of this which is true but honestly i think the *real* reason car dealers hate EVs is more boring: they all mainline fox news and talk radio and facebook all day and sincerely believe false negative things about EVs that oil companies have propogated through those channels.

hegseth pledged "no quarter." earlier this year a US sub sank a boat of iranians coming back from a fleet regatta. those we didn't kill we abandoned to drown. this week the iranians shot down and captured US pilots who were bombing them and it's being called a "hostage taking."

'An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.'

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

It would be useful if the NYT explicitly stated that the pilot, if captured, would be a POW, that there are laws governing how POWs can be treated, that respect for international law on war shapes how the enemy approaches it, and this is why the US conduct of this illegal war has been so dangerous.

it’s true that overall likes are way down on bluesky over the past year. however, if you look closely at the data, that’s mostly an anomaly resulting from the fact that your posts specifically have gotten worse and are dragging the vibe down.

Lemon Branch by Ellsworth Kelly, 1964 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137583

I guess the future is cardboard missiles

Great article by Ali Vaez. Gift link. In essence, Trump is now in the same position as Putin: able to cause massive damage, but unable to make the enemy give in. He will have to make a deal, and the bitter irony is that, for all his origin story, Trump is incapable of really making a deal.

Pro-fire flank of the anti-science party.

I tend to get dogpiled every time I say this but: as someone *who likes bluesky and benefits from being here* we have a problem. The network is shrinking, not growing. It's shrinking a lot: only about 1.1m people a day even like a post. This time last year it was 1.6m.

Drought in US at start of this year and now (well, four days ago). Not going great.

The president's first post since an F-16 was shot down over Iran with one American still missing.

“The Philadelphia Court system has banned all smart/AI eyeglasses from courtrooms and soon, anyone who attempts to bring any eyeglasses with audio and/or video recording capabilities into a courtroom in the city could face arrest.”

A stunning view of Earth from Artemis 2 after the TLI burn. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Beyond sick of the "based pope" bs y'all.

An acre of solar panels produces 50-200x more energy than an acre of crops for fuel. That's why growing fuel on farmland is nuts.

there will be no Nuremberg 2.0. That would mean that your party was a completely different one than it actually is. You are a Senator and could propose your version of Nuremberg 2.0. to your constituents. Wondering why you haven't done that yet if you're serious about the idea.

Glad to see that taking Palantir money is increasingly becoming toxic. Someone should tell Dan Koh and Jake Auchincloss. thehill.com/policy/techn...

New feature: Which nextgen Covid vaxes are advancing the most? I highlight 3 in mid- to late-stage trials with manufacturers—including a "universal" Covid vax & a mucosal one—and another 6 vaccines. Plus more trial results & 10 preclinical reports: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/04/02/a...

Sarsour was convicted of vandalism as a teenager, 40 years ago, by an Israeli military court without due process. ICE says this makes him a "terrorist."

BBC News - Gannet population falls by almost a third since bird flu outbreak www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...