The Lawrence Berkeley National Lab predicts that by 2028, AI alone will consume as much electricity annually as 22% of all US households. How much energy/day does someone with a ChatGPT habit consume? About 2.9 kilowatt-hours—enough to run the microwave for over three and a half hours.

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

Celebrating Superb Owls day, here are some of our burrowing owls being particualrly superb! Training isn't just tricks; medical behaviors like learning voluntary nail trims here mean not having to catch and restrain birds, much less stress for people and birds alike. #SuperbOwl

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has officially started clinical trials! GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

The SAVE Act is the GOP’s dangerous attempt to make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to register and vote. Urge your Members of Congress to protect our voting rights by rejecting the SAVE Act: win.newmode.net/declarationf...

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK

pictured: our geese looking at airplanes

one of the cuter aspects of geese is that they are very curious about things in the sky. we live on the PDX flight path and our geese look at every airplane and observe every passing wild goose flock with reverence

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

dreaming of springtime 🌿✨

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National Guard still occupying DC as well

WOW I have been enjoying Star Trek Starfleet Academy. Like it’s been fun and nice but this lates episode (5) just grabbed my heart in the BEST way.

Let Adobe know DIRECTLY how you feel about AI and subscription-based models!

Trump. Is. Stealing. From. YOU. YES YOU.

The Supreme Court is doing more of its work in secret than ever before. It also really, really doesn't want you asking any questions about it

New York City and Illinois join WHO network after Trump pulls US out of global health body

Beep beep I made another comic

The GOP has offered nothing this century except for catastrophic wars. No healthcare plan; no re-industrialization. Now they're losing their only issue, immigration, as people see the violence and havoc that comes with mass deportations.

This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.

I don't say this often but: I'm so proud to be a climate and environment reporter. We cover an issue that is vitally important to humanity and the natural world. 14 of my climate colleagues at the Post were laid off today and I'm devastated. www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/washington...

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Seeing a lot of people "resigning" after being discovered to be pen pals with Epstein and not a lot of people "shooting themselves in the mouth" or "being drawn and quartered"

“But what do you want Democrats to do….” I don’t know stuff like this?

The entire annual operating losses of the Washington Post amount to a single-digit percentage of the everyday noise in the signal of its owner's finances

turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan

6/ The Post has lost over 375,000 subscribers in just over a year. If 10% of those readers subscribed to The 51st instead, we could hire 10 reporters and five editors, dramatically scaling our coverage of the city at this critical time. 51st.news/signup

Jeff Bezos' net worth is estimated to grow by $8 million per hour.

Thread!!! This part! There are SO MANY THINGS our elected officials could be doing! SO! MANY!

you know, laying off staff in the middle of a war zone while enduring a ukraine winter without power makes laying off ppl during the holidays look downright humanitarian. billionaires shouldn’t exist.

can’t not hear and see:

Striking: GOP Senator Roger Wicker just came out strongly against new ICE detention center in Mississippi. The story of the moment is brewing opposition in red areas (see piece and thread below)

Folks: This is important. SHEAR—the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)—is tracking examples of the regime erasing history. More at the link below.

This is a fascinating story. ICE tried to buy a warehouse in VA from a Canadian company, to turn into a detention center. One of the company’s advertising partners basically told them that if they sold, they could kiss their ads goodbye. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

NEW: A government attorney who was detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota is no longer on that detail after telling a judge “this job sucks” and asking to be held in contempt so she could get 24 hours of sleep: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things

Last night I was watching a Japanese dating show (The Boyfriend) and two guys went to “experience the late-night parfait culture” at a specific place and I was like….what!? I want that! Once we fix the government we GOTTA get on building late night parfait culture.

New Jersey voters on Thursday will choose the Democratic nominee to replace Mikie Sherrill in the House, one of the key races to watch in our guide to February elections. There’s a crowded ballot representing the party’s ideological spectrum:

BREAKING: Europol & Paris cybercrime unit raid Musk X office in France. "Investigations range from sexually explicit deepfakes, aiding the distribution of child sexual abuse material to the dissemination of Holocaust-denial content." #DefendDemocracy #HandsOffOurEU www.politico.eu/article/poli...

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Thread. He’s going to break it (not just the Kennedy center but EVERYTHING) and we MUST hold him accountable.

Hey want to help the whistle goblins I print with make more whistles? There are approximately eleventy-billion wishlists here with filament begging to be bought and turned into whistles to deploy to across the country. Buy some filament and help the cause: linktr.ee/WhistleWishl...

What's glossed over a bit here is it took this guy who proved it like 25 years and a huge community push and tons of advocacy to make this happen. Same with guy who figured out you should wash hands before surgery. We think "why should all this obvious shit be so hard?" But it's ALWAYS been hard

It's probably not a good "reform" if your opponents adopt it before you even pass the bill

This isn't a win. It's a systematic way to catalog protesters and legal observers into the Palantir database. It's not even tinfoil hat category to claim this any longer. We're being targeted and added to watch lists.

Today, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction allowing construction to resume on Sunrise Wind offshore Long Island. With the ruling, all five under-construction offshore wind projects halted by the Trump administration have been allowed to resume work.

This, coupled with the pieces coming out about how so many Hispanic and Latinx ice employees joined because of “economic factors,” paints an interesting picture of the future of the organization….

A new consultant contract at a Texas Educational Service Center would muzzle authors & harm students, barring them from inclusive experiences. Y'all, this is REALLY BAD. This is the next step in banning any voices outside those deemed right by white supremacy. bookriot.com/texas-esc-1-...