Also consider that you may put in for one of the grants that still exist, and you may even get it, but the cost of steel or some other vital material may have doubled by the time you can start using that money.

John Garrison Marks@johngmarks.com · yesterday

On my blog, I wrote about how America's museums are falling apart. The US has 20k+ museums, and most have historic buildings with leaky roofs, failing HVAC units, and flooding basements. What they don't have is money for repairs. Please read/share! 🧵 johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-s-...

ugh having a normal one about aaron swartz again there was another world where the internet didn't have to be like this

“He has two traits that are almost never seen in the same person. The first is a strong desire to please people, to be liked in any given interaction. The second is almost a sociopathic lack of concern for the consequences that may come from deceiving someone.” I can think of one other person. 

Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦@snarkysteff.bsky.social · yesterday

I never trust anything I read about anything Sam Altman touches. Aaron Schwartz, who people under 30 likely don’t know about but he was the hero we need today, felt Altman was a sociopath and could never be trusted. futurism.com/artificial-i...

this is one of my favorite videos that jon has made

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 6d ago

new charging the mound episode just went up on youtube. this one's a special intermission episode that has more charts and less punching youtu.be/z6Amh-BSns0?...

Hee hee hee

Reports piling up of vandals hitting Flock cameras in Minnesota cities, 8 in Winona and 6 in Edina

Law enforcement in Duluth and various Twin Cities suburbs have suffered similar incidents.

startribune.com

This needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.

Bogi Takács / WE'RE HERE ToC announced!@bogiperson.bsky.social · 6d ago

Google Docs leaks private information - www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/c...

To acquire his acreage, Zuck exploited a dirty tactic called "heirs property," which leverages the informality of indigenous land claims; locating a single person with a colorable claim to distant relatives' territory in order to force an auction of ancestral land: www.wired.com/story/mark-z... 12

Mark Zuckerberg Is Expanding His Secretive Hawaii Compound. Part of It Sits Atop a Burial Ground

Meta’s CEO has become one of the biggest landowners in Hawaii, growing his property’s footprint and erecting new mysterious buildings.

wired.com

The thing is part of me wants to make comics about my medical experiences (here’s a scary rare drug I take! Here’s how to bee-watch with poor vision!) but it’s scary It’s disclosing way too much to strangers and being vulnerable, and I don’t want it to overshadow my other work

Suddenly connecting dots & realizing my frustration with my laundry detergent, my sweaty car, my unusually stinky headband, and my new medication all happened at around the same time Apparently my new meds are making my sweat smell like cat piss which is SO COOL (and apparently medically bad lol)

PSA: avoid new Divvy fines on the lakefront! Park your bike at a station, otherwise you’ll get fined for leaving it stranded (Thankfully they also opened new stations and boosted staffing 🙌🏻)

Climate pals, what are your favorite examples of actions that simultaneously reduce climate pollution and help us adapt to climate changes that we can no longer avoid? Joint Adaptation and Mitigation (JAM), if you will.

good video on the history and stakes of loosing the Roadless Rule, the secret thing that protects our national forests from logging and development youtu.be/YAH3l0Uzl7k?...

America's Wilderness is Under Attack

YouTube video by Aidin Robbins

youtu.be

In Chicago, 11 years of data linked greater neighborhood tree canopy loss to higher mortality, especially in hotter areas. Year-to-year canopy change mattered more than a single snapshot. doi.org/hcdr4t

As urban tree shade shrinks, mortality rises

As trees disappear from urban neighborhoods, lives may be lost with them. In a new study, Northwestern University scientists tracked death rates and fluctuations in tree canopy cover across an 11-year period in Chicago.

phys.org

the strait of hormel, also known as the spam filter

Putting these @ettingermentum.bsky.social posts here mainly because "One day we will get you that free childcare for your children with names from the Titanic manifest and you will deserve it more than anyone has ever deserved anything" is a perfect sentence.

*deep inhale* *glare* THAT'S NOT HOW COPYRIGHT WORKS, YOU PARBOILED PARSNIP

I am so triggered by RJK Jr's comment about ICU's being empty during #COVID. I re-read what I wrote after one of the surges. How do others forget. The trauma was--and is--real.

I'm An ICU Doctor. I’m Haunted By What I’ve Seen During The Recent COVID-19 Surge.

“I can’t stop thinking about the 40-something man who told me, ‘I can’t die like this. I just got engaged and have a 6-month-old baby.’ I encouraged him to be positive, but that didn’t stop him from d...

huffpost.com

Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

archive.org/details/brad...

Ray Bradbury read by Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy reads two of Ray Bradbury's classic stories from THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES.1. THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS2. USHER IIThese recordings were originally released on Caedmon Records (TC 1466).

archive.org

This is a wildly prescient story about Chicago's proto-RFK Jr., in charge of public health during the Spanish Flu. He thought beer killed malaria and that bathing could kill you. He had a feud with an actual TB doctor, who insisted bathing is good. He bullied the TB doctor until he killed himself.

Yup. I only found out about this by terrible, terrible accident and every time I see the words OneDrive I wanna yeet my laptop into geosynchronous orbit.

Heather Burns@heatherburnstech.bsky.social · last wk.

The most terrifying enshittification I've discovered has been learning that Microsoft Word documents no longer auto-save if you are not saving them to one of their own proprietary cloud services. I'm slapping control-S like it's 1999.

Oh my god I think I found the video.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · last wk.

@compostwitch.bsky.social i dont know how to untag robert from that skeet but omgggg how did the Daine read go?

@annareser.bsky.social the new once upon a time in space is giving me space feelings, mostly anger at capitalism

‘I’ll sell out my ethics, morals, the environment and fellow creatives because I have no standards or time management skills 🤩’

Another death in ICE custody: Prisciliano Trejo Ricano. He said this before he died:

INDY Week@indyweek.bsky.social · 2w ago

Prisciliano Trejo Ricano began feeling ill while detained at a Georgia detention center, where he had been for three weeks. He reported that he had not received medical attention after experiencing severe symptoms. He died on Wednesday, July 22.

Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 2w ago

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

big stuck boat! simple problem!