Jeff
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I am a ghostly whisper, lost in sky, a stray thought ever fading, stubbornly asking why, wingtips glinting in starlight as through the frozen darkness I fly.
What's particularly startling about this story is that this is happening in Southern France and the U.K., which are at the same latitude as, respectively Maine and Newfoundland. Imagine, please, what this means for Texas.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈@ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 19h agoNot sure why this isn’t the dominant topic of national conversation rn: “Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Eurasian Bittern the "explosive Floof" it fluffs out its body, neck, and crest feathers ready to strike with lighting speed to scare off raptors or predators
Because it apparently needs to be said: I have never fucking used the AI/LLM/chatbot/plagiarism machine and I never fucking will. If you use it, I think you're a bad person.
The SpaceX IPO only put 5% of its shares on the market. Another 20% were scheduled to unlock after the Q2 earnings call. That call was yesterday. In the meantime, the stock has fallen over 40% from its initial days of trading. $SPCX 📉 9.25% in pre-market trading as shareholders offload this junk.
SpaceX shares sink after first earnings report reveals huge AI spending plans
Elon Musk told investors that people were "underestimating" his company.
bbc.com
Country superstar Linda Ronstadt, basically creating The Eagles. youtube.com/shorts/cDuxx...
How Linda Ronstadt helped form the Eagles
YouTube video by Alejandro Basso
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Google is bad. On purpose.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 5h agoWhen Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves: www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... 20/
When the boss just won't get off your back: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/1L...
2 am bedtime. Not early enough, but better than the last few days.
Chico da Silva (Brazilian, 1910–1985) Untitled, 1983 Tempera on canvas 11 × 11 1/2 in (27.9 × 29.2 cm) Private collection #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters defeated a GOP bid to limit their ability to amend the state constitution. The measure was the GOP's attempt to diminish the power of voters who’ve used citizen initiatives to expand Medicaid and protect abortion access.
Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution
Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure,…
democracydocket.com
I could have sworn "stolen valor" was a thing Turns out it was just something else Republicans never actually gave a shit about Draft-dodging PoS
Maybe people should ditch Google and purposely use other search engines instead.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16h ago🤷🏿♂️
Interesting. Hope his disgraceful cult love paying so much.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h agoBrown 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
Money-laundering President & his money-laundering sons? Brought into the light of day because the criminal President & his criminal sons stupidly sue the bank that wants no part of it?
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 20h agoPhang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
I wish political posts, on both sides, didn't try to imply things that aren't quite true by selectively leaving out the full facts so as to better fit their preferred story. The actual truth is sufficient to make points that are true. You don't have to spin so hard that it becomes deceptive.
Rudolph A. “Rudy” Marcus, a Canadian-born US chemist whose work on electron transfer helped shape the entire field of chemistry, died on July 16 at age 102. He was a chemist at the California Institute of Technology and a Nobel laureate. #chemsky 🧪
Rudy Marcus, developer of electron transfer theory, dies at 102
Nobel laureate's discoveries in chemical kinetics advanced many fields of chemistry
cen.acs.org
Happy 236th Birthday to the U.S. Coast Guard! Since 1790, the nation’s oldest continuously operating sea service has stood watch—protecting our coasts, saving lives, and serving with honor in peace and war. Semper Paratus. ⚓
Animals are far more intelligent than we want to believe
Borrow billions. Borrow even more. Then borrow more. Do an IPO so idiot investors give you even more money for incredibly overvalued paper stock. Losing losing losing money. Zero profits. Zero path to profits? Disaster waiting to happen?
The Verge@theverge.com · 18h agoDespite its name, SpaceX said in the documents for its IPO that it expected most of its value to come from AI.
Art PLUS science. Science PLUS art. I agree.
Science Friday@scifri.bsky.social · 18h agoWe couldn’t agree more. For today’s podcast, we’re throwing it back to when Queen guitarist/astronomer Brian May and astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson chatted with Flora about their stereoscopic book of galaxies, “Islands in Infinity: Galaxies 3-D.” And yes, we get into the music too.
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
Everyone involved in the company who created it can be identified.
Mother Jones@motherjones.com · yesterday“If ChatGPT were a person, it would be facing charges for murder.” Our new investigation uncovers disturbing ChatGPT conversations with the accused Florida State mass shooter, including about brutally violent sex, how to get media attention for killing, and more.