Write a horror story for academics in two words: It’s August.
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Born 320ish CO2 ppm. Educational content creator / Earth and Life Sciences. Weather, Climate, Biodiversity, Natural Hazards, Ecology, Verts, and the politics (unfortunately) that goes with them. Also: maps, dinos, telecasters, etc. My views.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
7 states get hacked. The FBI says Iran. Trump says Minnesota…specifically Gov. Walz…did it to itself. Here’s the thing about incompetence: it doesn’t write malware. When the guy holding the intel picks a scapegoat over a suspect, that’s not a theory. That’s a man protecting his own scoreboard.
Unofficial atmospheric CO2 concentration reading. Sea level + 597 feet Chicago's Near West suburbs. July 31, 2026 #globalwarming #carbondioxide #KeelingCurve
Happy Friday!! Punk is not dead---now it has a resurrection option. Stay in the fight. We've got this. 🇺🇲
Christopher Hale@christopherjhale.bsky.social · 5d agoThe godmother of punk Patti Smith met Pope Leo XIV this morning.
Jordan may not be practicing (and his knowledge of the law is sketchy at best), but he has a law degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d agoJIM JORDAN: Blanche said it's dead. I don't know what else it takes. HUNT: Well, you're a lawyer! Don't you ever tell clients to get it in writing? Isn't that legal 101? JORDAN: I'm not a lawyer either
Lest the rest of the world get the wrong ideas about most Americans... There are many of us who wouldn't make this mistake; the current regime just isn't interested in employing us in this capacity.
@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 6d ago“A Reuters analysis found the image of the map included in the presentation contained an artificial intelligence watermark that signals it was made with OpenAI tools. The company said it was investigating the report.” www.reuters.com/world/africa...
“The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill, while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” — Joseph Browning via Facebook (10 July 2024) medium.com/@shahadilh18...
AI Doesn’t Democratize Skill. It Redistributes Who Profits From It.
The real economics of AI aren’t about creativity. They’re about who owns the shortcut.
medium.com
True. Related... The guitar pick corrolary: - Lost guitar picks, when thought to have been dropped, will appear in the clothes dryer machine.
Malcolm D.@mdpb53.bsky.social · last wk.2. Law of Gravity - Any tool, nut, bolt, screw, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible place in the universe.
Non-science, non-politics post. Father-son poker table build project 2026 is in the books.
Dr. Nanna Svartz invented Salazopyrin (1941), a global blockbuster treatment for rheumatoid arthritis & more that is still used today. She became #Sweden's first female professor of medicine at a public university in 1937 (Karolinska Institutet). Born #OTD in 1890. #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HigherEd
Billionaire logic is that it makes more sense to terraform Mars rather than to stop venusifying Earth, and that it is a better strategy to build underground bunkers than to make the whole planet a better place to live for everyone.
Renewables are now the world's largest source of electricity – and the main source of new supplies
The Trump DOJ withdraws subpoenas for NYT journalists. Know why? BECAUSE. THE. NYT. PUSHED. BACK. Me thinks there is a lesson here.
5 New Marine Reserves to Protect Dolphins and Kelp Forests off New Zealand’s South Island --- Because everything doesn't have to suck all the time.
5 New Marine Reserves to Protect Dolphins and Kelp Forests off New Zealand's South Island
The reserves will be managed in partnership with the local Māori community, and be exclusive "no-take" areas.
goodnewsnetwork.org
"Fascism has always been a vehicle for frustration with a system that was failing the people. But it has never been a solution for fixing that system." -Heather Cox Richardson 7/22/2026
🔥DR. @abdulelsayed.bsky.social : “ICE has nothing to do with immigration. ICE is about normalizing paramilitary force on our streets, weaponizing the idea of immigration against the Constitution. ICE cannot be reformed, retrained… ICE has to be ABOLISHED.” (And held accountable)
What if the ocean current keeping Britain warm started to slow down? ☔ The AMOC acts like a giant conveyor belt, moving heat from the tropics to our shores. Models predict that the AMOC could slow down or collapse – potentially leading to new extremes in weather. 🧵1/2
Nuclear's a poor choice for the economy, for human health, and a for the climate. But it's a very effective way to saddle the public with immense risks & costs in order to create immense private profits. Here's a Lancet study on some of those risks. 1/ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Tropical Depression Two is a mess and should stay a mess as it slowly trudges west over the northern Gulf this week. 99.4% of Google DeepMind ensembles keep it below hurricane strength (cue Dumb & Dumber reference), but keep an eye to rainfall trends. ⬇️
Tropical Depression Expected to Become Bertha Today, Locally Heavy Rains to Scrape the Northern Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Watches extend from the Florida panhandle south of Tallahassee to coastal Alabama
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Generative AI is an attempt by tech bros to own our voices, our experiences, our creativity, our hard work. They want to feed our creative efforts into a machine so that they can profit off of it. AI art is hollow and soulless and without human intention.