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Emil Hvitfeldt@emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social · 20h agoMe: trying to get my ducks in a row My ducks:
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Data strategist at BakerRipley. I love all things science, data, #Rstats, pugs, and mushrooms. 🍄🟫 #htx
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New Bird Poster! It's got 37 hand painted birdies of Eastern Canada at half their true size, based on photos I've taken myself. Bird names in Latin, English, and French. Link to my store in my story!
I really cannot stress enough how unhinged things are getting right now in terms of elections. Three stories you need to have on your radar today 🧵
My top three least favorite companies.
Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 3mo agoAmazon, Meta, and Microsoft are all planning huge layoffs. Amazon got $17.5B in federal tax breaks last year. Jeff Bezos is worth $271B. Meta saved $13.7B in taxes. Mark Zuckerberg is worth $231B. Microsoft saved $12.5B last year. Its CEO is worth $1.3B. This is what a rigged economy looks like.
A jury has found that Live Nation has been operating as an illegal monopoly. Live Nation used its dominance to harm customers, artists, and venues alike. Other monopolies take away our freedoms in similar ways. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.
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22K likes, 1.3K comments. "The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)"
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We couldn’t agree more. Queen guitarist/astronomer Brian May and astrophysicist Derek Ward-Thompson talked with us about their new stereoscopic book of galaxies, that combines art and science to give people a 3D perspective of the universe. Listen to the full podcast episode now: buff.ly/LkdXS62
The data centers needed to train AI can consume as much electricity as 200,000 American homes—and the race to power these digital tools is changing the physical world, Matteo Wong reports:
Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers
The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.
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People who say knees are evidence against intelligent design should remember that Microsoft Windows is the result of intelligent design
“[F]racked gas companies are fully backed by the Trump administration, with its ideological dedication to fossil fuels and its cozy relationship with billionaire oil and gas donors. For its part, Big Tech is going along, largely sidelining its purported commitments to renewable energy."
Truthout@truthout.org · 7mo agoData centers are driving a surge in the construction of power generation facilities involving fracked gas.
Happy New Year! We spent the first afternoon of 2026 strolling through a favorite: Buffalo Bayou Park.
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A balance of infection and harmony called endosymbiosis helps shape evolution. For the first time, biologists have reproduced this arrangement between microbes in a lab.
Scientists Re-Create the Microbial Dance That Sparked Complex Life | Quanta Magazine
Evolution was fueled by endosymbiosis, cellular alliances in which one microbe makes a permanent home inside another. For the first time, biologists made it happen in the lab.
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About 14% of Americans and 17% of Texans are food insecure, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That number is even higher in Harris County, where roughly 2 in 5 households are food insecure.
Harris County’s Black and Hispanic families see highest rates of food insecurity, study shows
With limited grocery store access in neighborhoods like Gulfton, community food distribution events offer relief.
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this is what I hear in my head when I argue with software engineer guys who decide to give back by teaching programming and fail like 90% of their students btw www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
“It's ok — Not everyone can be good at math”: Instructors with an entity theory comfort (and demotivate) students
Can comforting struggling students demotivate them and potentially decrease the pool of students pursuing math-related subjects? In Studies 1–3, instr…
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Many say that AI tools are saving them time and money, but others have seen the negative effects that such tools can have on research go.nature.com/4oFomNQ
AI is saving time and money in research — but at what cost?
Artificial intelligence tools are boosting researchers’ productivity, but some worry about the effect of a growing reliance on them.
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