Kevin Connor
@kevintconnor.bsky.social
🌊 Conservationist / SciComm-er | CA Naturalist | Baltimore diaspora | how ‘bout dem O’s & also Ravens | opinions=my own | he/him/his
Had this saved and ready from last year’s trade deadline
Look, am I an uncle who can get over his sports pettiness and resist sending this on the family group chat to taunt my brother-in-law and his kids who are all Phillies fans after that o’s comeback? No, I am not.
As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish https://theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despite-presence-of-irish/
O’s blew the lead in the time it takes to literally just pick up chipotle
Love everything about this: A water treatment PhD with a clown avi named buttons delivering Grade-A science communications about a ridiculous situation
Buttons (Ashley) 🏴☠️#OFMDForLife🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈🤡@sevensugars.bsky.social · 2mo agoSince I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
I’m not the Kevin who tells the story, but I am the Spooked listener who helped orchestrate this with my team podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Night at the Aquarium - Classic
Podcast Episode · Spooked · May 29 · 27m
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Took a week long cleanse from social media and it absolutely does not feel good to be back
In which I give AI chatbots a fact checking test and find them sorely wanting. My latest for WIRED.
AI Just Isn’t Right
Can AI do fact-checking? A WIRED fact-checker fact-checks.
wired.com
What stage of capitalism is this fortune.com/2026/05/12/l...
'It's like we don't exist': Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents face power loss as utility redirects lines to data centers | Fortune
Roughly 49,000 Lake Tahoe residents could lose 75% of their power after their energy provider said it's directing energy to neighboring data centers.
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Didn’t think he could do much worse than helping advance the extinction of a whale species but congrats to him for finding a new awful thing to be known for
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3mo agoJared Golden was the only Democrat to vote NO. If he voted yes, it would have passed. He isn't even running again. He's just a bad person who wants more people to die and wants a job lobbying for defense contractors. www.cbsnews.com/news/house-i...
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
While many of you are likely yelling "GO TWITTER" or "GO BLUESKY!" I'm yelling "GO THE FUCK OUTSIDE and THE INTERNET IS NOT REAL LIFE!"
Finally watched the game and the orioles should always put the ball in play and let New York play classic Yankees defense.
Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 3mo agoWhen we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.
At this point, solving climate change is cheaper than not solving it -- not only on some grand 50 year time horizon, but tomorrow, today, immediately. Soving climate change *is* affordability. Maybe Dems should tell voters about that.
Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.
And it works!
Matt Pearce@mattdpearce.com · 3mo agoSharing a cool thing from my day job: We made a model law for how to pass a local journalist employment credit in your state. If you want more local news, you need more local reporters. This makes it cheaper to actually do that. Pester your representatives! www.rebuildlocalnews.org/local-journa...
