The amount of gold in a Flock camera can be estimated by taking the square root of its height in meters.
Gregory Hays@aristofontes.bsky.social · yesterdayI'm confused by all the people posting that every Flock camera contains 2–3 lbs of copper and 1–2 grams of gold, when in fact Flock cameras contain between three and four grams of gold. Are they teaching nothing in the schools these days?
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Exclusive: We obtained a leaked playbook that Flock gives to cops to coach them on "how to speak to city council" to avoid getting their contracts canceled. Includes strategies like "own the narrative" by talking to mayor "before public comment periods" www.404media.co/own-the-narr...
‘Own the Narrative’: Leaked Flock Guide Shows How It Teaches Cops to Promote Its Tech
"This document shows a coordinated effort from Flock Safety to compel law enforcement agencies to convince our elected leaders to represent their interests as a company rather than the interests of co...
404media.co
I think it was about four years ago that I first learned how to pronounce the name 'Siobhan.'
This is our extraordinary 🌎 Why are we destroying #Climate stability ? Triggering gigantic #Wildfires ....and so many disasters #ClimateCrisis #Metacrisis #WarOnNature
RFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
Lyme Disease Did Not Come From a Secret Military Lab, Contrary to FDA Chief's Claim
Bacterium that causes it circulated long before the lab opened, decades of evidence show
medpagetoday.com
The great tragedy of the human condition is not so much that we die but that we don't die at the same time as those we love.
1. We—@eduede.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, Kevin Gross, and I—have a new preprint on the arXiv today, based on ideas that emerged during an @sfiscience.bsky.social workshop in November 2024: The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science.
The unintended consequences of large language models as a labor-augmenting technology in science
As a labor-augmenting technology, large language models (LLMs) have the potential to accelerate scientific activity across the research pipeline. But even if LLMs perform on par with human experts at ...
arxiv.org
The unsung hero of public EV-charger buildout is [checks notes] Wal-Mart?
Walmart Leapfrogs EV Charging Competitors With Rapid Buildout
In a matter of months, the retailer has become a major player in the business of fueling electric cars.
bloomberg.com
CHOP FROM THE TOP 14 of the University's highest-paid officers and employees earned more than $1 million in FY 2025, with nine making more than $2 million Duke’s strategic realignment included layoffs+buyout offers that led to the departure of nearly 600 staff. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
As cost-cutting began, Duke’s highest-paid employees took big raises
Tax filings reveal administrators, including President Vincent Price and Provost Alex Gallimore, saw their compensation rise in fiscal year 2025. Managers of Duke’s endowment and standout athletics co...
dukechronicle.com
A US-owned and operated, Marshall Islands-flagged LNG floating storage facility was struck by at least one UAV whilst at Damietta, Egypt - Ambrey
It's kind of nuts that the first commercial entity someone visiting the city of New Haven by train encounters is a Sbarro.
“For a field that is supposedly reshaping science and is so advanced in terms of scientific potential, not having any scientific documentation seems like a very weird paradox,” says paper co-author John Ioannidis, a metascientist at Stanford University. 🤡 www.science.org/content/arti...
AI’s top startups are barely publishing their research
More than half of AI “unicorns” have never published a paper or preprint
science.org
Ken Burns Wants You To Watch America: Birth Of A Nation Watch now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cTi_vTwwmU&t=599s
We just painted our kitchen in mid-century modern colors, it’s pretty intense.
There's a name for a situation where one side in a war stops firing and the other just keeps going.
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · last wk.Iran launched at least 4 ballistic missiles towards a U.S. base in Jordan, US official told the Jerusalem Post and adds "it was a large attack"
Scholars now believe that Christopher Nolan's Odyssey was not actually directed by Christopher Nolan, but by another man with the same name.
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"There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible" is also true of most of the classic British novels.
While the Fields Medal celebrates the under-40s, the mathematician Joan Birman has, at the age of 99, solved a major open problem in representations of the Braid groups, a topic she has worked on for more than 60 years.
Cya later filthy lithium and muskrat's crap batteries ! These are available in Australia now so I will definitely look into getting them 😊 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Chinese sodium battery surprised scientists by matching key Tesla benchmarks
Researchers found that a Chinese sodium-ion battery performs far better than expected, with production quality and design features comparable to Tesla’s batteries. If engineers can improve cold-weathe...
sciencedaily.com
A lot of people jumping the shark over the Odyssey movie, which is, as it happens, a very Odysseus-like thing to do.
i read a piece from a classicist saying that we have entered the Odyssecene and I feel like everyone should just go home and color for a while.
The DNC at this point is like one of those dying malls that has one legacy anchor store, a small shop that sells cellphone cases, and seventy empty storefronts.
Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social · last wk.Wrote this back in May and I stand by it: Ken Martin has got to go - it is a huge problem that the DNC has no money and somehow even less trust as we head into a presidential primary in 2027-2028. open.substack.com/pub/amandali...
