Rob Honeycutt
@robhon.bsky.social
Profile pic: Joseph Beuys Timbuk2 founder, climate advocate, patent holder, GA pilot, art lover, Cantonese speaker Timbuk2 origin story: tiny.cc/83ovzz
It is not headed by a “climate critic“. It is headed by someone who is unqualified in this area, who cannot offer valid critiques but instead shares debunked claims, and who regularly attacks climate scientists. Like me.
The administration has a new climate change office. It’s headed by a climate critic.
The office that produces the National Climate Assessment has been reconstituted, after the administration gutted it last year.
politico.com
The majority of humanity lives within a relatively small bandwidth of latitude. This #map is one of my all time favourites. It was created by radicalcartography.net in 2008 and remains a true classic today: buff.ly/2DJXO9z
OMG… Guilin is so beautiful. Was here 25 years ago back when the air was smoggy. The air quality here has improved significantly.
I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.
Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · last mo.You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ
GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.
A personalized vaccine for melanoma cut the risk of cancer returning after five years
If the vaccine is effective in a late-stage trial, it would be “paradigm-shifting,” one expert said.
nbcnews.com
“US and Iran will ‘stand down for now’ and talks ‘on track,’ Trump officials say after strikes exchanged” …just in time for opening bell.
Mamdani has merely learned the elusive political tactics of being genuine.
Luca Migo@victinibcn.bsky.social · last mo.Mamdani just showed up at Penn Station, wristbands in hand, helping World Cup fans find their trains like it was nothing. Panama vs England, MetLife bound, and the mayor was just out there in the crowd. No big deal. Very big deal.
Suck it up, buckos. No one is “happy” paying taxes but we all do it and we all enjoy the broader benefits they provide. The galling part of this that paying this will have zero effect on any of these people’s lives.
We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience
A federal judge has just ordered DOJ to turnover five categories of items from the Epstein Files that it previously failed to disclose by July 2 in a lawsuit brought by Katie Phang. Read the details here: joycevance.substack.com/p/finally-a-...
fossil fuel burning ➡️ warming planet ➡️ increase in persistent weather extremes
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · last mo.I spoke with Geeta GuruMurthy of BBC World News Television about the record European heat wave and it's link to human-caused warming: youtu.be/d8vqO2J8WV0
I’m really curious what idiots bought SPCX at $225 share.
It really is fucking wild that Trump is having people arrested for putting a finger in a pool when he pardoned the people who full out trashed the US Capitol
During final discussions Iranian negotiator last overheard saying…
Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire: Show Me The Money!
Alt: Tom Cruise in Jerry Maguire: Show Me The Money!
static.klipy.com
“If you’re looking for human-like traits, you will tend to find them.” www.404media.co/if-ai-is-sen...
If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’
“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."
404media.co
I don’t know about anyone else but I’m thinking the current deal will be short-lived. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Far right Israeli minister says ‘Lebanon must burn’ after escalation with Hezbollah
Donald Trump’s called for Benjamin Netanyahu to ‘be more responsible’ on Lebanon this week, but the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah has only escalated since the interim US-Iran deal was signed
independent.co.uk
one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband
Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhen utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoRep. Brandon Gill: "We particularly need the left to tone down the rhetoric ... somebody is gonna listen and believe they are the next Dietrich Bonhoeffer and act on that and that's what we're seeing here."
Future historian department: -Front page of today's NYT reports creation of world's first trillionaire. -Lead op-ed of same NYT is about worst-ever Ebola outbreak, which *this VERY SAME trillionaire* enabled, with his "chainsaw" destruction of US public health in the world. The book writes itself
Wow! A highly capable professional in Nancy Mace’s seat?
Meta Resistance@metaresistance.bsky.social · 2mo agoNancy Lacore spent 30+ years in the Navy, rising from pilot to vice admiral, leading the Navy Reserve. Last summer, Hegseth and his team kicked her out—no explanation, just a purge. It stung. But instead of fading into the background, she turned that fire into fuel.
What ever happened to the NYT? How hard is it to state that this is clearly a lenticular cloud in the headline? Just replace the words “mystery potato” with “lenticular cloud.”
The world has warmed by around 1.4C since 1850. It took 148 years for the first half of that warming to occur, and just 27 years for the second half!
Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation