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Research ecologist. All posts are mine only and do not speak for my employer. California salmon, stock assessment, and ecosystem based management are my big things professionally. Reluctant expert on canine Cushings and related disorders.
With the power of AI, information can pour straight through your skull and onto the ground without ever slowing:
With The Power Of AI, Information Can Pour Straight Through Your Skull And Onto The Ground Without Ever Slowing | Defector
Reading. What is it? Why does anyone do it? Can anyone at Axios do it? No. Maybe that is why they write like that. When you read a book, the stuff in the book goes into your mind, and your mind…
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love the scare quotes around "humanist" as if humanism isn't central to our nation's founding documents
A Democrat Sounds the Alarm on Christian Nationalism in Congress - The New York Times
Representative Jared Huffman of California, the only self-declared “humanist” in Congress, writes in a new book that the separation of church and state is in grave danger.
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A neat blog highlighting a native CA salmon that few know about, and that have historically been rare. Turns out, pink salmon are 📈 in CA too, like many places. A neat thing about pink salmon is their strict 2 year life-cycle. Different from Chinook salmon (usually 3 years, at least in CA)
Center for Watershed Sciences@ucdaviswater.bsky.social · 7d agoCalifornia’s “Lost Salmon” May Be Returning By Rachael E. Ryan, Cho R. Adolfo, Emily K. Chen, Stephanie M. Carlson... https://californiawaterblog.com/2026/08/09/californias-lost-salmon-may-be-returning/
We're hiring an ecologist at UC Berkeley! The Dept. of Integrative Biology is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Ecology. Plants/algae, invertebrates, microbes, or marine systems a priority. Come join us!! Apply by Oct 5, 2026. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489 PS: Please share!
Assistant Professor –Ecology- Integrative Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Pollsters are trying their best. They really are. We’ve just reached the limit of what you can do to make something look like an approximately random sample when you have to attempt 150,000 contacts to get 500 responses.
THINGS ALLOWED TO BE ANXIOUS WHEN THEY HAVE UNEXPRESSED THOUGHTS - infants - cocker spaniels - your buddy Craig who works at 7-11 and is high all the time THINGS NOT ALLOWED TO BE ANXIOUS - people who can launch nuclear weaponry
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoSen. John Kennedy on Trump's blatant reflecting pool lies: "The president says it was caused by vandals. I don't know if he really believes that or it's part of his political messaging or he's just thinking out loud ... he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought."
Did you hear about the old timey gold prospector who was nonbinary? Found a fortune up in them/their hills.
Oakland Animal Services is at capacity for big dogs, so the shelter is waiving fees on Aug. 1 and 2. You can view adoptable dogs on their website.
Big dogs need forever homes. Adopt for free in Oakland this weekend
Oakland Animal Services is at capacity for big dogs, so the shelter is waiving fees on Aug. 1 and 2. You can view adoptable dogs on their website.
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What if instead of being asked not to use AC on a 100-degree day, you were suddenly unable to create an image of yourself riding a log flume with a photorealistic Crash Bandicoot.
I’m certain that if you had perfect knowledge, people getting punished with literal scam texts day after day would prove to matter more to people’s perception of the Democratic Party than all the “positioning” stuff your favorite centrist political analyst strokes their chin about every day.
Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 3w ago95% of my communications from the Democratic Party look like this. I have never in my life signed up to be texted by a campaign or the party, and I spent fruitless months attempting to unsubscribe from these. These are functionally identical to scam texts.
And so it begins. Why Your Team Sucks 2026 kicks off, fittingly, with the sorryass RAIDERS. Happy football season, everyone. defector.com/why-your-tea...
Why Your Team Sucks 2026: Las Vegas Raiders | Defector
Some people are fans of the Las Vegas Raiders. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Las Vegas Raiders. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the prev...
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“Data centers—bland, inert structures that add no aesthetic or intellectual value to the landscape they’re built on—stand as the physical embodiment of the AI sector’s grotesque avariciousness.” www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
If you don't hate data centers yet, boy do I have news for you
SFGATE columnist Drew Magary writes the hater's guide to data centers.
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Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗
"Contrary to the promises Musk offered during the early days, federal spending as a whole actually increased over the past year." This can't be repeated enough. They're spending more; and we're getting less. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere.
The fallout from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting venture can be found across the government if you know where to look.
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These people's politics require us to grasp that these abstract (to them) culture wars issues truly are the most important problems in their lives. Imagine a life in which transgender tee ball players or Cornell freshmen who can't make friends because they're fascists are your most serious crises.
We’ve needed some work on our roof and there were enough red flags in trying to find someone to do it that I was 99% confident when I googled “did private equity take over roofing” that I’d find something and, well, here you go.
Q2 2026 QXO Paid $17.3 Billion for a Roofing Company. Have You Paid Attention to the Roofing Sector? - PitchBook
This analyst note examines PE investment dynamics in the roofing sector, covering deal activity, market fragmentation, sourcing targets, a due-diligence framework, and current cost pressures.
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George are they perhaps like rebellious woodland creatures attacking sophisticated imperial forces with slingshots and wooden spears?
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.George Lucas likens AI sceptics to luddites clinging to horses and carts
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Gerontocracy is bad. It produces bad governance by ancient and out of touch people. It’s hugely disruptive when they all start dropping at the same time. And it diverts what little energy these people have for doing their actual jobs to succession battles.
Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last mo.The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month.
Happy to stand in solidarity with the New York Times reporters facing this threat to freedom of speech and civil liberties but that's a little tricky when the guys who run the actual newspaper that employes them evidently think that Zohran Mamdani is a bigger threat to freedom than Trump.
There's an OMB rule change that would require political oversight of scientific grants, and could pull any that don't "reflect presidential priorities" Another country has tried this before! It was the USSR and it was called Lysenkoism. By @thsaey.bsky.social www.sciencenews.org/article/omb-...
Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science
Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.
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Actual leftists tend to have a zero-tolerance policy for nazis and a zero-tolerance policy for nazis means you're not on twitter.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 4mo agoLegitimate question: Leftists and socialists on Twitter (I'm not talking about moderates or even conservatives, of course) are far more pro-Platner, while Bluesky is far more anti-Platner. What gives? #MESen
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America’s Birthday, Brought To You By Gas Station Hoagies | Defector
Perhaps it’s a sign from Mother Nature that the two flagship events of the Philadelphia’s Wawa Welcome America Festival for the semiquincentennial were derailed by weather. Maybe she was telling us…
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This is what I wrote about Platner back in October of 2025, and I think it holds up okay. The popular movement that grew around him in Maine is real and inspiring, the guy himself was always fugazy at best. At this point I just hope the former outlasts the latter. defector.com/what-job-is-...
What Job Is A Guy With A Nazi Tattoo Qualified For? | Defector
The man that my wife and I found ourselves talking to at the bar of a restaurant in Rockland, Maine in the summer of 2019 had arrived in town as your fancier visitors do, which is by boat. He told us ...
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People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Jon Hendry@jonhendry.bsky.social · last mo.Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.