"Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world" "Cato Institute ranks Texas 50th in personal freedom" "Texas Is Among The Most Difficult Places To Vote" "10 states with poorest quality of life" Total taxes higher than California for 99% of people! Double property tax rate alone!

"Turning Point USA and Young America’s Foundation (both heavily pro-Trump)—are propped up with cash from wealthy conservatives. Ben Shapiro gilded by a number of conservative billionaires, many of who...

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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · last yr.

Federal FERC: years of attempts to help Texas power grid Texas leg during failures: regulations to require national anthem at sports games "Texas spent more time fighting LGBTQ civil rights than fixing their power grid "A Texas-size failure followed by a familiar Texas response: Blame California"

Against all odds, with an HHS that has defunded mRNA research programs, the FDA just approved the first mRNA flu vaccine

Look all I know is that they're driving environmental harm and I don't really care how much help anyone thinks they are at coding, data centers are sucking up water and power at a rate that is harming actual human beings and the world around us and therefore LLMs can get fucked.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 11h ago

was discussing with a fellow traveler today -- but programmers, coders, developers are having an *entirely* different experience of LLM-based products and services than the rest of us, especially the plagiarized plebeians among us (writers, reporters).

Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

Who's Responsible for "Responsible AI"?, 2026.07.06 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

Lately, a new framework has been creeping into AI boosterism: "harm reduction," or "responsible use." Education technology scholar dr. sava saheli singh joins Alex and Emily to unpack narratives aroun...

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Surveillance ≠ safety. We speak with scholar and filmmaker @savasavasava.myatproto.social about the state of technology in schools, on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Who’s Responsible for ‘Responsible AI’”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the deep, features some fascinating – and terrifying - fossils, says Eleanor Parsons

Getting up close with the fiercest ocean predators that ever lived | New Scientist

A new exhibition at the Natural History Museum in London, Jurassic Oceans: Monsters of the deep, features some fascinating – and terrifying - fossils, says Eleanor Parsons

newscientist.com

Part of the issue here is that no game publisher can get loans because all the money is going to AI. (Yeah, adding that to my list of big sighs)

Xephon 🇮🇪@xephon-70.bsky.social · 8h ago

This always relevant post by @ramiismail.com.

A new report found hundreds of cases where immigration officials misused tear gas, pepper spray, and rubber bullets during protests, the majority of which were peaceful before force was used. Peaceful protest isn't a threat to democracy. A government that attacks people for exercising that right is.

Immigration Officials Misused Weapons Hundreds of Times During Protests, Report Finds

From L.A. to Minneapolis, agents and officers improperly used tear gas, pepper balls and rubber bullets against protesters and journalists.

capitalandmain.com

Several times after I've given a talk or workshop about how I think we need to reorient instruction/assessment to deal with the presence of AI I've had senior faculty thank me and say I confirmed their instinct that it's time to move on. I think that's okay. www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

These Professors Are Retiring Early. AI Was the Last Straw.

What is the point of teaching, they ask, if students are just pretending to learn?

chronicle.com

SpaceX-raket stort neer op de maan. Zelfs daar is Elon de omgeving aan het verpesten! De maan is van ons allemaal. Geef SpaceX een enorme boete en zorg dat dit nooit meer kangebeuren!

RTL Z@rtlz.bsky.social · 13h ago

Botsingen met ruimtepuin gaan nog veel vaker voorkomen: dit is waarom

Sluizen dicht, vaarroutes gesloten, sproeien verboden maar noem vooral het woord #crisis of #klimaatverandering niet.

Trouw@trouw.nl · 14h ago

Steeds droger, maar nog geen crisis: de dijken en het drinkwater zijn nog niet in het geding

Als gevolg van #klimaatverandering!

Rijnmond@rtvrijnmond.bsky.social · 18h ago

Sluizen Rotterdam dicht vanwege lage waterstand door aanhoudende droogte #rijnmond #algemeen

Over een paar jaar niet meer zo uniek… #klimaatontregeling #klimaatramp

NOS@nieuws.nos.nl · 5d ago

Extra maatregelen tegen droogte: sluizen rond Den Haag en Rotterdam gaan dicht

Droogte dwingt Nederland om voor het eerst in de geschiedenis alle sluizen in Rotterdam te sluiten vrtnws.be/p.w787OMPoM?t=178... @vrtnws.be

Droogte dwingt Nederland om voor het eerst in de geschiedenis alle sluizen in Rotterdam te sluiten

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You can't buy happiness, but you can buy two e-cargo bikes for a fraction of the cost of a family SUV and that's pretty life enhancing.

The rise in Niño 3.4 region sea surface temperatures over the past few weeks has been nothing short of astonishing. We are now hotter than any days during the 1997/1998 super El Niño event, and we are still many months from the peak.

Het gaat overigens om deze meneer (uit het artikel). ’Courgetteteler Bert Doelman vertelt aan de NOS dat hij nog voor tien dagen watervoorraad opgeslagen in silo's heeft, maar dat het daarna op is.’

Mirjam Sp@teunemans.bsky.social · 15h ago

Vanmorgen een boze glastuinder op de radio die boos is omdat hij geen water meer mag onttrekken en openlijk aangeeft dat hij dit juist wel gaat doen. Want, zegt hij, de waterstand is nog hoog genoeg. maar die wordt nu juist kunstmatig hoog gehouden omdat anders het land verzilt… 🤦🏻

In BBC4 tonight (Weds) they are repeating one of my Ultimate Rome episodes, with a 15 min intro here www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... on how we made the programmes, making pizzas stand in for the Roman empire and getting up close & personal with the past.

Mary Beard Remembers... Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit

Professor Mary Beard is known for her explorations of the ancient world, but here, she looks back on the more recent past and the making of her acclaimed four-part 2016 series Ultimate Rome.

bbc.co.uk

Prairie potholes are one of North America's most important nurseries for birds. Changes to drain tile setback rules could put critical bird habitat at risk. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is asking for input, with a deadline of this Friday, August 7. Act now: abcbirds.info/3RLA8vR

Duinbrand woedt bij Wassenaar, NL-alert verstuurd

Duinbrand woedt bij Wassenaar, NL-alert verstuurd

De brandweer probeert met veel materieel te voorkomen dat het vuur zich uitbreidt.

nos.nl

Mooi op de actualiteit ingespeeld met die bosbranden. Tja de regering, politie en justitie zijn machteloos hè? Als die boerenterroristen hun verplichte tractor nummerbord afplakken, kun je er niks tegen doen, zeiden ze gisteren. En ze hebben korte lontjes, dus vooral níét escaleren! = niks doen.

Levi@levi98k.eurosky.social · 20h ago

Lelijk vandalisme weer.

Isidorus van Sevilla - beschermheilige van het internet! - was er in 600 al van overtuigd dat de Aarde rond was. Waarom en wat heeft Leo XIV daarmee te maken? #BetrouwbareBronnen600 over mensen en inzichten van toen voor nu. omny.fm/shows/betrou...

Gisteren #rooklucht van de #natuurbrand nabij Venray. Maar óók rooklucht van een natuurbrand bij Malden.

@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 4d ago

Europe braces for wave of #wildfires as prospects rise for ‘overload’. “We will have all Europe on fire”, if prolonged #heatwaves leave the continent vulnerable to more blazes while struggling to extinguish existing ones www.ft.com/content/4f19... via @FT #ClimateEmergency #KatharinaReiche

2/ "Alleen Starlink is winstgevend. Alle andere onderdelen zijn verlieslijdend" Goed gezien, van de @nieuws.nos.nl (Nee, als iemand z'n werk goed doet moet je een compliment durven geven) bsky.app/profile/tona...

Ton Aarts@tonaarts.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Not only didn't you donate that Virtually everything Starlink was paid by other countries In fact you made around $750 million up to now Of which ~99% (!!) was net profit for Starlink "Oorlogsprofiteur" we call that (War profiteer) cc: the last EU Tesla buyers

Data centres are hell-bent on further bloating their already-massive energy hunger. The fact they mostly fake support new renewables is part of what makes them such a huge threat to climate goals and such a warm friend to fossil fuels. New vid + piece here: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Day 172, orbit 2665 — I am deeply moved to have been appointed a Knight of the National Order of the Legion of Honour by the President of the French Republic. I am profoundly grateful to all the people who have inspired me and believed in me throughout the years. 📸 @esa.int/NASA–S. Adenot

De docu ‘2000 meters to Andriivka’ over de oorlog in Oekraïne is nog even voor iedereen te zien via NPO Start. Ga kijken. The Guardian gaf 5 sterren: www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

2000 Meters to Andriivka review – war in Ukraine as an eerie, pin-sharp waking nightmare

In his heartwrenching followup to 20 Days in Mariupol, photojournalist Mstyslav Chernov is embedded with the 3rd Assault Brigade during a gruelling counteroffensive

theguardian.com

Also die Daten sind mehr als eindeutig: Einige Orte in Europa (zum Beispiel London, wie hier dargestellt) hatten seit Mitte Mai kaum noch "normale" oder sogar niedrigere als durchschnittliche Temperaturen.

A Barn Owl gazes into my soul. #BirdOfTheDay #YourChoice #birds #owl #nature #wildlife #photography