Tim Kozusko
@timkozusko.bsky.social
Semi-retired ecologist, part-time wildland firefighter. Florida Native. Pro-science, live and let live. I use my turn signals.
Anyone betting on wildfires needs the hot end of a drop torch up their ass. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...
As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions
Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause
oregonlive.com
Oldie, me in OV 105 aka Endeavour, at the launch pad. The vehicl was powered up at the time.
Politiker behaupten Technik wird uns retten. Die Technik:
The only thing protecting us from the malevolence of the Trump regime is the incompetence of the Trump regime.
At the January 6th insurrection no police officer in that building should’ve had a single round left. Let trump pardon a pile of bodies. He lies, he cheats, he steals, he rapes.
Think of Trump as a boil — an infected pustule on the giant ass of the American system. The boil would have become infected eventually because of deeper flaws in how the system has evolved. Let me introduce you to the first piece of why our system is failing: Jamie Dimon.
A Realist's Guide to the American System
Part 1: Dimon and the enshittification of everything
robertreich.substack.com
Trump announced yesterday he will repurpose huge chunks of federal lands to host AI data centers. This massive giveaway to Big Tech comes despite surging public opposition to data centers— including among Trump's own voters.
When the president is so dumb the infectious disease doctor touches his own face.
You know the Epstein files are *bad* when Donald is drawing our attention back to COVID, his most deadly blunder, to distract from them.
The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.
Well a new EO that puts anything related to spaceflight under the FAA is the end of NEPA. Because even just waiting a few weeks for the FONSI was too much for the fucking billionaires. GFY Bezos, Musk, Trump and all the mental defectives who voted for this. And most of all, the democrats…
REMEMBER THIS... OUR CURRENT PRESIDENT IS A LYING, CHEATING, CORRUPT PIECE OF S***
Cannwe just skip to the part where trump puts the PPK in his mouth?!
Walking through the parking lot by Indialantic Ace Hardware and a tesla was following like we were waiting on each other to go. So I kept motioning like pass me pass me. Finally I looked and there was no one in it. Totally not ready tor this shit.
It takes a special kind of stupid to state publicly that the process through which you and your co-conspirators took control of the government was rigged.
NEW: Across Africa, the State Department has demanded access to health data for millions of people as a condition of giving countries billions of dollars in aid needed to address HIV, malaria, tuberculosis and other illnesses.
“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns
The United States is requiring access to health data as part of lifesaving aid deals with African countries. The U.S. says the data will be aggregated and anonymized, but privacy experts fear the info...
propublica.org
Disruptive innovention idea: A calculator that's wrong sometimes, but the calculator company doesn't tell you when or why and the user agreement says it's your responsibility to check all output for correctness. If you use incorrect calculator outputs and harm someone, only you are legally liable!
If we're being honest, artificial intelligence is the cutting edge process of taking a perfectly good computer & giving it anxiety & existential dread.
Precisely the sort of deal I would expect from a guy who managed to bankrupt a casino.
Here’s something you don’t see so much: a very young gopher tortoise.
