And that's true even if the people with imbecilic opinions hold power. Maybe it's ESPECIALLY true if they hold power.

People who deny the benefits of vaccines and people who deny the reality of human-created climate change are worthy only of derision, disdain, and scorn.

Stop treating imbecilic opinions that ignore reality as worthy of debate, media! Debating established facts is not worth anyone's time.

From Fabre Minerals, a commercial site that sells rocks/minerals. It's a series of green crystals projecting, needle-like, from a more normal looking green/orange rock substrate. They resemble fans of pillars, like certain scenes in movies depicting Superman's Fortress of Solitude.

Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral formed by precipitation of copper ores dissolved in groundwater.

The rate at which the mineral is deposited can radically alter the crystalline shape, including producing needle-like ('acicular') crystals as shown here.

Hence, do NOT touch.

Cartoon illustrating overshoot and undershoot re-entry corridors Found originally here: https://spaceandscience.fr/en/blog/atmospheric-entry

When you think about it, a spaceship can land safely only in a handful of locations on a planet, and the entry corridors for those at the right angles are rather tight... which makes a planetary blockade surprisingly possible in #HardSciFi.

Surprised that your recommendation to “disrupt” something that people are deeply and intellectually invested in fails to generate excitement?

KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

Rooms that are diverse, that are predisposed to overlook or limit the influence of status, will demand better justifications, tailored arguments and more work to be convinced!

GET USED TO IT MY GUYS!

These people, and they are often men, rarely do the homework and labor required to properly develop and tailor their argument and then feel all aggrieved that it landed poorly, expecting their social or professional status to do all that work for them.

I feel like an important lesson we could all remember, but especially if we are trying to convince people of something, is to KNOW your audience.

Surprised that your provocative statement lands poorly? KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE

I assure you that he is thoroughly chastised and has taken everything in good humor. Unfortunately, he will never live down the shame of being schooled about mail merge by one of the youths.

Since this blew up, I guess I should update. Apparently he knew mail merge existed, he used to use it, but FORGOT ABOUT IT, and went straight to spicy autocomplete instead.

He now knows better after multiple folks (including one of his kids) educated him.

IGC 2028 Calgary

We will discuss land-use management and regional geology at the International Geological Congress in Calgary in 2028. 2/2

Learn more at: www.igc2028canada.org

#IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #EasternSlopes #AlbertaGeology #WaterConservation #CanadianLandscapes

The Eastern Slopes of the Rocky Mountains supply 90% of Alberta's water and serve as a wildlife corridor from Yellowstone to Yukon. 1/2

This Earth Day, let's recognize the need to protect our vulnerable watersheds while balancing resource development.

#IGC2028Canada
Photo Credits: Murdoch McKinnon

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California attorney general Rob Bonta

Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege

There's a new dinosaur (model) at the Museum! Meet Microraptor gui. Since 2005, Museum Preparator Jason Brougham worked with Mark Norell, inaugural Macaulay Curator in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology, on modeling this amazing animal.

Its trivial to find "potential" candidates. We have immense databases of them and ways of generating new ones from similarity to existing antibiotics. The hard part, the majority of the real work, is building and testing and deploying the damn things which LLMs and other ML doesn't do anything for.

They keep pitching AI to us (event venue operations) and every single use case is "What if we added a middle man to your work flow, where you give information to the AI, then the AI does some organizing, then gives it back to you to check"

Like...why am I adding a step?!

Every single person I know who's REALLY EXCITED about AI was all but computer illiterate before discovering their newfound power 🤣

Because its always misleading or straight up misinformation. Especially when it is again something that could be done better and more efficiently with already existing techniques.

Turns Out +++ Men Still Need Help Understanding How the Fucking Patriarchy Is to Blame in 2026 This newsletter post is the author's attempt at reclaiming her time even further after another unproductive discussion with men about the patriarchy with which they remain complicit, as she continues ...

"The United Nations estimates that 50,000 women & girls were killed by intimate partners or family members in 2024, which breaks down to about 1 every 10 minutes..., so I know that prioritizing men's hurt feelings over our use of the term, "patriarchy" will only result in more [of our] deaths..."💔💔💔

Indifference to process is a pretty good indicator that you don’t truly care about the quality of your output - especially if that output is “facts”.

NASA just dropped a stunning new Hubble image of a ‘Cosmic Sea Lemon’ 5,000 light-years away The Hubble Space Telescope turns 36 this year. And to celebrate, it released an incredible new image of the Trifid Nebula

The Hubble Space Telescope turns 36 this year. And to celebrate, it released an incredible new image of the Trifid Nebula

IGC 2028 Calgary

Nous aborderons la gestion de l’utilisation des terres et la géologie régionale lors du Congrès géologique international de Calgary en 2028. 2/2

Pour en savoir plus: www.igc2028canada.org

#IGC2028Canada #GéosciencesPourLHumanité #VersEst #GéologieAlberta #ConservationDeLeau #PaysagesCanadiens

Les versants orientaux des Rocheuses fournissent 90% de l’eau de l’Alberta.

En cette Journée de la Terre, reconnaissons la nécessité de protéger nos bassins hydrographiques vulnérables tout en équilibrant le développement des ressources.

#IGC2028Canada
Crédit photo: Murdoch McKinnon

Elon Musk Is Taking the X Playbook to Starlink The world’s richest man is accruing more power than ever before.

Elon Musk has big plans for Starlink. "Imagine a future in which Musk owns not only a major social network, but a large chunk of the infrastructure through which the world’s information flows," write Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian.

The world is full of billions of talented artists making amazing shit every day, largely given away for free on the internet, and you want AI-generated art?

Most unrelatable thing I’ve ever heard.

“Diversify: Female Founders in Focus" is spotlighting women who are building and scaling companies across tech, AI, fintech, health, Agriculture and beyond.

Here are some female founders and startups who are developing amazing tech in #agriculture and the #foodspace at SF MOMA on May 6 (1)

What Doug Ford’s expansion plans may mean for the Toronto neighbourhood nearest to Billy Bishop airport Bathurst Quay is the area that would be most affected by the Premier Doug Ford-backed proposal to expand Toronto’s island airport.

If you haven't been to Billy Bishop Airport or don't spend time on that section of the waterfront, you might not realize that thousands of people live 500 metres or so from the runway. Here's what expanding it could mean to them:

www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

> LLMs are labor intensive, are economically infeasible, and pollute the environment, and these properties may outweigh any proposed benefits. For example, poor quality air directly harms human cognition, and thus has compounding effects on educators' and pupils' ability to teach and learn.

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?