🌏 Happy Earth Day 2026 🌎

I hope everyone is taking today to think about the wonders of our blue marble and how we all work together to protect it.

Long shot here, but I'm looking for some information about an ex-cop. If I have any followers who work/recently worked for the Alexandria City Police Department (Virginia), I'm mlm335.27 on Signal.

Epic cheese curds at Allianz Field in St. Paul, MN

There's a war on for your mind.

theonion.info

We really can't have nice things, can we

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

I wrote about AMOC newrepublic.com/article/2091...

: nods :

Yes. Yes, I do.

People will be closely studying how Hungary's opposition pulled off their win in such a pro-incumbent system. Important to note that the theme was corruption. Democrats need to get much better at calling out Trump's corruption.

Saving local news also means saving the archives - Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their…

“If news is the first draft of history, the loss of local news archives means a loss of memory, culture, identity and, sometimes, reality,” writes Poynter faculty and director of craft and local news Kristen Hare.

www.poynter.org/reporting-ed...

!! @ajcproject.mas.to.ap.brid.gy !

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell summoned Wall Street leaders to an urgent meeting on concerns that the latest artificial intelligence model from Anthropic PBC will usher in an era of greater cyber risk. Bessent and Powell assembled the group at Treasury's headquarters in Washington on Tuesday to make sure banks are aware of possible future risks raised by Anthropic's Mythos and potential similar models, and are taking precautions to defend their systems, according to people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified citing the private discussions. A representative for the Treasury didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesperson for the Fed declined to comment. The previously unreported meeting, arranged on short notice, is another sign that regulators consider the possibility of a new breed of cyber attacks as one of the biggest risks facing the financial industry. All the banks summoned to the meeting are classified as systemically important by top regulators, meaning their stability is a priority for the global financial system.

This is really impressive speed tbh. Not much gets by Powell.

Paging @slanky666.bsky.social

The covers of two books, with the titles Artificial Intelligence and Computer Security

The past's future, courtesy of Time-Life Books, 1986

Could be useful this morning

Oh no. NSF Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program shuttered.

This one leaves me winded. A good story from 2025 by @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social offers insight into what we are losing: www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The Artemis II crew just reported several impact flashes—explosions from hypervelocity impacts of meteoroids with the Moon—during the solar eclipse.

We make a big effort to see a handful of these from Earth with telescopes.

That astronauts flying by the Moon saw >4 in tens of minutes is AWESOME.

Oh my god, why do I "get caught up on things" after working hard in environmental nonprofit comms all day

Shots Fired at Indianapolis Councilman’s Home, After Vote Backing Data Center No one was injured, but the councilman, Ron Gibson, called it “deeply unsettling.”

A city councilman in Indianapolis said bullets struck his home, leaving shattered glass and holes through the front door, and a handwritten note reading “NO DATA CENTERS” was left under the doormat.

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

🥺🥹

Wow. First contact after the Far Side of the Moon is two women talking to each other about how we are fragile and interconnected.

That's the matriarchy, baby, that's what it sounds like.

losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes sounds nice

How the world's largest wildlife crossing became the target of right-wing hate Southern California's landmark $114 million wildlife crossing is almost complete.

This is a marvelous project and we need thousands more all over the country. www.sfgate.com/la/article/c...

"Chow", Cows
"Get Down Make Love", Nine Inch Nails
"I Wanna Be Adored", Stone Roses

#1 was playing on my college's station while I was in the student union so I just went upstairs to find out

The other two I heard on bigger alt radio and had to listen for the back announce

🖤. When Prince died I found out via a colleague who yelled "PRINCE IS DEAD?" from his office next door. I was a teenager in suburban MPLS in the 1980s, and hearing aboit his demise that way kind of crushed me (not my colleague's fault - he couldn't help his reaction!!)

Unimaginable for me! Music was, and in many ways still is, my life (tho it didn't stay my "career")

I worked for a large independent music distributor at the time. Devastating afternoon. Phones rang off the hook, at first with the news but followed swiftly by record stores looking for any Nirvana product we might have lying around. Seismic industry shift. Nothing was the same after that day

#FinalFour