Felt nice to get out today in the Clearwater NF

Glacier lilies out in the Palouse

And the opt-out isn’t cryptically-worded and hidden in the depths of the settings (looking at you, gmail)

Now that I’m in data analysis mode, my diel activity pattern is pretty dang bimodal

Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants Environmental groups warn that weakening air toxics and mercury standards will lead to higher health-related costs

As long as I live, I'll never understand how "it should be easier for wealthy corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air my family breathes" became a popular political position with half the country.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wishing good luck to all the snowshoes surviving out there

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

Oh no, I outsourced all of my intellectual and educational responsibility to a tech bro’s content-stealing bullshit machine and it didn’t end well

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I really enjoyed reading this paper, and the data visualization gets an A+!

a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " . ALT: a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " .

Like 2025, my 2026 resolution is to use zero gen-AI*

It's bed for our cognitive function
It's bad for our social lives, because it's algorithmic and addictive
It's bad for our environment

Nope

*I'm ok with task-specific AI, like computer vision models for remote sensing of the environment