And you will benefit from it too! I was so disgusted the last time I went to NYC to realize that Penn Station had virtually no benches. Nowhere to sit down. It’s hideously inaccessible to disabled people, and it’s hostile to everyone who might be tired or need to set their stuff down a moment

yet again begging the youth to review the format for citations and stop treating the EPA like it is a person with the last name "Agency".

I saw this out of context and KNEW who you were talking about.

wild to me that the gas company can just start drilling holes in your building's parking lot and shutting off the gas without notifying a single person who actually manages/owns the property.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

alt text is making some breaking news tweets visible rn despite the pic/vid outage. hint ;)

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

anyway, any time I get mad at a tool I've been using too long, I go to this list to consider what I actually need from technology and if there are other ways to get it.

I should not know more about military history than the Secretary of Defense, man. it's ACTIVELY UPSETTING. I am not a war person!!!!

just got an email about how my Evernote plan is going to cost $100 more for AI nonsense I didn't ask for and don't want (also there's no longer any free plan, which I kind of need rn), and based on a quick search here, I suspect they're about to lose many users.

slouching toward analog.

the "pleasure to have in class" to "seems responsible enough to receive her funding from the pool that requires personally thanking a donor" pipeline

Meet Bruce, the parrot with a broken beak that he wields as a weapon Bruce the Kea parrot is missing the upper half of his beak, but he has turned this disability into a weapon to keep subordinates in line

I love bruce!!! yeah I have a disability but I'm not an inspiration I'm a THREAT www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

Screenshot from a block of text from a Wikipedia article containing partial sentences that start with "Critics argue..." and "Similarly, others argue...". It doesn't matter what comes next - what's important is that each time, Wikipedia editors have added a citation-needed annotation that just says, [who?], contrary to many poorly-written acts of journalism that refuse to attribute arguments to anyone specific.

I am just saying, Wikipedia remains a net good.

They Put the Boundary Waters in Harms Way During a recent vote in Congress, Republicans removed protections from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the most used wilderness area in the country with over 1,175 lakes and interconnected ...

Today, I posted my essay about how Republicans removed protections from the Boundary Waters while voting for pollution, and what you can do about it.

open.substack.com/pub/bryanhan...

It's telling that his example of what upsets him is treating incarcerated people as people.

the library closing at 6pm while my ADHD ass is mid-flow state is violence.

How To Future-Proof Your Career In The Age Of AI | NOEMA The most prized workers will be those who can decode a sea of outputs, spot the meaningful signal and translate it into action that others understand and trust.

Here @nilsgilman.bsky.social, a historian who spent years working in Silicon Valley, makes the case that a liberal arts education will be ~more~ valuable in the near future www.noemamag.com/why-a-libera...

I don't know what to call it when your ADHD takes you back and forth between the methods paper about a foundational tool in your research area / & the Wayback Machine's copy of the author's institutional sexual misconduct report.

~~ TGIF ~~

bear suit? insurance fraud.

love that it was somehow a difficult enough problem that they needed biologists.

3 Southern California residents sentenced in bear suit insurance fraud scheme Three Southern California residents have been sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud scheme which prosecutors say involved them staging fake bear attacks on high-end cars.

It’s nice to see fraudsters put in some effort instead of just going here’s some AI, give me one billion dollars

How to freeze scones and bake them later If you want oven-fresh treats on a tight schedule, learn how to freeze scones, then bake them anytime you want.

it's the end of the semester again and this time I'm ready. www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2016/05...

Climate change is eroding typical nighttime breaks in wildfire activity, study says Alberta and B.C. have both expanded their nighttime aerial firefighting in recent seasons, equipping more helicopter pilots with night-vision goggles.

Climate change is eroding typical nighttime breaks in wildfire activity, study says

Seeking Victim Information in SantaCon Investigation | Federal Bureau of Investigation The FBI’s New York Division is seeking to identify potential victims of Stefan Pildes, who organized and operated the annual SantaCon event in New York City, from at least 2019 to present. Pildes was ...

Asking New Yorkers if they’ve been personally victimized by Santacon is very funny actually www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-h...

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

I hope that if i ever have 80 million dollars to give away (hahahaha) I just toss it in the general direction, without strings, of the cause I think good enough.