When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

There's a plaque about this in History Park in Lynnwood, WA with an old political cartoon predicting how much regret would follow swapping to highways and cars... Sigh.

The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden. From the NPR archives.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Thank god the stock market survived

Lmao dear god

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work.

Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world.

(Published May 2024)

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

We decided to illustrate it.

Puffin beaks are fluorescent and we had no idea | CBC News Ornithologist Jamie Dunning had the idea to shine a UV light on a puffin in January. The results were spectacular.

Just when I thought I couldn't love puffins any more. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

From the mountainview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the mountainview community

Apparently this is happening a lot as of recently: www.reddit.com/r/mountainvi...

From the mountainview community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the mountainview community

It's happening. Waymo cars are revolting: www.reddit.com/r/mountainvi...

No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

To find your local No Kings march, go to: www.nokings.org

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Welp I spent about six hours today on hold with the IRS. Jesus. Christ.

1:26:18 and counting. Help I am trapped.

This samba hold music at the IRS is pretty woke

Hearing "Your average wait time is greater than 30 minutes," scares me. There is no maximum. Not even an estimate.

n = >30

*waits forever* 🫠

Wow AI is just so innovative

Business goose living up to your name 💰

85F where I am on this last day of *checks calendar* ...winter.

Not-so-fun fact :/ ugh

Lol feels like that was the threshold in Seattle. We were not accustomed 🌞

Paging @tastinghistory.bsky.social

Evergreen post

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Seriously, I was hopeful until I saw that. It's a high figure and I can already imagine all the subsidiaries and d/b/a BS that could allow them to skirt this already high threshold

Damn, I was so ready to celebrate. 350??

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Oh, that was just a test of the emergency broadcast system. Good. Because. Y'know. Seems.... seems like I wasn't too confident

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