Congrats, I look forward to reading it!

Yeah Rufo sure made New College great! Enrollment and retention is down and this is the first year they haven't had a Fulbright scholar. Absolutely the guy to talk about improving universities!

He used the term "paedo" which I have never seen anyone from the US use, because we like to remove extra vowels in our spellings.

A thing I think about a lot, as a confirmed social media addict, is how there used to be a time when so much more of the point of going online was to share things that were actually great and interesting, and how far we've strayed from God's light

"Arses" as this guy would say. Pretty sure he's not even American.

You're not even American! Also, not like the British aren't wildly transphobic as well, there's a reason people have started nicknaming it "TERF island". You need to examine your own prejudices before calling out people in a completely different country. "The cause means a lot to me". No it doesn't.

That's a good point! Would definitely need comparative data overall to determine a spike or even changes in the type of fire, certainly.

All I was saying is that they might be more prone than other warehouses to catching on fire without it being arson. And it could be arson, it could all be a psyop to make people think battery fires are more common than they are. I was just commenting on an interesting data point.

I literally have a master's degree in environmental policy, I'm certainly not saying that we shouldn't use electric cars because they're more dangerous than fossil fuels. I OWN an electric car. You've created an imaginary argument and are now criticizing me for it.

I literally did not say anything you're accusing me of! I didn't even say the battery fires were worse than other fires, nor did I compare them to fossil fuels. I was just saying the warehouses of batteries might be more prone to fires. I don't think fossil fuels are typically kept in warehouses.

(No I'm absolutely not bitter that a Congressional candidate I worked for didn't win because it was instead two Republicans on the general election ticket, why do you ask?)

Yeah with the jungle primary system it really reduces the ability for California to have competitive primaries among more than three or four candidates.

You know, it's interesting that we haven't seen more AI companies doing carbon offsets. "We're planting trees to replace those cut down by logging that were already going to be replanted" seems like something they would do.

Something extraordinary – yet predictable – has happened over recent days on Facebook.

Fake accounts that usually post anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim content generated using AI to fuel division and hate in UK are now pushing out AI-gen content asking:

"Should the UK produce its own fuel again?"

Literally the first second you can see the billboard is misspelled. Also, the man being interviewed is not moving his facial muscles much, and his mouth is just kind of... Flapping up and down, not forming vowel shapes

It’s the reason we don’t have universal healthcare imo. Some white folks would rather die than see Black people get anything at all

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Asia’s longest free-flowing river contaminated by arsenic linked to Myanmar mines MAE HONG SON, Thailand — Saw Si Paw Rak Salween guns the wooden fishing boat’s engine and steers along the river that inspired his family name. He is ethnic Karen — his parents migrated from Myanmar’s...

Latest for @mongabay.com dives into the poisoning of the Salween River, Asia's longest free-flowing river. Unregulated mines in Myanmar have seen arsenic contamination reach dangerous levels on the Salween, leaving Indigenous Karen communities with no fish, no water and no solutions from governments

Having been homeless, and having had friends who have been homeless, I can say it is almost entirely an economic issue. Lack of affordable housing, lack of universal basic income. And right now, massive layoffs, industries collapsing. Saying it's a "mental health issue" ignores the actual causes.

But the chemicals batteries are made of are pretty flammable, right? I'm not comparing them to an oil refinery (which is not a warehouse), I'm saying they're possibly more likely to cause a fire than other warehouse types. I noticed there were a lot of those specifically compared to other types

They have managed to make a search function worse than Tumblr's

Yeah exactly. I also wonder if safety standards have dropped under the Trump admin.

The further out branches of the italic/romance languages don't have any labels showing up and the interior ones are often hard to read due to blending. White or grey with a black outline (or vice versa) would help readability!

I have android with Firefox

I'm a bit dubious of the AI claims, the camera is shakier than I would expect and even leaves its subjects at one point. I also feel like AI videos usually aren't that long but I might be missing some obvious tells here!

It might be a bunny deliberately released for the dogs to chase though...

Some people are saying the video might be AI but either way, I love this guy's enthusiasm and joy. What if nature videos were narrated like sports reels instead of by dry British men?

Calm down, computer software isn't making decisions about who lives and who dies in war. It merely processes a ton of data and then makes a recommendation to a human who has no realistic way to verify it

The battery ones feel slightly less likely to be arson since I would imagine those would be particularly flammable and there's so many of those in particular. Unless there's evidence of a coordinated effort to target them I wouldn't take those as evidence of rising warehouse arson cases.

Not that I "expected better" from a Bloomberg opinion piece but that is some impressive spin

Really interesting article- essentially while they might not have the massive trophic cascades that were touted, there are still benefits from wolf reintroduction such as healthy herds and improving bear diets. We should temper our expectations while recognizing that it still has positive effects

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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