Microplastic fiber from a soil sample in Granville OH.

Microplastics in local soils on our SEM.

The success of the orange crop and their frozen concentrate orange juice is no longer of interest to the stock market.

Also the citrus is dying.
Also, everyone wants protein and caffeine for breakfast.
Also Florida is sinking into the ocean
Also there are no workers to pick the fruit.
#AgSky 🍊🍊

One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.

A drawing of the map of the world with painted heads round the edges blowing on the Earth like winds.

It's #EarthDay, This wonderful world map from Cosmographica, 1482 appears in Grylls 2.195 lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/90ed3...

SAME, also as a North Carolinian.

AI is not your sugar daddy.
AI is not your lover.
AI is not your pension.
AI is not your god.
Stop believing people who tell you so.

the flu vaccine was literally invented by the US Department of War during WW2

heritage.umich.edu/stories/the-...

Never underestimate the unifying power of a private equity firm promising to build a thrumming megacomplex and eight giant diesel generators in your backyard for an AI company that has promised to automate everyone's jobs

Apparently Sam Altman also wrote a manifesto (on top of Marc Andreessens a while back). Are there others?
Genuine question: why do we think the tech bros are doing this? Which need does this fulfill for them?

Yep. 18 years ago, yesterday. And still, sometimes, grief finds me.

It remains notable that The Onion — The Onion! — has had a stronger moral compass and more clear set of values in this moment than nearly every powerful and well-funded institution in American life.

1 yr ago I wrote a massive thread on @iea.org huge AI / energy report.

WELL it's one year later and they've released an update, but notably, there is no chatbot. Well....I'm going to read it anyway, and you're all going to get spammed with notes :)

that's means a NEW ULTRATHREAD 🧵

The three stages of life:

1. Too young
2. Too busy
3. Too old

Funny really, in a tragic sense. All those decades in which states that are, in law & practice, structurally misogynist just nodded along with "Whatever..." and it takes the Trumpists to blow their cover.

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Gosford Park
The Godfather

We live in a country where the two most dynamic, charismatic, eloquent politicians of this century have the first names Barack and Zohran. This is what bothers the white supremacists so much.

Can’t help but feel that we are living in an era of overwhelming anti-intellectualism on every front, with AI being the corporate vanguard of this cultural emptiness.

With the growth of algorithmic discrimination based on folks using AI to filter in real world scenarios, a prescient government would implement a Trust but Verify legal doctrine requiring businesses using an AI filters to be able to explain their decisions or lose discrimination cases by default.

Federal policy on biofuels goes from bad to worse under Trump The administration’s lavish biofuel subsidies for farmers are bad for consumers and the planet, but the problem goes way beyond his administration.

Is mandating an increase in the amount of corn and soy we burn in vehicles good for food security? No. Is it good for nature? No. But is it at least good for the climate? Also no. Read the latest from @mikegrunwald.bsky.social 👇🏻

A painting of Lucifer tempting Jesus in the desert. Lucifer is INCREDIBLY naked, dirty, and lurid, rubbing up ons Jesus' robes from behind; his hand is open in offering and is placed in front of Jesus' crotch

I just re-found this painting, which was in a kid's bible I had growing up. I used to obssess over it, and I'm pretty sure seeing Lucifer here was the first time I thought a man was attractive? Over the years I'd think "it couldn't possibly be as horny as I remember it", but I mean come ON

Oof. As an adoptee of the 1980s, this is one I can never forget-or revisit. I had to be carried from theatres twice in sobbing heartbreak: once at ET and again during “Someone’s Waiting for You.”

Just heard an “Adoptees On” podcast interview with Erick Wolfmeyer who said adoption is

1) designed to solve adult problems and

2) is a form of shame management. 🥚

What’s interesting to me is that they still operate in China and pay taxes there. Isn’t the whole “moving jobs offshore” thing a threat they hold over western govts to enable tax evasion?

Park Circle became Park Oracle. Patterson Park became Pattereon Park. Alan Wright Park became something that cannot be pronounced by humans.

tried Photoshop's new upscaler for a map that's getting printed and... it renamed all our streets and parks

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars.

I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

Straight up milking the market

What a terrible day to have sight.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

What I Saw Inside the Kennedy Center I spent 10 months working at the institution because I thought I could help protect it. What I observed there is far worse than the public knows.

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...