VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Too big for Europe: America's pickup trucks became a trade war flashpoint - EUROPE SAYS America loves its pickup trucks. The Ford F-150, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500, the Ram 1500: these are not merely vehicles. They are cultural monuments on

The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”

Big loss for folks who use “data” in the plural and then feel like some sort of TED Talk-esque data influencer/savant (me)

Beautiful + functional — I love it

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Fish Madness - Mary Peltola FISH MADNESS FULL SCHEDULE MEET THE FISH 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. FISH MADNESS BRACKET Participate in the madness by filling out your own bracket below! Submissions will ...

March Madness bracket already busted? Good thing there’s FISH MADNESS.

Cast your picks before the tournament begins on Monday:
marypeltola.com/fish-madness

Camera angle of a coach’s wife:
- weird
- only vaguely sports-related
- what are we supposed to be thinking?

Camera angle of a player’s mom:
- heartwarming
- reminds us of the human angle
- gives credit to the people who supported the players

@rspbscotland.bsky.social @rspbaction.bsky.social

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

“The collapse of the AI bubble is going to be ugly…AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector & tech monopolists run amok.“

Read this article by @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy. Whether you agree with it all or not, it’s important.

With Greenland Threats, Trump is Destroying the Western Alliance A point-by-point breakdown of Donald Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre about a Nobel Peace Prize and control of Greenland

Trump demanding control of Greenland—which the US already has access to—is based on multi-layered lies. Threatening NATO allies to get it undermines the Western alliance.

I did a point-by-point breakdown of Trump's aggressive letter to Norwegian Prime Minister Støre about the Nobel and Greenland.

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

You really couldn’t ask for a nicer guy

Greenland could be the moment when EU becomes a geo-economic superpower. It has long had the economic might but lacked the political will. Today’s leaders meeting will be decisive.

Je suis triste de voir la fondation Wikimédia pousser à collaborer avec les enterprises AI qui l'ont déjà cannibalisée

En même temps, la fondation va bénéficier de l'usage de leurs ressources (et peut-être les autres sites web peuvent suivre cet exemple)

La France va participer à une mission militaire européenne au Groenland L'Allemagne aussi doit participer à cette mission, dont l'objectif est de soutenir le territoire menacé d'annexion par les Etats-Unis de Donald Trump.

The French Army just announced that it will be part of the military force that goes to Greenland

Germany is also part of it, on top of Sweden

If the US invades Greenland, it means that two NATO nuclear powers will be fighting against each other

Simultaneously as 🇩🇰 delegation talks 🇬🇱 in Washington D.C., a 🇺🇸 P-8 Poseidon from Keflavik 🇮🇸 flies all Nordic mission, contributing to NATO’s most important task: keeping an eye on and deterring 🇷🇺 in northern Europe.

Omg they’re *so* close to correctly identifying systemic vs random violence

How is 🇬🇧 challenging 🇷🇺 aggression in the Wider North?

Read expert analysis by @klausdodds.bsky.social and
Prof. Caroline Kennedy-Pipe in the full #geopoliticalatlas

🔗 www.geostrategy.org.uk/research/bri...

Woke up with the feeling that 2026 is going to be HUGE for @demsabroad.bsky.social

Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged | CNN Finland has detained a ship and its crew after a critical undersea telecommunication cable connecting the country to Estonia was damaged Wednesday, Finnish authorities said.

“…[T]he ship was seized by special forces police and the coast guard from helicopters. Finland’s President… said that ‘Finland was prepared for security challenges of various kinds.’”

The importance of a Finnish show-of-force in response to infrastructure sabotage probably can’t be overstated…

Incredibly, not one of these milestones scores as a “win” using the traffic engineering metrics that quietly dictate city planning.

Urban planning prof Jonathan Levine and I have one paper detailing why and another explaining why it has to change for any vision of abundance to succeed. Links below.

Review of Wiseman, Frontier Science Military-funded Cold War research in northern Canada advanced defence aims, exploited Indigenous lands and peoples, and shaped misguided southern claims to Arctic expertise.

ICYMI:

"Americans and Britons believed that Canadians were natural experts on the North; Canadian military and civilian officials funded arctic science to make it so." - @tinaadcock.bsky.social

niche-canada.org/2025/12/10/r...

#envhist #histsci #militarhistory #cdnhist #bookreview

Rethinking my DMV experiences and realizing 90% of my interactions (in 3 states) have been good or very good and my only frustrations have been directly attributable to understaffing…

Not sure whether to laugh or cry at the student in this coffee shop using ChatGPT to summarize and write a reflection on a reading titled “Individuality”

[first day as a shepherd]

boss: where are you going?

me: [pointing] star

boss: what? why

me: [shrugging] baby

Different capacity for harm = different obligations

The assumption that pedestrians don’t “do their part” (when being aware of vehicles is the difference between life and death) is mind-boggling. Pedestrians can’t afford to be careless and therefore seldom are, but EVEN SO a hypothetical careless pedestrian generally endangers only their own life!

IMO Polar Fuels Proposal for Arctic Shipping Welcomed by Clean Arctic Alliance The Clean Arctic Alliance welcomes the submission of a proposal (PPR 13-6-1) to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to establish a fuel measure under MARPOL Annex VI to reduce Black Carbon…

🗞️🚢⛽️⚫️❄️ @imohq.bsky.social Polar Fuels Proposal for Arctic Shipping Welcomed by Clean Arctic Alliance

Duluth City Council votes to transfer former golf course land for future housing Despite concerns voiced by some residents claiming a lack of transparency and a flawed public process, the Duluth City Council voted to transfer the closed Lester Park Golf Course property to the city...

Another golf course bites the dust, up in Duluth. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

It would cost the country

n o t h i n g

for the next transpo authorization bill to take discretion away from USDOT to grant permission to pursue cordon pricing.

It’s been proven here, let our cities cook.