Online discourse seems powered less by the exchange of ideas than the constant hunt for conceptual objects that the listener can have and express strong feelings about. Indignation Objects, Rage Objects, and Self-Righteousness Objects seem especially highly valued
Real-world communities formed around geography: complicated, messy, lots of grey areas, people are difficult and will make you feel weird
Online communities formed around feeling self-righteous about the same thing: simple, everyone is on the same side, will constantly validate your feelings
if we want the vibecession to end perhaps we should be focused primarily on reducing the grinding existential dread of the future that even many objectively comfortable and highly-paid people seem to be feeling nowadays - and yeah, i do think there are practical things one could do to improve this.
Diesel prices rise 40-70% with massive impacts on fisheries (since this is a major portion of their costs)
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
MSFT *is* the carbon removal market, so if this is anything more than a brief pause, it's a v. big deal & v. bad news for an already shaky sector.
via @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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They don't know today is Palm Sunday, my Easter is next week YES WE DO YOU TELL EVERYONE
MLK, Jr. on this day in 1967 in his Riverside Church "Beyond Vietnam" speech.
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We are launching a big project today with MIT —
The Electricity Price Hub!
You can view monthly electricity prices per kwh and avg. bills for every major utility in the country going back to Jan 2020.
electricity.heatmap.news
not an answer to your question, but something you might enjoy nonetheless: I am also motivated to learn Spanish, but enjoy picking it up by osmosis, so I really like listening to radio binlingue (I tune to it in the car, but I think there is an online feed, too) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_B...
I’m so sorry this is happening
speaking from an anecdotal post-wildfire reforestation in the western US perspective, my impression is that here we’re struggling to investigate & quantify the impact of grazing on natural regen post-wf. in arid public forests w grazing leases seedlings appear trampled to the detriment of regen
If we were able to understand and face the prevalence of sexual assault (much less harassment, much less discrimination), it would shift these conversations.
And we might stop sweeping these issues aside as evidence of a segregable class of monsters
And approach them as problems we all must solve
The ocean and all who love it lost an inspiring advocate with the passing this week of Tierney Thys. She brought such joy to the work of protecting and restoring our blue planet. This wonderful tribute from Danielle Thys captures her spirit so beautifully: bit.ly/4s4hVq6
"War is mankind's most tragic and stupid folly; to seek or advise its deliberate provocation is a black crime against all men. Though you follow the trade of the warrior, you do so in the spirit of Washington -- not of Genghis Khan. For Americans, only threat to our way of life justifies resort to conflict." Graduation Exercises at the United States Military Academy, 6/3/47 "Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war." Remarks at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 10/19/50 [DDE's Pre-Presidential Papers, Principal File, Box
Was browsing the Eisenhower Library site this morning trying to find a quote I remembered.
President Eisenhower, WW2 military hero:
“In my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war… none has yet explained how war prevents war.”
take care of those shut down babies so they can become big ole trees <3
Ok, awesome, I hope that works out! and if not lmk and I’ll put you in touch with our GM at CalForest.
Where are you, or more importantly, where are the seedlings, Steph? I suspect the closest I could put you in touch with is CalForest in Siskiyou Co.
It remains to be seen if the evidence will stand up in court.
I am mortified to be an American.
I would remiss if I did not adequately amplify @cherylrofer.bsky.social's concise, clear, and unassailable summary of why one of the Trump administration's main rationales for its illegal war is bullshit.
ML for accomplishing marine environmental & biodiversity monitoring that is essentially unfunded and will not happen otherwise is in no way related to LLMs or loss of jobs. This is a (understandable) conflation, and worth addressing, patiently, in good faith.
if there is anyone I trust to parse out the pros and cons of jumping onto bandwaggon terms like AI (because this is what this is about: scicomm), it’s @kakanikatija.bsky.social and the FathomNet team.
we had those in the Southern Sierra last night, too. You’re back and we can share weather now, a sweet thought :)
Community members clashed with ICE agents in downtown Santa Barbara this morning, resulting in the arrest of one man and another man getting pepper sprayed while Santa Barbara High was placed on a hold status.
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This new paper's interesting results indicate a sudden 10-fold increase in lithium at 96 km altitude due to #SpaceX Falcon 9 re-entry debris.
This is now joining further modelling and evidence of impacts on the upper atmosphere - a shared global common we all rely on.
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Honestly how did any of us without family support ever survive graduate school. The grocery rationing remains with me viscerally.
Lemme tell ya, job #6 is just one dam hassle after another.
It is hard to watch NSF bow so easily to their destroyers.
Vannevar Bush formed the NSF out of the US response to the fascists in WWII.
We had a similar reckoning with endocrine disruptors in waterproof and fireproof PPE used in the maritime sector. I participated in an initiative where a bunch of us (women) gave blood to document how much higher our detectable levels were than the general population.