Adam
@beardedenviro.bsky.social
Wannabe Lorax. Michigander. I probably subscribe to your podcast. Learn more about the Michigan PBB Registry here (trust me, you will want to know more): https://sph.emory.edu/pbbregistry/index.html
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A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
November 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A reminder that crypto mining continues to be one of the world's most severe wastes of energy and one of the most shockingly pointless causes of environmental harm
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Like generative ML, you have to burn more energy for every new dollar of profit. Death spiral ensues
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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There has never been a clearer signal that America is not a country, it's just a business. And that there are no red lines when there is enough money on the line.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
There has never been a clearer signal that America is not a country, it's just a business. And that there are no red lines when there is enough money on the line.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
End-stage capitalism knows no bounds in its pursuit and sycophantic courting of power and wealth.
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This is a depressing roundup
Does this answer a few of those niggling questions that have been cropping up in your head too …?
@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
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@wanderinggaia.bsky.social
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How the rich world is fortifying itself against climate migration
Climate change is already linked to mass deportation – and the worst is still to come.
theconversation.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is a depressing roundup
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Fans of possibly-not-cursed garbage can clown heads, your ship has come in!
North Mankato is auctioning off a lot of five not-at-all-cursed garbage can clown heads via Minnesota's state auction site. mnbid.mn.gov/productView/10964mnbid.mn.gov/productView/10964
November 18, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Fans of possibly-not-cursed garbage can clown heads, your ship has come in!
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If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.
BREAKING: Deputy White House Chief of Staff James Blair said the administration is eyeing ways to give millions of Americans $2,000 dividend checks from tariff revenue without congressional approval, per Bloomberg.
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.
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Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!
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If you're anywhere near Ypsilanti on Tuesday, November 25, GO TO THE GAME!
All tickets are $5, and if you get there early enough, you get a limited edition MACcoon scarf!
All tickets are $5, and if you get there early enough, you get a limited edition MACcoon scarf!
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
If you're anywhere near Ypsilanti on Tuesday, November 25, GO TO THE GAME!
All tickets are $5, and if you get there early enough, you get a limited edition MACcoon scarf!
All tickets are $5, and if you get there early enough, you get a limited edition MACcoon scarf!
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It might lead one to suspect that being ICE had previously gotten him out of charges
Sounds like he thought he had a get out of jail free card on the underage sex charge since he was ICE www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
It might lead one to suspect that being ICE had previously gotten him out of charges
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
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Phrenology but make it digital. Cool.
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Phrenology but make it digital. Cool.
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
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The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking
NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House.
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking
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This is metro Detroit, right across 696 from the Detroit Zoo
I pulled the video from Facebook to post it directly on here. (Thanks to @grenadine.bsky.social for posting the Facebook link!)
Border Patrol abducted someone after apparently tasing them in the street at the corner of 10 Mile (eastbound I-696 service drive) and Roanoke in Oak Park, Michigan.
Border Patrol abducted someone after apparently tasing them in the street at the corner of 10 Mile (eastbound I-696 service drive) and Roanoke in Oak Park, Michigan.
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This is metro Detroit, right across 696 from the Detroit Zoo
I, for one, would be delighted to see U of M be the perennial MAC Champions
Michigan football leaving the Big Ten? If private equity deal goes through, it's possible
Michigan football leaving the Big Ten? If private equity deal goes through, it's possible
"That would be the end of Michigan, as far as I can see, in the Big Ten Conference," Board of Regents member Jordan Acker said Monday on SiriusXM.
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November 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I, for one, would be delighted to see U of M be the perennial MAC Champions
The threat of a economic crash from A.I. over investment has me believing our leaders are all Henry Winkler's Dr. Saperstein in Parks & Rec and the tech companies are Jenny Slate's Mona Lisa Saperstein (his daughter).
Just endless, hands extended, increasingly insistent cries of "MONEEEY PLEEASE!!"
Just endless, hands extended, increasingly insistent cries of "MONEEEY PLEEASE!!"
a woman in a denim jacket is standing next to a man in a suit and tie in a living room .
Alt: Scene from the show Parks & Recreation where the character Mona Lisa Saperstein, a dark haired woman in a denim jacket played by Jenny Slate, is standing next to the character and father in the show, Dr. Saperstein, a man in a suit and tie played by Henry Winkler. Mona Lisa is extending out her arms and, while the text dialogue on the GIF says "Money Pweeeeaaaasse," her hands are opening and closing to demand money from Adam Scott's character Ben Wyatt who is out of frame in the clip
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November 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The threat of a economic crash from A.I. over investment has me believing our leaders are all Henry Winkler's Dr. Saperstein in Parks & Rec and the tech companies are Jenny Slate's Mona Lisa Saperstein (his daughter).
Just endless, hands extended, increasingly insistent cries of "MONEEEY PLEEASE!!"
Just endless, hands extended, increasingly insistent cries of "MONEEEY PLEEASE!!"
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This is headline whiplash.
November 18, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is headline whiplash.
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job data expectations: very demure
* WHITE HOUSE ECONOMIC ADVISER HASSETT: THERE COULD BE A LITTLE BIT OF ALMOST QUIET TIME IN THE LABOR MARKET
@reuters.com #QuietTime
@reuters.com #QuietTime
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
job data expectations: very demure
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Squirrel is mapping out all the Hawk-proof spots this morning
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Squirrel is mapping out all the Hawk-proof spots this morning
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" ... any precious items or money left by these individuals in the depository were transferred quarterly to a specific account at the SS Main Administrative and Economic Office. Eventually, all these valuable items were deposited in the Reich Bank and became the property of the German state."
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
" ... any precious items or money left by these individuals in the depository were transferred quarterly to a specific account at the SS Main Administrative and Economic Office. Eventually, all these valuable items were deposited in the Reich Bank and became the property of the German state."
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I guess Thiel's New Zealand bunker is complete.
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I guess Thiel's New Zealand bunker is complete.
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Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Dems: Mamdani is too radical for our taste. Plus someone said he's antisemitic. And that name is scary to us! We need to keep him out.
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
Dems, 1 week later: Look lots of people have tattoos like that
Dems, 2 weeks later: Marjorie Taylor Greene, welcome to the Tent
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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How climate change is altering
"The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem."
www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
"The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem."
www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
Mixing Is the Heartbeat of Deep Lakes. At Crater Lake, It’s Slowing Down. | Quanta Magazine
The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 16, 2025 at 1:49 PM
How climate change is altering
"The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem."
www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
"The physics of mixing water layers — an interplay of wind, climate and more — makes lakes work. When it stops, impacts can ripple across an ecosystem."
www.quantamagazine.org/mixing-is-th...
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THE SHITBIRD WHO WROTE THAT LOST NEW YORK PIECE IS YOUNGER THAN ME
Shawn McCreesh, who wrote today's misty water-colored nostalgia story about Jeffrey Epstein's "Lost New York" at NYT, told St. John's j-school students last year that journalism is great because “It gives you this all-access pass to interact with these people we would otherwise never come across.”
Shawn McCreesh ’15 Shares His Journey to The New York Times
The St. John’s University Division of Mass Communication held a virtual panel featuring New York Times political feature writer and St. John’s alumnus, Shawn McCreesh, as part of the Journalist Series...
www.torchonline.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
THE SHITBIRD WHO WROTE THAT LOST NEW YORK PIECE IS YOUNGER THAN ME