Jason Cotton
@jsncttn.bsky.social
Geoscientist / Data Scientist. Carbon-based lifeform that lives by absorbing trimethylxanthine from the environment.
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Is it possible to build a better internet? Patreon’s CEO, Jack Conte, thinks so. He outlined his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.
Is it possible to build a better internet? Patreon’s CEO, Jack Conte, thinks so. He outlined his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.
Opinion | Patreon’s C.E.O.: My Vision for a Better Internet
The internet should enrich people, not advertisers.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 4:40 AM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Is it possible to build a better internet? Patreon’s CEO, Jack Conte, thinks so. He outlined his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.
Is it possible to build a better internet? Patreon’s CEO, Jack Conte, thinks so. He outlined his vision for an internet that puts people, not ad revenues, first.
I'm fighting the urge to post signs over the urinals at work that say, "I don't know who you are, but you're not standing close enough."
September 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm fighting the urge to post signs over the urinals at work that say, "I don't know who you are, but you're not standing close enough."
It is absolutely, mind-bogglingly exhausting trying to figure out how I'm going to teach a GIS/Data Science course this semester with a @#$%& administration that doesn't believe in data or science deleting and/or refusing to maintain every Federal dataset they can lay their grubby little hands on.
August 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
It is absolutely, mind-bogglingly exhausting trying to figure out how I'm going to teach a GIS/Data Science course this semester with a @#$%& administration that doesn't believe in data or science deleting and/or refusing to maintain every Federal dataset they can lay their grubby little hands on.
This is the dumbest timeline. I thought them destroying the Orbiting Carbon Observatories was misguided, but this on top of it? It's the plan. You stop measuring and studying carbon and global warming, then you can claim anything without having to worry about pesky scientific data contradicting you.
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This is the dumbest timeline. I thought them destroying the Orbiting Carbon Observatories was misguided, but this on top of it? It's the plan. You stop measuring and studying carbon and global warming, then you can claim anything without having to worry about pesky scientific data contradicting you.
Confession: Whenever I leave the house I sing a little song to myself to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell", except my lyrics are "Keys, Wallet, Phone".
August 7, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Confession: Whenever I leave the house I sing a little song to myself to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell", except my lyrics are "Keys, Wallet, Phone".
Basically, the order allows the administration to suppress, ignore, and/or punish findings that don't align with their agenda.
Because when you suppress science to the point where there's no data left to prove a thing, you can claim anything.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Because when you suppress science to the point where there's no data left to prove a thing, you can claim anything.
www.science.org/content/arti...
What does Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ really mean?
Critics worry new executive order allows political appointees to determine how science is used in policy decisions
www.science.org
May 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Basically, the order allows the administration to suppress, ignore, and/or punish findings that don't align with their agenda.
Because when you suppress science to the point where there's no data left to prove a thing, you can claim anything.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Because when you suppress science to the point where there's no data left to prove a thing, you can claim anything.
www.science.org/content/arti...
I'm having a heck of a time teaching data science with Federal data sites just disappearing into the void. I'm worried how I'll teach next semester... data is just vanishing and no longer being maintained. I'm worried we're entering an information dark age. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I'm having a heck of a time teaching data science with Federal data sites just disappearing into the void. I'm worried how I'll teach next semester... data is just vanishing and no longer being maintained. I'm worried we're entering an information dark age. www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Ok, Americans on Bluesky. Today you must choose one or the other.
February 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ok, Americans on Bluesky. Today you must choose one or the other.
This cycle has recurred multiple times in my professional career:
1) Apply/pursue a position.
2) Get told I'm not qualified.
3) Immediately get asked to do that job out-of-class and/or get asked to train/assist the person selected.
I'm tired. I'm not doing this anymore. They can sink or swim.
1) Apply/pursue a position.
2) Get told I'm not qualified.
3) Immediately get asked to do that job out-of-class and/or get asked to train/assist the person selected.
I'm tired. I'm not doing this anymore. They can sink or swim.
February 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This cycle has recurred multiple times in my professional career:
1) Apply/pursue a position.
2) Get told I'm not qualified.
3) Immediately get asked to do that job out-of-class and/or get asked to train/assist the person selected.
I'm tired. I'm not doing this anymore. They can sink or swim.
1) Apply/pursue a position.
2) Get told I'm not qualified.
3) Immediately get asked to do that job out-of-class and/or get asked to train/assist the person selected.
I'm tired. I'm not doing this anymore. They can sink or swim.
*grumble grumble* Stupid groundhog.
February 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
*grumble grumble* Stupid groundhog.
Add this to the list of things I'll never understand:
People having a loud phone conversation... in public... on a speakerphone... in a public restroom.
People having a loud phone conversation... in public... on a speakerphone... in a public restroom.
January 28, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Add this to the list of things I'll never understand:
People having a loud phone conversation... in public... on a speakerphone... in a public restroom.
People having a loud phone conversation... in public... on a speakerphone... in a public restroom.
Yesterday: Notice of Federal hiring freeze went out to the public.
Today: I receive several "no longer being considered" emails from USAJobs.
I feel like I've dodged a bullet here...
Today: I receive several "no longer being considered" emails from USAJobs.
I feel like I've dodged a bullet here...
January 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Yesterday: Notice of Federal hiring freeze went out to the public.
Today: I receive several "no longer being considered" emails from USAJobs.
I feel like I've dodged a bullet here...
Today: I receive several "no longer being considered" emails from USAJobs.
I feel like I've dodged a bullet here...
**family working together to put grocery order away**
ME: *shouts* "Son, where are you?"
SON: *shouts back* "Hiding in my room, goofing off!"
ME: *shouts* "Son, where are you?"
SON: *shouts back* "Hiding in my room, goofing off!"
January 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
**family working together to put grocery order away**
ME: *shouts* "Son, where are you?"
SON: *shouts back* "Hiding in my room, goofing off!"
ME: *shouts* "Son, where are you?"
SON: *shouts back* "Hiding in my room, goofing off!"
What makes me angry: A row of handicapped parking filled with cars without placards.
What fills me with joy: Watching parking enforcement roll through and leaving them all with $250 tickets.
What fills me with joy: Watching parking enforcement roll through and leaving them all with $250 tickets.
January 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
What makes me angry: A row of handicapped parking filled with cars without placards.
What fills me with joy: Watching parking enforcement roll through and leaving them all with $250 tickets.
What fills me with joy: Watching parking enforcement roll through and leaving them all with $250 tickets.
I never realized before how good the words "Scruffy-Looking Nerf Herder" work when sung to the tune of the William Tell Overture.
November 20, 2024 at 12:13 AM
I never realized before how good the words "Scruffy-Looking Nerf Herder" work when sung to the tune of the William Tell Overture.
Students did presentations today. One thought he understood the assignment and flexed his heavy Gen Z slang, finna be extra and make theirs hit different. Dude thought he was deadass based... but I was lowkey shook, not gonna lie. It's giving unprofessional and now living rent free in my head. Oof.
November 7, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Students did presentations today. One thought he understood the assignment and flexed his heavy Gen Z slang, finna be extra and make theirs hit different. Dude thought he was deadass based... but I was lowkey shook, not gonna lie. It's giving unprofessional and now living rent free in my head. Oof.
Overwhelmed with life. I want to run screaming into the woods never to be seen again, but unfortunately I don't have the time or any woods nearby. I'd have to drive for two hours just to get to some woods to run screaming into.
Alexa, schedule a reminder to run screaming into woods tomorrow, 2pm.
Alexa, schedule a reminder to run screaming into woods tomorrow, 2pm.
October 18, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Overwhelmed with life. I want to run screaming into the woods never to be seen again, but unfortunately I don't have the time or any woods nearby. I'd have to drive for two hours just to get to some woods to run screaming into.
Alexa, schedule a reminder to run screaming into woods tomorrow, 2pm.
Alexa, schedule a reminder to run screaming into woods tomorrow, 2pm.
I'd just like to say making the entire house smell like freshly baked cookies only to leave a potential cookie seeker to discover there are no cookies, just a lit candle, is not cool man. Phantom cookies are not cool... 😢
September 2, 2024 at 4:02 AM
I'd just like to say making the entire house smell like freshly baked cookies only to leave a potential cookie seeker to discover there are no cookies, just a lit candle, is not cool man. Phantom cookies are not cool... 😢
I finally saw the Aurora last night...
May 14, 2024 at 7:26 PM
I finally saw the Aurora last night...
I try the best I can to not judge other people... but I feel conspicuously overdressed for this particular Walmart.
May 9, 2024 at 1:15 AM
I try the best I can to not judge other people... but I feel conspicuously overdressed for this particular Walmart.
In retrospect, I'm finding that a good chunk of my professional career has been 1) pleading with an MBA to not do a thing and 2) cleaning up the aftermath of their decision.
February 9, 2024 at 9:36 PM
In retrospect, I'm finding that a good chunk of my professional career has been 1) pleading with an MBA to not do a thing and 2) cleaning up the aftermath of their decision.
Hey SoCal friends. Your friendly neighborhood Geologist here. Some of you are posting "earthquake foreshock" warnings. The guy that hosts the website you're using is neither a meteorologist or a geologist. No one can predict earthquakes 3 days in advance, not even a "gifted weather savant". Thanks.
January 6, 2024 at 1:03 AM
Hey SoCal friends. Your friendly neighborhood Geologist here. Some of you are posting "earthquake foreshock" warnings. The guy that hosts the website you're using is neither a meteorologist or a geologist. No one can predict earthquakes 3 days in advance, not even a "gifted weather savant". Thanks.
My wife said she needs to finish rapping today. I'm laying down a pretty sick beatbox rhythm to help, but she doesn't seem impressed.
December 16, 2023 at 9:38 PM
My wife said she needs to finish rapping today. I'm laying down a pretty sick beatbox rhythm to help, but she doesn't seem impressed.
Migrating myself back onto Firefox this weekend. Google's choices with adblockers and Chrome the past year have been increasingly irritating me and I'm getting tired their crap. Switching was surprisingly easy. Other than the speed increase and lower RAM usage, I can't really tell the difference.
November 25, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Migrating myself back onto Firefox this weekend. Google's choices with adblockers and Chrome the past year have been increasingly irritating me and I'm getting tired their crap. Switching was surprisingly easy. Other than the speed increase and lower RAM usage, I can't really tell the difference.