Matt Mc
@matty1mac.bsky.social
Work: Sustainability, climate, biosphere, engineering (PhD), innovation
Life: Curiosity, family, music, nature
Life: Curiosity, family, music, nature
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The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
From 007 to Elsa, Vermillio claims it can trace percentage of AI-generated image drawn from pre-existing material
www.theguardian.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The platform exposing exactly how much copyrighted art is used by AI tools
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I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park.
July 22, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I just can’t believe it! My dear dear friend Ozzy has passed away only weeks after our show at Villa Park.
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Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island.
@oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor
In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.
www.science.org
May 8, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Fast-forward 4 years and a ton of research later, and my initial estimate remains the same--we've seen ~0.001% of the deep seafloor, an area approx the same as the size of Rhode Island.
@oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
@oceandiscleague.bsky.social published this work in @science.org Advances today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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CO₂ concentrations are already higher than during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period, 3-3.3 million years ago, when global sea levels were 5 to 25 meters higher than today!
We are in uncharted territory and most people are (kept) completely oblivious.
We are in uncharted territory and most people are (kept) completely oblivious.
April 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
CO₂ concentrations are already higher than during the Mid-Pliocene Warm Period, 3-3.3 million years ago, when global sea levels were 5 to 25 meters higher than today!
We are in uncharted territory and most people are (kept) completely oblivious.
We are in uncharted territory and most people are (kept) completely oblivious.
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📢 Join our team!
IISD Experimental Lakes Area, one of the world's most influential freshwater research facilities, is searching for:
🔹Manager, Educational Programming and Indigenous Relations
🔸Project Manager
Interested? Apply now! iisd.org/mission-and-...
#Hiring #GreenJobs #ClimateJobs
IISD Experimental Lakes Area, one of the world's most influential freshwater research facilities, is searching for:
🔹Manager, Educational Programming and Indigenous Relations
🔸Project Manager
Interested? Apply now! iisd.org/mission-and-...
#Hiring #GreenJobs #ClimateJobs
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
📢 Join our team!
IISD Experimental Lakes Area, one of the world's most influential freshwater research facilities, is searching for:
🔹Manager, Educational Programming and Indigenous Relations
🔸Project Manager
Interested? Apply now! iisd.org/mission-and-...
#Hiring #GreenJobs #ClimateJobs
IISD Experimental Lakes Area, one of the world's most influential freshwater research facilities, is searching for:
🔹Manager, Educational Programming and Indigenous Relations
🔸Project Manager
Interested? Apply now! iisd.org/mission-and-...
#Hiring #GreenJobs #ClimateJobs
The Columbia River feels the ripple of growing US Canada tensions
#USCanada #WaterManagement
globalnews.ca/news/1107739...
#USCanada #WaterManagement
globalnews.ca/news/1107739...
B.C. says U.S. has paused Columbia River Treaty talks amid Trump tensions | Globalnews.ca
British Columbia's Energy Ministry says in a news release that U.S. President Donald Trump's administration 'is conducting a broad review of its international engagement.'
globalnews.ca
March 12, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The Columbia River feels the ripple of growing US Canada tensions
#USCanada #WaterManagement
globalnews.ca/news/1107739...
#USCanada #WaterManagement
globalnews.ca/news/1107739...
My smartwatch just congratulated me on my workout. I had a shower.
March 11, 2025 at 11:06 PM
My smartwatch just congratulated me on my workout. I had a shower.
Meanwhile, the Russian National Anthem replaces the Star Spangled Banner
🇺🇸🇨🇦 Trump says he'd let Canada keep its anthem if it joins the U.S., calling "O Canada" a beautiful song.
“Guess we’ll have to keep it for the 51st state,” he added.
“Guess we’ll have to keep it for the 51st state,” he added.
February 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Meanwhile, the Russian National Anthem replaces the Star Spangled Banner
If Zelenskyy really were a dictator, Trump would be cozying up to him
February 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
If Zelenskyy really were a dictator, Trump would be cozying up to him
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Two studies published yesterday in Nature Climate Change find that Earth has effectively already warmed 1.5°C.
Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously.
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Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously.
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February 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Two studies published yesterday in Nature Climate Change find that Earth has effectively already warmed 1.5°C.
Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously.
1/n
Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously.
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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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🎙️ w/ Tyson Yunkaporta on *Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking.*
Sand Talk‘s impact, wrong canoes, lore vs law, Aboriginal knowledge systems & peer review, art as store of capital vs communal knowledge, how to be a deeply spiritual skeptical atheist, and much more.
Sand Talk‘s impact, wrong canoes, lore vs law, Aboriginal knowledge systems & peer review, art as store of capital vs communal knowledge, how to be a deeply spiritual skeptical atheist, and much more.
EP 282 Tyson Yunkaporta on Indigenous Law, Lore, and Learning - The Jim Rutt Show
Jim talks with Tyson Yunkaporta about the ideas in his new book Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking.
www.jimruttshow.com
February 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🎙️ w/ Tyson Yunkaporta on *Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking.*
Sand Talk‘s impact, wrong canoes, lore vs law, Aboriginal knowledge systems & peer review, art as store of capital vs communal knowledge, how to be a deeply spiritual skeptical atheist, and much more.
Sand Talk‘s impact, wrong canoes, lore vs law, Aboriginal knowledge systems & peer review, art as store of capital vs communal knowledge, how to be a deeply spiritual skeptical atheist, and much more.
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"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
nymag.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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Can a "theory of everything" explain complexity from atoms and molecules to societies? The answer is negative, and even within physics, emergent, irreducible phenomena exist. Check this @pnas.org paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social co-founder David Pines and RB Laughlin pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
January 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Can a "theory of everything" explain complexity from atoms and molecules to societies? The answer is negative, and even within physics, emergent, irreducible phenomena exist. Check this @pnas.org paper by @sfiscience.bsky.social co-founder David Pines and RB Laughlin pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Today, Donald Trump doubled down on his vows to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
www.wired.com
January 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Today, Donald Trump doubled down on his vows to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
Here are some steps you can take to evade it.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
January 21, 2025 at 1:24 AM
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
2024 breaks a global warming threshold while the world's biggest players step back from climate action.
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
Appropriate mix of headlines. Climate change accelerates, while the business world, under pressure from US conservatives, abandons any attempt to stop it
January 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
2024 breaks a global warming threshold while the world's biggest players step back from climate action.
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
In 2016, world leaders met in Paris and pledged to limit global warming to 1.5°C. In 2024, that line was crossed.
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hottest year on record sent planet past 1.5C of heating for first time in 2024
Highest recorded temperatures supercharged extreme weather – with worse to come, EU data shows
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In 2016, world leaders met in Paris and pledged to limit global warming to 1.5°C. In 2024, that line was crossed.
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#ClimateCrisis #ActNow
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Electric vehicle sales are growing globally overall, despite Tesla's recent slump.
Tesla's Annual Sales Dropped for the First Time—but the EV Industry Keeps Growing
Electric vehicle sales are growing globally overall, despite Tesla's recent slump.
www.wired.com
January 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Electric vehicle sales are growing globally overall, despite Tesla's recent slump.
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Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? A paper in Interface Focus takes questions like this out of science fiction and into scientific laws.
santafe.edu/news-center/...
santafe.edu/news-center/...
December 23, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Knowing only the building blocks of our own biosphere, can we predict how life may exist on other planets? A paper in Interface Focus takes questions like this out of science fiction and into scientific laws.
santafe.edu/news-center/...
santafe.edu/news-center/...
The Arctic tundra has flipped: once a carbon sink, now a carbon source—warming, wildfires, and inaction made it happen.
#ClimateCrisis
From NOAA: www.noaa.gov/news-release...
#ClimateCrisis
From NOAA: www.noaa.gov/news-release...
Arctic tundra becoming source of carbon dioxide emissions
2024 Arctic Report Card tracks rapid, complex Arctic change
www.noaa.gov
December 11, 2024 at 12:57 AM
The Arctic tundra has flipped: once a carbon sink, now a carbon source—warming, wildfires, and inaction made it happen.
#ClimateCrisis
From NOAA: www.noaa.gov/news-release...
#ClimateCrisis
From NOAA: www.noaa.gov/news-release...
AI eating AI:
AI models are trained on the web. As AI-generated content takes over the internet, AI learns from its own output. This feedback loop makes it lose touch with reality
Article in Nature by Shumailov et al (open access):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ModelCollapse #ComplexSystems
AI models are trained on the web. As AI-generated content takes over the internet, AI learns from its own output. This feedback loop makes it lose touch with reality
Article in Nature by Shumailov et al (open access):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ModelCollapse #ComplexSystems
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scraping data from the Internet, can lead to a collapse in th...
www.nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:40 PM
AI eating AI:
AI models are trained on the web. As AI-generated content takes over the internet, AI learns from its own output. This feedback loop makes it lose touch with reality
Article in Nature by Shumailov et al (open access):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ModelCollapse #ComplexSystems
AI models are trained on the web. As AI-generated content takes over the internet, AI learns from its own output. This feedback loop makes it lose touch with reality
Article in Nature by Shumailov et al (open access):
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#AI #ModelCollapse #ComplexSystems
“Reducing emissions” has become an industry standard. Phasing out fossil fuels? That’s the message we need. Great WIRED piece on changing the narrative.
#FossilFuelPhaseout #ClimateAction
Worth a read:
www.wired.com/story/fossil...
#FossilFuelPhaseout #ClimateAction
Worth a read:
www.wired.com/story/fossil...
The Fossil Fuels Conversation Needs a Hard Reset
The term “reducing emissions” has outlived its usefulness, a crutch to soften the blow that’s being exploited by greenwashers. Now it’s time to get real.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2024 at 3:43 AM
“Reducing emissions” has become an industry standard. Phasing out fossil fuels? That’s the message we need. Great WIRED piece on changing the narrative.
#FossilFuelPhaseout #ClimateAction
Worth a read:
www.wired.com/story/fossil...
#FossilFuelPhaseout #ClimateAction
Worth a read:
www.wired.com/story/fossil...
Winnipeg. Normally today (Nov 21) the rivers would be frozen, the ground blanketed in snow, water levels higher, and the geese long gone to warmer climes.
November 21, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Winnipeg. Normally today (Nov 21) the rivers would be frozen, the ground blanketed in snow, water levels higher, and the geese long gone to warmer climes.
