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Happy Year of the Horse everyone! 🐎🧧
新年快樂，心想事成！祝大家今年步步高陞,龍馬精神，萬馬奔騰，萬事如意！
Tricky time finding a suitably "horse-y" invertebrate for y'all, but the Saddleback Catterpillar (𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘢 - photo by Mathew Orwat) is pretty close imo! 🏇
#LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse #ChineseNewYear #春節 #Bugsky
新年快樂，心想事成！祝大家今年步步高陞,龍馬精神，萬馬奔騰，萬事如意！
Tricky time finding a suitably "horse-y" invertebrate for y'all, but the Saddleback Catterpillar (𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘢 - photo by Mathew Orwat) is pretty close imo! 🏇
#LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse #ChineseNewYear #春節 #Bugsky
February 17, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Happy Year of the Horse everyone! 🐎🧧
新年快樂，心想事成！祝大家今年步步高陞,龍馬精神，萬馬奔騰，萬事如意！
Tricky time finding a suitably "horse-y" invertebrate for y'all, but the Saddleback Catterpillar (𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘢 - photo by Mathew Orwat) is pretty close imo! 🏇
#LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse #ChineseNewYear #春節 #Bugsky
新年快樂，心想事成！祝大家今年步步高陞,龍馬精神，萬馬奔騰，萬事如意！
Tricky time finding a suitably "horse-y" invertebrate for y'all, but the Saddleback Catterpillar (𝘈𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘢 - photo by Mathew Orwat) is pretty close imo! 🏇
#LunarNewYear #YearoftheHorse #ChineseNewYear #春節 #Bugsky
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It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
February 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life
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It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.
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Acalypta parvula, a 2mm lacebug commonly found in moss. This one seen on the wildlife group's Wednesday jaunt to north-west Shropshire last week.
February 15, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Acalypta parvula, a 2mm lacebug commonly found in moss. This one seen on the wildlife group's Wednesday jaunt to north-west Shropshire last week.
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On the last weekend before Mardi Gras, the Crescent City Connection presents the music of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans. Won't Bow Down! Today at 10am eastern on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Radio stream.
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161266
@wfmu.bsky.social / @wfmurocknsoulradio.bsky.social /#WFMU
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161266
@wfmu.bsky.social / @wfmurocknsoulradio.bsky.social /#WFMU
Won't Bow Down - Music of the Mardi Gras Indians : The Crescent City Connection with Jason Isaac
Audio & playlist from February 14, 2026
wfmu.org
February 14, 2026 at 2:41 PM
On the last weekend before Mardi Gras, the Crescent City Connection presents the music of the Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans. Won't Bow Down! Today at 10am eastern on WFMU's Rock'n'Soul Radio stream.
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161266
@wfmu.bsky.social / @wfmurocknsoulradio.bsky.social /#WFMU
wfmu.org/playlists/shows/161266
@wfmu.bsky.social / @wfmurocknsoulradio.bsky.social /#WFMU
Some limbs fell off the top of the standing dead tree out back, seemed worth getting the emergence chamber going.
#Coleoptera
#Coleoptera
February 13, 2026 at 10:14 PM
Some limbs fell off the top of the standing dead tree out back, seemed worth getting the emergence chamber going.
#Coleoptera
#Coleoptera
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Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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“…thermal images captured by Floodlight – and analyzed by multiple experts – show more than a dozen unpermitted turbines still spewing pollutants at the plant nearly two weeks after the EPA’s recent ruling.”
‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations
Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:22 PM
“…thermal images captured by Floodlight – and analyzed by multiple experts – show more than a dozen unpermitted turbines still spewing pollutants at the plant nearly two weeks after the EPA’s recent ruling.”
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Today (25 years later!) you can put a thing in your pocket that can access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
Now that's called progress!
Now that's called progress!
Did you know you can put your entire music collection into your pocket?! ikr
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Today (25 years later!) you can put a thing in your pocket that can access your entire music collection that's stored in a datacenter the size of several city blocks and you must pay rent to your cell phone provider and to your music datacenter landlord to access it!
Now that's called progress!
Now that's called progress!
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Disaster capitalism.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Disaster capitalism.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns…”
Reposted by Curt H
it is an active choice by the press to frame this overt white supremacist (who literally just bought an autocratic government and killed hundreds of thousands of people) as a serious and credible person making serious and credible promises
February 11, 2026 at 3:32 PM
it is an active choice by the press to frame this overt white supremacist (who literally just bought an autocratic government and killed hundreds of thousands of people) as a serious and credible person making serious and credible promises
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Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either.
Ex-Google exec says degrees in law and medicine are a waste of time because they take so long to complete that AI will catch up by graduation | Fortune
“Higher education as we know it is on the verge of becoming obsolete,” the former Google AI leader told Fortune.
fortune.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either.
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everyone with an IQ above paste could have predicted this would happen: anyway; these Meta glasses are ontologically evil and anyone who wears them is a creeping blood-worm who should be chased from society with stones and sharp sticks
Social media is awash with videos of men filming themselves approaching women in public spaces and attempting to flirt. In many cases, the videos are filmed and uploaded without the women’s consent. https://cnn.it/4qtIsvB
February 11, 2026 at 1:01 AM
everyone with an IQ above paste could have predicted this would happen: anyway; these Meta glasses are ontologically evil and anyone who wears them is a creeping blood-worm who should be chased from society with stones and sharp sticks
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Two things you need to understand about our growing surveillance state:
1 - You're treated as a suspect. Tracked everywhere you go, 24 hours a day.
2 - If you're falsely accused by the state (and its AI), it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to clear yourself.
This is your life, starting now.
1 - You're treated as a suspect. Tracked everywhere you go, 24 hours a day.
2 - If you're falsely accused by the state (and its AI), it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to clear yourself.
This is your life, starting now.
“‘One of the reasons I was angry was because I shouldn’t have to prove I am innocent,’ Rajah said. ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I’m wrongly identified as a criminal.’ He described the incident as feeling ‘quite like Minority Report, Orwellian’”.
‘Orwellian’: Sainsbury’s staff using facial recognition tech eject innocent shopper
Man misidentified by London supermarket using Facewatch system says: ‘I shouldn’t have to prove I am not a criminal’
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:10 PM
Two things you need to understand about our growing surveillance state:
1 - You're treated as a suspect. Tracked everywhere you go, 24 hours a day.
2 - If you're falsely accused by the state (and its AI), it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to clear yourself.
This is your life, starting now.
1 - You're treated as a suspect. Tracked everywhere you go, 24 hours a day.
2 - If you're falsely accused by the state (and its AI), it's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY to clear yourself.
This is your life, starting now.
Reposted by Curt H
Solar and wind power eclipse coal and gas for first time in EU www.courthousenews.com/solar-and-wi...
Solar and wind power eclipse coal and gas for first time in EU
A phase-out of coal-fired power plants and green energy policies saw Europe on its way to
www.courthousenews.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Solar and wind power eclipse coal and gas for first time in EU www.courthousenews.com/solar-and-wi...
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Apropos of nothing, here are four of the most festive Puerto Rican beetles I processed today
February 9, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Apropos of nothing, here are four of the most festive Puerto Rican beetles I processed today
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Paederinae, amongst the most colourful of British Staphylinidae. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera #Beetles
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Paederinae, amongst the most colourful of British Staphylinidae. #Staphylinidae #Coleoptera #Beetles
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A long time in preparation, the 'big monograph' from my sabbatical last year is finally submitted. These beauties (and about ~350 more) will soon be known to the world!
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 PM
A long time in preparation, the 'big monograph' from my sabbatical last year is finally submitted. These beauties (and about ~350 more) will soon be known to the world!
Reposted by Curt H
The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.
This was a little over a year ago
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.
Reposted by Curt H
Turning Point USA Halftime Show Opens With Snake-Handling Preacher
February 9, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Turning Point USA Halftime Show Opens With Snake-Handling Preacher
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Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.
I think I'm finally gonna bite the bullet and pay almost as much as this book cost to have it properly bound. It broke almost immediately, so I've been living with it like this for almost 7 years. Definitely avoid buying hardcover Springer books, they suck.
#Aleocharines
#Aleocharines
February 8, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I think I'm finally gonna bite the bullet and pay almost as much as this book cost to have it properly bound. It broke almost immediately, so I've been living with it like this for almost 7 years. Definitely avoid buying hardcover Springer books, they suck.
#Aleocharines
#Aleocharines
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Like my only feeling trying to buy something on Amazon is that I’m under psychic attack.
February 7, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Like my only feeling trying to buy something on Amazon is that I’m under psychic attack.