Axolotls for democracy. #nokings #saltlakecity

#nokings #saltlakecity

Found a nice resource for feather identification. Cooper's hawk primary feather from our driveway.

AI has no intelligence, it's a marketing term. It has no models to guide and correct its output.

Lori spotted spiderlings creating webs on our deck chair. They have webs extending up into the nearby umbrella from here. They seem quite social, which suprises me. #spider #entomology

You mean the Robber Barons had gold. The Gilded Age sucked for everone else.

AI to the rescue:

Set up for a super Sunday. Fossil prep and podcasts. #paleontology

Apparently you can't or won't read. Source provided including a link to Patel's disclosure statement.

We took a much-needed nature break and went birding yesterday in and near the Great Salt Lake Shorline Preserve. It's depressing to see housing development spread over formerly agricultural habitat. But watching harriers hunt was rejuvenating.

Contrary to bad reporting by the Undisciplined podcast and the Salt Lake Tribune, a couple of wet years didn't fix the GSL ecosystem's precarious existence. The urgency of action remains in the land of development at any cost. www.saveourgreatsaltlake.org/rally

Nasty dark smoke out toward Antelope Island. A mostly clear day here in Salt Lake City.

A small Elrathia kingii trilobite from Utah's Wheeler Shale. This is he most abundant trilobite species in the USA. E. kingii inhabited the boundary between dysoxic (low oxygen) and anoxic bottom waters. E. kingii fossils consistently occur in strata formed in low oxygen levels. #FossilFriday