Coldness Embrace
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College dropout.
Math and science enthusiast.
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Math and science enthusiast.
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Under my regime, the tech industry must have all new technologies approved by a citizen jury who assess 1) what problem the tech is attempting to address and 2) whether it actually addresses it
December 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Under my regime, the tech industry must have all new technologies approved by a citizen jury who assess 1) what problem the tech is attempting to address and 2) whether it actually addresses it
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I largely agree with this article. While AI is now part of my workflow and it has improved my work in some ways, it also caused me trouble in that it suggested things that put my in endless spirals of uncertainty and wasted time.
A good new tool in my armamentarium.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/d...
A good new tool in my armamentarium.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/d...
Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
“AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite” lead to more debugging work.
arstechnica.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:18 AM
I largely agree with this article. While AI is now part of my workflow and it has improved my work in some ways, it also caused me trouble in that it suggested things that put my in endless spirals of uncertainty and wasted time.
A good new tool in my armamentarium.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/d...
A good new tool in my armamentarium.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/d...
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This looks quite interesting ......
May 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This looks quite interesting ......
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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Not only could it, it should. In fact, how about two.
Could a Train From Boston to D.C. Take Four Hours Instead of Eight?
It’s called takt, and it is as German as it sounds.
slate.com
May 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Not only could it, it should. In fact, how about two.
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It's time we get our collective global heads out of the sand and get going on decarbonization.
❄️🧪
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s...
❄️🧪
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s...
CO₂ Surged Last Year, but the Trump Administration Has Downplayed the Alarming Data
Under the Trump administration, NOAA has minimized an announcement that climate-warming carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere grew at a record-breaking speed in 2024
www.scientificamerican.com
April 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
It's time we get our collective global heads out of the sand and get going on decarbonization.
❄️🧪
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s...
❄️🧪
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#geosky
#ClimateHealth
#ClimateAction
www.scientificamerican.com/article/co-s...
This gave me the urge to mix dirt with boiling water; just to see what happens.
“You are familiar with the dirt you dig in the backyard? Sometimes it must be boiled and drank.”
April 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This gave me the urge to mix dirt with boiling water; just to see what happens.
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Well, this is horrifying.
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Well, this is horrifying.
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don't buy smart devices. if it has an app it will eventually lose functionality.
The Internet of Things ended up being the internet of unsupported products.
Google is ending support for 1st & 2nd generation Nests and completely pulling out of Europe.
Imagine having to replace the thermostats in your home because of a reorg at some big tech meant it was no longer a priority.
Google is ending support for 1st & 2nd generation Nests and completely pulling out of Europe.
Imagine having to replace the thermostats in your home because of a reorg at some big tech meant it was no longer a priority.
Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats
No more controlling these “smart” thermostats from a phone.
www.theverge.com
April 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
don't buy smart devices. if it has an app it will eventually lose functionality.
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“Vocal scientists at the University of Utah are now bringing death metal singers into the lab to try to understand how they make their extreme vocalizations.”
#scicomm
#music
#vocalorgan
#growls
#deathmetal
www.sciencefriday.com/articles/dea...
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#scicomm
#music
#vocalorgan
#growls
#deathmetal
www.sciencefriday.com/articles/dea...
🧪 🗣️ 🎶
Meet The Death Metal Singers Changing Vocal Health Research
With cameras down their throats, metal singers show how they produce growls, screams, and squeals without damaging their vocal tissues.
www.sciencefriday.com
April 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
“Vocal scientists at the University of Utah are now bringing death metal singers into the lab to try to understand how they make their extreme vocalizations.”
#scicomm
#music
#vocalorgan
#growls
#deathmetal
www.sciencefriday.com/articles/dea...
🧪 🗣️ 🎶
#scicomm
#music
#vocalorgan
#growls
#deathmetal
www.sciencefriday.com/articles/dea...
🧪 🗣️ 🎶
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We think we have discovered a "feature" of LLMs that will cause havoc for taxonomists and nomenclature people. They are likely to pollute the literature and databases with hallucinated junk names. 🧪 #botany #taxonomy #systematics #nomenclature #biodiversity
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40107
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40107
Will generative AI lead to the zombie name apocalypse?
An online discussion about exchanging seeds of a new species called Meconopsis jiajinshanensis led to the Chinese botanical website iplant.cn and the page for Meconopsis balangensis var. atrata.
...
stories.rbge.org.uk
April 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
We think we have discovered a "feature" of LLMs that will cause havoc for taxonomists and nomenclature people. They are likely to pollute the literature and databases with hallucinated junk names. 🧪 #botany #taxonomy #systematics #nomenclature #biodiversity
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40107
stories.rbge.org.uk/archives/40107
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i hate this take so much.
"billionaires are just first, the price will go down and soon we can all destroy the planet for 11 minutes in space"
so stupid.
"billionaires are just first, the price will go down and soon we can all destroy the planet for 11 minutes in space"
so stupid.
April 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
i hate this take so much.
"billionaires are just first, the price will go down and soon we can all destroy the planet for 11 minutes in space"
so stupid.
"billionaires are just first, the price will go down and soon we can all destroy the planet for 11 minutes in space"
so stupid.
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Polarization doesn’t poison the wells of information. On the contrary, a study showed politically diverse editor teams on Wikipedia put out better entries—articles with higher accuracy or completeness. 🧪
Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds
A lesson in how to break out of filter bubbles.
nautil.us
April 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Polarization doesn’t poison the wells of information. On the contrary, a study showed politically diverse editor teams on Wikipedia put out better entries—articles with higher accuracy or completeness. 🧪
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A lot of modern conservation discourse appears to be coining a term for something that people have already been doing for decades (in this case centuries) and then arguing for it it in some kind of false dichotomy.
It's lazy and it's boring.
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It's lazy and it's boring.
🌏🧪
April 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
A lot of modern conservation discourse appears to be coining a term for something that people have already been doing for decades (in this case centuries) and then arguing for it it in some kind of false dichotomy.
It's lazy and it's boring.
🌏🧪
It's lazy and it's boring.
🌏🧪
We are in the middle of autumn, why does it feels like spring? Oh well, we'll never know...
April 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
We are in the middle of autumn, why does it feels like spring? Oh well, we'll never know...
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𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗶𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻? 🦠🧪🧬🧠
Around 5-8% of your genetic code is actually viral DNA, inherited from ancient viruses that infected our ancestors. These viral bits have stuck with us through evolution, playing surprising roles in our biology today!
#Genetics #Science
Around 5-8% of your genetic code is actually viral DNA, inherited from ancient viruses that infected our ancestors. These viral bits have stuck with us through evolution, playing surprising roles in our biology today!
#Genetics #Science
April 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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fwiw many people live in cities or rental/apartment situations where they don't have an outlet near their parking spot
March 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
fwiw many people live in cities or rental/apartment situations where they don't have an outlet near their parking spot
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The fresh horror btw: the US is becoming a net importer of food.
Which is wild, because the US has probably the most high-quality farmland per person of any country on the planet. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE FOLKS???
www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...
Which is wild, because the US has probably the most high-quality farmland per person of any country on the planet. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE FOLKS???
www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...
March 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The fresh horror btw: the US is becoming a net importer of food.
Which is wild, because the US has probably the most high-quality farmland per person of any country on the planet. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE FOLKS???
www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...
Which is wild, because the US has probably the most high-quality farmland per person of any country on the planet. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE FOLKS???
www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...
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OK, gonna try this again.
Apropos of a weird thing that happened yesterday, when you are curious about something exercise your own agency first. You are empowered to pull on that thread before you ask a stranger on the internet for an opinion.
Asking for opinions is not research.
Apropos of a weird thing that happened yesterday, when you are curious about something exercise your own agency first. You are empowered to pull on that thread before you ask a stranger on the internet for an opinion.
Asking for opinions is not research.
March 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
OK, gonna try this again.
Apropos of a weird thing that happened yesterday, when you are curious about something exercise your own agency first. You are empowered to pull on that thread before you ask a stranger on the internet for an opinion.
Asking for opinions is not research.
Apropos of a weird thing that happened yesterday, when you are curious about something exercise your own agency first. You are empowered to pull on that thread before you ask a stranger on the internet for an opinion.
Asking for opinions is not research.
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Last Friday , more than half year worth of rainfall came down in just few hours in #BahiaBlanca (Argentina).
A once in a century (or more) storm that caused major urban destruction and loss of lives.
Here the view of before and after of flooded area in the region.
Last Friday , more than half year worth of rainfall came down in just few hours in #BahiaBlanca (Argentina).
A once in a century (or more) storm that caused major urban destruction and loss of lives.
Here the view of before and after of flooded area in the region.
March 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
🛰️
Last Friday , more than half year worth of rainfall came down in just few hours in #BahiaBlanca (Argentina).
A once in a century (or more) storm that caused major urban destruction and loss of lives.
Here the view of before and after of flooded area in the region.
Last Friday , more than half year worth of rainfall came down in just few hours in #BahiaBlanca (Argentina).
A once in a century (or more) storm that caused major urban destruction and loss of lives.
Here the view of before and after of flooded area in the region.
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One thing that the general public is not that aware of re: Tesla is that *they do not manufacture their own battery cells*
They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic.
A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.
They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic.
A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.
March 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One thing that the general public is not that aware of re: Tesla is that *they do not manufacture their own battery cells*
They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic.
A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.
They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic.
A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.
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What’s happening beneath Patagonia’s changing landscape?
The Patagonian drylands’ native willows are being pushed out by invasive non-native ones—but how do #fungi fit into this story?
@nahpo.bsky.social a SPUN Underground Explorer, is digging into this mystery.👇📹
@martin-nunez.bsky.social
The Patagonian drylands’ native willows are being pushed out by invasive non-native ones—but how do #fungi fit into this story?
@nahpo.bsky.social a SPUN Underground Explorer, is digging into this mystery.👇📹
@martin-nunez.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
What’s happening beneath Patagonia’s changing landscape?
The Patagonian drylands’ native willows are being pushed out by invasive non-native ones—but how do #fungi fit into this story?
@nahpo.bsky.social a SPUN Underground Explorer, is digging into this mystery.👇📹
@martin-nunez.bsky.social
The Patagonian drylands’ native willows are being pushed out by invasive non-native ones—but how do #fungi fit into this story?
@nahpo.bsky.social a SPUN Underground Explorer, is digging into this mystery.👇📹
@martin-nunez.bsky.social
I just saw it.
March 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I just saw it.