Jim G Maloney
@jimgmal.bsky.social
Irritable Cascadian, Retired Environmental Scientist, Builder, Photographer, Father, and Dog Lover. Fond of birds, lichens, trees, the laws of physics, and general scientific facts - Nature in general.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Apparently there isn't good evidence that Google uses Gmail to train LLMs — I'm still glad to no longer rely on gmail for email, because I am a skeptic (paranoid?) and just don't trust that what they say is what they do
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.
www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Apparently there isn't good evidence that Google uses Gmail to train LLMs — I'm still glad to no longer rely on gmail for email, because I am a skeptic (paranoid?) and just don't trust that what they say is what they do
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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Trump issues an order for the arrest and criminal prosecution of members of Congress who made a video reminding soldiers and sailors that they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and shouldn't implement illegal orders. Trump's conduct is unabashed fascism.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Trump issues an order for the arrest and criminal prosecution of members of Congress who made a video reminding soldiers and sailors that they swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and shouldn't implement illegal orders. Trump's conduct is unabashed fascism.
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Trump calls for the arrest of several Democratic members of Congress who are military vets who issued a video urging service members to follow their oath to the Constitution and USMJ.
November 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Trump calls for the arrest of several Democratic members of Congress who are military vets who issued a video urging service members to follow their oath to the Constitution and USMJ.
Oh, well, yeah, I fucking trust the Forest Circus ...
Federal lands logging goes forward in MT unannounced under the govt. shutdown, and hundreds of acres of clear-cuts being called 'forest health' treatments, lol. hungryhorsenews.com/news/2025/no...
Forest Service admits few were notified of project during shutdown, says that's not the intent going forward
The Forest confirmed Tuesday that few people were notified of a proposed timber project near Blacktail Mountain that was released during the government shutdown.
hungryhorsenews.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Oh, well, yeah, I fucking trust the Forest Circus ...
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If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.
3 massive changes you'll see as the climate careens toward tipping points
Scientists are increasingly concerned that the planet is headed for massive, irreversible changes due to global warming. In some cases, those changes have already begun.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
If we don't rapidly phase out fossil fuels, we can say goodbye to coral reefs, the Greenland and Antarctic icesheets, and permafrost. The results will not be pretty.
Exported rape and pillage of NW forests ...
Truly surreal listening to B.C. forest minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social on CBC this morning, celebrating the fact that Western Forest Products (one of the biggest destroyers of non-renewable old-growth forests here) is building hundreds of Starbucks stores in Japan out of western red cedar.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Exported rape and pillage of NW forests ...
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“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This is all John Roberts’ fault
Trump owes his corrupt and abusive reign to one man.
www.motherjones.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“Roberts has been embedding white-dominant authoritarianism into the country’s source code for two decades. It’s impossible to imagine today’s crisis without the Roberts court having first undermined the foundations of our democracy.”
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
This all on the leader of the MAGA #scotus ↘️
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trump is in favor of releasing epstein files like he's planning to release his tax records
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
trump is in favor of releasing epstein files like he's planning to release his tax records
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Remember that video of the Malinois pulling up his toy with a string and a pulley? That, but wolves and crabs.
"Researchers have captured video footage of wild wolves in British Columbia pulling crab traps out of the sea by their lines to eat the bait inside"
ca.news.yahoo.com/b-c-wolves-l...
ca.news.yahoo.com/b-c-wolves-l...
B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species
Researchers have captured video footage of wild wolves in British Columbia pulling crab traps out of the sea by their lines to eat the bait inside, in the first evidence of possible tool use by the an...
ca.news.yahoo.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Remember that video of the Malinois pulling up his toy with a string and a pulley? That, but wolves and crabs.
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Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Long-term research projects are essential for predicting the ecological and evolutionary responses of species to global change, yet their continuity is often threatened by uncertainties over funding. ...
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Safeguarding long-term research in ecology and evolution www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
Q&A with Stéphane Blanc, research director at CNRS, about the Long-term Studies in Ecology and Evolution programme and its priorities for supporting long-term monitoring and research
Free to read: rdcu.be/eQltU
More of the same bs from all the "trusted sources".
Hey @nytimes.com? Fuck off and leave us alone. We don't give a shit what your band of sweaty billionaire fluffers thinks about our politics.
Seattle Elects a Left-Wing Mayor With a Light Résumé but Mamdani Appeal
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
More of the same bs from all the "trusted sources".
Amen (in a non-religious way). 👍
Hey @washingtonpost.com? Fuck off and leave us alone. We don't give a shit what your band of sweaty billionaire fluffers thinks about our politics.
Opinion | Seattle’s coming socialist experiment
The mayor-elect has little experience but plenty of bad ideas.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Amen (in a non-religious way). 👍
Death by a thousand cuts ...
"Historically, [ponderosa pine] trees have been able to defend themselves by turning rain into resin that pushes out bark beetles. But because of prolonged drought exacerbated by climate change, beetles have been able to move thru trees at a rapid pace." 🌎 kiowacountypress.net/content/dead...
Deadly beetles now infesting lower-elevation ponderosa pines | KiowaCountyPress.net
Most of Colorado’s trees lost to mountain pine beetle infestations were lodgepole pines at higher elevations until 2023.
kiowacountypress.net
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Death by a thousand cuts ...
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BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
meidasnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
BREAKING: Twenty-four survivors of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes have issued an emotional and urgent appeal to the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, demanding that Congress vote to release the long-awaited Epstein files. meidasnews.com/news/survivo...
This wonderful bird needs a new name. And if you disagree, fuck your feelings.
Introducing our #BirdoftheWeek, the rule-breaking Lewis’s Woodpecker!
🔴🟢⚪⚫ With a red face, pink belly, green back & silver-gray collar, they catch insects mid-air & store acorns for winter.
Found in western U.S. & Canada.
🪰 Learn more in our bird library:
abcbirds.org/birds/lewiss...
🔴🟢⚪⚫ With a red face, pink belly, green back & silver-gray collar, they catch insects mid-air & store acorns for winter.
Found in western U.S. & Canada.
🪰 Learn more in our bird library:
abcbirds.org/birds/lewiss...
November 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
This wonderful bird needs a new name. And if you disagree, fuck your feelings.
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
This chart or a similar one has been used by me on many occassions.
Over 2/3 of primary energy is wasted as heat.
The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.
The transition isn’t about matching that waste — it’s about outperforming it with efficient clean energy technology.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This chart or a similar one has been used by me on many occassions.
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We didn’t just fill the sky with carbon — we dismantled Earth’s ability to absorb it. Forests, wetlands, soils, oceans — the lungs, heart, skin, and blood of a living planet.
November 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We didn’t just fill the sky with carbon — we dismantled Earth’s ability to absorb it. Forests, wetlands, soils, oceans — the lungs, heart, skin, and blood of a living planet.
Your periodic reminder...
426.31 parts per million (ppm) CO2 in air 12-Nov-2025
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
The Keeling Curve
The Keeling Curve is a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego.
keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Your periodic reminder...
With my 20 year history working in this industry I am in favor of this, as long as the "public" part is not a fucking fascist regime.
In this new report from me & @rhymeswithocean.bsky.social for @cplusc.bsky.social & @publicgrids.org, we argue the current electricity affordability crisis is caused by the rules of private ownership. To solve the crisis, we recommend banning shutoffs now and using many tools to expand public power!
Overcharged: The Rules Of The Electricity Affordability Crisis
Nearly a quarter of adults in the US—or over 52 million people—cannot pay their power bills.
climateandcommunity.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
With my 20 year history working in this industry I am in favor of this, as long as the "public" part is not a fucking fascist regime.
I just had a thought ... Now that the "E" files might be disclosed I'm still fuming about the 8 "Democrats" that capitulated. I've always live by the rule "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a neurotoxin." Seems like they brought a jar of vasoline.
November 12, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I just had a thought ... Now that the "E" files might be disclosed I'm still fuming about the 8 "Democrats" that capitulated. I've always live by the rule "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a neurotoxin." Seems like they brought a jar of vasoline.
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BREAKING: Grijalva has signed the Epstein Files discharge petition. It doesn't appear that Mace or Boebert have removed their names.
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far
November 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far