Chris Newsom
@keakiwi.bsky.social
Climate /West Africa/ Aotearoa-New Zealand/ Landscape photography fan/ Parent-designated driver of tweens
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Chris Newsom
@keakiwi.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Definitely that "if you read one thing today" item...🥰🥰👏👏
Significantly better than average CoP in Belem & can say as a constituent passing thru that Dr D was putting in the work. Hope it finishes well !
Just some of the countries at COP 30. The whole world is here, bar one.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Significantly better than average CoP in Belem & can say as a constituent passing thru that Dr D was putting in the work. Hope it finishes well !
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#FlashbackFriday
A year ago I played with exposures to see if the switch to LED lights in Ōtepoti Dunedin had made it more possible to see the Milky Way above the city lights...
A bit of exposure tomfuckery & sure enough, in August our galaxy appears horizontal & low to the horizon.
A year ago I played with exposures to see if the switch to LED lights in Ōtepoti Dunedin had made it more possible to see the Milky Way above the city lights...
A bit of exposure tomfuckery & sure enough, in August our galaxy appears horizontal & low to the horizon.
August 22, 2025 at 1:42 AM
#FlashbackFriday
A year ago I played with exposures to see if the switch to LED lights in Ōtepoti Dunedin had made it more possible to see the Milky Way above the city lights...
A bit of exposure tomfuckery & sure enough, in August our galaxy appears horizontal & low to the horizon.
A year ago I played with exposures to see if the switch to LED lights in Ōtepoti Dunedin had made it more possible to see the Milky Way above the city lights...
A bit of exposure tomfuckery & sure enough, in August our galaxy appears horizontal & low to the horizon.
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Good Morning Everyone 😊☕🌤️ Enjoy Your Saturday 🫶
August 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Good Morning Everyone 😊☕🌤️ Enjoy Your Saturday 🫶
6 months down 3 years to go 🥴
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency
NASA’s charter clearly states the agency should study planet Earth, however.
arstechnica.com
August 17, 2025 at 5:24 AM
6 months down 3 years to go 🥴
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I can’t believe we are catching up.
August 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I can’t believe we are catching up.
She's right....
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
August 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
She's right....
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3 silos outside Middlemarch Ōtepoti
(or 3 tussocks outside Middlemarch)
Strath Taieri hoar frost, Taiari Ōtepoti Dunedin
#GreatNZRoadie #Nikon #Winter #Photography
(or 3 tussocks outside Middlemarch)
Strath Taieri hoar frost, Taiari Ōtepoti Dunedin
#GreatNZRoadie #Nikon #Winter #Photography
July 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
3 silos outside Middlemarch Ōtepoti
(or 3 tussocks outside Middlemarch)
Strath Taieri hoar frost, Taiari Ōtepoti Dunedin
#GreatNZRoadie #Nikon #Winter #Photography
(or 3 tussocks outside Middlemarch)
Strath Taieri hoar frost, Taiari Ōtepoti Dunedin
#GreatNZRoadie #Nikon #Winter #Photography
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If you're in the area (Arrowtown / Queenstown) you should come & see our @winterstellar.bsky.social exhibition, it's out best ever & we are very proud of it. I have 3 pieces in the exhibition & every image is beautifully printed.
(you can buy them too rangitako.com/shop/p/speed...)
(you can buy them too rangitako.com/shop/p/speed...)
June 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If you're in the area (Arrowtown / Queenstown) you should come & see our @winterstellar.bsky.social exhibition, it's out best ever & we are very proud of it. I have 3 pieces in the exhibition & every image is beautifully printed.
(you can buy them too rangitako.com/shop/p/speed...)
(you can buy them too rangitako.com/shop/p/speed...)
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so I've seen that clip and I think Thiel was trolling the way that I troll about how the Star Wars prequels are actually about women's health. Star Wars is great fodder for revealing the things you care about. Like I think reproductive healthcare should be free; Thiel wants to put everyone in debt
they watched terminator and tried to create skynet. if their media literacy is this bad how can they handle philosophy? Peter Thiel thinks Star Wars is about how debt is good!
July 21, 2025 at 3:55 AM
so I've seen that clip and I think Thiel was trolling the way that I troll about how the Star Wars prequels are actually about women's health. Star Wars is great fodder for revealing the things you care about. Like I think reproductive healthcare should be free; Thiel wants to put everyone in debt
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I was quite surprised to hear a story about nitrogen fixation when listening to the news on NPR. 🌊
Ocean plant cell discovery might revolutionize farming
A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.
www.npr.org
March 13, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I was quite surprised to hear a story about nitrogen fixation when listening to the news on NPR. 🌊
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This has long been my conviction about LLMs. They're going to get worse! For the same reason the information environment in general is getting worse. There's just vastly more misinformation out there, and trustworthy information is harder and harder to find and verify
The other thing people seem not to understand is LLMs hallucinations aren't the only issue. They don't have objective knowledge, they're predicting text based on their training data. And their training data (the internet) is rapidly degrading due to LLM generated content displacing quality research.
February 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This has long been my conviction about LLMs. They're going to get worse! For the same reason the information environment in general is getting worse. There's just vastly more misinformation out there, and trustworthy information is harder and harder to find and verify
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It’s important to always ask yourself “why am I working so hard?” and question the tradeoffs you are making before it’s too late.
February 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
It’s important to always ask yourself “why am I working so hard?” and question the tradeoffs you are making before it’s too late.
This article should be a much bigger deal for the US (and other countries).
You can't have intelligent policy or political positions on the economy if you're measuring the wrong things
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
You can't have intelligent policy or political positions on the economy if you're measuring the wrong things
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
www.politico.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This article should be a much bigger deal for the US (and other countries).
You can't have intelligent policy or political positions on the economy if you're measuring the wrong things
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
You can't have intelligent policy or political positions on the economy if you're measuring the wrong things
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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If you are a writer (or someone who sits at their desk/somewhere even less comfortable all day) then this is my favourite yoga workout and it feels like a massage after!
All of @yogawithadriene.bsky.social is amazing, but this one is a great one to do regularly.
yogawithadriene.com/yoga-for-wri...
All of @yogawithadriene.bsky.social is amazing, but this one is a great one to do regularly.
yogawithadriene.com/yoga-for-wri...
Yoga for Writers | Yoga With Adriene
This session invites you to choose a soft and easy approach that welcomes you to show up as you are. This 30 min video also offers you an opportunity to rejuvenate the brain and body. This supportive ...
yogawithadriene.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
If you are a writer (or someone who sits at their desk/somewhere even less comfortable all day) then this is my favourite yoga workout and it feels like a massage after!
All of @yogawithadriene.bsky.social is amazing, but this one is a great one to do regularly.
yogawithadriene.com/yoga-for-wri...
All of @yogawithadriene.bsky.social is amazing, but this one is a great one to do regularly.
yogawithadriene.com/yoga-for-wri...
Quite important that Canadians don't laugh too hard at the size of the very big deal that DJT has negotiated.
February 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Quite important that Canadians don't laugh too hard at the size of the very big deal that DJT has negotiated.
Unfortunately the dismemberment of USAID is likely a test run of vandalisation across the US govt.
On a space with Senator Joni Ernst and Vivek Ramaswamy, Elon Musk says he has checked with President Trump a few times to be sure about eliminating USAID, and he says that the President agrees.
February 3, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Unfortunately the dismemberment of USAID is likely a test run of vandalisation across the US govt.
The $50m condoms farce was a bit of a tell.
February 3, 2025 at 7:26 AM
The $50m condoms farce was a bit of a tell.
Probably an expensive fortnight for the US - in a few years who's going to price US commitments on climate change as reliable after 2 treaty withdrawals ?
Once the Breach of Contract suits start flying, this whole Elon Musk impoundment debacle will end up costing billions in legal fees and awards.
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Probably an expensive fortnight for the US - in a few years who's going to price US commitments on climate change as reliable after 2 treaty withdrawals ?
OK so what are those doomsday clock folks going to do with this ?????
February 2, 2025 at 11:41 PM
OK so what are those doomsday clock folks going to do with this ?????
Thread that will seem all too familiar to folks from autocratic countries
cc @afalli.bsky.social @drewhinshaw.bsky.social
cc @afalli.bsky.social @drewhinshaw.bsky.social
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Thread that will seem all too familiar to folks from autocratic countries
cc @afalli.bsky.social @drewhinshaw.bsky.social
cc @afalli.bsky.social @drewhinshaw.bsky.social
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This was my story this week
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
www.economist.com/united-state...
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
www.economist.com/united-state...
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
The president wants to shrink and remake the civil service
www.economist.com
February 2, 2025 at 7:58 PM
This was my story this week
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
www.economist.com/united-state...
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
www.economist.com/united-state...
Brendan;& Elon exist in different universes.
I'd be betting that Elon is tallying $20bn+ he's 'already' cut from US AID. ...in his mind $4bn/day is on track & nearly in the bag.
I'd be betting that Elon is tallying $20bn+ he's 'already' cut from US AID. ...in his mind $4bn/day is on track & nearly in the bag.
This is a constitutional crisis: the President doesn't have the power to cancel funds appropriated by Congress. Also, the math is insane; there is NO way to cut $4B/day by getting rid of "fraud". Cuts of that magnitude will dangerously undermine the core functions of government.
February 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Brendan;& Elon exist in different universes.
I'd be betting that Elon is tallying $20bn+ he's 'already' cut from US AID. ...in his mind $4bn/day is on track & nearly in the bag.
I'd be betting that Elon is tallying $20bn+ he's 'already' cut from US AID. ...in his mind $4bn/day is on track & nearly in the bag.
Has Canada considered making all diplomatic & media action French only as a way of really winding up their opponent ?
honestly that was an extraordinary speech which I kinda recommend watching in full (starts 1:14)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces Canada's response to U.S. tariffs – February 1, 2025
YouTube video by cpac
www.youtube.com
February 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Has Canada considered making all diplomatic & media action French only as a way of really winding up their opponent ?
I think Alvin is an overachieving boomer who has done better than all the live forever techbros 😁😁
Recently upgraded Alvin can now dive to 6500m. Read our new article about its capabilities, latest #deepsea science discoveries, & new milestones on its #science verification expedition 🌊🛠🧪.
Thx to the entire whoi.edu Alvin team & funding from
#NSF-funded #USONR @noaa.gov @urigso.bsky.social
Thx to the entire whoi.edu Alvin team & funding from
#NSF-funded #USONR @noaa.gov @urigso.bsky.social
February 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
I think Alvin is an overachieving boomer who has done better than all the live forever techbros 😁😁