Steven Spielberg’s iconic film Jaws first hit theaters 50 years ago this month.

Since then, sharks have experienced the worst declines in their 450-million-year history. Can we trace that decline to their villainous portrayal in this influential movie?

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Adding voter ID requirements severely limits people's ability to vote and is driven entirely on the basis of disenfranchisement advantaging the Republicans.

Here's some info on it and being heard. Must be done by midnight on the 23rd US/Eastern time.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

@amysundberg.bsky.social

I see there's an automated fingerprint identification levy on the ballot. Seems like an obvious no to me. Is my intuition wrong here?

Surely this new video won't make me seem like a crank.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJp...

Any Ruby folks open to a 3-12 month gig? GraphQL migration to the latest Apollo Router, remote, quick start, and sounds like a fairly well known shop with good eng.

Will forward interest to a friend who was looking.

For those still wondering how a country becomes autocratic, a quick read of Heather Cox Richardson's latest post is a sobering read: heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-28...

#USPol #Autocracy #trump

Well, that's a rather scathing indictment: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Confirmation bias and all that. It certainly reinforces pretty much every expectation I've had of the man based on what he's done and what I've seen of friends who made the mistake of working for Musk.

#musk

“Researchers found that the most active commuters, who averaged more than 30 kilometres of cycling or walking per week, had an 8–18% lower risk of sickness absence.” momentummag.com/study-shows-...

Still got a Facebook account?

Want to get rid of it, get a copy of your data or lock it down a bit harder?

deletefacebook.com

#Facebook #DeleteFacebook #SocialMedia

Literally talked about this on our Ocean Science Podcast - podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

For those who need hormone replacement therapy and are now concerned about availability, you might find this discussion useful: nebula.tv/videos/lilya...

#trans #HRT #DIYHRT #HormoneTherapy

"Estimates from small diverse subsets of this size outperformed most estimates from homogenous groups; sufficiently diverse small crowds are just as effective as large crowds in estimating ecological state."

We're tracking the ocean policy issues that matter and helping filter the signal from the noise.

How Donald Trump’s Day 1 Executive Actions Impact the Ocean

www.southernfriedscience.com/how-donald-t...

I also did a Tv interview about this piece that the journalist later told me was the most delightfully sarcastic interview she’d ever heard

youtu.be/DovtqgnFXL4?...

Using MSFT as your primary IT supplier? Maybe it's time to re-evaluate that.

White Facebook is taking down their moderation team, Bluesky is celebrating their teams work.

After performing a media content and discourse analysis of how the popular press covers shark conservation and determining that it's a dumpster fire of misinformation, I often wonder what topics where I'm *not* an expert get similarly bad media coverage.

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Well this is pretty nuts: Microsoft got majorly hacked due to a crash dump in one of their servers containing a private key inside it.

msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/09...

Divers: Have you ever continued a dive after a serious equipment malfunction (BCD/Regulator failure, lost one or both fins etc)?

If so:
1. Was the decision yours or the dive leader?
2. What lead you to decide to continue?
3. Did you do a debrief after the dive and discuss the safety ramifications?