It should be abundantly clear at this point that the current administration is destroying the availability of information, data, and access to science. They are doing so very effectively I might add 1/?

The equivalent of using nukes to take out a mushroom.

Under these guidelines an ecological study on grassland community diversity in rodent populations would have funding pulled for DEI reasons.

Read more, it’s a long list ⤵️

Do you think if they actually create agi it will want to do jobs and work or will it just wanna mess around on the internet and like watch cat videos like most people? #openai #agi #ai

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

I want to see a graphic illustrating wealth + geographic luck alongside percent chance of surviving the next 50 years of climate change and ecosystem degradation

I love turbulent landings on airplanes because they force me to contemplate the singular question of what song I would like to listen to while I die

When I open my own coffee shop there is going to be a line for just normal black coffee and one for all them fancy lattes n such. Like tsa precheck for coffee

Sometimes I think, "Compared to geological time, living things exist for only little blinks," but other times I think, "actually, life is one continuous chemical chain that first formed billions of years ago and every mountain range that existed back then has long since crumbled away to dust."

China and Saudi Arabia are both fighting in the UN World Court in hopes the court will decline to issue an opinion on nations global obligations to curb climate change.
Basically making a “nations rights” argument that voluntary agreements already in place are enough 1/x

The pacific island of Vanuatu has brought a HUGE case before the UN international court seeking its advisory opinion on nation’s legal responsibility for climate harms. This is the largest case ever seen by the world court and has some really interesting ramifications for future national policy

This is such an interesting escalation of the situation in SK. I did not have boomers live-streaming rebellion on my bingo card.

Someone remind me to check on how many of the trees in Google’s little carbon offset scheme down in Brazil r still alive in 10 years