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Of all the travesties on this map, the sale of the Red Hills Area of Environmental Concern would be devastating. It’s home to amazing serpentine soils and geology, as well as a ton of endemic species that are super rare. @geotripper.bsky.social says it best: geotripper.blogspot.com/2022/04/red-...

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Vermillion River, Ontario, Canada, in the Sudbury Basin.

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Climate change: The shit is hitting the fan, and the fan is on maximum.

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Procedurally rendered location/time-accurate star trails + simulated twilight atmosphere, now with star spectral → RGB color information included! It's subtle (even exaggerated here slightly), but there. All rendered in #RStats with #rayrender #rayverse

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Almost 36 years ago, I was a college student and couldn’t stay at home when people started protesting against a really nasty authoritarian regime in Romania. Soldiers with kalashnikovs were standing in military trucks in front of us but we didn’t care. 🧵

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🤯 Rendering realistic sunsets in R 🤯 🤯 Rendering realistic sunsets in R, with accurate stars for a given latitude/long 🤯 🤯 🤯 Rendering realistic sunsets in R, with accurate stars for a given lat/long AND time/exposure, giving you beautiful star trails! your move, SAS #RStats #rayrender #rayverse

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Be safe out there today. No kings!

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Say it for the back row: THEY DON’T THINK

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Something I've been feeling a lot lately, but haven't heard much about is the grief that comes with being an early career scientist in America in 2025. I think we all understand that, even if things turn out well, there is no going "back to normal" now. A (sad) thread /1

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In America, the gospel is profit— and public lands are the final offering on the altar of consumerism. The environment is sacrificed, one transaction at a time. oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/06/13/u...

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there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

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Gary Marcus replies to the critiques of the Apple paper on reasoning models. garymarcus.substack.com/p/seven-repl...

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Twilight! One of my favorite things is finding a methods paper (here, atmospheric rendering), implementing it, thinking to myself "It would be nice if it supported XYZ!", and finding that the paper w/ XYZ was released recently. Truly surfing the crest of human knowledge! #RStats #rayrender #rayverse

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The whole point of DARPA was to distribute the communication system so if something broke one place, the rest of the network would survive. Resiliency was the point. Well, Google broke that, huh?

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I’ve warned that this was only a matter of time, but it’s still shocking to see in person. Here AI generated content is being used to create a fake news ecosystem, disparaging a professor who has been critical of unscientific bullshit in the form of deextinction hype.

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If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

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Detaining my senator now? This adds to the preponderance of evidence we are in the midst of a hostile fascist assault on our democracy.

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Oh, blessed caffeine Power for another day It hits different #haiku

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i’mma be real with y’all it’s going to be very hard to find the motivation to remain in the civil service if SCOTUS rules unfavorably in the big RIF case

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Today on the internet I learned that I’m far from the only Ukrainian who has reoccurring dreams of somehow being in russia and not knowing how to get out of there, it’s like a collective subconscious with ptsd

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Sen. Alex Padilla: "If this is how this DHS responds to a senator with a question, I can only imagine what they're doing to farmers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California and throughout the country. We will hold this administration accountable."

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One of mine is indisposed at the moment.

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Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

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Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

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Fucking unbelievable

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The cruelty in today's politics feels horribly corrosive. Bringing up that hard-working immigrant families — undocumented, yes, but not violent criminals — are being ripped apart based on immigration status doesn't bring compassion or even pause, but gleeful cheers.

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In the Disney lawsuit, 10 pages are dedicated to citing the work we did. In pursuit of this evidence, Midjourney banned me 3 times and updated their ToS. The first ban encouraged me to dig a lot deeper, so I'd like to congratulate CEO David Holz on his massive unforced error.

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The article frames the backlash as a mostly philosophical one, but it's also a VERY practical one: editors in the trial found frequent major errors in the summaries! Link to AI bullshitting about the Cambrian for my geo crowd, but you can scroll around for more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

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and elon musk has been saying a car will drive itself next year for a decade

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When all you have is a hammer, smash entire disciplines and careers with hallucinations and bullshit, excreted from the plagiarism machine.

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Who's going to pick the fruits and vegetables?

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We feed you. They hunt us.

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Deep Blue is 30 years old and was capable of defeating chess grand champions. It could be housed in a single cabinet. ChatGPT spans untold data centers devouring massive amounts of electricity and it got its ass whipped by an 8 bit gaming console from the 1970s.

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20th army of the world is on its 4th year of resisting the 2nd army of the world while the 1st army of the world sleeps in basements after beating its own citizens

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Imma take the over

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BREAKING NEWS: Five-year-olds creating a rainbow fairy unicorn pony club to pursue dream steeds for all members of Ms. Johnson's kindergarten.

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