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> I wake up > trump says some shit > I fall asleep > russia tries to kill me > I fall asleep again > I wake up > repeat

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Sure we have the red/blue culture war, but having just flown from SF to DC I think we’re in for a national reckoning of a different sort. The overheard fragments of conversation in the street here have nothing to do with AGI and everything to do with “what are we gonna do about this AI bullshit?”

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

I'm about a year behind, but apparently Li-Cor acquired Onset/Hobo in 2024. I can't say I'm a fan of further consolidation of scientific instrumentation companies. Things are expensive already; I doubt this will reduce prices...

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

You can read the introduction to my book in the wonderful Atmos magazine here: atmos.earth/the-emotiona...

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

screams unendingly and piercingly in ecotoxicologist cleantechnica.com/2025/06/12/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

The EPA cancels regulations to limit PFAS, rolls back asbestos limits, stops regulation of fossil fuel emissions... Can rethinking laws on tobacco be far behind? Unbelievable and inexcusable. ☠️☠️ www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

Please don’t look away, just please

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

I’ve been using a Zavor manual pressure cooker for years (previously Fagor) and it’s rad. I also see they have an automatic version similar to an instapot. Just sayin’.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

This is work in progress and it will take a while to finish it but I find the process relaxing -- orthophoto of a mountainside in Utah, near Escalante, showing a deflation surface (I think) in the cross bedded Navajo Sandstone. Roughly a strike section relative to the dominant wind direction. ⚒️

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Testing the accuracy of simulating star trails with R and libopenexr, rendered in a pathtracer: lookin' pretty good so far! Differences seem to be primarily from real camera lens distortion from the wide angle lens versus a perspective camera. #RStats #rayrender #rayverse

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Fun fact to remember: the actual Luddites weren’t ignorant. They weren’t against all technology. They were skilled craftspeople - expert weavers - who recognized the machine looms as a lower-quality output than what they could make, and who rebelled against their replacement with soulless slop.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

This is what I needed. Haven't lived here in more than 50 years, but I know this place like the back of my hand. Visited the former camp my father directed with my sisters and an old, true friend whose memory of it goes back to the 1950s. Talked about what happened where. Hearing new and...

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

As a fire scientist, my first reaction to these maps is that these places are gonna burn. Any time you open up public lands to private or communal ownership that does not center fire stewardship of the land, ignitions and fire events increase dramatically. www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Day two of me reminding people employees I represent were forced out of their jobs containing this threat. I'm not even counting how many people took DRP in the programs to contain this threat. The department said "oopsie" and started emergency hiring of employees covered by NAAE

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A lot of people are missing the point here. The point isn't that they'll restrict access. They're going to log and mine and graze on this land. Destroy it. It's about resource extraction

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

A single observation that explains both our vulnerability to generative AI and the general phenomenon of billionaires.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

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-...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Be safe out there today. No kings!

submitted 3 days ago • 65 comments

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

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

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...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 129 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

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?

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

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.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 553 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 5 days ago • 50 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

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."

submitted 5 days ago • 305 comments

One of mine is indisposed at the moment.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 841 comments

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.”

submitted 5 days ago • 692 comments

Fucking unbelievable

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

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.

submitted 5 days ago • 449 comments