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Do you have a reader in your life who needs a reading-adjacent gift? Let me direct you to my friend’s Etsy shop!

You too can become the proud owner of a shirt that says, ‘I’m not mad. I use punctuation because I’m from the 1900s.’

Idk why I’d think folks here would want that shirt?

I GUESS CHECKMATE ON US, FELLAS, LET'S ALL GO BACK TO THE OFFICE AND GET A WORDEL SNEAK PREVIEW

I didn’t even know he was here.

Its just easiest to block and move on.

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Indeed!

Block diagram from linked paper showing the evolution of part of the Wyoming Rocky Mountains. At the left, the situation around 50 million years, just after the end of mountain uplift is shown. The mountains stand high above the valleys around them. At center, the situation around ~15 million years ago is shown, the basin is now completely full of material eroded from the mountains and no significant topographical difference exists between basin and mountain top. At right, the present situation is shown, all of the material originally eroded from the mountains has been removed by a second round of erosion, the mountain peaks, some now eroded flat on top, once again stand high above the basin.

One very weird thing about the Rocky Mountains is that since the 1950s or 1960s, we've known they had to have spent most of their geologic history buried under several kilometers worth of their own eroded material until <10 million years ago.

Neat recent paper on this here:
doi.org/10.1029/2023...

🧊 Dec, 1st.

Uh, that makes sense. Spend more money on pointless construction. Just remodel it and make it useful.

Love the desert rose plate.

The Neural Link: Inside the High-Stakes Race to Digitize the Human Mind Neuralink's transition from sci-fi concept to clinical reality marks a pivotal shift in med-tech. With patients now controlling digital interfaces via thought, the industry faces critical challenges i...

“While Neuralink dominates the media cycle with its invasive approach, a distinct technological divide is forming as competitors pursue endovascular and non-surgical routes to achieve similar connectivity without the risks of open-brain surgery.”
www.webpronews.com/the-neural-l...

Digging ourselves out is going to take a big change in how we treat dangerous fundamentalisms.

I admire and respect no religious practice because they are all based on absurdities, but I'll tolerate those that tolerate/encourage the human rights America must, in the long run, champion and provide.

Farm workers are harvesting green onions by hand in Kern County CA.

Farm workers are harvesting green onions by hand in Kern County CA. They bend over for long hours, cutting, bunching, and stacking the onions into crates loaded onto nearby trailers. The work is physically demanding, requiring precision and endurance under the sun. #WeFeedYou

“in the DC tip sheet space” are the most cursed media words ever written

one thing AI proponents rarely address is the fact that AI integration works like an invasive species - a system that worked is reengineered to focus on AI, often to the detriment of the system itself

Add to which calacanis is likely the dimmest member of the silicon valley club. Which is saying something.

David Sacks' response to the NYT story pointing out all his conflict of interests is a masterpiece of half-truths, outright lies, and deliberate evasion.

x.com/davidsacks/status/19952...

New Bedford lawmaker’s child labor bill hits a dead end The bill would have raised the minimum fine for child labor violations in Massachusetts from $500 to $20,000. Its sponsor, State Rep. Christopher Hendricks, said the legislation was inspired by a seri...

Mass. House Bill 1744, “An Act to prevent child labor exploitation and trafficking,” a New Bedford legislator’s attempt to prevent minors from finding jobs in his city’s seafood processing plants, never passed.

When a bil is “sent to study,” that typically means it’s dead. Next chance is 2027.

Clinic Represents Three Immigrant Children in Lawsuit Alleging Exploitative Child Labor Practices and Hazardous Conditions The Worker and Immigrant Rights and Advocacy Clinic represents three immigrant children in a new case alleging a seafood processing company violated labor, civil rights, and human rights laws.

Working 9 to 11 hour shifts in dangerous conditions:

“I was so tired and afraid of saying anything. I was 15. I had rashes all over my body because of the cleaning chemicals. In school, I couldn’t write because my hands were freezer-burned from work. They often shook, so I couldn’t hold a pencil."

'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein

'If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales." - Albert Einstein

Its like a bad joke. The entire thing.

Heckuva segue.

Crab Memes Amplify Mistaken Ideas about Evolution Memes about repeated evolution of crabs have been co-opted to joke about technology and “ultimate forms.” They’re hilarious, but they oversimplify natural variation, giving bad arguments a scientific ...

Today is the first of 25 days of #Crustmas! Post as many crustaceans as possible! (not just crabs) 🦑🧪

This year I'm less personally inclined towards "crabs are the ultimate form", and my piece below explains why.

PS all posts will be right here on the crab feed 🦀
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A Short History Of Torches And Intimidation The carrying of torches to suggest power and project intimidation has a long and sordid history.

Them: You know the Olympic torch relay just began.

Me: Yeah, the flame is ancient but the relay itself was invented by Hitler to connect Ancient Greece to Germany for the Berlin Olympics

Them: Always a ray of sunshine <laughs>

Me: <sends link to my article>

www.forbes.com/sites/drsara...

I had National Wildlife Refuges on the brain, because I was lucky enough to visit several this month! 🦆🦢🦉

🐦 Sacramento
🐦 Colusa
🐦 Stone Lakes
🐦 San Pablo Bay
🐦 Don Edwards San Francisco Bay
🐦 San Luis
🐦 Merced
🐦 Pixley
🐦 Sonny Bono Salton Sea

Lawmakers Suggest Follow-Up Boat Strike Could Be a War Crime

It’s not a war crime, because THERE IS NO WAR. It’s just murder.

As online journalistic gossip continues, the probability of a comparison to Nuzzi approaches 1.

'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

the result of big tech spending is the destruction of humanity, no matter how much they go on about the betterment.

read this.👇

"Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages"

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

So this upcoming lit fest in the UAE is sort of like the book world’s only slightly less problematic version of the Riyadh Comedy Festival, yes?

I think i need to buy ine as a present. I love mine.