Steve (TheSteve0) Pousty

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Filter feeding by oysters reduces disease transmission in a marine host–parasite system As a mechanism of the dilution effect, predation and filter feeding on parasitic propagules are hypothesized to reduce transmission to susceptible hosts and alter host–parasite interactions. In marin...

#Bluecrab #oyster #parasite

"Oysters reduced parasite densities in the water...Our results jointly support that oysters benefit adjacent community members through feeding on transmissive stages of their pathogens"

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Justice and rejection sensitivity in children and adolescents with ADHD symptoms - PubMed Justice sensitivity captures individual differences in the frequency with which injustice is perceived and the intensity of emotional, cognitive, and behavioral reactions to it. Persons with ADHD have been reported to show high justice sensitivity, and a recent study provided evidence for this notio …

Oh hell yeah
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24878677/
Says the man who may have said "but that's not fair" once or twice in a gazillion settings

It's astonishing to see this data in chart form:

Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records - Carbon Brief Coal power generation fell in both China and India in 2025, after each nation added record amounts of clean energy

📉 Last year, India and China simultaneously registered a drop in coal power generation -- for the first time since 1973. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-coa...

#Sustainability #Climate #Renewables #CleanEnergy #GoodNewsletter

As a scientist, let me use more scientific accuracy: a metric shit ton

Trump's financial regulators can't even say insider trading is bad.

Most corrupt Administration in history.

Hey folks - as someone actively reviewing talk CFPs for a conference, make sure to give your bio love and attention. I am much more likely to approve CFPs for talk that show any evidence of attempting talks. Doesn't mean you are an expert at speaking but at least you have done it before.

Fun to set up real analytics and learn that my RLHF Book pdf is downloaded 50-100 times a day from my site (doesnt include Arxiv downloads/views).

Thanks for reading!

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.

Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.

We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.

This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed | ACLU Targeting followed opinion piece critical of town’s police and anonymously posted anti-ICE fliers

A Kansas man wrote an op-ed criticizing local police for cooperating with ICE. Instead of respecting his First Amendment rights, the police used automatic license plate readers to track him in hopes of finding wrongdoing.

We must keep getting this easily-abused surveillance out of our communities.

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Early in his career, William Randolph Hearst famously joked that if his papers kept losing $1 million a year, he'd lose all his money in 60 years. If the Post continues to lose $100 million a year, it will take Jeff Bezos 2000 years to lose his money.

Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon Under Trump, the Department of Homeland Security has weaponized administrative subpoenas to attack free speech, according to privacy and civil rights groups.

Our client emailed DHS expressing his disagreement with their treatment of a man seeking asylum.

DHS issued an administrative subpoena to force Google to hand over his personal information. This secretive and abusive tactic is used too often by our government to chill our First Amendment rights.

Introducing Async-GeoTIFF - async-geotiff A fast, async GeoTIFF and Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF (COG) reader for Python.

Introducing 𝐀𝐬𝐲𝐧𝐜-𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐓𝐈𝐅𝐅, a new library for reading GeoTIFFs and COGs. developmentseed.org/async-geotif...

- Fast, with a Rust core
- Uses a non-blocking thread pool for image decoding
- Integrates with NumPy, PyProj, Affine & Morecantile
- Remote data support with Obstore
- No GDAL dependency

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

2008: Epstein is convicted of procuring a minor for prostitution

2018: Despite that conviction, [files indicate] he was invited by Rowling’s team - along with a guest of his choosing - to the Broadway opening of Harry Potter and the private after-party

Protecting women and children, is it?

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"?

Well, it happens they were doing exactly that.
www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Several unidentified drones flew over German military infrastructure on February 1.

NEW | Russian drones struck a maternity hospital and a bus carrying miners on February 1, causing significant civilian casualties. Read more here: www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

Five-year-old deported to Honduras despite being US citizen is latest child victim of Trump crackdown Mother whose visa application was pending says she will send girl back to US soon accompanied by another relative

ICE recently deported 5-year-old Génesis Ester Gutiérrez Castellanos, a U.S. citizen without access to legal counsel or a hearing. The trauma and chaos of this case show the rampant due process violations that are tearing families apart.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I think this is a critical finding. Our current "AI" is a tool. How you use a tool matters
Same with a calculator, internet search, a.chainsaw, a nav app...

For things you care about - stay curious my friends, stay curious

Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.

At this point, they're barely even arguing that they're not Nazisno. They just say it's mean to call them that.

Dreading doing your taxes? Billionaires aren’t.

While Trump does nothing to lower the cost of living for you, he's making it even easier for billionaires to get away with cheating on their taxes.

Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI has stalled, WSJ reports Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI to help it train and run its latest artificial-intelligence models has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, th...

Reuters reports the proposed Nvidia OpenAI mega deal is stalled and was never finalized. Nvidia is now signaling a smaller equity investment while maintaining collaboration, highlighting investor scrutiny of AI compute financing at extreme scale.
www.reuters.com/business/nvi...
#AI #OpenAI #Nvidia

Discovering Hidden Gems in Model Repositories Public repositories host millions of fine-tuned models, yet community usage remains disproportionately concentrated on a small number of foundation checkpoints. We investigate whether this concentrati...

Interesting: arxiv.org/abs/2601.22157