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Silicon Valley's capture of our political institutions is all but complete The tech lobby kills off two key California AI bills, and why it matters. Plus: How Sam Altman played Hollywood with Sora 2, organized mass social media deletions, and more.

CA governor Gavin Newsom vetoed both of the major AI bills on his desk that Silicon Valley meaningfully opposed—one making it illegal for bosses to use AI to fire workers with no oversight, one requiring chatbot sellers to ensure their products do not harm children before marketing to them.

Denni, a golden retriever with a sweet face, sits and looks up at the camera with a smile. she has a passenger clinging to her back. a baby koala. the joey's eyes peak over the top of Denni's head.

Denni is standing and looking off to the left of the frame. the baby koala on her back looks at the camera.

a super zoomed photo of the baby koala and their mom high up in a tree. the adult koala holds onto her joey and looks down at the camera with what we would like to think is appreciation for caring for her baby.

This is Denni. She took an unexpected babysitting shift when she found a baby koala in her yard. She cheerfully delivered the joey to her human, who put them back in the tree to be reunited with their mom. 14/10 (FB: Steve Lamplough)

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Save the date! The Eastern and Western Snow Conferences will hold their annual meetings jointly in 2026. Please plan to join us May 12th - 15th, 2026 at the Auraria Campus in the heart of downtown Denver, CO. More details and a call for abstracts coming soon.
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This is Seiko. He was just adopted. Now that he finally has a human of his very own, he's never letting go. 14/10 (TT: seikotherescue)

This is Holly. She won't fall sleep until she's been given her stuffed cow. 13/10 sweet dreams Holly (TT: hollythebluestaffy__)

This important work is very consilient with our attribution of extreme heat to carbon majors in @nature.com earlier this year: tinyurl.com/nhffeezv

It is a great thing for science when independent groups with independent methods come to the same conclusions.

And the federal minimum wage has been $7.25 per hour since 2009.

The man. The myth. The legend. The pose of Son Heung Min.

Bernie on stage holding a mic, one arm outstretched.

“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.”

Have a relaxing weekend, everyone!

#ICYMI Poor water quality can drastically affect air quality according to a collaborative study featuring NSF NCAR, @scrippsocean.bsky.social , @ucriverside.bsky.social & @sandiegostate.bsky.social. NSF NCAR's Kelly Barsanti assisted with gas analysis.

news.ucar.edu/133038/study...

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once:

— virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— against increasing the minimum wage
— buys foreign imports because they're cheap

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content.

Going live on TikTok right now to discuss the controversy surrounding my WIRED piece and debunking these influencers desperate PR narratives www.wired.com/story/dark-m...

please contact me if you control "dark money" and want to pay me to promote high rise trousers, walkable neighborhoods, and adopting shelter animals

Today, Steve is hard at work, helping to clean the kitchen. Steve is trying his best.

a golden retriever sits on a living room floor looking over his shoulder. he looks extremely nonplussed. on the gray sofa in front of him, two kids are perched practicing trombone. the dog is going to work on his poker face before their first recital.

This is Jetty. He never wants to hear you complain about his barking again. 13/10 (IG: ullalynn3)

A comprehensive review of research on the topic shows that “educating students in responsible phone use is a more sustainable and wholistic attempt to address problematic usage rather than enacting whole-of-school banning policies.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

i need politicians to be as mad at housing prices as they are about cracker barrel's new logo

Congratulations @igarousi.bsky.social Irene Garousi-Nejad and Ryan Johnson on completing your HydroLearn module! Interested in seasonal snow data and modeling analysis? Check out this module, HydroLearn accounts are free!
edx.hydrolearn.org/courses/cour...

CRNS can account for this! It's also able to be 2-5 times for accurate than some traditional methods.

Excited to see where this method can go, where it can be applied, and how it may help future missions (especially with NISAR 🚀 launched)

Prairie snow is blown by strong winds and can gather by wind breaks like wheat stubble from agriculture. This leads to increased neutrons counts compared to if the ground was completely covered with snow.

Influence of snow spatial variability on cosmic ray neutron snow water equivalent (SWE): case study in a northern prairie Abstract. Monitoring prairie snow is difficult due to its extreme spatial variability from windy conditions, gentle topography, and low tree cover. Previous work has shown that a non-invasive, abovegr...

Another chapter done!! We analyzed how heterogeneous snowpacks like in the Montana prairies will affect snow water equivalent (SWE) estimates from Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensors.

So thankful to my advisors/coauthors!!

Link to paper: doi.org/10.5194/tc-1...

Because banning social media for kids is not about protecting kids or making their lives better. It flies in the face of research, data, and what kids are telling us. It’s about controlling them, isolating them, and keeping them uninformed. It’s part of the fascist playbook.

The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.”

But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.

Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.

An amazing opportunity to get hands-on experience in snow fieldwork!!

The Latest Government Gift to Big Tech and Corporate Power Lawmakers claim new age verification laws are about ‘child safety’ – but, in reality, they expand surveillance and silence dissent.

I wrote about how these bullshit “child safety” laws that are framed as cracking down on big tech actually do the exact opposite, for @zeteo.com

I made a video about this! youtu.be/nsD0e1k4d90?...

Evidence of human influence on Northern Hemisphere snow loss - Nature Snowpack reconstructions for major river basins in the Northern Hemisphere reveal that the snowpack has declined in almost half of the basins, with roughly one-third of the declines attributable to hu...

Last year, Alex Gottlieb and I showed the concerning nonlinear snow loss with warming that occurs around -8°C (www.nature.com/articles/s41...).

This year, we show why: it is a simple counting exercise of days above freezing. Our latest in @agu.org Water Resources Research: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Reminder - this webinar is taking place tomorrow at 3pm ET and it's not too late to register!

a golden retriever is laying in a bed with the white comforter wrapped around his head like a hood, so only his face is visible. he looks exhausted. please leave him be for at least 3 business days.

This is Haha. He had to socialize multiple times today. Gonna need a couple days to recover. 14/10 (IG: thegoldenhaha)