Mike Liebhold

US military uses Anthropic's Claude for AI-driven strike planning in Iran war In the war against Iran, the US military is using generative AI at scale for target selection and strike planning for the first time. Of all models, it's the one from the company Washington just banne...

How US Military lethal ‘decision compression’ using Palantir Maven and Claude trained with defective image metadata (no ground truth) carelessly bombed Iranian girl’s school the-decoder.com/us-military-...

Helping people & nature thrive together in California.🌿👧🏽 Thank you Governor Newsom & our Legislature for game changing investments!🙏🏼 www.gov.ca.gov/2026/02/27/c...

Volume 380 Issue 1931 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

Chance and purpose in the evolution of biospheres "Earth’s biosphere is driven by an interlinked network of biogeochemical cycles that are governed largely by microbes.... the evolutionary interplay between the organisms and their environments." 🧪🌐 royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3...

The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting

Please re-post: presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

Opinion | The Evolutionary Brilliance of the Baby Giggle

Thinking about future generations inheriting the earth, Jonas Salk said, “Live like a good ancestor”. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

Thanks for early coverage of data center energy consumption. There’s a deeper parallel problem of the lifecycle environmental costs of infrastructure, short lifespan and frequent turnover of hardware and electronics.

DoE oks next-gen nuclear to skip full environmental reviews : DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors

What could go wrong? dlvr.it/TQmLFD

Agree. Molly deserves a Pulitzer for continuing superb reporting on crypto

+1 pointless

Planetary Boundaries Science (PBScience) Lab The PBScience Lab addresses critical gaps in our understanding and monitoring of the biophysical systems that are essential to life on Earth.

After years of American leadership, the center of Whole Earth, and Earth Systems sciences is now the Baltic states, in Potsdam, Stockholm, and Copenhagen:
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/institute...

Thanks @eos.org and @agu.org for this resource to understand requirements for reconstruction of American scientific programs eos.org/wp-content/u...

And, so far, there is no organized planning for reconstruction of American science programs according to a private remark I heard from a former White House scientist

Trump’s “national security” wind farm freeze? Total sham! Europe’s 30GW offshore giants coexist flawlessly with military radars via software tweaks & curtailments—zero threats. US DoD greenlit 1,000s onshore. Pure political posturing, not necessity!

“Computational modeling does not merely visualize climate futures; it enables societies to build planetary imaginaries…. If the epistemic category of the planetary collapses under geopolitical pressure, we do not simply lose a tool. We lose a worldview, and with it, a horizon of action.”

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center

Another insane attack on American science😢 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Charting the Cosmos: Four Clear Astrographic Regions The field of space mapping lacks agreed-upon terms for defining the empty space between celestial bodies. A new astrographic framework is designed to be accessible to policymakers and space planners o...

RAND research on ‘astrography’ cartography for outer space www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

A view of the of the pacific marine layer parked on our usually socked-in coast side ridge from California’s sunny side, just down the hill.

A view of the of the pacific marine layer parked on our usually socked-in coastside ridge from California’s sunny side, just down the hill.

locative media , spatial hypermedia, psychogeography

“State of the climate” 2025: Earth’s vital signs worsen, science shows options for livable future 29.10.2025 – 22 of the planet’s 34 vital signs are at record levels, with many of them continuing to trend sharply in the wrong direction. This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual “State o...

“22 of the planet’s 34 vital signs are at record levels, with many of them continuing to trend sharply in the wrong direction.”
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

California steps in as Trump skips global climate summit in Brazil California aims to build on its reputation as a global climate leader at this year's COP conference in Belém, Brazil.

Representing California’s commitment to planetary health, demonstrating that not all Americans are environmental dunces.
www.latimes.com/environment/...

Listen to Johan Rockstrom, the leading voice for systemic solutions to our planetary crisis.

The early internet was often regarded as a gift economy antropologi.info/blog/anthrop...

Safecracker Suite, by Richard Feynman et al 22 track album

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Animal niches in the airspace For flying animals, including many birds, bats, and insects, the air is a crucial arena for a range of behaviors. Technological advances, such as year-round tracking of flight altitudes and expanded use of radar, increasingly show how flying animals use the aerial habitat. This enables us to answer questions about the environmental patterns and ecological processes that shape aerial niches, including energetics, biotic interactions, and risk due to growing anthropogenic conflicts. In this review, we identify environmental conditions and biological interactions influencing where animals occur in the airspace throughout their life cycles. We outline an ecological framework to advance understanding of how different properties of the airspace shape fundamental aerial habitat niches and how biotic interactions influence the realized niches.

Online now: Animal niches in the airspace

Machine Learning Simulates 1,000 Years of Climate - Eos The Deep Learning Earth System Model is competitive with CMIP6 models and uses less computational power.

📚 What we're reading: "Machine Learning Simulates 1,000 Years of Climate," by Madeline Reinsel, Eos.

The Deep Learning Earth System Model creates accurate short-term forecasts and can simulate a millenium of climate in less than 12 computing hours. 🖥️ 🌦️

Find the article: eos.org/research-spo...

Not optimistic yet. A sustainable replacement for still plastics requires lots more R&D funding

This may be true for be life sciences and physical sciences, but many information and social scientists are still entrenched in the bad place

Attn: product and service planners:

85 climate scientists refute Trump administration report downplaying climate change A group of 85 climate scientists released a review Tuesday refuting a Trump administration report that downplays climate change and its impacts. The review comes as public comment is being mad...

“Attribution of climate change is challenged by natural climate variability, data limitations, and model deficiencies.”

🧐That's how the Trump administration downplayed the link between human activity & climate change.

📢 Climate experts pushed back with facts.
https://bit.ly/4833OtY
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Where life has found its richest expression – Amazon Rainforest Day Amazon Rainforest Day, first celebrated in 2008, aims to raise awareness about the importance of Earth’s largest rainforest. There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the…

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There is a place where the Amazon meets the Andes, where forests climb the lower slopes of mountains before giving way to the mists of the cloud forests. To stand there is to feel the weight of two great worlds converging.