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Marshall McLuhan’s prescient words echo decades later: AI is the new message U of T professor's 'the medium is the message,' writes Neil Seeman, now reads like a survival manual for entrepreneurs reshaping who we are, not just what we do.

Excellent Toronto Star article on #AI through the lens of the late media master Marshall McLuhan. Some very useful do's and don't's.

Gift article so should be no paywall. www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

#NoKings #Vermont Rally Pics!

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

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How I Became a Populist My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

I can't stop thinking about @bedoyausa.bsky.social's essay this week. It is a story-forward account of why the American people are struggling. (Hint: political economy.) It's the kind of account that makes an ethnographer swoon. I can't recommend this enough: newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Vertical comic structured like flow chart. (1) Einstein had an insight that overturned physics, thus proving his value. (2) I hope *I* have value. I’ll try to have an insight that overturns physics, to check. (3) [Time Passes] (4) Oh no! My insight didn’t overturn physics! But I don’t think I’m worthless… [arrows to two different options] (5a) Healthy Path: Maybe this was not a well-thought-out test of my value. (5b) Path of Ruin: The establishment must be *suppressing* my insight!

Physics Paths

xkcd.com/3155/

“The best we can do is to keep asking for help and accepting it when you can. And if you can keep on doing that, you'll always be moving towards better.”

Always moving toward…better. Its exhausting and necessary.

Like a seal team 6 extraction. Or Dog Team 2 i guess

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

Consumer Reports finds that some protein shakes and powders contain extremely high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Gorges hike resulted in lots of sleep. Lots of sleep resulted in rare event verification lucid dreams. And i finally got some potatoes for breakfast.

Cornell lab sign

Sky views picturing trees and mackatel clouds

Boardwalk path of tall trees, mackerel clouds. Listening to blackbirds

Cornell lab of ornithology!!
Lincolns sparrow, ruby and golden crowned kinglets, yellow rumped warbler. Wonderful Saturday tour

The purpose of a system is what it does.

There are no physical reasons we cannot have a balance-seeking, nature-honoring, human development seeking system.

There are physical reasons why accelerating of energy and material throughput cannot be sustained.

For Expertise to Matter, Nonpartisan Institutions Need New Communications Strategies To avoid irrelevance when they are needed most, experts and nonpartisan analysts must rethink not just their channels of communication but also their theory of influence.

I found myself nodding vigorously with almost every paragraph based on my own experience as a climate scientist-communicator. I've experienced this rapid and profound shift in the media landscape firsthand, and can confirm that most institutions are woefully behind the curve.

kingfishers in flight formation at .5m agl over the creek. no weapons deployed just cruising at mach .02, maverick was squawking while iceman was in pursuit

MJJ rainfall: 22.42", normal: 13.07
ASO rainfall to date: 2.7", normal: 12.08"
combined: 25.12", normal: 25.15"
#mdwx

The image presents a comparison of the leading causes of death in the United States for 2023 and the media coverage these causes receive from three news outlets: The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Fox News. In the footer, it notes the data sources, indicating that the information is based on media mentions from Media Cloud (2025) and death data from the US CDC (2025) and the Global Terrorism Index, with a clarification that values are normalized to sum to 100%.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Sometimes I think about how from 1935-1975ish, Bell Labs produced an insane amount of revolutionary science and technology, including 11 Nobel Prizes, the transistor, UNIX, C, the laser, the solar cell, information theory, etc. The secret? Provide scientists with ample, steady, no-strings funding.

Spotted a kestrel. So cool

Ag folks: is it normal for yellowing soy fields in october? Like prior to harvest?
I know our #mdwx rain has been super low…

Fundamentals: What is Cloud-Optimized Scientific Data? What cloud-optimized data really means, and how Zarr and Icechunk enable fast access to massive scientific datasets in cloud object storage.

Have you seen: earthmover.io/blog/fundame...

omg - this alt.vis paper about NASA-TLX was styled like the original NASA-TLX paper 😍

arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24643

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Adoption of a plant-rich “planetary health diet” could prevent 40,000 early deaths a day across the world, according to a landmark report. The diet – which allows moderate meat consumption – and related measures would also slash the food-related emissions driving global heating by half by 2050. Today, a third of greenhouse gas emissions come from the global food system and taming the climate crisis is impossible without changing how the world eats, the researchers said. Food production is also the biggest cause of the destruction of wildlife and forests and the pollution of water. Continue reading...

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds

Got a phone call late afternoon on Tuesday during my visit to our Wallops Island, VA, ozonesonde site that NWS was immediately halting the 2x daily soundings there (WAL). Indeed they have disappeared from the map starting 1 October: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

7 months with below normal precip puts my station at -10”. 2 months had double the normal amount (45% of the yearly total). So another volatile water year w/ cocorahs

a man wearing a batman mask and headphones says don t bring logic into this Alt: a man wearing a batman mask and headphones says don t bring logic into this

But how will we know who the greatest biggest winningest team is??