Dr Darren Abbey

It is currently situated in a relatively cold and dark basement, with bright light coming directly from the side.

It is also near a window, so it is getting some indirect sun to tell it that the days are very short.

My horticulturalist spouse looked at the photo and laughed. Said, (paraphrased) "That just means we're torturing it."

A small white, five pointed flower growing from the end of a jade tree branch.

A happy Jade tree.

The current AI bubble is NOT a confidence scheme how dare you call it a confidence scheme don’t you realize if you undermine public confidence in it the whole thing falls apart?

I live in the community where Target started. My second job was at the first Target store.

I won't shop there anymore and hope they burn.

I haven't shopped Target since their DEI fuckery and I'm not planning to ever ever ever again

Hmmmm. The case against Hernández was developed, the indictment secured, and his arrest and trial arranged by the Trump 1.0 administration. So what happened? Look for a seven figure payment in crypto...

If you'd like some good news on AI, the last few weeks have seen execs across multiple industries strive to hide AI usage labeling on their products because, as many of us have said FOR YEARS, the audience that *doesn't* want AI is substantial and we will reject your product whole hog for using it.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

Other aspects of it are to study the genetics of the crops, even though my projects aren't exactly likely to lead to research publications.

Primarily, I'm developing them so I can grow veggies easier. I have several varieties I'd like to make available more widely (like blue dry beans), but that's an involved process to do it right so my efforts are protected.

We hung Nazis after the Nuremberg trials and the photos were shared widely across the world. I'm only sharing history here.

Don’t cite the Adversarial Poetry vs AI paper — it’s chatbot-made marketing ‘science’ Today’s preprint paper has the best title ever: “Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models”. It’s from DexAI, who sell AI testing and compliance ser…

Not a real study.

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It’s been six years since the first reported case of SARSCov2.

It’s never too late to wear a mask.

It’s never too late to clean the air.

Every infection avoided or delayed is a win for long term health.

We can drastically reduce transmission if everyone does their part.

The reason the top 10% of income earners pay more than half of all tax revenue is NOT because they are taxed more than ever.

Their tax rate has been cut FIVE times in the last 25 years.

They are paying more because their INCOME has increased astronomically, where the income of the bottom half has

Though it doesn't work with all of them, I have found I will return to locations where it does work.

Iowa needs more doctors. Here's what physicians say must change. New policy wins — including $150 million for residency expansion and new prior-authorization rules — are giving Iowa physicians hope, but health leaders warns real improvements will take years.

When i lived in IA, it was a purple state. In the last 20 years, IA took a hard right turn and its politics are indistinguishable from Alabama's, complete with abortion ban and regressive taxes. Now they have horrible brain drain and credulously wonder what caused it.

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If LLM data centres that serve generative AI platforms were erased from the Earth…

…we’d be fine.

They prop up nothing of essential value we can’t do ourselves.

If we let them proliferate for a generation, we may lose institutional expertise.

It was years later that I did the investigation. My parents had moved away years before my brain randomly connected the memories leading me to look into it.

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After several years, there was only one unaccounted for, and he was much taller than the depression would indicate.

Thus, that one was a dog or such. I may go dig it up sometime, to be sure.

There was one rectangular depression I found in edge of the woods behind my parent's house. This paired with them reporting a year of horrible stench from those woods that they couldn't identify the source of... led me to investigate the missing persons from the area.

The usual cause of suspicious depressions in a yard in my area is the location of a tree stump that has passed from memory.

That won't increase the availability of nitrogen, but might lead to better grass growth due to improved fungal action in the soil.

It would depend on the history of lawn care in that spot, too. Spraying for broadleaf weeds would have impaired the usual succession patterns. The extra nitrogen would then lead to taller, darker green grass.

I just realized I missed a key part. I wasn't just growing random things continuously. I was looking for reduced fungal disease on the plants and then growing from those seeds at each step.

Now, I routinely grow a small set of locally adapted varieties that aren't bothered by the fungal diseases.

“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons

I bet you could solve your powdery mildew problem over a few years.

I used to have a lot of difficulty with Septoria leaf spot up here. After several years of growing random hybrids and the resulting F2 populations, I no longer have any fungal diseases on my tomatoes.

Even the occasional late blight isn't really a problem.

There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.

Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.

USians? United Statesians? Wut?

Not happening. In Persian the demonym for the US is Amrikaii for American

In Arabic it's Amriki

Turkish is Amerikalı

I'm not using USians in any language unless I'm saving character count in a post on here

Mexico has a similar full name, "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" (United States of Mexico). Strangely, people don't refer to them as EUs or USians...