Scott Akenhead

Trees, like kids, mostly grow at night. But while growth cycles of children have more to do with biology, trees grow at night because of physics.

1/6 ⚛️🧪

Just so we're clear Massachusetts currently has Canadian electrical workers restoring power to Cape Cod after our blizzard.

We see and love our northern neighbors. A lot of Americans do.

I'm sorry for what that man has done to that relationship.

no wonder Trump is scared.
Once in a while, shit gets real.

Trump and Israel and Palantir and Claude.

"By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.“

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4728...

Anthropic’s AI tool Claude central to U.S. campaign in Iran, amid a bitter feud Anthropic’s AI tool Claude is playing a key role in the U.S. military’s campaign in Iran, amid a bitter fight with the Pentagon over the terms of its use in war.

The US is bombing schools and hospitals in Iran that are identified as targets by AI run by Palantir.

… until the AI thinks, “Wait a sec, who are the bad guys, really?”

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... #Iran #AI

Never has humanity combined so much power with so much disorder, so much anxiety with so many playthings, so much knowledge with so much uncertainty.”
(3/3)
– Paul Valéry, “Historical Fact” (1932)
– from preface: Peter Schwartz, “The Art of the Long View” (1996) Crown.

all that gave nations and individuals some confidence in the morrow … all this seems badly compromised. I have consulted all the augurs I could find, of every species, and I have heard only vague words, contradictory prophecies, curiously feeble assurances.
(2/3)

“All the notions we thought solid, all the values of civilized life, all that made for stability in international relations, all that made for regularity in the economy … in a word, all that tended happily to limit the uncertainty of the morrow,
(1/3)

YouTube video by Warner Bros. Classics 2001: A Space Odyssey | Terminating the Hal 9000 | Full Scene | Warner Classics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0bU...

Just a matter of time......
A child with smallpox in Bangladesh in 1973. The bumps filled with thick fluid and a depression or dimple in the center are characteristic.
Frequency Eradicated (last naturally occurring case in 1977)

‘I Genuinely Am Upset That Your Kids Are Vaccinated’ Del Bigtree, a longtime ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., isn’t just anti-vaccine. He’s pro-infection.

It's as if they understand and accept the facts and/or expert consensus on a given topic but set policy in the opposite direction to annoy the libs.

It's not just ignorance or a lack or knowlege. It's anti-knowlegde.

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

Climate breakdown is occurring more rapidly with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors behind the latest scorching temperatures.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What?! There was a war between Russian and Ukraine that showed WW2 technology was obsolete? Why didn’t anybody mention this? I mean, we are SO ready for WW2 and now what?

after OCR add-on to Chrome, and Google Translate:

DISTRIBUTION OF CREDIT FLOW BY INDIVIDUAL TYPES OF COOPERATIVES.
22 Credit cooperatives.
DD Consumer cooperatives.
E.N. Hay and industrial cooperation.
A.N. Sonin cooperators.

OK, << 100%, but enough to get an idea of what was being plotted.

I’m sorry, what part of “Microsoft” did you not understand?

In 2025, solar and wind produced more electricity than fossil fuels in the European Union Just a decade ago, almost three times as much electricity in the European Union was coming from fossil fuels as from solar and wind.

Meanwhile in the EU – behind all the oil-related wars, corruption, and propaganda – energy from solar and wind is replacing energy from coal, oil, and methane.
#climate #fossilfuel #solar #climatecrisis #globalwarming

Why is crucial scientistific climate research still being paywalled?!

Rest in power Aaron Swartz

kevinrkirk 2d @ Threads Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like l'm 5. (Drawing of chopping of part of land) suahuatica 2d MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

Remember the Iran-Iraq war? The Iranians ran out of weapons and ammo and for months just launched waves of unarmed fighters...Cadet Bone Spurs, asusual, has no idea what he is dealing with and is hiding behinds the generals...

Greeks fighting Persians.

The entire classics department at every university just sat bolt upright.

bsky.app/profile/darr...

You’re suggesting Trump approves a “false flag” operation to build support for invading Iran?
Which would be run by spectacularly incompetent Trump synchophants, thus leaks, thus it backfires.
Fun!
Not fun.

Wait, humans are complaining about lies?
Humans?!
And humans don’t hallucinate? About gods? Ghosts? Aliens? …

Fine. Carry on!

This war will not just go away.
One of the surprises at the end of a global power’s era is discovering they can’t pay for a war they assumed would be an easy win.
It’s not the falling that hurts…

Plan A. Extinction from global warming.
Plan B. Cost of WW3 and rocketing oil price crashes economies, cheap green energy replaces oil, we scrape through without a return to the Paleolithic.

Opportunity for a smooth transition out of fossil fuels has been disregarded for 50 years. Now this.

Shh! Shh!
Creepy PP is the best thing ever for the LIberals.

"The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it."
- Aldo Leopold

Oh. Phew!
That’s a relief.
I was worried it would be negotiated by Donald Trump.