Graham Sinclair

‘Drinking from a fetid pond’: superbug-creating genes found in UK’s largest lake Exclusive: Lough Neagh, which supplies drinking water for 40% of NI, contains genes resistant to last-resort antibiotics

Superbugs resistant to antibiotics are rising fast. I tested water at Lough Neagh (40% of Northern Ireland’s drinking water) & found high levels of antibiotic-resistant genes from human & livestock poo. If we treat waterways like sewers, this is what we get. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I do a week on hydrocarbons on my investment class, and wish my better students could learn more of this from you, professor.

"My name may be forgotten when it comes, but the time will arrive when great outbreaks of cholera will be things of the past. And it is the knowledge of the way in which the disease is propagated which will cause them to disappear"

Happy birthday to John Snow! His name & his work is not forgotten.

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

"AI is not a magical tool built by people in San Francisco making millions of dollars a year and pushing their companies to insane valuations. Artificial intelligence is an extractive technology that relies on the brutal labor of underpaid workers around the world"

www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

Nick White was a hero of mankind’s oldest war The physician and pharmacologist died on February 1st, aged 74

Nick White fought an epic battle of wills to eradicate malaria: he on one side, and administritis on the other. Read our obituary

I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵

How many ways can you say “We used ChatGPT” without actually saying “We used ChatGPT”?

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

When in doubt, pretend linear time works backwards.

I keep thinking that if Donald Trump had gone to prison for January 6, as he should have, all those Iranian schoolgirls would be having dinner with their families this evening.

Better is possible.
Never give up.

Could the judge take DOGE out of the workings of functioning US federal government that serve us all, and millions around the world.

You know for the reputational damage to the republic earned over centuries and millions of lives defending its constitution and values.

Could the judge do that?

Let that sink in.

Tell Congress to stop this voter suppression bill here: https://bit.ly/3XoEskc

#ResistTrump

Idiot.

my take is, he is not stonewalling as much as *he truly doesn't understand or have his own words at hand because he outsourced the work to a chatbot*

(not trying to contradict OP--unfortunately i am coming to this conclusion from a position of teaching college in our hellscape)

Operation #EpicFail

BROKERING THE DEAL is when my brain melted, if you want to know.

When I asked about the record number of cases being rejected by federal grand jurors:

I love the "could this be a solution" post because it's a perfect example of Founder brain. You have to be a special kind of stupid to imagine that you are the first person to come up with the idea of driving around the Strait of Hormuz. It's being so dumb that you think everyone else is even dumber

At home and abroad, Big Oil reaps the benefits of a Trump White House | Editorial Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill saved the oil and gas industry roughly $18 billion in new and expanded tax benefits, while the president’s attacks on Iran and Venezuela seemed catered to Big Oil.

This Philadelphia Inquirer editorial can't be said often enough. Follow the oil money www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

AI toys for young children need tighter rules, researchers warn In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.

Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.

It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

If Trvmp was handled from the Kremlin as an agent, what would he do differently.

Wot?

Wot?

Guess who? as.ft.com/r/2f67f3cc-4...

Some of us don't feel the need to signal our status, Nige.

Putin caught executing enormous ‘semi-dark’ ship-to-ship oil transfer in Gulf of Oman Russia's shadow fleet conducts $29.3 million oil transfer amid Middle East conflict escalation, according to maritime intelligence firm Windward.

Fox News three days ago - three days before US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent lifted sanctions on Russian crude oil 'at sea' i.e. already on board ship, thus sending vital revenue to fuel Russia's war machine.

Ugh.