Feral Appalachian witch in Texas 🌞🌻🏳️‍🌈

Well at least the folks at Lodge cast iron are nice. New “bread kit” (lidded double handle pot) came with a broken handle. If I could I’d fix it myself, but alas I have no skills in welding atm.

Lodge says they are sending me a new lid :)

artisan pizza dough- crispy, chewy, bubbly crust | With Spice This artisan pizza dough will give you a chewy crust, blistered bubbles and a crispy bottom. High hydration and a long fermentation are key!

Still having a nervous breakdown but I've been living on this for a week and in case someone else would like to live on it for a week: very little work with long bulk fermentation, keeps in the fridge for two days so you can literally just pull a hunk out, shape, top, and bake as needed.

Renewable Energy and National Security The wind and the sun don’t need to transit the Strait of Hormuz

Trump's Iran war makes the case for the energy transition to renewables for most countries much clearer and immediate. @pkrugman.bsky.social 1/

Happening now: ~200 protesters have gathered off Chicago's Michigan Avenue this afternoon for another demo condemning U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran and Lebanon.

Israeli airstrikes killed dozens in Lebanon overnight. Thousands of families have been displaced after widespread evacuation orders.

a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease ALT: a woman sitting at a table talking to a man who says money pleeeeease

Google’s Gemini fully made up a fake title for a book I wrote without me prompting it (I was looking up an award date to add to my CV). So guess what everyone? I’ve written two books. Promotion, please.

The AI Bubble Is An Information War Editor's Note: Apologies if you received this email twice - we had an issue with our mail server that meant it was hitting spam in many cases! Hi! If you like this piece and want to support my work, ...

Free newsletter: The AI bubble's info war demands that we believe in things that aren’t true, like the economic fundamentals of the AI industry are perfectly sound, or that Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are anything other than warmongers.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubble-is-an-information-war/

the weirdest thing about this debate, which is almost certainly due to negative polarization, is that the pro-AI position *should* be "no, its not conscious, it is just a marvel of engineering that has produced a vastly more effective computer program"

Yes, That Mancini’s: How a Legendary St. Paul Steakhouse Raised $35K for the Resistance - Racket ‘The Gathering for Good’ brought the West 7th neighborhood together.

The last thing I expected to do was write the feel-good story of the year. But . . . [gift link]
racketmn.com/yes-that-man...

It's impossible to tell the Selma and Bloody Sunday story if you erase Jimmie Lee Jackson.

It's literally sanitizing the story.

There's also the story of Amelia Boynton. Famously photographed beaten unconscious.

She would reprise her Selma March with President Obama at the age of 109

Might be a sign I need to go do something else, or just wait until baseball starts.

Searching around Netflix to watch something and like damn.

Started an episode of "Absentia" and I just can't get over how unrealistic it feels to me.

I started to watch a Dutch true crime doc, and I can't get into that either.

Just not seeing anything worth watching today while I do laundry.

My parents don’t remember their youth at all. My mom literally never drank or smoke so if she can’t remember things what hope do the rest of us have?! Anyway but you will recall when white teens got into hip hop in your rural town? Early Dr Who IRC chat? SDCC before it went corporate? YOU do!

a man wearing glasses is reading a newspaper titled " what the people " Alt: Marwood (aka I of Withnail and I) peers out from behind a newspaper. His expression is one of fear and disgust.

I was just extolling a friend— write stories from your life down. Even if you don’t know what/if anything you’ll do with it. If you’re in your 40s or older you need to write your teens and 20s escapades down right now.
Or dictate into an audio file. How quickly your life becomes social history…

Admiring Our Heroes for International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women For the last hundred years, women have had pivotal and far too often unsung roles in building and shaping the technology that we now use every day. Many have heard of Ada Lovelace’s contributions to

For International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting the contributions of just a few EFF Award recipients from the last decade, whose work to protect privacy, speech, and creativity online has had a global impact.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Can confirm, every Signal chat in town either said nothing or made one snide comment and then immediately got back to work

We've had enough of the censorship at Texas A&M.

Sign the petition to demand that the Board of Regents end their policy of auditing syllabi & canceling courses that mention race or gender.

The policy prevents faculty from teaching openly & students from learning freely.

Sign & share⬇️

We next Maryland faculty!

Let's get this collective bargaining bill over the finish line!

SUFS ANNOUNCES AAUP AS AN ENDORSER OF MARCH 7TH NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION

Stand Up for Science is excited to welcome The American Association of University Professors (@aaup.org) as an endorser of our National Day of Action on March 7th!
Join us: standupforscience.net/march7

#science
#standupforscience
#rally
#March7
#savescience

A major victory! ✊

"This is a member-driven landmark achievement that will have an enormous impact in Kansas. This would not be possible without the courage of our members, who dug in and fought so hard because they knew that a fair contract was possible.”

—Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

Shared from my PhD lab’s WhasApp chat, how a journal published a paper about the Arctic fox which is 100% an AI hallucination, and journal isn’t retracting it.

www.canids.org/resources/Le...

Damn depressing how fake science and AI is increasingly flooding real science and real work.

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

"In America, Islamophobia is deeply tied to issues of racialization and white supremacy ... One way this is illustrated is the fact that Islamophobic incidents impact people who are not practicing Muslims, simply because they are perceived as such."

Oracle and OpenAI End Plans to Expand Flagship Data Center Oracle Corp. and OpenAI have scrapped plans to expand a flagship artificial intelligence data center in Texas after negotiations dragged over financing and OpenAI’s changing needs.

Find me a fainting couch...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

My two fishtanks, in a dimly lit apartment

fishie!

seeing more disgusting genocidal racism talk coming from Israeli politicians now that more bombs are dropping.

There is no justification.

Every human being's life is equally precious and demands our dignity, care and consideration.

Full stop.

This is one of those things that is less sexy to talk about but is unequivocally a war crime

A yellow lab carrying a giant branch that is wider than the sidewalk

Solid snow bank find for the Branch Manager