@mbonotheyounger.bsky.social
We affect each other whether we want to or not, so let's use that connection for good. Interested in measurement, sensing, and materials solutions for a better world. Union College and Cornell alum. Views my own. He/him/his.
Everyone in Minnesota is completely radicalized after the months of ICE brutality. We are trauma bonded and I wouldn’t say unfuckwithable but kind of:
![@ofishbug: "i am strange and i look like toothpaste. is that ok."
[a red and white fish with transparent fins, mf looking like toothpaste frfr.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4djfp3b27soxcfkxhirydi6d/bafkreidkandaheopi737uo53ncfgtc3d5pi4wvc3cp4ztc54fv4ma6iam4)
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
Sombtimes yu just gotta rubb yore fasce on a shobbing bagh.
86-year-old goals
Getting engineering and CS people to understand this and then move past their anger at it to actually doing something meaningful and useful with it is like the vast majority of my work these days
good. more people need to understand they live on the same planet as everyone else
Virginia will become the second state to allow households to install do-it-yourself, balcony solar panels, joining Utah. My question: Will California be next? www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...
I GET KNOCKED DOWN
I DONT GET UP AGAIN
I REALLY LIKE IT ON THE GROUND
I STAY KNOCKED DOWN
I DONT GET UP AGAIN
ITS REALLY COMFY ON THE GROUND
The Trump administration is poised to use its war on Iran to justify ocean oil drilling off the coast of California: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @grace2e.bsky.social
i’ve come to believe that we will never solve the literacy crisis by talking about reading as “watering the garden of your mind” or whatever. books are, and have always been, the favored medium of God’s purest freaks and degenerates. Reading isn’t a salad. If you’re doing it right, it’s a vice.
This is how Trump's short-staffing of VA mental health is hurting *vets*:
-They keep losing therapists
-Their calls for therapy get ignored
-Their therapy is cut in half
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @tophersanders.bsky.social @joelanderson.bsky.social and me
I am excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on Community Engagement as a Catalyst for Clean Water Quality Management at the ACS Fall 2026 meeting (Aug. 23-27, 2026 in Chicago & virtual).
Please submit abstracts at callforabstracts.acs.org/acsfall2026/... by Mar. 30!
Bezos didn't buy the Washington Post for revenue. He bought it to eliminate a potential source of criticism for himself and his fellow oligarchs.
Not mentioned in this great piece but mandating the operation of coal plants even as they become way too expensive and dirty to run feels like another nice example of this
yes, nobody knows what to do about the disproportionate power of an extraction class that literally just purchased an autocratic government due to widespread corruption
very heady stuff, samuel
notice how the press helps Sam Altman pretend that he's not just some sort of sage hybrid sociologist/philosopher, but he's an outsider to the problems his bad choices cause
"Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz."
—Bill McKibben
Exxon is never going to sell you gas for $4.99 when it could sell someone somewhere else gas for $10.99.
The idea that we can be “energy independent” while on fossil fuels by simply pumping more of them out of the ground is predicated on shutting your eyes and pretending that the global economy does not exist.
Americans are about to learn one of the things I was yelling about during the campaign: the US cannot produce enough oil to keep us from feeling the global shocks of oil prices, because oil is produced by companies who will just charge us more money if the supply goes down elsewhere.
It is in fact better for us as a nation to go renewable as quickly as possible.
It’s just not better for Exxon.
sam altman looks so desperate in every pic I've ever seen of him, a man hoping against hope to come up with an actual business model before everything collapses on him
Look, we have to arrest this guy.
what a mass murderer looks like
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
Do any wealthy people follow this feed who would be willing to put up $25k to create opportunities for underprivileged kids?
Do we have other options here?
31/?
There's discussion of the AI and how it's limited, it's only in-house, blah blah de fucking blah.
This is an industry that is making BILLIONS off the still warm corpse of the creative class. These people stole -all- our information and are using it to ruin everything.
Don't trust them.
29/?
Imagine if we relied on accurate intelligence. A lot of girls would still be alive.
A preface to MLK's 1961 speech to the AFL-CIO. From "All Labor Has Dignity".