@shanem-editor.bsky.social
Editor, sometimes writer. Digging wildlife, wild spaces, dogs (that's Haemish), evolution, asters, moss, teaching, puzzles, curries, kindness, humour, and books. And random stuff. southlineediting.ca
What a croc! This Fossil Friday, meet Deinosuchus—a giant predator that was as long as a school bus & as heavy as an elephant. Partially healed bite marks found on the bones of a tyrannosaur match this croc's teeth, suggesting it could rival even the most formidable dinosaurs.
he's describing what would be a hackneyed YA dystopia scenario if you wrote it as fiction
"imagine a world where in order to have a thought, you had to top off your Thinker account, and most people can't afford to so they work in companies that pay for their Thinker meter, and if they're fired..."
Per @datarocksnz.bsky.social this is a screenshot from Marine Traffic, an online shipping tracking tool.
www.marinetraffic.com
If you look for Hormuz, you can click on the symbols and see what each is. Each symbol is a vessel type, green ones are usually containers, red ones are usually crude oil.
Very good news. Thanks for sharing my old beacon Alon. (There are aspects of X that I miss.)
The award for best press release goes to....
#canpoli #chillax
I thought oil was it, mission accomplished. Or was that the other one? orinocotribune.com/venezuela-an...
What a delight! I do miss strolling through the Fitz.
Most writers don’t enjoy seeing their work covered in edits, but how you respond to feedback can make a big difference in the final result. Here’s how to approach edits more objectively to get the most out of the process: zurl.co/jWy2j
#WritingTips #BizWriting
Oh of course! I don't know we've ever heard a gathering like that though.
My dog is curious about these strange birds. (We're in Ontario.)
Challenging the US to prove them wrong seems legit at this juncture.
Why I don't use AI (Episode 19).
Genuinely surreal and wonderful.
Here is a great annotated bibliography for anyone working on the Rights of Nature! "The texts in this reading list explore the contours of the RoN space... Together they interrogate RoN’s potential to transform our legal, political, and cultural relationship with the rest of nature."
This is a fantastic resource, thank you! "The texts in this reading list explore the contours of the RoN space... Together they interrogate RoN’s potential to transform our legal, political, and cultural relationship with the rest of nature."
Surely this cannot surprise anyone. LLMs are trained on what has already been said. They promise a continuous repetition of the past, and not some path to an enlightened future.
Result! Just received from Grammarly:
"Hi,
Thank you for reaching out.
After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces."
1/
🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky
📰 Job opening: Politics & Society Editor
We’re hiring an experienced editor to work with scholars to explain politics, government and democracy to the public, and provide context to go beyond the headlines
📝3+ years editing experience
📍 Remote
buff.ly/dH82njQ
#journalismjobs #hiring
From Canada with love.
Leaping here but if it stays bad the midterms may be cancelled or badly ICEd up. As US/ISR run out of interceptors & then ammo Iran keeps hitting, esp ISR. After a year or two CHN/RUS steps in to tidy up. Nukes cancel all bets. Hug your loves.
I really can't wait to see how big the lawsuit against grammarly gets and I hope the plaintiffs sue them into complete and fundamental nonexistence. Like, "the company has to scrap their code rather than sell it as assets, and then also dissolve" nonexistence.
It's a theme alright.
The world uses c. 100 M barrels/day, and 20% of this is blocked at Hormuz. So this release covers about 20 days' shortfall – and we're ten days in.
You're good with these then?
Muh legacy.
In 2015, the moraines feeding Waterloo Region’s aquifers were identified as areas needing protection by a provincial advisory panel. This wasn’t buried in a footnote, it was a central finding, writes the former mayor of Toronto. www.therecord.com/opinion/cont...
Several American Indian communities and allies are fighting the Enbridge Line 5 permit to pump crude oil under the Straits of Mackinac. Livestream of the appeal to the Michigan Supreme Court beginning NOW, March 11, from 9:30 am EDT. @owdm.bsky.social
michigansupremecourt.viebit.com/embed/live
I have been writing about deathbots for fifteen years and the phrase "sloppelgänger" is the single best thing I have ever heard on this, or probably any, topic.
It's bizarre to me how many people in the comments here seem to think that automation is going to translate into more freedom for the working class.
When has that ever panned out? How much leisure time do you have, after years of these "innovations"? We are Charlie Brown trying to kick the football
“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.”
Robert Louis Stevenson