Dr. Jonathan R. Buzan

This stain will never be erased from history.

38. Planning for termination of Orbiting Carbon Observatories (August 4, 2025)

The great dismantling

Ny togrute en suksess: Nå vil Vy ut i Europa Sommerruta mellom Oslo og Malmö har vært en suksess, ifølge Vy. De varsler nå at ruta blir fast – og planer for tog til København og Hamburg.

This is great news - summer trial of a direct Oslo-Malmo service was a success, and will become permanent (albeit weekends and holidays) from December. And they seem to be quite serious about longer term plans for direct services to Copenhagen and Hamburg.
www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/ny...

Last weeks Alpha Quadrant Job’s Report was RIGGED! #StarTrek #Sisko197

I hope UVA is watching

Naomi Wildman has the HOTTEST ad out there. It’s for Romulan Raptor & the tunics are “warping off the shelves.” Go get ‘em Naomi. On the other side, Paris Shipyards did a WOKE "advertisement" for the Delta Flyer XK with Erica Ortegas THAT IS A DISASTER! #StarTrek #Sisko197

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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Historically fascism is obsessed with appearances and aesthetics over reality. They use the image of a thing to stand in for the thing whenever possible, because it allows them to consolidate more power quickly and to deny reality—or even the possibility of a shared reality that they don’t control.

Vaccines. Politicians are well aware of this situation, given the large number of people posting for five years. We have been ignored.

Everything is {gender|computer}

ICE Arrested Cross Teen In Workplace Raid, Sent Him South; 150 Rally… Eleven teens stood chained together, side by side before a 150-person crowd, their hands zip-tied and painted red like blood. They were there to…

#ICE kidnapped a New Haven high school student. #NewHaven www.newhavenindependent.org/article/ice_...

Labor activist Chris Smalls is back in the United States (via Chuck Modi)

when you think about it, this is exactly why they want to chat-gptify education.

The Real Demon Inside ChatGPT AI chatbots strip language of its historical and cultural context. Sometimes what looks like a satanic bloodletting ritual may actually be lifted from Warhammer 40,000.

ChatGPT and similar programs weren’t just trained on the internet—they were trained on specific pieces of information presented in specific contexts.

When stripped of that context, the bots can confuse and alarm users, or even dangerously mislead them.

theonion.com/how-aid-is-d...

Impacts of climate change on global agriculture accounting for adaptation - Climate Impact Lab We explore the impacts of climate change on global agriculture while accounting for adaptation.

Anyways, have some empirically based crop yield projections

The report is "tedious" and at times "truly wearisome", according to Bob Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University. Kopp recently worked on a paper showing how rising temperatures and drought will worsen crop yields, counter to the report's claims that crops will flourish with extra carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. "Carbon dioxide fertilization is largely irrelevant to how increasingly extreme heat and intense drought will impact crop yields," Kopp said. "As a former department of energy fellow, I'm embarrassed by this report."

I’m tired and no longer capable of being measured when speaking to reporters…

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🇵🇸 Gaza Needs Your Support: Help Build a Lifeline for Students and Remote Workers! In Gaza, war has destroyed homes, blocked roads, and left countless people without work. Yet, amidst the rubble, hope remains. Students and remote workers face daily struggles—power outages, broken in...

Spark Space needs our help! This project provides electricity, internet, & shelter for remote workers & students, but providing power is nearly impossible due to the high cost of electricity (£10 per kwh). Any funds you can spare will help people work and students learn: chuffed.org/project/spar...

My "backup plan" is to destroy Superman, next question

US government will ingest all federal data into AI models, WH tech director says That's one of the national-security reasons the U.S. needs to lead the world in AI, said OSTP's Michael Kratsios.

Oh oh oh, I played this documentary as a kid. We get Social Identification Numbers (SIN) next, and then become wage slaves. The SINless will run in the shadows…
www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/...

And I did not speak out…

"Trump’s interference in the sciences is something new. It shares features with the science-damaging policies of Stalin and Hitler, says David Wootton, a historian of science. But in the English-speaking world, it has no precedent, he told me: “This is an unparalleled destruction from within.”

I grew up in central Pennsylvania coal country in the 1970s and 80s and I remember how my small town had more than one oxygen supply store because so many of my schoolmates’ grandpas were slowly dying in their living rooms from black lung.

Interestingly, some areas of the burn zone had low evaporative stress, and these areas did not burn. These images were compiled by 16-year-old, Justin Reinman, who lost his school in the fire. Justin is working with me on a detailed analysis of the evaporative stress for the fire.

Progression of Evaporative Stress from ECOSTRESS leading up to the Palisades fire in LA earlier this year. Things start off generally alright, then those winds smacked into LA and fast-dried the veg, which fueled the uncontrollable fires.

Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes - Communications Earth & Environment Models tend to underestimate mean monthly maximum temperature anomalies by 2-3% and extreme anomalies by 11-12% over the period 1980 and 2023, which could lead to temperatures 3 °C to 5 °C higher than...

Climate models have underestimated the departure of high temperature extremes from monthly means.

If we assume these model biases persist in future projections, then the climate models are also likely underestimating the magnitude of future high temperature extremes.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The Boy Genius Who Killed 14 Million Poor People What is the moral weight of responsibility for the men who carried out DOGE’s work?

"Before January 2025 there had been no—zero, zilch—interest in killing off USAID. It wasn't something Trump ran on. It wasn't envisioned in Project 2025. It was only once Elon Musk decided that USAID was evil that destroying the agency became a policy goal for the Republican party."