Emily Johnston

and quinoa. and you can toss veggies in there near the end, too, and get them nicely steamed. it's magic.

Worker Groups Representing 700,000 Demand: Amazon, Google, Microsoft Must Reject Pentagon's Demands Reject The Pentagon’s Demands.

Read our full statement with @amzn4climate.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social, Amazon Labor Union, United Video Game Workers, + more: medium.com/@notechforap...

my response was less high-minded!

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."--Thomas Jefferson

I particularly love this: "These latter two threats are inherently contradictory: one labels us a security risk; the other labels Claude as essential to national security."

This is how you do religion right.

"What we found is that any metric of agricultural intensity was always the best predictor of acceleration of the decline.”

Fun, since the local solar anti's are up in arms about turning farmland into pollinator friendly solar near the bird watching sanctuary.

Hungry? Eating won't fix anything.

Normally I hate the betting markets. But this, this is 👨‍🍳😗.

💔

Someday, if I need a reason to live, I'll whisper to myself, "remember that blind refugee who was abandoned in February in Buffalo far from home, and died? the people who did that can still be tried and sent to prison."

if only I believed they actually felt it, rather than simply aggrieved and/or misunderstood.

however, institutions recognizing that certain behaviors mustn't be (seen to be) tolerated? priceless.

Nahhhh, I think '78 remains the queen. IIRC—and I probably don't!— it was 30+ inches ON TOP of 20-ish inches from only a week or two before. I lived on a pretty busy street, and folks were xc skiing and sledding down it for DAYS. I was 11, in a warm house with enough food. It was beautiful.

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

"The projects are sparking alarm from El Paso to Davis, West Virginia, from residents unhappy to learn that gas plants large enough to fuel major cities are set to sprout in places they were never expected."

Way to go, tech barons! Make enemies of EVERYONE with this garbage.

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Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S. Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

This is absolutely true, and absolutely heartening. However, all the solar in the world won't save us while the bad guys are still amping UP the use of fossil fuels.

Slowing the energy transition down is genocide.

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Paige is gunning for your job.

Like what Musk did to USAID, and want him to do it to the night sky?

Then don’t do this comment process—which is, in truth, a little kludgy…but unbelievably important if you value leaving anything at all in this world un-devastated.

This is an absolute abomination.

The comment process is a little kludgy, but the link below is a great guide. It took me under a half hour to respond to both (hideous) proposals.

If you've ever looked up at the night sky in wonder, do this.

Shakshuka is my very favorite winter meal….

agreed!

Homegrown heirloom tomatoes are a thing I would eat every day of my life, and every day there would be a bite that would make me simply stop and ponder the wonder of being alive.

This is an absolute abomination.

The comment process is a little kludgy, but the link below is a great guide. It took me under a half hour to respond to both (hideous) proposals.

If you've ever looked up at the night sky in wonder, do this.

This is so important. In the end, all communication & creative endeavor is about the exchange between living beings; it's process, not merely a static output.

Even beautiful words, from a computer, offer nothing. (Except, of course, for the many instances when it's stolen from a human.)

Thinking about this more...it's ALL stolen from humans, of course. So sometimes it will ring true, & may be useful. But what it isn't (when it's not stolen whole-cloth, but rather piecemeal) is a gift from one soul to another, across space & time. And that gift is what animates all art (or homily).

This is so important. In the end, all communication & creative endeavor is about the exchange between living beings; it's process, not merely a static output.

Even beautiful words, from a computer, offer nothing. (Except, of course, for the many instances when it's stolen from a human.)

I saw two crows on a sign in my neighborhood a few days ago doing the same thing. So lovely!

the beans!

in all its complex, fleshy, multifarious, interdependent glory.

I mean, the things I have to say here will not fit in a thread...but honestly, if they weren't so destructive, and in vogue in our strange dark era, I'd just feel sorry for them.

AI eating the world is beautiful? Monarchies are radical? Human brains are passé?

They clearly perceive a hierarchy/binary between universe & nature, with the former as cold, pure, mathematical, everlasting, and the latter as...messy, vulnerable, FEMALE.

They're just cowards, afraid of life

And even that, of course, is standing on the shoulders of biological intelligence. It has nothing to offer but speed (& unless/until we get to a place where it's better trained & can root out error, that's a very mixed blessing).

What gets me about these guys is how stupid & unimaginative they are.