Jill Beim

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

A ruby-throated hummingbird flies to the left

A ruby-throated hummingbird hovers

A ruby-throated hummingbird flies horizontally with tail feathers spread apart

The zigs and zags of a ruby-throated hummingbird's flight.

#birds #birdphotography 🪶

Do you know the cause of any of the failures?

Peregrine falcon fledgling takes flight.

A peregrine falcon fledgling takes flight over Lake Superior.

#addbirder #birds #falcons ##birdphotography 🪶

Isn’t every day Earth Day? Cooking for the climate, counting Earths, and tracking time in nature

If everyone lived like we do in Canada or the U.S., we’d need 5 planets to support us all. Australians & Koreans would each require more than 4 Earths. We are depleting nature’s ability to support life about 70% faster than it is able to regenerate. That's why I think every day should be Earth Day!

As Earth Day comes to a close, keep in mind that 112 bird species have experienced steep population losses over the last 50 years.

Please do what you can to help. Use native plants in your yard. Turn off outdoor lights at night, use window clings to prevent strikes and keep your cats indoors.

Red-bellied woodpecker

American Tree Sparrow

Winter Wren

A few more spring migrants: Red-bellied woodpecker, American Tree Sparrow and winter wren.

Spring migration is underway. A few of the birds that just arrived: yellow-rumped warbler, Eastern Phoebe and yellow-shafted Niethern Flickers.

This would be a really good time for the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on DT, his administration, and the president of El Salvador for human rights violations.

i’m of the view that it would be genuinely idiotic for the white house to invoke the insurrection act if it wants to stay in power. if you are going to call out troops to confront throngs of protesters, you need to be extremely confident that they will obey every order given to them.

Massive turnout at today's #HandsOff! rally against Musk and Trump in St. Paul, Minnesota 🔥🔥🔥

Not getting much attention, but the Senate GOP is about to start voting - to make sure banks can charge higher overdraft fees. Seriously.

Good time to let your Senators know what you think of that.

I learned this week that you can put our troops' lives in danger, compromise our national security, and violate the Espionage Act. And the government will do nothing.

But if you write an editorial for your school newspaper that Trump doesn't like, you will be abducted on the street and disappeared.

How about these sweet Redpolls and Pine Siskins for a bright spot today?

#birds #photography

I was hoping to photograph the eclipse last night, but clouds made that impossible. So, to honor the occasion, I dug up my very first try at photographing a lunar eclipse back in 2014.

#lunareclipse
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#PhotographersUnited

Indeed.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

We have its red-breasted cousin saying "ink ink ink ink"

With all the chaos happening in America right now, I'm so grateful to still be able to enjoy a sunrise in the morning.

The iconic Carina Nebula image from JWST with a red square zooming into the orange region and showing the size of our solar system, including the Sun, Jupiter belt, Pluto, and Voyager 1 relative to that region of the nebula.

i don’t think we realize just how MASSIVE things in space are

Garcia: "I find it ironic that our chairman, Rep. Greene, is in charge of running this committee. In the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a dick pic in our Oversight hearing, so I thought I'd bring one as well. This, of course, is President Elon Musk ... "

Google: What’s the quickest way to lose trust and the good will of our customer base?

Answer: This shit 👇🏿👇🏾👇🏽

It's not like I'm in denial of what's happening in our country. It's just that I need a little normalcy in my life, too. So here's a picture of Gooseberry Falls for Waterfall Wednesday. Lift each other up today.

How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.

Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”

globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

Normalize pronouncing DOGE as DOUCHE.

Thank you for this list!

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

Love this! 😍

A little boreal owl to brighten your day.

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#Photographersunited

I'll tell them when I see them 😄