The #ESA is the world's most successful conservation law, and it's under attack again. The Trump admin. just proposed four new rules that would gut the Act and drive imperiled plants and animals closer to extinction.

We have fewer than 30 days to voice our opposition loud and clear ➡️ bit.ly/3LZAGe6

That bow tie is … limp

Like “my brain is oatmeal and I have no idea who you are?” I’m not sure I see the appeal

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

The trouble is… with my students who are using AI despite my prohibition of it… they are not trying to learn. They see the assignment as a hoop to jump through. Even when it’s something totally fun like choosing a song to analyze. Thinking people are using these tools to learn is a tad naive IMO

Agree. I strongly believe that using AI to summarize information is a strong form of outsourcing your thinking.

Summarization is crystallizing your thoughts, and -- at least for topics you are still trying to learn -- you can't afford to let an LLM do that in your stead.

This is what Elon Musk's trillion dollar payout looks like when annualized and compared to the total annual income of every EMT, school bus driver, nurse, teacher, cashier, and even CEOs.

This is class war. And the oligarchs are winning. The time to organize is now.

🦬 The alacrity with which this administration kneecapped federal renewables is infuriating, but also insightful, because it shows that the next Democratic administration can and should do it to oil and gas.

Interior Launches Expansive 11th National Offshore Leasing Program to Advance U.S. Energy Dominance | U.S. Department of the Interior The Department of the Interior today announced a Secretary’s Order titled “Unleashing American Offshore Energy,” directing the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to take the necessary steps, in accorda...

Can we put a stop to corporations and billionaires “winning” at the expense of conservation, wildlife, and climate resilience?

#ConservationOverCorporations

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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.

If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

The certainty of destruction and the elimination of the burden of caring for other life forms with whom we share the planet, apparently

The public is encouraged to submit comments during the 30-day comment period beginning November 21 at www.regulations.gov by searching the following docket numbers:

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It’s a sign of society being messed up that he could hold any office

Hmmm … 🤔

Days of Shattered Faith. Fair warning, Adrian Tchaikovsky may actually be a pod of clones all constantly writing, considering his output. But most of it is good.

AI apparently doesn’t know that boats move and stacks of books fall over… not to mention the walking the plank bit

Inside Venezuela’s Contradictory Oil Industry Venezuela has the most proved oil reserves of any country. Here's why the aren't a leading oil producer.

Venezuela could fast become another Viet-Nam given its difficult terrain that doesn't lend itself to mechanized warfare. So why attack Venezuela

There's no indications it's actually producing significant amounts of drugs but what it does have is

Oil and lots of it

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Absolute must read on the AI bailout-in-progress: apparently it's not enough that lifetimes of human ingenuity and creativity have been stolen and enclosed to create generative AI and balloon billionaire wealth - much more public looting is in store...

No animal is safe with She Shot Cricket

Twitler is guilty of vast amounts of mortgage fraud.

A Conservation Rule to Match Our Mountains The comment period has just closed on the Trump administration’s process to rescind the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, which has been framed as

A new CounterPunch piece by WWPs executive director, Erik Molvar and Southern Utah director, Laura Welp argues that with the Biden Conservation Rule on the chopping block, we have a rare chance to build something stronger — a Conservation Rule worthy of the West.

This is a story of a massive Trump cover up but it’s also a story about total elite impunity, how the wealthy and powerful operate with a set of rules totally unrecognizable to the rest of us

Western Injustice - The Livestock Industry’s Power Grab to Block Wildlife Recovery Strip away the rhetoric and you’ll find a well-funded effort to weaken the ESA, vilify wolves, and tighten industry power over the West.

Strip away the rhetoric and you’ll find a well-funded effort to weaken the ESA, vilify wolves, and tighten industry power over the West.

Too afraid to be the Left.

Behind AI Hype, Climate Consequences AI’s massive energy use is giving fossil fuels a lifeline when they should be rapidly phased out in response to the climate emergency.

It’s critical that AI become part of global climate negotiations—not as an escape hatch for how it could save the planet, but as an urgent threat to people, wildlife, and the atmosphere, say Jean Su and John Fleming of @biologicaldiversity.org.

The Trump administration and extractive industries are working together to turn irreplaceable Alaskan Arctic coasts, boreal forests, and caribou calving grounds into profit zones for drilling, mining, and industrial fishing — accelerating #extinction and #climate breakdown.

He’s the shrunken little man behind the curtain. He’s the boogeyman who vanishes when the lights go on.

The downfall of this regime can’t come soon or hard enough.