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• Post #4390572

  🦈🦈🦈 Cue the theme from "Jaws" 🦈 Other than the note about bull sharks moving north as climate change warms the oceans (not a small thing), this is an interesting story about an apex predator (SCARY —hysteria!! 😨 🦈🦈) and a healthy ecosystem, as I read it — with a summer movie theme that's tough to ignore. 🦈 😉 🦈 "Huge great white spotted traveling off US and Canada as shark sightings surge" DON'T GO NEAR THE WATER!! 😉🦈 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/31/...

• Post #4164288

  "California redwoods gateway is returned to Indigenous tribe. 'That's healing our people too'" via Los Angeles Times https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-07-28/california-redwoods-gateway-is-returned-to-indigenous-tribe-thats-healing-our-people-too #GoodNews #California #Indigenous #Yurok #redwoods #CoastRedwoods #trees #nature #HumboldtCounty

• Post #4101346

  Seems like a big deal: trump regime acknowledged in court that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects “based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state” — 16 states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. That contradicts repeated lies by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and other officials that the projects did not adequately advance US energy needs or had other problems that made them a poor investment. https://apnews.com/article/trump-clean-e...

• Post #3967865

  👋👋👋 Hello!! 😯 "Hugging Face recently disclosed details of what appears to be the first publicly known case of AI-on-AI cybercrime against a major AI platform. ... Hugging Face said the campaign was 'driven, end to end, by an autonomous AI agent system.' In a reverse-card move, the company used AI of its own to detect and analyze the attack." https://gizmodo.com/hugging-face-we-used-ai-to-catch-the-first-confirmed-ai-agent-breach-of-a-major-ai-platform-2000787778 "The mac...

• Post #3943894

  I've got this. Hold my beer 🙄 ..."AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found" https://thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study Study: "AI advice suppresses people’s willingness to say 'I don’t know', even when the advice is wrong and accuracy is incentivized" https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/5y6m4_v1 #AI

• Post #3768292

  #SilentSunday — #coyote on the lawn, Berkeley, #CA. Have a good day. #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #nature #morning #sunshine

• Post #3660329

  Huh? "Freedom Fuel gas stations in Philly: What we know" FWIW, there is a gas station near us where regular has been selling for $3.39. I haven't been able to figure out how they undercut all their competitors by so much and remain in business. https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia/philadelphia-freedom-fuel-stations-trump-gas-price-20260707.html?id=ZHnNAavrEu68o #Philadelphia

• Post #3602849

  Happy #4thOfJuly. They said it 250 years ago and it still goes: #NoKings. Good night. #OTD #America250 #Democracy

• Post #3450051

  French struggle with heat-trap homes as climate inequality grows — "More than 44 million people in France, out of a total population of 67 million [two-thirds of the entire population], have been under the highest red alert for heat this week, with daytime temperatures exceeding 40C [104°F] in many places and staying dangerously hot at night" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/25/french-heat-trap-homes-climate-inequality-grows h/t @CLEW@mastodon.energy https://mastodon.energy...

• Post #2202950

  Bird songs in the lush, wet woods. You may hear the dog collars jangling, too, as they were with me. Have a good day. #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #TrailRunning #nature #trees #morning #BirdSongs #BirdSong #video

• Post #2147926

  "A roughly 14-foot-tall bronze statue of the United States’ most famous abolitionist, Harriet Tubman, will become a permanent fixture outside Philadelphia’s City Hall later this year. It will be the first statue of a Black female historical figure in the city’s public art collection." About time — How Harriet Tubman and Philadelphia abolitionists coordinated dangerous journeys to freedom: https://theconversation.com/how-harriet-tubman-and-philadelphia-abolitionists-coordinate...

• Post #1898124

  Not the future we asked for: "Robot dogs with Elon Musk heads roam Berlin museum in Beeple's new exhibit" https://apnews.com/article/germany-berlin-robot-dogs-beeple-bezos-digital-art-4a2be2a4a4490553ad68c27beedfe83a #dystopia #art #Beeple #Berlin #robots

• Post #1568950

  #SilentSunday — "I will always love you" — Westinghouse "Atom Smasher" A bit of forgotten #nuclear #history in the suburbs of #Pittsburgh, #Pennsylvania Have a good day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_Atom_Smasher #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running

• Post #1540312

  Lush, wet, verdant #waterfall for #EarthDay and #WaterfallWednesday. Hope it's a good day for you and yours. #photography #photo #foto #fotografie #fotografia #running #TrailRunning #nature #trees #video

• Post #1540311

  Prediction markets are unlicensed, unregulated casinos and easy targets for scams — "Météo-France sensors at Roissy airport at the heart of a suspected manipulation on Polymarket — On the evenings of April 6th and 15th, temperatures recorded by a probe positioned at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport rose abnormally... Strong suspicions point to manipulation facilitated by online betting." https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/04/21/des-capteurs-de-meteo-france-de-l-aeroport...

• Post #1540310

  "Anthropic’s New Mythos A.I. Model Sets Off Global Alarms" — so Anthropic limited access... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/technology/anthropics-mythos-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.c1A.GSCh.ySM1CcBGdPHJ&smid=url-share 1/2 #AI #Anthropic #Mythos

• Post #1252923

  "‘The data on extreme human ageing is rotten from the inside out’ – Ig Nobel winner Saul Justin Newman" "Regions where people most often reach 100-110 years old are the ones where there’s the most pressure to commit pension fraud, and they also have the worst [birth and death] records [and/or registries]." Interesting to see if there is follow up beyond the work of a single researcher. https://theconversation.com/the-data-on-extreme-human-ageing-is-rotten-...

• Post #1183730

  Stealth Satellite TV Defeats Iran's Internet Blackout - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/iran-internet-blackout-satellite-tv #Iran #internet

• Post #1113906

  ICYMI — #AliceWong

• Post #998603

  He speaks for a lot of Christians and non-Christians alike: "Pope Leo Condemns Trump’s 'Unacceptable' Threat to Destroy Iran" https://newrepublic.com/post/208755/pope-leo-donald-trump-threat-destroy-iran

• Post #998601

  Guardian: "Middle East crisis live: Iran war ceasefire doesn’t include Lebanon, says Israel; Trump says uranium will be ‘taken care of’" IOW: it's complicated... https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/apr/08/iran-war-ceasefire-live-updates-trump-deadline-middle-east-crisis-latest-news #Iran #geopolitics #ceasefire

• Post #998600

  Perspective: https://bot.country/@dscovr_epic/statuses/01KNNTAJ5KAY090RP62RBX3H4K #OneWorld #InThisTogether

• Post #973316

  Artemis II: The 40 minutes when the astronauts lose contact with Earth https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0vyzmmy50o #Artemis #space #ArtemisII

• Post #951698

  "But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?" v @mobydick https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gt3ch2hzuhgawokj6lquoh2m/post/3m7r6j63inu2z h/t @eliothiggins.bsky.social

• Post #880132

  “'It is very difficult to understand how we will survive now with only $7. Our children will suffer the most,' said camp resident Mohammed Rahim, who said he and his wife were already struggling to feed their three children before the reduction. 'I am deeply concerned that people may face severe hunger and some may even die due to lack of food.'” https://apnews.com/article/rohingya-bangladesh-aid-ration-cuts-wfp-8349d38f8f8b21c96e70b5e805468fd1 #Rohingya #Banglade...

• Post #880129

  Measles cases in Japan increase – https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260331_15/ #measles Japan #PublicHealth

• Post #847511

  https://360info.org/responding-to-the-us-israel-vs-iran-war-indonesias-board-of-peace-dilemma-intensifies/ Also via @eurasiareview https://mastodon.social/@eurasiareview/116315327557083498 #Indonesia #BoardOfPeace #geopolitics

• Post #847510

  So much for winning when you're stupid and enact stupid policies: trump's tariff-based trade policy: which countries gained, which lost — and who is footing the bill. Good analysis. https://www.dw.com/en/how-us-liberation-day-tariffs-reshaped-global-trade/a-76303601 #geopolitics #TradeWar #TradeWars #LiberationDay 😕

• Post #847508

  😳 "As cherry blossom season begins across Japan, expert urges caution amid toppling trees" https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260326/p2a/00m/0na/019000c?dicbo=v2-Mrxiwx0 v @mainichi #Japan

• Post #847507

  Sign of the times — "'Eliminating a channel on NHK's AM, which played a pivotal role in radio history, is a significant change. The chances of stumbling upon educational programs that spark curiosity will be reduced, which is a bit heartbreaking,' said Ryohei Kayahara, a professor of radio studies at Nihon University. However,' it is important to evolve with the times, to create equal opportunities for culture in the digital age,'he added` https...