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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · Jan 23

The world has been through anti-science cycles before, to disastrous results

On a detour on my lit review, a mosey through the history of our familiar friend, the standard onion (Allium cepa) brought me right to one of botany's greatest cautionary tales of what happens when ideology overrides data

a illustration of our standard kitchen onion, Allium cepa, from 1586. Handcolored engraving

a black and white photograph of a white man in a suit, holding stalks of some plant, possibly corn or some sort of grain. Photo depicts Nikolai Vavilov (1887 - 1943)

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 2h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Neil Steinberg @neilsteinberg.bsky.social · 4h

Another beautiful, if quiet, day on 18th St.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 3h

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 3h

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 36m

Ew ew ew just for an ad for one of those AI assistants in which a woman asks it to write a haiku about her cat.

You can’t write a 3 line, 17 syllable poem about your cat?????

What is being alive for if not writing tiny little poems about your cat??!!

Add this to my joker file. Good lord.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 33m

It's not special treatment for reporters—it's critically important to maintain the ability to document police activities after they've ordered assemblies to disperse.

Again and again, we've seen cops are most likely to get more violent with demonstrators when out of public view.

Seth Stern @seth-stern.bsky.social · 2h

It's great that this TRO will issue. The lawyers and plaintiffs deserve tons of credit for making this happen.

But why is Judge Ellis walking back the position of the DOJ and at least one federal appellate court that journalists can't be dispersed at protests?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 1h

"I can no longer tell the difference between someone trying to pull a fast one and genuine dumbass. This is why I drink." - my favorite fire marshal

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2h

I was also reminded of the way code proactively gets made. You give the fire science people a chunk of money and space to build the thing they're interested in. Then they set it on fire and collect a lot of data while it's burning and in the aftermath.

Wanna guess something we haven't really done?

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 22h

Ohhhhh, I know what I'm giving to my fire marshals tomorrow to make them sad and delve into The Code. futurism.com/future-socie...

First Responders Are Being Overwhelmed by Data Center Fires

First responders in a small Ohio town have answered 84 emergencies between two Amazon data centers, all on the taxpayer's dime.

futurism.com

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2h

UPDATE:

I absolutely did trigger my fire marshals to go through the code and grumble about it continually playing catch up. That part of the point of building the datacenters where they are isn't just cheap land and resource they can exploit, but older code with poor enforcement.

Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 21h

I suspect I have just triggered a "Well, shit" moment regarding the building code, its to imagine datacenters facilities like this, and the potential of people just outright ignoring the code to load as many GPUs in as possible and run them at 99.999% of maximum clock speed until they melt.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 2h

They did give me a nightmare scenario addition:

"The larger the datacenter, the larger the battery backup it needs, which we also only have recently started addressing in the code."

And added "So, yeah, I guess we're waiting for a Triangle Shirtwaist Fire for datacenters."

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😱🩸Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🎃🔪 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 3h

so bluesky finally got some thiel money huh

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Socialist Vampyr @socialistvampyr.bsky.social · 2h

@ing the people I claim had nothing to do with this decision so they know I did it; because they didn’t ask me to do it. Just to clarify. Of course.

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 3h

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 2h

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 7h

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

Another protester's case dismissed:

Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 6h

Case dismissed without prejudice. Conditions of release vacated.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

Across Chicagoland today, more kidnappings continue. Immigration agents have taken people from Waukegan, Elgin, Glendale Heights, potentially some other suburbs. In the city proper, feds just snatched someone near Peterson and Pulaski—and earlier today, they grabbed someone from Little Village.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 6h

(shared with permission) ICE/CBP has been active on Chicago's northwest side this morning—and also met with rapid responders.

Agents reportedly abducted one man from this Dunkin at Belmont and Milwaukee around 9:30am before speeding off.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Feds were actively arresting people just a few miles away while he was giving this interview.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 5h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Back in federal judge Sara Ellis' courtroom in Chicago for a second day of discussion on a proposed restraining order to rein in federal immigration agents' violent behavior.

Debate began on this issue on Monday, and ended without the court entering a formal order.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview.

I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 3h

Met some cool people on science twitter in 2014

now we are working a million dollar grant together

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 18h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 3h

a reoccurring exchange in the research group's groupchat is "Why can't men just be normal????????"

a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 3h

i had a very productive morning. just caught up on the news and i like

what even is the point
[she says rhetorically, recognizing that taking a moment to grieve is useful but giving up is not an option]

a grassland chase 🌾🌾🌾🌾 @chasesolidago.bsky.social · 3h

listen

i cant say what i'm thinking because ill get banned

but i think you can feel what I am thinking very hard at my computer right now

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