Josh Cowan
@humansarenature.bsky.social
Much of my efforts are in organizing growing patches of biodiversity with a focus on water and planting. Some of my time is spent on actions of reconciliation. I feel part of communities with people i greatly respect. I am very lucky.
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Are we at the point where instead of writing an autobiography one trains a chatbot?
November 12, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Are we at the point where instead of writing an autobiography one trains a chatbot?
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
#knicks The best of any class of people where the class is held back by the stories of the dominant class may not have a high floor (changing minds draws energy away from competing) but will have a high ceiling. A woman head coach in the nba will win a chip as soon as 2-3 coaches are women. #Staley
July 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Sitting on my porch looking at three types of leaves vying for sunlight and wondering if they co-evolved to maximize energy usage kinda like birdsongs fit into different aural spaces?
July 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Sitting on my porch looking at three types of leaves vying for sunlight and wondering if they co-evolved to maximize energy usage kinda like birdsongs fit into different aural spaces?
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NASA Announces Bold Plan To Still Exist By 2045
NASA Announces Bold Plan To Still Exist By 2045
WASHINGTON—In what is being described as the most ambitious mission ever undertaken in the space agency’s history, NASA officials announced at a press conference Tuesday their bold new plan to still e...
theonion.com
April 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
NASA Announces Bold Plan To Still Exist By 2045
Louise Penny showing how it’s done!
March 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Louise Penny showing how it’s done!
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Does strategic voting ever work? Because now is the time, Ontario!
When you model out the current polling averages across Ontario, it becomes hard to see any other result than a PC win on Thursday night
I dive into those results here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
I dive into those results here 👇
open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
Doug Ford Cruising To Victory Once Again
Polling averages suggest the Progressive Conservatives face little resistance as the Ontario election comes to an end
open.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Does strategic voting ever work? Because now is the time, Ontario!
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This is just the timeline cleanse we needed tonight.
Thank you.
Thank you.
This is the final weekend of the Spirit in Winter festival in Kingston’s Market Square. The festival celebrates Indigenous art & culture with the ‘Bear in Me’ multi-media show. The festival continues through Family Day (Feb.17).🪶🇨🇦
February 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This is just the timeline cleanse we needed tonight.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
February 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 AM
NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
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Clio is Anthropic's new system for identifying AI risks that it hadn't thought to look for — what it calls the unknown unknowns. I talked with team that built it and share for the first time the top three ways people use Claude www.platformer.news/how-claude-u...
December 12, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Clio is Anthropic's new system for identifying AI risks that it hadn't thought to look for — what it calls the unknown unknowns. I talked with team that built it and share for the first time the top three ways people use Claude www.platformer.news/how-claude-u...
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Good evening, Bluesky.
Phone camera, no edits
#lajollanature
#lajolla #sandiego
#bird #moon
#naturephotography
Phone camera, no edits
#lajollanature
#lajolla #sandiego
#bird #moon
#naturephotography
December 11, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Good evening, Bluesky.
Phone camera, no edits
#lajollanature
#lajolla #sandiego
#bird #moon
#naturephotography
Phone camera, no edits
#lajollanature
#lajolla #sandiego
#bird #moon
#naturephotography
@johnmartinsson.bsky.social Hi John, Karen Bakker rocks! My understanding is Sounds of Life has a sequel of sorts coming 😊
I have an Audiomoth and ability to collect sound on two active community gardens but I’m not connected to people using ML though I have some knowledge of how it works. Help?
I have an Audiomoth and ability to collect sound on two active community gardens but I’m not connected to people using ML though I have some knowledge of how it works. Help?
December 6, 2024 at 2:26 AM
@johnmartinsson.bsky.social Hi John, Karen Bakker rocks! My understanding is Sounds of Life has a sequel of sorts coming 😊
I have an Audiomoth and ability to collect sound on two active community gardens but I’m not connected to people using ML though I have some knowledge of how it works. Help?
I have an Audiomoth and ability to collect sound on two active community gardens but I’m not connected to people using ML though I have some knowledge of how it works. Help?
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'Dr. Elaine Ma Case is Proof Ontario is Unfriendly to Physicians' justanoldcountrydoctor.com/2024/12/02/d... @drmsgandhi.bsky.social
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
December 5, 2024 at 3:21 AM
'Dr. Elaine Ma Case is Proof Ontario is Unfriendly to Physicians' justanoldcountrydoctor.com/2024/12/02/d... @drmsgandhi.bsky.social
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
Get weekly updates: CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter 🍁
So I went to a wonderful and weird or weird and wonderful College. #SRC This blog post eloquently gives voice to some of my feelings. Thinking broadly, critically and ecologically is needed more than ever.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-death-an...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-death-an...
The Death and Life of Simon's Rock
In the middle of this terrible month - a month made to shamble through, a month which must be endured - I received a far smaller piece of bad news. Simon's Rock, the weird little college for weird kid...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io
December 2, 2024 at 3:09 AM
So I went to a wonderful and weird or weird and wonderful College. #SRC This blog post eloquently gives voice to some of my feelings. Thinking broadly, critically and ecologically is needed more than ever.
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-death-an...
little-flying-robots.ghost.io/the-death-an...
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"Biomasse von Säugetieren auf der Erde:
wildlebend an Land ≈ 20 Mio. t
wildlebend im Meer ≈ 40 Mio. t
Nutztiere ≈ 630 Mio. t
Menschen ≈ 390 Mio. t." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
wildlebend an Land ≈ 20 Mio. t
wildlebend im Meer ≈ 40 Mio. t
Nutztiere ≈ 630 Mio. t
Menschen ≈ 390 Mio. t." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 30, 2024 at 4:03 PM
"Biomasse von Säugetieren auf der Erde:
wildlebend an Land ≈ 20 Mio. t
wildlebend im Meer ≈ 40 Mio. t
Nutztiere ≈ 630 Mio. t
Menschen ≈ 390 Mio. t." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
wildlebend an Land ≈ 20 Mio. t
wildlebend im Meer ≈ 40 Mio. t
Nutztiere ≈ 630 Mio. t
Menschen ≈ 390 Mio. t." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Hi All,
Anyone have good resources for helping people who are co-designing Miyawaki forests in urban environments to take the perspective of non-human beings and what they would want from these plantings?
Anyone have good resources for helping people who are co-designing Miyawaki forests in urban environments to take the perspective of non-human beings and what they would want from these plantings?
November 27, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Hi All,
Anyone have good resources for helping people who are co-designing Miyawaki forests in urban environments to take the perspective of non-human beings and what they would want from these plantings?
Anyone have good resources for helping people who are co-designing Miyawaki forests in urban environments to take the perspective of non-human beings and what they would want from these plantings?