Russia has done very well, though! Higher prices for oil that people were shying away from, and a possible diversion of arms away from Ukraine.

Nice!

I hadn’t heard about the local employment aspect:

New Bedford is home to the Marine Commerce Terminal, a $150 million specialized staging port for offshore wind. All of the massive turbine components for Vineyard Wind were stored and partially assembled there before being loaded on boats and sent to sea. The project has employed about 3,500 people, many of whom are union workers.

If only we could limit the damage to people who deserve it.

Messing with the jet stream is terrifying.

means you get a lot of extremes next to each other,” Maue said. Storm fronts coming from the Pacific hit that high pressure heat dome in the Southwest and are pushed north to climb that mountainous jet stream peak, “grab access to that cold air reservoir up there” and bring it back down south down the other side of the hill, he said.

Numerous studies have connected unusual jet stream and polar vortex activity to shrinking Arctic sea ice and human-caused climate change.

The article doesn’t talk about impact on this year’s crops, but I can’t imagine this is good for agriculture.

Yeah, he has a billion dollar army out there committing hate crimes, there’s no “may” about it.

Don’t be safe! It costs so much more than continuing to expand the bubble!

Fossil fuels & red meat!

We’re really checking off the constitutional rights. Here we go, Separation of Church and State.

I’ve been enjoying FairEmail. Nice to have options like ‘would you like to remove sensitive data before attaching this image’ instead of ‘do you wish you could turn off this AI bloat’.

The coalition founded to work on it: https://federaloverreach.org/

Meanwhile Trump is destroying public media.

I would like public interest info to be free, but recent events also highlight the importance of separating media and state, both organizationally and financially.

Yeah. And even if true, still not a crime that merits extrajudicial execution. And I don’t believe it until we see the body cam footage (oh, is there none?).

And on the store’s web site now:

Due to overwhelming community support, we have temporarily suspended online ordering. Please consider supporting one of Minnesota’s many immigrant rights organizations. Thank you! https://www.ilcm.org/ is great!

Like I said, working on it. But you know, this evening do I try to dismantle ICE, cook dinner, play a game, or research email providers? Lots of competing priorities in life, let’s celebrate the wins.

Thanks. Yes, Google had been evil for a long time, probably before they removed “don’t be evil.” No, let’s not be gatekeepers.

Shut it down! Shut it down!

In so much danger he didn’t even drop his phone.

Her wife, Becca Good, stands nearby, recording as well.

Her wife WATCHED HER GET MURDERED by Jonathan Ross? What a blood curdling nightmare.

And PTSD that would make him especially unsafe in escalated situations?

But part of the issue is that, as with any computer system, you have to control the inputs and anticipate the abuse. With a very bounded system, you can almost keep up. With LLM bots, there’s just no way to prepare a check for every creative way humans can be disgusting.

If you went to a human illustrator and asked for that, you would (hopefully) get run out of the room or hung up on, because there’s a built in filter for ‘is this gross / will it harm my reputation to publish,’ based on years of human interaction and behavioral feedback, or maybe even some inherent morals.