Hearing some attempts to brand the incoming DSA members of Congress as “the bloc.” Perhaps it’s just me, but this seems like a transparent attempt to associate them with the old Soviet bloc, at least for people my age who lived through the height of the Cold War.
Scott Mountain Fire. 2010. 3,454 acres. 16 years later: weather has stripped most of the bark off and snapped just about every snag about 15 feet up. Bear grass carpets the ground, with just a few new conifers starting to grow.
Scott Mountain Fire. 2010. 3,454 acres. Polypores extract the last nutrients from inside a standing snag. A step in the chain that will ultimately turn the burn scar into new soil.
North Sister from Hand Lake Trail.
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Trump waives new Russia sanctions in the “national interests”
US Constitution, Article III, Section 3:
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
And as usual, Darth Cheeto saves his worst for Friday night, hoping to avoid the news.
The debt-fueled AI boom is cracking
Axios digs into the financial side of the bubble. It sure looks like it’s at least deflating, if not quite popping yet.
While AI providers are projected to spend $7 trillion on infrastructure through 2030, research from Gartner forecasts they will generate no more than $3.6 trillion in related revenue over that same period.
A jumping spider lurking on the side of our garage.
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Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say
Zuck & co. really are complete scumbags. TLDR: If you have a biz account on a Meta property, their new TOS says you agree to let them scrape your (non-Meta) website and use it to train AI.
I’m down to 4 Facebook and 2 Instagram accounts that I watch because they don’t post elsewhere. This might be the last straw that takes that to zero, even though I’ll miss the content.