Elon Musk Steps In With $1 Billion Equity Investment For Debt-Laden Skydance — Report

What could be worse than David Ellison owning CNN and CBS News? David Ellison and Elon Musk owning CNN and CBS News!

I don’t suppose it will happen, but it feels like time for the EU and its allies to apply sanctions to the USA and its leaders for supporting the criminal regime in Russia.

eBay, I don’t want more ways to use my earnings. I want you to give me my fucking money.

Douglas fir seedling

#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon

“Log Denizens”

The world is making me crabby this morning. Time for something pretty.

three tiny mushrooms growing out of a log

The Human Fingerprint on Earth’s Water Cycle

Fuck’s sake, NASA. Your own map right at the top of this page shows a huge and obvious loss of water around Greenland, and you don’t dare mention climate change, let alone human-caused climate change? A sad example of politics overriding science.

Fact Sheet: Monitoring Canadian Activities in U.S. Politics

So according to the State Department, the Big Bad Canadian Wolf is a larger threat to American elections than, oh, I dunno, how about Donald Trump waking up in bed next to his best buddy Vladimir Putin?

I can recall a time when people deliberately poisoned search results (anyone else remember nigritude ultramarine?). And then there were browser extensions to make background requests to pollute one’s own internet history in the interest of making surveillance more difficult. I wonder whether the AI backlash will progress to people trying to deliberately get falsehoods and nonsense into AI training data. Or perhaps it’s already happening?

Scott Mountain Fire. 2010. 3,454 acres. Fireweed scattering its seeds on the wind.

Coming in for a landing.