Douglas fir seedling
#dailyphoto #oregon #eugeneoregon
“Log Denizens”
The world is making me crabby this morning. Time for something pretty.
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?
I did not sign up for a world where I have to do a hard reset on my kitchen faucet.
Trump is going to hold a rally in Mississippi next week.
The last time Mississippi elected a Democratic senator was in 1982.
Scared much?
