@VirginiaMurr I feel the same way, I think. I definitely get more meaningful engagement here than Twitter, Threads, or Bluesky.

I signed up for Threads and the first and only thing I felt was just utter exhaustion with all this.

@alwayscoffee Thor is a sweetie 💜 — I'm pretty sure Mara is an actual gremlin with an occasional Cat Mode.

There is an almost Walt Disney World-quality theming that leads to the Tell-Me Bar, my second-favorite (?) wine bar in New Orleans.

This week, The New Yorker published a special digital issue on bottlenecks in the climate crisis. I hope you will read my contribution, about how our anemic ability to monitor methane emissions led the Environmental Defense Fund to build a spaceship and do it themselves.

newyorker.com/news/annals-of-c

@GuyNamedBrian I am not convinced Alex Kurtzman's ego will allow this show to happen. The audience response has been so dramatically different from anything that came before, and this is the show he had the least involvement. (It is no coincidence.) I hope I am wrong—Picard Season 3 was a masterpiece.

We are pleased to announce that account sign-ups on solarsystem.social are now open !!!

Solar System Social is a new Mastodon instance for the planetary science community.

Any professional working in the field of #PlanetaryScience is welcome to join. If you are a student, postdoc, researcher, engineer, administrator, institution, society, community, academic journal, journalist, science educator, or science promoter, we would be pleased to welcome you to our community!

My entire day is whispering “what the fuck” at computers.

This week, the New Yorker has a special issue devoted to "bottlenecks" in solving major climate change-related issues. It is a magnificent series of probing essays that I encourage you all to check out. Incidentally, my story will appear online on Friday, and I cannot wait for you all to read it. newyorker.com/bottlenecks-issu

@thelovebing I already find GPT-4 far more useful than Google, though its inability (that I know of, anyway—I am only just beginning to use it) to provide citation links in its results is a limiter.

Does anyone at actually use Google? What the hell is happening there? Pages are taking an eternity to load (this has been a problem for a while) and are now infested with shitty answers to the wrong questions.

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