David W. Brown @dwb@qoto.org

@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.

#threads #twitter

Gizmodo management going all-in on automated plagiarism I see. #ai #writing #journalism https://futurism.com/gizmodo-kotaku-staff-furious-ai-content

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

@alwayscoffee She is like this 24/7.

Kitten madness! #cat #video #cats #catsofmastodon

@alwayscoffee I’ll be sure to keep an eye on you

@alwayscoffee LOL well it IS New Orleans after all. 🙂

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

#neworleans #wine #bar #disney #atmosphere #foodie

@jamesglave Read it and find out!

@danyork Thank you very much!! 🙂

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.

#climate #space #environment #sky #carbon #methane #climatechange #environmental #nasa #spacex #globalwarming

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-climate-action/a-security-camera-for-the-planet

@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.

@edwiebe Stay tuned.

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. #climate #climatechange #earth #oil #environment #earthday #co2 #carbon #newyorker https://www.newyorker.com/bottlenecks-issue-2023

@knapjack Clearly it cannot!

@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 #google 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.

For Earth Day, here is my recent story for the New Yorker on scientists studying the "Doomsday Glacier" in Antarctica, and the harrowing expedition we took there in 2022. I hope you enjoy, and please share it if you do!

#earthday #antarctica #science #stem #research #scientist #researcher #glacier #nature #ice #adventure #ocean #newyorker #travel

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/journey-to-the-doomsday-glacier