ocschwar @ocschwar@qoto.org

Incredible statement from the American Meteorological Organization. It takes a lot for a scientific organization to issue a statement like this:

"U.S. leadership in scientific innovation is at risk due to the recent and ongoing reductions in U.S. federal science capabilities. The consequences to the American people will be large and wide-ranging, including increased vulnerability to hazardous weather...Recent terminations within the government workforce for science are likely to cause irreparable harm and have far-reaching consequences for public safety, economic well-being, and the United States’ global leadership."

Full statement here: https://www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-ams/ams-statements/statements-of-the-ams-in-force/the-u-s-weather-enterprise-a-national-treasure-at-risk/?_zs=m2nfc1&_zl=iOL6A

Trump will likely get angry and take it out on Elon if he hears about us all referring to Musk as the real President — the one with the brains. So, don’t post that everywhere

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

Are you ever tempted to ask #ChatGPT and its ilk a question of fact? Please don't. Here we see them being serenely and hilariously wrong.

(By me for @nybooks. No gift link, but registration is free.)

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/11/23/a-genius-for-mimicry/

This is in fact what he did.

Rode the *complete* Somerville Community Path extension this morning, pre-dawn, as the fences were finally down at the high school.

Bike traffic jams on Beacon St and Somerville Ave. This corridor is one of the busiest bike routes in the region, serving thousands of commuters each direction each day.

I can't get over the story of the Texas professor suspended for criticizing the Lt.Governor. This is how fu**ed up this is:

The conservative student should have known better; her conservative mother should have known better; the Lt.Gov should have known better; the Lt.Gov's staff should have known better; and the University should have known better.
Any ONE of them should have shut down the complaint and stood up for free speech. But every one of them went full fascist.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/texas/2023/07/25/texas-am-suspended-professor-accused-of-criticizing-lt-gov-dan-patrick-in-lecture/

@julieofthespirits
I'm calling them 𝕏crements, and the verb is 𝕏crete. You can use 💩 as an abbreviation.

I once was asked to sign an "advice book" at a wedding. This was literally the best advice I could ever offer.

BIRDSITE THOUGHTS, here

https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2023/04/21/should-you-pay-for-twitters-new-blue-check/

Jason Kander:

Classified #documents - a shopping analogy:

As #Biden walked out, the buzzer went off and he realized he mistakenly failed to pay for an item in his cart. He went back in and returned it.

#Trump stuffed items in his pockets. When the buzzer sounded, he ran to his car and peeled out.

First time that a paper I coauthored gets a push notification!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jan/12/exxon-climate-change-global-warming-research?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

My first posting on mastodon but as I have no followers nobody is likely to see it.
I am a pencil artist based in the West Midlands and this is one I did recently just for a bit of fun and called it Emmy Emu..

Needed some pictures to illustrate a semi-serious presentation, so I finally gave Dall-E 2 a shot, and what can I say, the Hacker Cats of Dall-E are quite good.