Alex Wild

At some point a bear is going to get stuck in a Waymo and I would watch that movie

I am a biologist and professor in large part because of the field experiences I gained at Brackenridge with Larry Gilbert. They've been wanting to sell this valuable property for decades. In the early 2000s, I was the student rep who spoke to a committee about its value for research.

Brackenridge Field Lab is a place that has trained decades of students how to know their environment and study its complexity carefully.

Absolutely the fuck not.

Gonna be some crazy stuff happening once Trump is unleashed after midterms.

Sometimes when I hear the stupid scams people have fallen for in online dating I think about the Australian beetle that tries to mate with beer bottles.

Extra high king tides this week bringing a preview of climate change. By 2070, this will be the normal sea level.

Black box programs that update every week are not repeatable. Every calculation I do in R, I could do the long way with a pencil on paper. That is not the case with ChatGPT.

What if people just made a little stick drawing in crayon showing what they want, instead of posting gen-AI slop? Even if, especially if, they have no talent? That’d be really charming.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

A good day for democracy. Let’s keep this streak going.

Oh so a country *can* choose not to make the same mistake twice

Early results in Brazil’s runoff election have gamblers dropping Bolsonaro like a rock.

The good guys win resoundingly in Serbia.

However the Brazil election goes it will have the stench of illegitimacy, and no good will come from that.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

This is a really great reddit thread on lesser-known services the city of Austin provides.

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

Every year this one house in Ann Arbor has the largest pumpkins for Halloween

These Maine numbers are so cute, compared to Elon Musk dropping $200M in Texas to elect Ken Paxton.

You cannot use Instagram or Facebook without being complicit in fascism.

Grim stories from Brazil. Indigenous voters going to the city a day early because they don’t trust their state not to cut off their travel routes on election day: www.instagram.com/reel/De4z6kP... - while many flights to the north east, a pro-Lula region, have been cancelled without explanation.

NEW: Ingram, Texas, was just rebuilding from a devastating flood when its tiny police department enrolled in ICE’s 287(g) deportation program. Within a year, cops would hand over the equivalent of 10% of the town. with @nytimes.com

Ooooohhh you get to fill in your own headline! "Gossip is worst in Minn." "Censorship is worst in Minn." "Capoeira workshop is worst in Minn."

Brewer ants, Cyphomyrmex, are small relatives of the more famous leafcutter ants that cultivate their fungus as a yeast (the little golden globules), rather than as hyphae. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas.

Brazil is voting on whether the country wants to become a colony of the United States and its tech oligarchy. Absurd that any Brazilian is even thinking about prostrating their country, the propaganda must be intense if the race is this close.

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Your chat query is routed to a panel show of comedians. The answer will be read by David Mitchell announcing your stupidity at even asking.

I’m guessing those of us with gas cars are going to want to fill up shortly before election day, because whatever quick fixes and shenanigans Trump and his allies are pulling to keep prices from spiking even higher will end the instant polls close.

They somehow got away with playing "Highway to Hell", and the lead singer dropped the f-bomb in Brain Stew.

The 10 year old's adorable kid rock band played at a school fundraiser last week, and it went well enough that apparently all the kids in his grade are now starting bands.

Tired: Bees as pollinators Wired: Bees as soil engineers