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Sunlight at night: US startup’s demonstration of lighting Earth from space draws critcism

ICYMI, @betterutah.bsky.social is calling on a Utah Supreme Court justice to recuse himself after it was discovered he signed a Prop. 4 repeal petition prior to joining the state’s top court: www.fox13now.com/news/politic... #utpol #Utah

Imagine having media literacy in 2026? ArtCraft is vibe-coded slop, and not a single line of code has been decompiled from Adobe Creative Cloud. Worst of all? They were FOUNDED as a GenAI startup! I implore people to RESEARCH before they repost 🙄

Pretty sure Trump’s grandfather’s bordelo in Alaska had a similar vibe

Nice to see this getting some attention. It's completely true, and I dearly wish more journalists understood where these common narratives about AI actually come from.

#FossilFriday: the displaced vertebrae at the base of the unexpectedly long neck of the Plesiosaurus discovered by Mary Anning in 1823 which caused some discussion at the time, and Henry De la Beche's fun interpretation of how the bones came to be displaced in his 1829-31 lithograph Duria antiquior.

A brilliant and honest look back at the 9/11 attacks and how the Bush administration misled the American people into the Iraq War by Joel Pett. Be sure to support him on substack: joelpett.substack.com/p/75-months-...

What would an AI code of ethics for creators look like? @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with @davejorgenson.bsky.social about how to earn your audience’s trust in the age of AI.

I'm a white Arab American. Most ppl would never know that's my background by looking at me. The day after 9/11, family friends, who did not know, where at the house and openly talking about how all Arabs and Muslims in the US should be rounded up into camps. I was 12 years old. We were never united.

Charnia & other late Ediacaran macrofossils preserved in turbiditic deposits of the Indreelva Member (Finnmark, Norway) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday

It’s Fieldwork Friday! Today we are highlighting our recent 2026 fieldwork near Ferron Mountain. Here are some shots of our amazing team with some amazing fossils! #fieldworkfriday #fossilfriday #volunteers #fossils #paleontology

Good news, sophonts: a new story has arrived! If you like stories about sapient digital intelligences and environmentalism, "Extrasolar Ghost Tours: Safety Questionable, Lizards Guaranteed" by @hansew.bsky.social should be one you'll really like. Also the lizards!

New polling shows, once again, majority of Utahns do not support the shrinkage of national monuments. Read more from @sltrib.com: www.sltrib.com/news/environ...

GRAND Staircase Escalante and Bears Ears both protected national fossil treasures, sacred Native sites, and unique wildlife habitats. washingtonsun.com/climate-envi...

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

For years, New Yorkers have demanded access to City records about the lasting health impacts of the horrific September 11th attacks. For years, they have been denied and ignored. That ends today. nyc.gov/sept11docs

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. The only AI I 'use' is shit foisted on me - summaries and slop vomited on my screen as part of internet browsing or injected into programs I work with until I turn those settings off or rip those parts out by the roots.

Devonian Seastar FTW!

I just started reading Spencer Cox’s book (for work). HE MADE A TURNING POINT JOKE WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE SHOOTING OF CHARLIE KIRK! How the hell did he think that was a good idea. This was the introduction. What other literary horrors await me?

At a propaganda event pretending to honor 9/11 victims, the orange felon lied about being rescued by firefighters and said he was jealous of a 9/11 hero and victims for being more famous than him. It never amazes me how much of an evil piece of shit he is.

@dennisgoris.bsky.social

There is a plant which can mimic the leaves of other plants - including plastic ones - and the best explanation for this ability is that it has some form of vision. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This Fossil Friday we are showcasing this beautiful conifer from the Neslen Formation (~75 million years old). Conifers dominated forests for over 200 million years! Conifers can be identified by their needle-like foliage, which are in your backyard! #fossilfriday #conifer #paleobotany #wesleyan

#fossilfriday A fossil crab (Cancer or Metacarcinus) I collected in June from the Purisima Formation near Santa Cruz, CA. Specimen is approximately 6 myo. 🦑🦀🦖🧪

Leaked Pictures of the new 2027 CyberTruck

Some good info here... refuseuline.com

#fossilfriday The hefty jaw of the "killer" walrus Pelagiarctos, a sea lion-like pinniped from the early Miocene Topanga Formation of southern California. Our analysis suggested it was primarily adapted to eating fish. 🐬🦖🧪

For #fossilfriday, here's an old friend; the giant stem tetrapod Gaiasia jennyae from the Permian of Namibia.

"Fascism will come at the hands of brainwashed, brainless, Americans."

LEFT: Dignified and belongs in Washington, DC. RIGHT: Tacky as sh*t and belongs in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas.

@billdayart.bsky.social

A new Scientist in the Spotlight display at the Natural History Museum of Utah for #FossilFriday I spent over 10 yrs. of Sunday afternoons prepping bones from a juvenile Sphenacodon ferox including the articulated verts on display. Bear's Ears area. #Permian #synapsid

Welcome back to #FossilFriday Here is a beautiful example of a cross section of a Stromatolite (Cryptozoon?) from the Lower Ordovician (Tremadocian-Floian) Gasconade Dolostone collected by the late Dr. Bruce Stinchcomb in Sullivan, Missouri.

At least once, I'd like to see a museum reconstruct a skeleton in bone white instead of fastidiously reproducing an irrelevant mineralization color. An exhibit expressly putting flesh on bone would be a great opportunity.

If there is another pandemic, the United States government will prioritize doing nothing, so that the maximum possible number of Americans die.

“When you repeat the outlandish claims made by tech barons, but put at the end of it, ‘And that's bad,’ in brackets. You're just helping them sell.” – @doctorow.pluralistic.net lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Heat and Wildfires During the K‐Pg Mass Extinction Enhanced by Fine Dust - Johnson - 2026 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

#FossilFriday #paleontology

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

True👇 All recent appointments to state Universities and all 12 people recommended by the Legislature for the Utah Supreme Court slots are white, male Mormons Call it the MoBro Club

🦈 New #Open-access paper 🥳 on the impact of the Permian–Triassic mass extinction 🌋 on marine vertebrates 🐠, from the Dolomites (Italy) together with @aswolniewicz.bsky.social, Carlo Romano & others. We report the first Early Triassic marine reptile from the Dolomites 😎 #FossilFriday

For #FossilFriday, the enigmatic trace fossil Lumbricaria, interpreted as fecal strings left by ammonites, from the Late Jurassic (~150 mya) Solnhofen Limestone, Germany & seen earlier this week in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh PA. 🧪🪨💩 ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021PPal....

Like, I cannot stress this enough: in the Iliad, Achilles fights Scamander, the river god who is also the *river Scamander.* There is no historically accurate way of depicting a bronze age warrior fighting a RIVER which is also a god. "What were Bronze Age anti-river tactics?" Shush.

yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets