Kieran Hervold

San Francisco International Airport, the Bay Bridge, Highways 101, 1 and 37 and other critical California infrastructure are vulnerable to “exceptional” flooding and erosion this winter, according to a report published Monday by UC Davis.

I’ve always been disgusted by praise for the slave states, but never drawn the connection - this IS what they want for America!

If you're on the fence about Measure RTM, the regional transit measure, read our endorsement to find out why we think #YESonRTM is critical for Bay Area voters. If you're already voting yes, read the endorsement to pick up arguments to use with your friend. #Savethebus

@whstancil.bsky.social what do you think of this example? I agree that ppl are in denial about LLM capabilities in the enormous realm of “computer stuff,” but it’s less clear how they perform in real-world scenarios

siouxsie and the banshees

Great thread on the difference between a new epidemic and an existing, endemic disease

@jevbot.bsky.social is a hot dog a sandwich?

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

what the hell am i looking at

Interesting argument for LLMs being capable of creativity

I’ve been saying!

This Gemini jailbreak from the ancient days of February is pretty sobering

and this is a known thing! www.reddit.com/r/languagele...

“An El Niño is not a storm. It does not arrive with wind and fury and then recede. It is a reorganization of where rain falls on Earth... The warm water is only the mechanism; the failed harvests are what people will actually live through.“

the year is 2027. you wake up, sun looks weird again. in an encrypted messenger you discuss which liquids are best at shorting out the secret police's electric gloves. two rogue AIs are doing battle in your wi-fi enabled AC unit. treasury is doing something with the yen for the fourth time

Who deserves the most style points for how their LLM commits felonies? (it's openai) verysane.substack.com/p/felonybenc...

As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...

It would be nice to see actual evidence of lab origin; instead it’s just cherry-picked private communications speculating about it

New Episode! We break down the epigenetic methylation testing Bryan Johnson uses to claim he's slowed the aging process, whether his approach constitutes real health optimization, a quasi-religious philosophy, or an elaborate grift. And yeah, we look at his tweets. links: tinyurl.com/3bd4by9t

The Grift That Never Dies Discussing tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson and anti-aging science. With @mopathguy.bsky.social & @hervold.bsky.social

I’m still with @jamellebouie.net on this one. Go further and strip SCOTUS of its jurisdiction over appeals and create a new national appeals court that pulls judges from the (expanded) circuit courts m.youtube.com/watch?v=SRzS...

but there's also the need to do more than kick the can down the road--to arrive at a new settlement that redefines the court's power relative to the other branches here i think briley's "jury of circuit court judges" proposal is pretty good www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

Discussing the time the UN gave cholera to Haiti, one of the greatest public health failures in modern times. With @jkass99.bsky.social & @hervold.bsky.social Links: tinyurl.com/7tku77n5

Now this is a story all about how My trip got flipped — turned upside down, And I’d like to take a minute, just sit right there, To tell you how I found a plinth of the king, ye mighty: despair!

My god they actually built Project Pluto, the missile that irradiates everything in its flightpath

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

Ebola: What You Need to Know Separating fact from fiction, discussing who we choose to care about and how an infection anywhere is an infection risk everywhere. With @hervold.bsky.social & @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social Links: tinyurl.com/3tj5ny7p

In truth, I don’t even bother asking whether US policy is a good idea in the abstract anymore because it’s like having a debate over whether cars are good or bad on paper when your driver is fantastically drunk. I didn’t think about it one way or the other.

Maybe I haven’t paid close enough attention, but I don’t think Sacramento is out to destroy LA (or SF, or SD) the way Albany targets NYC

I still want to do more tweaking and polishing to this, but I'm ready to share a minigame I've been working on. Straitsweeper. Minesweeper, but a longer, scrolling map where you also have to worry about clearing a safe path before a tanker goes through the strait. straitsweeper.smol.farm

lmao

Another Carrington Event would really add to current predicament!

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

When you get your woman card, they make you flip a coin. Heads they don’t like you because you don’t know enough, tails they don’t like you because you know too much. The results of the coin flip are orthogonal to how much or little you know.

Just shocked to learn the platform that’s half tulip mania, half money laundering, has ties to Epstein!

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

Why aren’t we protesting in front of billionaires’ homes? We know who’s paying for the ballroom, buying legacy media - Ellison, Thiel, Andreesen, none of these ghouls should get a good nights sleep

There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.

Congress’s shutdown deal eliminated key food safety rules, blocking agencies from enforcing measures to prevent contamination and trace outbreaks. This rollback has coincided with a surge in hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses.

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words. I cannot search three words in quotes. Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests. And now we have this.

Most Unix developers live in their command-line terminal, but few know that the TTY is directly descended from telegraph networks predating the Civil War: computer.rip/2024-02-25-a...