Joe Mason

It's first of all, blatant racism. But also pretty rich coming from a guy whose major accomplishment is spreading specious doubt about vaccines, jeopardizing the health and lives of millions. And a weird obsession with road killed animals including their penises.

‘They call it protection. We call it theft.’

Good news for melanoma patients! The first ever mRNA vaccine to target cancer is in our near future. ~15 yrs ago, patients w/advanced melanoma survived for a few months. A successful Phase 3 clinical trial showed that intismeran reduced the risk of recurrence by 42%. 🧪 archive.today/pp6mX

Fuck. Off.

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Fall colors in our front yard. A lot more more subtle than, say, a maple. That's what I like about them.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

When I saw those reviewer comments and said "wow, this guy is clueless; I wish he never even read my paper," this isn't what I meant.

I need to keep a record and figure out how to avoid bus runs that hit the class schedule just right and get packed absolutely full of students in the last 5 blocks before campus.

Friends don’t let friends ChatGPT

Academic publishing and genAI? I’d rather roll in shit.

How did last week’s Animas River flows compare with historical records? The river peaked at 11,200 cubic feet per second Friday, less than half its all-time recorded high.

Read a couple of books by Wright Morris first (born and spent part of his complicated childhood along US 30 in the Platte valley).

I've often taken US 30 in Nebraska as an alternative to I-80, especially when driving older field vehicles. I recommend it if you have time. And if, like me and maybe not that many other people, you enjoy driving slowly through a lot of small towns in the Platte valley.

Watch the #SanJuanRiver near Mexican Hat, Utah go from ~700 to ~17000 cfs in this timelapse made from images at the nearby #USGS river gage location. Final frame is from this morning. A higher #flood peak of ~33,000 cfs is heading this way, moving through Farmington, NM as I type...

Can't tell you how many times I've visited this web page. It has never misled me, unlike the people across the street.

One route from a bus stop to our house. Not as fast as the other route, but especially nice this time of year.

Obrigado Louisa, VA

I often recall explaining how the Electoral College works to a bunch of Romanians and Serbians while eating sub sandwiches in a convenience store in western Nebraska.

You mean they don't have to wait weeks for the full popular vote and then for the electoral college?

4 million with 97% counted

Lead of 3 million with 85% counted.

Closing in on two million now

Don't look now, but Lula's ahead by more than a million votes.

Bonus effect of tracking ships using synthetic aperature radar images : seeing the mountain structure of mountains on the Russian Kola island

A potential new data center in West Virginia is “almost certain to kill” 1.2 acres of American Chestnuts that have thus far managed to survive the chestnut blight and produce chestnuts, according to the American Chestnut Foundation. wvpublic.org/story/energy...

People forget that artisanal cheesecake craftsmen were rendered obsolete by the rise of the Cheesecake Factory in the 16th century. Roving bands of unemployed cheesecake workers would sabotage industrial cheesecake ovens in protest. You can read about it in *The Cheesecake and The Worms.*

Urban dairies predated development of railways and liquid milk transport from a distance to urban centres. In London Welsh immigrants were highly associated with the urban dairy. Often people from Ceredigion, using Welsh Black cattle (associated with drover trade).

Guy with out of state plates who stopped to charge his Tesla keeps telling his kids "Madison, capital of Wisconsin" as they walk into Woodman's East, about as far as you can get from most people's image of Madison.

Discharge of the San Juan River at Four Corners yesterday evening was about half that of the Mississippi at Grafton, Illinois, just above its confluence with the Missouri. waterdata.usgs.gov/monitoring-l...