Lee Colleton

“The right unit isn’t degrees; it’s tons — of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases. If we want to avoid the worst impacts, our task is and has always been to reduce these emissions as quickly as possible.” - @drkatemarvel.bsky.social @afreedma.bsky.social CNN: https://cnn.it/4sfoI0W

Beavers stop chewing every few seconds to listen for cracking sounds in the tree so they don't get crushed www.reddit.com/r/interestin...

damn, MapQuest is coming back strong

As context, it's important to know that in Seattle, there is one shelter bed for every three unsheltered people in Seattle.

More than 28,000 Fusus cameras in Atlanta are integrated into a “real-time crime center,” allowing police live access to their streams. In Hawthorne, California, the city surveillance network has more than 3,700 cameras. And in Seat Pleasant, police have access to 1 camera for every 3 residents.

any interest I could have in AI as something cool (I have been on computer since the 80s, online since the 90s) has been swiftly eclipsed by its corporate purveyors’ strip mining of what I love (writing, reading) and how I love to do it (good labor conditions for all)

“No matter how disgusting and offensive I find it, this kind of overt indifference to the suffering of others and simulated murder of SF’s most at-risk residents serves as an unintentional mirror to a city and a culture of contemporary wealth that’s increasingly cruel and completely out of touch”

A memo from senior insurance-industry officials warning that insurance modelers are being pressured to downplay climate in their models & that many insurers are already planning their exist from key markets. An explosive fuckup on the scale of the mortgage crisis is building.

I thought I remembered Rob Saka SUPPORTING the exact kind of prefab restrooms that he called a waste of money today (now that Mayor Wilson is proposing them) just last year. And lo, I found his amendment—he added $1 million for graffiti-resistant, prefabricated restrooms in West Seattle (p.14)!

I love taking the train between San Diego and Los Angeles since it's such a gorgeous view but there's just no way it'll still exist on the same track a generation from now. www.instagram.com/reels/DeSCAh...

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

i thought this was normal but the Oil & Gas people have assured me this is not how a terminal is meant to look

It's the job of the media to scrutinize such statements and decide whether there's a story here at all (maybe the story is Anthropic researchers have fallen into a fantasy-land and brought many policymakers with them), not to just platform them. >>

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Report back to the Bound Orc about the Nord, whatever the cost may be

And the video usually shows the opposite: that the agents rammed into the victim. But there are no consequences for the lies. So there’s no reason to stop telling them.

This is what ICE is. Firing repeatedly into a car with a baby inside. Whether it was negligence or deliberate, it is absolutely unjustifiable. This is literally the sort of thing that happened in Moscow during the 'Wild East' days of utter lawlessness. This is also Trump's America today.

(1/2) "This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. ...

‘Years of dog pee’ blamed for fallen street light in San Diego’s Little Italy

Crash! (1971) Dir: Harley Cokeliss J. G. Ballard pontificates on the symbiotic human relationship with the car, released two years before his auto erotic literary collision of car, violence and flesh, Crash, was published. #JGBallard #AtrocityExhibition #Crash www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jinz...

A fractured, surreal dive into media, war, and sexual obsession. Jonathan Weiss adapts J.G. Ballard’s novel into a disorienting fever dream, blending archival footage with psychosexual breakdowns. Uncompromising, disturbing, and pure Ballardian madness. #AtrocityExhibition #JGBallard

[see alt text for context] - astonishing stuff from young C P Stewart: inserting cigarette cards of the Mechanized Age collection into the Motor Cars album, with a result that is both subversive futurism & anarchic, disruptive satire on incipient 1940s petro-consumerism. #AtrocityExhibition: Room 1

#usa #atrocityexhibition

The Sharp Tranket transistor radio (1960)

72-year-old man shoots off-duty ICE agent who assaulted him and his daughter, after they woke him up on the lawn of their Fresno home

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

With few exceptions, US corporate media decided that Trump's call for Iranian nuclear strikes on Los Angeles and San Diego was just not reportable news... This is the subject of commentary across Europe, Canada and Latin America today. bsky.app/profile/jeff...

Activists Are Pushing Cities and Companies to Cancel Parking Contracts With ICE Protesters say they are “throwing sand in the gears” of the agency’s deportation and abduction machine theappeal.org/activists-ar...

The Flock Backlash Catches Up to the Tech From statehouse bans to audit workarounds, governments are scrambling to police the license-plate readers they rushed to install. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/03/p...

Ur not allowed in my pillow fort without the password... #deer 🦌

Here’s What Happens When You Become Institutionalized. “Everyday changes frighten me,” writes Lexie Handlang. “I am way more comfortable in places where everything is structured.” www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/02/y...

U.S. forces are retreating. That's what this means. "Pulled out and returned to their home stations in the U.S. as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns" is a fancy way of saying the Iranian military has the U.S. military in retreat. This is unbelievably embarrassing.

to Cielo Diaz (Jr.) @ Pike Place Books

We have been taught that if any Canadian system is even marginally better than an American one, that's good enough.

Scoop: At a secret meeting this summer, an aide to Stephen Miller laid out Trump administration's plan to make it easier for states to round up and institutionalize mentally ill homeless people — by pushing a drastic policy change that would weaken the rights of millions of disabled Americans.

given its llms, jev and ml rather than ada dbc this thing will be exploitable by foreign actors and is likely designed to be and it'll also fuck up lots and lots and lots in absurd exploitable ways less skynet (which isn't thermodynamically possible nor sustainable), more ed-209

I don’t think this is a good idea

Pixie Sharts should give the ability to fly #transonic 🧚🏼‍♀️🤏🏼🪄

well musk DID once say a cyberschmuck could “serve briefly as a boat,” so