This will help transit agencies and state and local governments buy 1,700 U.S.-built buses; nearly half must be zero carbon emissions.
Note: U.S.-built buses at that.
[Image description: A Lion electric school bus is seen on display in Austin, Texas, Feb. 22, 2023.]
Former President Trump railed against the electric vehicle industry during a speech to Michigan Republicans on Sunday, warning them that the state’s auto industry is at risk under President B…
A sad reminder that the MAGA wing of the Republican party continues to be against most anything that can actually help turn around climate change.
[Image description: former President Trump]
Hasbro announced that the fluffy and chatty animatronic children’s toy will return to stores next month.
Not quite your traditional gaming, but with 600 responses to user actions at least as complex as some interactive computer games I've played.
[Image description: two new Furbies]
Yes, and? I'm a moderator in a different community. That's different from being on the admin team (admins have many powers mods do not) and I'm not a moderator here which gives me no special options compared to any other user.
So many, many choices.
I think my all-time dumbest came when I was about 22, so it doesn't fit here. In my teens...probably driving drunk at speeds up to 100mph on the mountain roads up above Pasadena with the headlights off at night.
Molecular fossils suggest the existence of a lost world of primitive eukaryotes that dominated aquatic ecosystems from at least 1.6 billion to 0.8 billion years ago.
Wild. I for one would not have guessed that we could detect even moderately complex organic molecules from 1.6 billion years ago.
[Image description: Geochemist Jochen Brocks and colleagues report they discovered the earliest molecular footprints of eukaryotes, dating back 1.6 billion years, in this Barney Creek rock formation in northern Australia.]
In addition to making it easier to find authentic perspectives, we're also improving how we rank results in Search overall, with a greater focus on content with unique expertise and experience. Last year, we launched the helpful content system to show more content made for people, and less content made to attract clicks. In the coming months, we’ll roll out an update to this system that more deeply understands content created from a personal or expert point of view, allowing us to rank more of this useful information on Search.
That seems like just a step in the inevitable AI arms race.
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/748817
> I spent most of the morning at Mogan Ridge West, putting in about 12 miles in all. Basically, I hiked the outer loop, though I did bushwhack about a mile and a half for variety. > > We're definitely into summer hiking weather here, with high humidity, spider webs, gnats, and ticks. This trail also hasn't seen much use lately, so it's overgrown in grass in many areas. About half of it is gravel road, so you can combine unpleasant walking surface with increased ticks and chiggers. > > Still, it was a pleasant walk in the woods and decent exercise. I met one other hiker about halfway and we swapped notes on which local trails were worth revisiting. Fortunately we were hiking in opposite directions so we didn't have to have the awkward conversation about whether to hike together. > > More pictures on imgur. > > [Image description: trail marker post with area map and arrows pointing in many different directions]
“It's very motivating to me to actually provide the evidence to show the benefits of hormones that I see every single day,” said clinician Brendan Nolan.
Actual evidence from actual scientists.
[Image description: A patient holds bottles of medications for hormone replacement therapy as part of her gender-affirming care.]
There are some of us here who are not part of the admin team and yet would prefer to discuss the original topic, not your argumentative posts about moderation. Well, at least one of us.
2022 saw the second highest honeybee death rate on record—but with a lot of hard work, beekeepers kept populations "relatively stable."
Well at least:
“The situation is not really getting worse, but it’s also not really getting better,” Steinhauer said. “It is not a bee apocalypse.”
[Image description: honeybee on honeycomb in a hive]
The boycott of Bud Light is having a major effect on its sales, while the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ backlash is also affecting Target and Starbucks.
Generally depressing societal news.
[Image description: Bud Light, Target, and Disney logos overlaid with the "NO" circle-and-slash and surrounded by angry emoticons]
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/675946
> I spent the day yesterday wandering around some trails in the Shawnee National Forest (southern Illinois) from the Golden Circle trailhead to Pounds Hollow and back. I didn't keep super good track of my route, but it was something like (trail numbers): 1440 to 154 to 001 to 155 to 001 to 137A to 165 to 166 to 164 to 001 to 180 to 185 to 184 to 183 to 006, bushwhack to 134 to 006A to 006B to 109, roadwalk Karbers Ridge to 001 to 010A. Whew! The River to River Trail Society has some excellent brochures with georeferenced PDFs that cover trails in this area. > > The weather was a bit sticky, but not too bad - high temps in the lower 80s. Between some recent rain and increased horse traffic for the summer, low spots in the trails are getting pretty torn up in places, particularly as you get closer to the various horse camps. Poison ivy is out in force, ticks are too so take reasonable precautions. > > The area is a mix of pleasant forests, clifftop vistas, and streambeds (almost all dry at the moment). Pounds Hollow Lake is one of the ones in the area created by the CCC building a dam in the 1930s and has a reasonably popular swimming beach, as well as rest rooms and potable water. > > I had planned to camp at Pounds Hollow, but I stupidly forgot to pack cash to pay for the $10 fee, so what was planned as a 20 mile day turned into a 29 miler when I took the most direct route back to the trailhead where I started. There are a couple of other good spots along that route back, but all the water sources were dry or stagnant, and I didn't have enough water along for dinner & breakfast so I said the heck with it and came home. All told, 29.2 miles in just a shade over 12 hours. The last 4 or so were pretty tough, but I made it. > > [Image description: southern Illinois forested hills receding into the distance, framed by trees and viewed from the top of Buzzard Roost] > > More pictures at imgur.
Terrifying. I worry enough about chipping my teeth on things like pits as it is.
In my opinion it's unreasonable to think anything can truly be deleted in a federated system. Even if the official codebase is updated to do complete deletion & overwrite, it's impossible to prevent some bad actor from federating in a fork that just ignores deletion requests.
Seems sensible to just not post anything that you don't want to be available for the lifetime of the internet.
I would add The Abolition of Work though that might be a controversial choice. Did a lot to get me thinking back in the day, though.
