Posts by clive@saturation.social
(DIR) Post #AunPzgdytZzZmdAS92 by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-04T17:22:28Z
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Among the many dangerous things the Trump administration is doing ...... this one's a doozy: the executive order giving his political appointees the power to determine what are "correct" scientific findings, and "the power to 'discipline' anyone who violates the way the administration views science"Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/climate/executive-order-gold-standard-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MU8.OyDj.Zg9c1rftvl0c&smid=url-share
(DIR) Post #Av69TlFDk8xhLEIsXw by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-13T18:15:38Z
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“(T)he Court is troubled by the implication inherent in Defendants’ argument that protest against the federal government, a core civil liberty protected by the First Amendment, can justify a finding of rebellion"Amen -- here's some coverage of the ruling against Trump's takeover of the California National Guardhttps://www.cnn.com/2025/06/12/politics/trump-national-guard-california-breyer
(DIR) Post #AvCE8jzWs9LA5pWHPU by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-16T17:50:02Z
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ICE has been grabbing American-born citizens and demanding to know where they were born ....... just because they happen to be from a latino backgroundThey took one American man's driver's license and refused to give it backThere are almost too many stories of ICE's wild overreach, but this one struck me -- gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/hispanic-americans-raids-citizenship.html?unlocked_article_code=1.PU8.sARv.BeGIegZDifw8&smid=url-shareAs people in the comments are pointing out, until he gets his license replaced, ICE could grab him again and he'd have no proof of American identity
(DIR) Post #AvDM2ofjYB4HfDuFlo by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-16T16:55:33Z
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I always find this chart by Hannah Ritchie -- of Our World In Data -- deeply informative of how disjointed is our sense of personal riskhttps://x.com/_HannahRitchie/status/1133703638432526337
(DIR) Post #AvOioyXYV1B7tq0dyy by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-22T15:38:54Z
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There is nothing I love more than research finding that coffee is good for your health in this case, a four-decade-long study of 50,000 women https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2025/06/16/coffee-healthy-aging-women/84225332007/
(DIR) Post #AvbFVIiG3R20QhaDxo by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-28T14:31:28Z
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Good piece on the challenges of managing heat waves when you haven't got regular housing: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/26062025/chicago-unhoused-people-struggle-to-escape-heat/
(DIR) Post #AvbFVKxDimBjNgbCYy by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-28T14:37:03Z
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@ai6yr yeah, arizona's summers are just terrifying nowI believe last summer had 100 consecutive days where the temperature surpassed 100 degrees?
(DIR) Post #AvbXBmslyP9nNlLXcW by clive@saturation.social
2025-06-28T13:53:49Z
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I doubt folks around here need more explainers about the disastrous Supreme Court ruling that makes it essentially impossible for lower courts to overturn blatantly unconstitutional moves by the presidentBut this is clearest explanation I’ve seen: https://archive.is/S74FW
(DIR) Post #Aw0tT8gkh6otdykyiu by clive@saturation.social
2025-07-11T04:16:10Z
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Speaking of Wired's excellent coverage: They just reported on a Department of Homeland Security memo that went out to local police forces ...... urging them to consider even the most innocuous and bog-standard protest activity as dangerous ...... like skateboarding, or walkigng around "on foot"no jokeThe story: https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/4Dgw5An excerpt:
(DIR) Post #AwjP98w2HWt82gZm1w by clive@saturation.social
2025-08-01T16:23:47Z
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A drum machine -- created by @mncmncmnc -- that plays patterns based on the literary style of classic literatureItem #2 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here here here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-37-wind-theft-an-html-bomb-and-the-rice/
(DIR) Post #AwsETrbgYJfHJ9NGhU by clive@saturation.social
2025-08-05T22:37:02Z
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behold the "HTML bomb"it's a defensive counterattack on AI web-scrapers that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not tothe bomb file *looks* like a tiny HTML page, but when scraped -- or even requested by a regular browser ...... it unpacks into a huge-ass 10-gig HTML page ...... which quickly crashes any browser or scraperItem #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-37-wind-theft-an-html-bomb-and-the-rice/
(DIR) Post #AxIq0oYNfppPoBMVbE by clive@saturation.social
2025-08-18T18:13:34Z
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Trump's administration is describing -- quite openly -- their desire to deploy the military in major blue-state cities ...They're not even slightly covert about itThis does not come as news to most folks roundabouts mastodon, I suspect ...... but this post at Rolling Stone is nonetheless a good roundup of some of the more blatant and open statements: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-military-crackdown-get-worse-1235406382/
(DIR) Post #AxIq0vlkqVgYBgfmuu by clive@saturation.social
2025-08-18T18:22:10Z
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And then there's this:https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/12/national-guard-civil-unrest/
(DIR) Post #AxjnN74MSXHt0iBDCy by clive@saturation.social
2025-08-31T18:35:40Z
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So, in 1997, Microsoft quietly released a generative-music appno fancy neural networks at work here, just kooky old hand-coded heuristics with some randomizationit produces some very fun game-MIDI style music, honestly!And: there's a downloadable copy at the Internet ArchiveItem #5 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-38-tk-tk-and-tk/
(DIR) Post #AyIzd0M7KVIh2JHQ5w by clive@saturation.social
2025-09-17T17:19:43Z
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Here's a witty prototype by some MIT studentsit's an AI kitchen-robot that looks at your leftovers ...... and gives you a recipe you could make from themlots of cool buttons/sliders to specify cuisineoutput? on cash-register-style thermal paperno screens at allItem #3 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-39-xenoparity-navajo-microchips-and-in/
(DIR) Post #B07M4bvYy3SON6Ia6C by clive@saturation.social
2025-11-10T23:06:28Z
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Interestingly, younger Americans are significantly more likely to dislike data centers than older onesand dislike is bipartisanThis from a Heatmap story (paywalled): https://heatmap.news/energy/data-centers-left-right-opposition
(DIR) Post #B0RpZ7dYqW2M9O8VOK by clive@saturation.social
2025-11-20T18:32:23Z
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so apparently sea slugs eat a lot of algae ...... and some have figured out how to incorporate the algae's plastids into their own bodies ...... so the sea slugs *photosynthesize*they can live for months off the sun -- an animal acting like a plantweird and awesomeitem #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-40-the-chthulucene-doom-on-a-satellite/
(DIR) Post #B0uwbN4g2mGxxiYSIa by clive@saturation.social
2025-12-04T20:34:29Z
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behold the gorgeous "aerial embroidery" of Victoria Rose Richardsit's the landscape as seen from a plane, except as stitchworkItem #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read/subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-42-phytomining-adversarial-poetry-and/
(DIR) Post #B1FrS44mtFCKyzVY4e by clive@saturation.social
2025-12-14T23:42:47Z
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you know how in zuckerberg's metaverse people's avatars are just their upper bodies?arms, torso, heads ... but no legs?i want to found the oppositea metaverse where you log in and you're ONLY a pair of legslegs legs legs legs
(DIR) Post #B1FrS5OK06Px3refA0 by clive@saturation.social
2025-12-14T23:43:14Z
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