Nate Hooven

Trump’s EPA to roll back rule limiting hazardous mercury from coal plants Environmental groups warn that weakening air toxics and mercury standards will lead to higher health-related costs

As long as I live, I'll never understand how "it should be easier for wealthy corporations to poison the water my family drinks and the air my family breathes" became a popular political position with half the country.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Wishing good luck to all the snowshoes surviving out there

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

Oh no, I outsourced all of my intellectual and educational responsibility to a tech bro’s content-stealing bullshit machine and it didn’t end well

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I really enjoyed reading this paper, and the data visualization gets an A+!

a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " . ALT: a woman in a silver jacket is standing in front of a group of dancers and says " my sign is " .

Like 2025, my 2026 resolution is to use zero gen-AI*

It's bed for our cognitive function
It's bad for our social lives, because it's algorithmic and addictive
It's bad for our environment

Nope

*I'm ok with task-specific AI, like computer vision models for remote sensing of the environment