Tina

overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.

good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.

good night, sewers, everywhere.

This night was such a relief, after watching reports of the virus spreading and nothing happening.

🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”.

Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

I think there is something to explore that many nations at the WBC have come showing what they love about their country (dancing, celebration, tradition) to represent the people while the American team has shown up representing and only celebrating the military

today at the World Metaphors Classic the leader of the USA didn't bother to find out the details of the situation his team was in and blindly assumed they would win a matchup they ended up losing, jeopardizing their long-term standing for no good reason

I know it's only March, but I believe that "sloppelganger" is 2026 Word of the Year

way beside the point but i am kind of slack jawed about boats this big (four them!) carried on yet another even bigger big boat

Today’s fun fact: the reason shipping lanes in the Baltic are so damn narrow is that there are anywhere from thirty to one hundred THOUSAND unexploded mines in the waterway from the World Wars, and the lanes are where the bottom has been swept

A trifold court document, the front of which reads Commonwealth vs John Pantaloon

A recognizance for Prophylax D. Kavanah to appear in Boston Municipal Court in 1816 for ‘a public breach of the peace in State Street.’

Archival Name(s) of the Day are:

John Pantaloon
and
Prophylax D. Kavanah

for folks keeping track of this stuff at home, the real answer to the question "how on god's green earth is Tesla worth over a trillion dollars despite being a blatant scam grafted onto a failing car business?" is "because every new retirement account has to buy it as part of the S&P index"

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

NEW: We just published a deep dive into just how much billionaires are now dominating U.S. politics.

We found 300 billionaire families accounted for 19% of federal donations in 2024. The deluge was even larger in many state and local races.

1/7

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Pauly Walnuts very seriously telling someone that “it’s called Broad daylight because women light up the world”

international women’s day

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Ok, Herzog gets to go on my Mt. Rushmore with @alyankovic.bsky.social

You know what I liked was when Biden had that awful dog that kept biting people

A horse with an elephant head used in warfare, transporting two soldiers and a fortified tower. This detail is from a 1471 printed book (Speculum humanae salvationis).

Tell me you have never seen an elephant before without telling me ... #skystorians

The cover of Rebel Women between the Wars by Sarah Lonsdale featuring a pen, mountains and a spanner

The cover of Wildly Different: Five women who reclaimed Nature in a Man’s World by Sarah Lonsdale

Wishing everyone a happy International Women's Day. To celebrate I'm giving away a pair of my books which recover pioneer women's voices and engineering, exploration, journalism, politics, and conservation to a school, or library, or teacher. I'll pick a winner from replies. Please repost!

Anthony Bourdain: The Post-Election Interview “We are a violent nation, from the beginning.”

"I’m pessimistic to the extreme. I really think people have no idea how bad it already is, and how bad it’s going to get. I read a lot of history. We’ve heard all of this before. I think it’s that bad. It can easily go that way."

Worth reading:
www.eater.com/2016/12/21/1...

"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"

An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.

"forget touch what if I duct tape my hand to the stove and turn it up high as it goes"

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

In the worst drone war errors the US accurately hit wrongly identified targets. A wedding party in a group of vehicles, for example. But in those terrible instances we could go back and figure out exactly who made what informational errors and why.

The LLMs are a black box. They can't explain it.

Forbes: 3 ways to turn overwhelm into a productivity tool

Don’t be a Bartleby when you can be a Bartle-A

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

How did these men know to stay away from Epstein? One googled him, one asked his mom for advice, and one actually listened to what Epstein said to him and quickly realized he was a witless misogynist.

It wasn't that hard, and every scientist who claims they didn't know is either lying or stupid.

They all look so little. Must be bc of the cold. 😎

As part of an AI committee at my university, I spent this weekend trying out Claude (Opus 4.6) for writing, and I have to say, far beyond its hallucinations and the usual complaints, it is a baffling experience cognitively. I want to be more precise in my evaluation here than I usually am about AI.