https://mastodon.social/@rexi/116275299159090348
A ready-made community center —and climate emergency refuge —that would cost tens of not hundreds of millions to re-create in today's dollars, were it not already here.
Big Capital would love to do that, right? Tear it down, and when we decide a few years later that there's no much needed community center, happily build an enshittified version of what we already had. For big money, honey.
I'm still dazed that they even considered destroying this classic beauty. Tear it down to build what?
Soviet-style apartment blocks, divvied into over-priced condos.
Fuck.
“…members of our current government orchestrate much of the chaos, including by shielding their followers – who are armed and driven by messianic impulses…”
…Vilnai warned: “Should the rising swell in Jewish #settlerterror activity and the government policy of choking the #PalestinianAuthority (financially and otherwise) continue, the consequences may prove even more catastrophic than the Oct. 7 #Hamas atrocities…”
July's imaginary sci-mag cover:
Deep learning model reveals how plant CRE sequences, syntax, and context affect TF binding in A. thaliana, linking regulatory variants to phenotypic traits.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1132343
Researchers train deep learning model on DNA-binding datasets to recognize patterns of 46 transcription factor families at once — then tested whether the model could correctly locate binding sites that had not been shown…
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-73634-8
@shihcheng.bsky.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco/116783413154405174
Slavery is not about origin or color in its final moment, it is about one human legally possessing another as fungible property. #Juneteenth should be a world holiday.
#Google's new requirement: starting September 2026, every #Android app developer must register centrally with Google before their software can be installed on any device. Not just Play Store apps: all apps. This includes apps shared between friends, distributed through @fdroidorg from to hobbyists for personal use. Independent developers, church and community groups, and hobbyists alike will all be frozen out of being able to develop and distribute their own software.
June's imaginary sci-mag refs, as always, a topic deserving deeper study.
Team led by Uni Birmingham reveals solar magnetic activity being squeezed into increasingly shallow layer below the visible surface, signposting long-term changes to the sun.
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/2/stag847/8694735
Mining for global supply chains supercharges #Africa's #deforestation: 34 hectares gone for every 1 of active mine.
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-infrastructure-african-destroying-forests.html
'oxygen production from solar pyrolysis of lunar regolith'
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0273117726001675
Referenced in May's faux-periodical:
Quantum Naturalism
Schrödinger's #quantummechanics and Hamilton-Jacobi #standardmodel identical given density…
https://news.mit.edu/2026/new-study-bridges-classical-and-quantum-physics-0421
Twisting Light:
…reveals that light can develop chiral behavior freely through space…could lead to light carrying info, probing biology, manipulating matter…
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-026-02278-6
Deep Heated Oceans:
…#sealevelrise since 2016 unexplained until inclusion of deep-sea warming…about 10%…
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025EF007403
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02435-2
"Our central question was straightforward: how do deceptive online networks actually reach audiences, and who ends up being reached?"
…researchers closely analyzed 49 deceptive networks that targeted adult #Facebook and #Instagram users in the US during the 2020 election…identified by researchers at Meta…
13 out of the 49 identified networks were found to be what Meta refers to as coordinated inauthentic behavior networks…aimed at influencing…of #socialmedia users…
https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-trumps-party-pal-spills-on-hellish-ice-ordeal/
Ungaro…at 17 was recruited to the U.S. by…#Epstein…a known associate of Zampolli’s—served alongside her former partner as an ambassador to the UN during Trump’s first term, representing Grenada and Dominica. But after the couple separated and she left DC for Florida…things took a turn for the worse.
In June, Ungaro alleged that ten police officers “stormed” the home she shared with her husband, a Brazilian doctor. The couple was arrested…
Unhealthy Needs
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025WR042627
…the fraction of rain from extreme events could increase by 15-20% at 4°C warming, "…could reshape how societies manage water, crops, and infrastructure…"
Fast-Food Phytoplankton
https://climate.mit.edu/posts/climate-change-may-produce-fast-food-phytoplankton
MIT: climate alters polar phytoplankton; shift to carb/fat heavy, lower protein cell.
Synthetic Conduits
https://matse.illinois.edu/news/81578
"…channel with resistance orders of magnitude lower than previous…at room temperature and could be used as a transistor…"
Trump signed an executive order today about mail in voting. It's an attempt to restrict postal delivery of mail in ballots to people on a DHS-compiled list of citizens.
Rick Hasen has a nice summary (tl;dr: not much to get worked up over here, for both legal and practical reasons):
Expect the incentive to be too big for the 1% to ignore: conferring legal personhood to AI by proxy, as an extension of corporate personhood, will seem imperative.
This lets humans who were, and are, in the loop about dangerous or deadly actions taken by an AI—agentic or otherwise—to remain without legal or financial culpability for those crimes.
Unlikely our Supreme Court will have the bandwidth to see the downstream implications, and this will make "Citizen’s United" seem insignificant.
which is my excuse for subjecting the fediverse to my incessant meme generation
As far as I can determine, there is no positive or negative correlation to any desired outcomes from witnessing DJT's verbal expressions in any audio-visual format from an information gathering perspective.
None. An absolute waste of time informationaly.
That said, the callous ignorance and constant casual deceptivity to be parsed while witnessing it leave deep psychological perturbations.
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/28/no-kings-protest-portland-oregon-updates/
(kept running into grumpy, short tempered police this afternoon in #Portland; a darker attitude among law enforcement today altogether, imho)
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/map/
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As President Trump escalates his attempts to control us, it is on us, the people, to show that we will fight to protect one another and our country. If he believes we will roll over and allow him to take our freedoms, he is mistaken. We are coming together again on March 28 because we know we can overcome this repression when we unite.
Even a cursory look for ridiculously wasted ground level car parking space (outlined in red) reveals what they don't want to admit: there's plenty of room for all the nifty outdoor stuff **and** a renovated Lloyd Center, too.
Just in the moment when classic urban malls are coming back in vogue, #Portland with all its rain chooses to destroy the coolest urban inner space in the Pacific Northwest. Idiotic.
Renovate with lots of wood.
Celebrate it.
Leave it in place but better.
Skate on.
