This is really interesting to me from the angle of why do some species coexist with humans in suburbs, etc, but others are pushed aside by development. I’m sure there are many factors, but I think sound is a big one. I wonder if it’s possible to teach a population of a skittish species to be comfortable with suburban life over a few generations.

Yah, it’s a weird statement because part of the problem with golf is their willingness to pour energy, water, fertilizer, poison, etc, into an unsuspecting environment to enable their sport, so it’s an example of how the rich think they will buy their way out of climate crisis. Needed a stronger statement.

There was no sympathy whatsoever on display among the players or media, so they are not the audience anyway. The audience is us and the statement is be disruptive because you don’t need friends like these.

The school argued they were not a charter school. The judge disagreed. So whether a charter school can be religious wasn’t really considered.

The fact that Republicans are pushing this shows their total disregard for the health and lives of women when pregnant. Like it or not, emergency abortion is one of the reasons women (especially those who want babies) don’t die in childbirth like they used to.

Not saying you’re wrong, but just to add, [this article] (https://www.opb.org/article/2022/11/18/demolition-plan-of-four-klamath-river-dams-moves-forward/) gives a good account of the issues with several dams along one river. The electric company saves money by demolishing compared to building required fish ladders. They were already expecting less and less power from the dams due to low water levels, which may be drought or competition with irrigation. The dams only accounted for 2% of the electricity they sold, so I’m not sure how big the replacement project will be, if any.

One thing to note is that activism like this does normally happen in “spurts”. The legislative cycle is very long and most projects that eventually achieve government backing also require a lot, even matching, private money. Backers may go through several rounds of hype before catching the attention of a big local family or other donor that makes the whole thing plausible enough for the government to act on.

We automatically decompose a long generated answer into factoids. For each factoid, an LLM generates questions to which that factoid might have been the answer. The original LLM then samples M possible answers to these questions. Finally, we compute the semantic entropy over the answers to each specific question, including the original factoid. Confabulations are indicated by high average semantic entropy for questions associated with that factoid.

It sounds like they verify one LLM’s answer by getting a second one to ask the same question over and over again in slightly different ways and see if it’s answers stay the same, interesting over each piece of the answer so that essentially the original prompt is exploded and then montecarloed.

Nearly half who were removed [during post-covid eligibility audits] were able to reenroll, the survey showed, suggesting they should not have been dropped in the first place.

These are people who have no funds and no recourse. If it takes months to re enroll, that’s months without healthcare, including residential facilities and home health services Sometimes food and shelter programs are also tied to Medicaid eligibility.

5, just shaking off a hundred stupid sticky briars one by one.

I just thought at the last second it was disrespectful to people with seizures. The s probably doesn’t help with that anyway though

These guys are so friendly and like to hang out in bushes at eye level, which is a beautiful trait in a bird, imo

This is ludicrous. The Republicans have nothing to worry about. It does not matter to their voters at all. He could start shouting “kill, kill, kill” until he has a seizure and craps himself on stage, voters: “just like Jesus”

/s

Many such articles, but no one wanted to print the margarita picture. Maybe you can extrapolate from this

Extinction Rebellion claimed responsibility.

“Golf, more than other events, is heavily reliant on good weather. Golf fans should therefore understand better than most the need for strong, immediate climate action.”

There’s a lot worse things they could say about golf in my opinion.

We were lucky enough to be able to repair our old Vitamix when it started surging the power every time the variable speed knob was moved. A guy an eBay had diagnosed the problem and was selling cheap diy kits with instructions to solve it.

I think this is a reasonable and environmentally friendly solution for recalls that can be easily remediated, especially as here the problem seems a little silly. Our previous blender had the blades separate from the container as a feature for cleaning. No one was hurt.

But if they don’t they’ll be fine, right?

Amazing article, thank you. Sets out clearly how we got here and what is at stake.

[Tire sales] are growing a little faster than the population, but still slower than the GDP [sad tire manufacturer noises]

Why should sales in a static (and resource intense and polluting) technology like tires grow faster than the population? Making money off the stock market seems kind of evil

EVs are still part of the solution, though. Not spilling gas all day long on every corner of the city would be a big deal.

That’s fun, reminds me of high school Shakespeare performances

I think it’s from these people that Thor Heyerdhal learned how to make a reed raft for his transpacific voyage. Just so many amazing ways of life have been bullied out of existence.

Pretty much:

switched its vote “given the strong alignment of executive pay with shareholder returns since 2018 and the benefits the board asserted related to the motivational value for the CEO in preserving the original deal.” Vanguard also voted to allow Musk to relocate the company from Delaware (which is the site of a big lawsuit about Musk’s pay) to Texas.