Guy solo
@kyleric.bsky.social
Urbanist jazzhead; you know the type.
Hatch Acted-upon.
(Orange Line) Arlington, VA
Hatch Acted-upon.
(Orange Line) Arlington, VA
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NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
September 15, 2026 at 9:58 PM
NSF has reduced the research budget for all atmospheric, ocean, and earth sciences by ~80%.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
80%!
A lot of us will not be conducting new research or training new students for the foreseeable future.
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Extremely excited to announce Beauty Pill will play the Big Ears music festival in Knoxville TN this Spring, marking our return to live performance.
Our last show was with Laurie Anderson five years ago.
We could not be more thrilled to be invited.
See you soon.
Our last show was with Laurie Anderson five years ago.
We could not be more thrilled to be invited.
See you soon.
September 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Extremely excited to announce Beauty Pill will play the Big Ears music festival in Knoxville TN this Spring, marking our return to live performance.
Our last show was with Laurie Anderson five years ago.
We could not be more thrilled to be invited.
See you soon.
Our last show was with Laurie Anderson five years ago.
We could not be more thrilled to be invited.
See you soon.
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Whole beaches gone. Houses that were a couple hundred feet from the water, gone. Houses on cliffs, gone. Roads, gone. Extensive flooding. And the worst of El Niño hasn't even hit yet, and the hurricane never came ashore. This is just the beginning.
September 14, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Whole beaches gone. Houses that were a couple hundred feet from the water, gone. Houses on cliffs, gone. Roads, gone. Extensive flooding. And the worst of El Niño hasn't even hit yet, and the hurricane never came ashore. This is just the beginning.
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New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations.
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
www.404media.co
September 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations.
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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We shall call it the Untied Kingdom and finally all those typos will be correct.
September 14, 2026 at 12:11 AM
We shall call it the Untied Kingdom and finally all those typos will be correct.
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This essay blew me away totally, by a mathematician with a philosopher's or poet's sense of epistemological questions
reeling. WOW!! thank you @bostonreview.bsky.social and Michael Harris (who quotes Bolaño on his home page!!)
(so thrilled to see @ftrain.bsky.social quoted here!)
reeling. WOW!! thank you @bostonreview.bsky.social and Michael Harris (who quotes Bolaño on his home page!!)
(so thrilled to see @ftrain.bsky.social quoted here!)
September 13, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This essay blew me away totally, by a mathematician with a philosopher's or poet's sense of epistemological questions
reeling. WOW!! thank you @bostonreview.bsky.social and Michael Harris (who quotes Bolaño on his home page!!)
(so thrilled to see @ftrain.bsky.social quoted here!)
reeling. WOW!! thank you @bostonreview.bsky.social and Michael Harris (who quotes Bolaño on his home page!!)
(so thrilled to see @ftrain.bsky.social quoted here!)
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I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
September 12, 2026 at 1:14 PM
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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See the thing is, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and The Red Haired Girl all had crushes on him. That's basically as much as having hoes an 8 year old is gonna get.
September 12, 2026 at 10:00 PM
See the thing is, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and The Red Haired Girl all had crushes on him. That's basically as much as having hoes an 8 year old is gonna get.
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The thing triangulating Democrats seem unable or unwilling to internalize is that the right wing thinks people who espouse liberal and leftist views are full of shit. Walking those views back, from their perspective, doesn't win their support but rather confirms their priors.
September 11, 2026 at 10:16 PM
The thing triangulating Democrats seem unable or unwilling to internalize is that the right wing thinks people who espouse liberal and leftist views are full of shit. Walking those views back, from their perspective, doesn't win their support but rather confirms their priors.
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I write for a living and I do everything I can to avoid using “lay / lie.” It’s just too much pressure.
September 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
I write for a living and I do everything I can to avoid using “lay / lie.” It’s just too much pressure.
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Black Americans have been the moral center of this country from it's inception, and whatever little bit I've picked up about justice, equality, or civil rights is ultimately due to them.
We should be more grateful. Not sure how to say that without being awkward, but it's the truth.
We should be more grateful. Not sure how to say that without being awkward, but it's the truth.
Sure, it can. Write another thread.
September 10, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Black Americans have been the moral center of this country from it's inception, and whatever little bit I've picked up about justice, equality, or civil rights is ultimately due to them.
We should be more grateful. Not sure how to say that without being awkward, but it's the truth.
We should be more grateful. Not sure how to say that without being awkward, but it's the truth.
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Amtrak is the best way to travel. I don’t even care that the train was late, I got to see mountains and herons and a bald eagle and make faces at a baby
September 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Amtrak is the best way to travel. I don’t even care that the train was late, I got to see mountains and herons and a bald eagle and make faces at a baby
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Anyone who bikes regularly sees this sort of thing happen at least once, and often multiple times, per ride. It's truly incredible the way drivers casually put their lives and those of everyone around them at risk.
September 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Anyone who bikes regularly sees this sort of thing happen at least once, and often multiple times, per ride. It's truly incredible the way drivers casually put their lives and those of everyone around them at risk.
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The ubiquity and quality of dutch bike lanes has also revealed to me how god damned stressful cycling in the UK and US is.
And the US doesn't have an excuse - it also has ubiquitous protected paved paths parallel to most roads, but they are given entirely over to pedestrians.
And the US doesn't have an excuse - it also has ubiquitous protected paved paths parallel to most roads, but they are given entirely over to pedestrians.
September 8, 2026 at 7:12 PM
The ubiquity and quality of dutch bike lanes has also revealed to me how god damned stressful cycling in the UK and US is.
And the US doesn't have an excuse - it also has ubiquitous protected paved paths parallel to most roads, but they are given entirely over to pedestrians.
And the US doesn't have an excuse - it also has ubiquitous protected paved paths parallel to most roads, but they are given entirely over to pedestrians.
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🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples:
Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.
Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.
September 8, 2026 at 12:54 PM
🧵CO₂ removal (CDR) is back in the news, but just because the UNEP report says we need CDR, it doesn't mean we'll have CDR. Many challenges will take decades of research and negotiation to solve. Here are some examples:
Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.
Technological: We currently don't have any durable CDR method that scales.
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AI has no real intelligence and never will. It can think for itself as well as your coffee maker. Any human who says otherwise and is debating with themselves on a thread here has AI psychosis and needs to seek professional help. This is a subskeet.
September 8, 2026 at 2:15 AM
AI has no real intelligence and never will. It can think for itself as well as your coffee maker. Any human who says otherwise and is debating with themselves on a thread here has AI psychosis and needs to seek professional help. This is a subskeet.
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Anyway, I took a couple weeks off after a chronic illness diagnosis, but my newsletter is returning on Wednesday. If you’re looking for a Gen X woman screaming in righteous rage five days a week, it might be for you!
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September 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Anyway, I took a couple weeks off after a chronic illness diagnosis, but my newsletter is returning on Wednesday. If you’re looking for a Gen X woman screaming in righteous rage five days a week, it might be for you!
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LLMs make patterns based on the data they have and then output those patterns in the forms they’ve been given. That data is vast and those forms are varied but they do not know anything, they do not come to understand anything, they cannot undergo anything, and so they don’t experience anything.
September 7, 2026 at 10:19 PM
LLMs make patterns based on the data they have and then output those patterns in the forms they’ve been given. That data is vast and those forms are varied but they do not know anything, they do not come to understand anything, they cannot undergo anything, and so they don’t experience anything.
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did any major news orgs send a push alert about a gunman trying to attack the democratic candidate for governor in ohio?
September 7, 2026 at 12:47 AM
did any major news orgs send a push alert about a gunman trying to attack the democratic candidate for governor in ohio?
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I found out many years after adopting the pen name that this existed
September 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
I found out many years after adopting the pen name that this existed
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Reminder that when MSNBC launched, one of its primetime shows was The Site, a tech roundup thing hosted by Soledad O'Brien and the stuff of nightmares "Dev Null," a computer-generated douchebro.
September 5, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Reminder that when MSNBC launched, one of its primetime shows was The Site, a tech roundup thing hosted by Soledad O'Brien and the stuff of nightmares "Dev Null," a computer-generated douchebro.
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A lot of y'all aren't gonna wanna hear this, but this trend is also in part due to COVID
The distracted driving discourse is already popping off but I’d just like to throw in: I’ve been an insurance adjuster for almost 13 years. When I started, we almost never saw high speed rear end impacts. Now they’re like the most common type of claim. It’s distractions, this is obvious.
September 5, 2026 at 1:37 PM
A lot of y'all aren't gonna wanna hear this, but this trend is also in part due to COVID
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Incomparable. Rest in power.
WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson
www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...
WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson
www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...
WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson
WBGO's Doug Doyle reports on the passing of Grammy Award-winning jazz singer, songwriter and producer Cassandra Wilson
www.wbgo.org
September 2, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Incomparable. Rest in power.
WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson
www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...
WBGO mourns the loss of NEA Jazz Master and two-time Grammy Award-winning vocalist Cassandra Wilson
www.wbgo.org/music/2026-0...
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Periodic reminder that an awful lot of folks believe that the solution to far right authoritarianism is "authoritarianism for objectives I like"
Joe Biden didn't have the authority to throw Trump in jail, & the arbitrary use of executive power is exactly the attack on democracy we're fighting now
Joe Biden didn't have the authority to throw Trump in jail, & the arbitrary use of executive power is exactly the attack on democracy we're fighting now
Why didn't Biden throw the monster in jail? Beware of the legacy democrat.
September 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Periodic reminder that an awful lot of folks believe that the solution to far right authoritarianism is "authoritarianism for objectives I like"
Joe Biden didn't have the authority to throw Trump in jail, & the arbitrary use of executive power is exactly the attack on democracy we're fighting now
Joe Biden didn't have the authority to throw Trump in jail, & the arbitrary use of executive power is exactly the attack on democracy we're fighting now