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Yeah that kind of coordination coming from the end of the school year doesn't make sense. Zooming out a bit it looks like there was just a spike in May 2025. It was all useage of a particular model, OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini, which barely registers outside of these short periods of high use in March and then May of 2025. I don't really know what a 'token' is so maybe it's not a 1:1 comparison when useage shifts between different models? Or the data's bad? Or some particular project used that model a large amount in those specific months?

See y'all there tomorrow! 🇵🇸 🇲🇽🌹🖤

They really are. But they just moved their international headquarters to Denver after protesters pushed them out of Silicon Valley, so we know this pressure works!

Thankfully it's still illegal for a hospital to deny anyone life-saving emergency care tho, so it's good for people to know they have this option to not give their name.

It's embarrassing that we aren't delivering care even just at the level of care of emergency Medicaid as a universal anymore though.

Don't let the sailors tell you you have to cross oceans to circumnavigate the globe! Just walking around the headwaters of the Pregolya River is equivalent.

While this would have worked in Euler's time, the puzzle in fact became unsolvable around 1873 when canals were built in the Masurian lakes effectively connecting a tributary of the Pregolya with a tributary of the Vistula to the south and cutting of this route. I assume the canals were constructed by mathematicians trying to close this loophole. Maybe hopping across lock gates when they're closed doesn't count as a bridge tho?

The Wikipedia page on ant mimicry is full of fun facts, but the relevant bits:

Jumping spiders in the genus Myrmarachne are Batesian mimics

Batesian mimics lack strong defences of their own, and make use of their resemblance to a well-defended model, in this case ants, to avoid being attacked by their predators.

Studies on this genus have revealed that the major selection force is the avoidance of ants by predators such as spider wasps and other larger jumping spiders.

But also (not specific to Myrmarachne):

Ant mimics can be myrmecophilous, with the mimics and their ant models living commensally together. In the case of ants, the mimic is an inquiline in the ants' nest. Such mimics may in addition be Batesian or aggressive (predator) mimics. To overcome ants' powerful defences, mimics may imitate ants chemically with ant-like pheromones, visually, or by imitating an ant's surface microstructure to defeat the ants' tactile inspections.

How screwworms managed to jump the barrier in 2022 is not fully clear. But in the years immediately before, the coronavirus pandemic reportedly created supply-chain snarls at the fly factory in Panama and disrupted regular cattle inspections that might have set off the alarm bells earlier.

Still, the screwworm advanced relatively slowly through Panama and Costa Rica for the first couple of years.

800,000 cattle a year are raised illegally in nature reserves [in Central America] and then smuggled by boat and truck up to Mexico. This allowed the screwworm to spread much faster than it can fly [beginning in 2024]. The line of new screwworm cases followed known smuggling routes

That's gorgeous!

100% agree! On the politics piece, the scope of things wrong in the world and change needed can be overwhelming, but I find the 'think global, act local' philosophy helpful. Find local orgs that are dismantling capitalism or defending the environment or standing up to ICE or whatever you care about and join in. You don't have to commit right away either, you can just go to an event and see if you like their vibes and you'll probably hear about other related groups from there and you can check out an event from one of those groups and so on until you find the people you want to work with

A little free library came to my mind too—you could even build a platform on the side to share produce from your garden, finding free home-grown veggies people are sharing always fills me with joy

wait did 'holy water' just mean 'the strong stuff the monks are brewing'?

If you're interested in upcoming actions in the campaign against Palantir keep an eye out for info from Denver Anti-War Action: https://bsky.app/profile/denverantiwar.bsky.social