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supersquirrel

@ supersquirrel @sopuli.xyz

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"No, maybe that wasn’t it. Words precede and surpass me, they tempt and alter me, and if I am not careful it will be too late: things will be said without my having said them. Or, at the very least, that wasn’t the only thing. My entanglement comes from how a carpet is made of so many threads that I can’t resign myself to following just one; my ensnarement comes from how one story is made of many stories. And I can’t even tell them all— a more truthful word could from echo to echo cause my highest glaciers to crumble down the precipice." - Clarice Lispector

  • California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line

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  • See this open access study Wildlife overpass structure size, distribution, effectiveness, and adherence to expert design recommendations.

    We conclude that wide overpasses (~50 m) continue to present important, cost-effective solutions in decreasing the barrier effective of the road (especially when targeting width sensitive species and large assemblages of mammals) but encourage future studies to further explore the specific instances when multiple underpasses and narrower overpasses present more cost-effective solutions.

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9753749/

  • California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line

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  • I actually think the ecosystem benefit here will quickly payback even that large of an investment, an open air, safe feeling wildlife transit corridor for wildlife can easily be a keystone piece of architecture in maintaining a regional ecosystem and flow of nutrients/migration of animals. That isn't even bringing into the picture the MASSIVE cost savings that a reduction in wildlife-vehicle collisions inherently provides.

    Benefits of crossings

    The U.S. records more than 1 million wildlife–vehicle collisions each year, and that is probably an undercount because of unreported incidents.3 These crashes cost more than $10 billion annually in repairs, medical care, and lost productivity, and they cause about 200 deaths and 26,000 injuries annually.4 According to the Federal Highway Administration, wildlife crossings can deliver key benefits for drivers and wildlife, including:

    Crash prevention: Wildlife crossings with fencing can cut large-mammal collisions by more than 80%—and up to 97% for certain species, including deer and elk—making them among the most effective ways to improve driver safety and wildlife connectivity.5

    Cost savings: Each prevented wildlife–vehicle collision can save thousands of dollars—more than $19,000 per deer crash, $73,000 per elk, and $110,000 per moose—in vehicle, injury, and wildlife costs, making well-placed crossings a strong investment.6

    Habitat connectivity: Roads, fences, and development break up landscapes and block wildlife migration, limiting animals’ access to food, water, and mates, which can cause population declines and reduce biodiversity by up to 75%.7

    Communities throughout the country are investing in a range of wildlife crossings to improve public safety and protect vulnerable species. (See Figure 2.)

    https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheets/2026/01/wildlife-crossings-save-lives-cut-costs-and-protect-animals

    Relevant article

    https://y2y.net/blog/how-wildlife-crossings-revolutionized-conservation/

    Another relevant study that looks interesting

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9753749/

  • Microsoft encourages chunk of experienced US staff to leave

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  • Do you know how hard I cried up there in the sky above you all?

    I felt the loss of all below me, helpless and shackled to my golden parachute, floating too high to even hear the screaming and wailing below!

  • Unmanned Vehicles @sopuli.xyz
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    DSA 2026 – Feilong‑60A, China’s rocket‑launched ‘Thinking Swarm’ for deep precision fires

    www.edrmagazine.eu /dsa-2026-feilong-60a-chinas-rocket-launched-thinking-swarm-for-deep-precision-fires
  • Legal News @lemmy.zip
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    Oral Argument Preview: Chatrie v. United States

    www.lawfaremedia.org /article/oral-argument-preview--chatrie-v.-united-states

  • Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"

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  • "Descent" implies at some point Palantir wasn't fascistic which I have a hard time believing.

    Around this time, Palantir started wiping Slack conversations after seven days in at least one channel where most of the internal debate takes place, #palantir-in-the-news. Because the decision wasn’t formally announced before the policy rolled out, one worker who noticed the deletions asked in the channel why the company was removing “relevant internal discourse on current events.”

    Imagine being this naive.

  • Ukraine @sopuli.xyz
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    Reporter’s notebook: Inside Ukraine’s nuclear plants at war

    kyivindependent.com /reporters-notebook-inside-ukraines-nuclear-plants-at-war/

  • Microsoft encourages chunk of experienced US staff to leave

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  • Whoops!

  • Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse @sopuli.xyz
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    How strong can a hurricane get in a warming world? » Yale Climate Connections

    yaleclimateconnections.org /2026/04/how-strong-can-a-hurricane-get-in-a-warming-world/
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    Dramatic Oklahoma twisters push tornado season into high gear » Yale Climate Connections

    yaleclimateconnections.org /2026/04/dramatic-oklahoma-twisters-push-tornado-season-into-high-gear/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ca
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    Climate School Experts on Congestion Pricing’s First Year

    news.climate.columbia.edu /2026/04/21/climate-school-experts-on-congestion-pricings-first-year/
  • World Culture Mosaic @sh.itjust.works
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    Columbia Beautiful Planet 2026

    news.climate.columbia.edu /2026/04/22/columbia-beautiful-planet-2026/
  • Global News @lemmy.zip
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    Displaced Lebanese Pool Money to Buy Satellite Images to See What Remains of their Homes

    www.dropsitenews.com /p/displaced-southern-lebanese-aitaroun-israeli-military-satellite-images
  • Enshittification @slrpnk.net
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    Microsoft encourages chunk of experienced US staff to leave

    www.theregister.com /2026/04/24/microsoft_seeks_quality_improvements_by/

  • Air Canada Express crash at LaGuardia: NTSB reveals final seconds

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  • Why have we wasted all this time on gimmicky broken self driving cars when we could have invested in practical geofencing for vehicles like this?

    It would be so easy to make the vehicles "smart" so they are informed when a runway is active and would not let the driver turn onto active runways without a manual approved override.

  • Asia’s spiraling supply shock is coming for America

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  • We cut everything in the US, FEMA, CDC, all types of science.

    The US will not weather this, there is no foundation left to support us, it is clear we are headed for a Great Depression.

  • Borders

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  • Not a hard bar to clear.

  • Hitting the high notes

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  • Came here to say this.

    The truth matters.

  • Why Maine’s governor killed an pioneering data center moratorium

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  • Nope, I think that is a shit lazy reason to dismiss a candidate after the news story about the tatoo had time to get plenty of attention and for more damning information to come out.

    It is clear as day the DNC wants desperately to destroy Graham Platner even if that means losing to a Republican. This was clearly part of an attempt to do that.

    You got played by corporate democrats convincing you to be cynical so Janet Mills can scrape a win out even though no one likes her and she has nothing to offer.

  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    The Green New Deal has evolved. Now it's all about 'affordability.'

    grist.org /politics/green-new-deal-affordability-agenda-working-class/
  • United States | News & Politics @midwest.social
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    What’s driving the catastrophic wildfires in Georgia

    grist.org /extreme-weather/whats-driving-the-catastrophic-wildfires-in-georgia/
  • CanadaPolitics @lemmy.ca
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    What counts as the woods? Judge axes Nova Scotia’s ban that defied ‘commonsense definitions’

    www.theguardian.com /world/2026/apr/25/canada-nova-scotia-wildfire-woods-ban
  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
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    California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2026/apr/25/california-wildlife-crossing-construction

  • US millionaire big-game hunter dies after being crushed by elephants

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  • mofo got trunkated

  • Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics

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  • To a blue state where the state government isn't as hell bent on trying to kill you slowly (or quickly).

  • Not a good sign

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  • I see what you are saying but my argument is that in real world systems the vast majority of the time it is in the individual's self interest to enrich and defend a shared wealth/commons.

    The idea that it isn't is inherently a belief not a finding of science and it has been imposed on us through cultural means for political reasons.

    You can create narrow conditions where the self interests of the individual existentially diverge from the interests of the group, I don't dispute that.... rather I think Capitalism is monomanically obsessed with creating these systems artificially and through violence and imposed collapse.

    I am fumbling at things Naomi Klein has already more brilliantly expressed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

  • Texas Tech Issues Ban On Students Writing On LGBTQ+ Topics

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  • I just hope when the time comes and people need to get out of Texas to stay safe that they still have the capacity and resources to do so.

    I fear that point has already long since passed in Texas, but isn't for me to say don't stay and fight, I just think things are getting pretty seriously dangerous living there.

    Once culture begins to accept violence for the sake of violence everybody is a target eventually.

  • 71 years without a military strategy, Germany just wrote one

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  • No and I didn't mean to imply that if I did.

  • US gambling addiction is ‘out of control’ as betting markets boom, policy expert warns

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  • The thing is, group activities where you witness people take long odds and sometimes succeed is kind of the basis of all public entertainment, what I think is so hurtful is turning that impulse to such predatory means to strip away everything people have.

    I would love a casino where the slot machines were actually good video games and there either isn't the easy capacity to gamble away large sums of money.

    Similarly under less brutal economic conditions the idea of a poker group between friends with a small cash input could be fun....

    I mean I have enjoyed playing randomized doubles disc golf matches at courses where everyone throws in $5.

    What makes gambling evil is the incredible magnitude of damage it can do to people and how much culturally we give permission to casinos/betting companies to do so.

  • Who is responsible when an AI weapon pulls the trigger?

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  • In general in nature herds and packs do NOT experience a vanishing collective-identity when consequences threaten. The entire evolutionary point of a herd or pack is to mitigate consequences?

    The metaphor I would use here would be that of a "Locust Swarm" not a normal animal herd or pack.

  • Unfounded Health Concerns Are Powering a Solar Backlash

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  • My cousin's wife is convinced that offshore wind energy is all a scam, when I bring up to her that sure there might be corruption in any given infrastructure/business deal, it is always possible, but that there is a clear established history of fossil fuel companies manipulating the public perception for profit and they have WAY more resources to do so than virtually any other industry/entity on earth.

    Nope, she got angry when I brought that up when she told me second hand anecdotal stories about how Offshore Wind is all a scam and kills fish because that was "beside the point".

  • What Is The Biggest Rock? - Onion Talks - Ep. 4 | The Onion Talks - Youtube (Invidious link)

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  • Clearly you used the AI app "Rock Enlarger" on this photo!

    The only way a rock that big could be plopped down there is if a HUGE MASSIVE glacier covered the entire landscape in an ice sheet hundreds of feet thick and the rocks were transported during a period where earth was dominated by cold and ice and every once in awhile the glaciers erratically deposited huge rocks brought along and smoothed by the movement of the ice sheet as it grew and shrank overtime.

    No way, clearly AI!