Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦

Journeyman Stone Mason, BA Economics, FSW 2025 #100Devs, HTML, CSS, JS. NAFO Fella.

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@BobScheurle @RachelBitecofer Yup

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@RachelBitecofer Every since The Beer Summit, where Obama tried to settle racial tension by sharing a beer with a cop, I’ve given up on Dems holding ANYONE responsible for their fascist actions.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

A concentration camp is a facility where a gov detains large groups of civilians without normal criminal due process, typically based on their identity, ethnicity, nationality, political status, or perceived threat rather than individual criminal convictions.

The shoe fits

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@marlenegardner @webberweather Science is soooooo scary!!

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

The prison industry.

They get you addicted to fear so they can sell you oppression.

Democrats like @DanielLurie @TomSteyer act like they care while funding prisons when you’re not looking.

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Follow the money. The prison-industrial pipeline benefits when public safety dollars get rerouted from community care to law enforcement.

This is a multimillion dollar transfer from something that works to a system that has spent decades failing the same people.

[StarPlatinum @StarPlatinum_]

With everything happening around Sam Altman

This still has no answer.

Suchir Balaji was one of the key researchers behind early ChatGPT systems.

- He worked at OpenAI from 2020 to 2024.

- He said the company was violating copyright laws.

- He said the entire model was trained on protected data.

- He was ready to testify.

On November 26, 2024

He was found dead in his San Francisco apartment.

Official ruling: suicide, case closed.

But the details don’t sit right.

Signs of struggle, bruises, the apartment in disarray.

His bags still unpacked.

Interviews scheduled for the following days.

His family rejected the ruling immediately.

Months later Elon Musk said “He was murdered.”

He repeated it publicly, multiple times.

Two versions of the story.

One official, one unanswered.

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@BigBrainBizness @BreneBrown Having a toolbox with a large set of tools.

Some math and physics.

Some calligraphy and piano.

Some literature and philosophy.

I don't think anyone is saying "choose one".

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@BogataTimar @trinzu Your heart may be crushed.

And your spirit humbled.

Put one foot in front of the other.

Keep moving.

Keep breathing.

Celebrate their memory in your work.

[RG | BEATS @DR_BEATS_KICK]

Can you rt this? Maybe we can make a difference

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@ninaSmellsToast @SFGate Yeah, crazy how there are so many. Like thousands and thousands of them flying all around Hwy 9.

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@SFGate Great article. Thank you.

The number of these butterflies is insane. Thousands and thousands are all around Hwy 9 above Saratoga. I can't take a five minute walk without a few of them flying straight into my face.

I was wondering what they were and why there are so many.

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@Ariannnyy_ @HoneyTellAStory Just ran across this post this morning. I plan to check it out later. Don't know if it would help get your knowledge out there.

https://t.co/2F4ZxNdbHN

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Every academic publisher on Earth has lobbied to keep this software off university recommendation lists for the last 15 years.

It's called Zotero, and it is the one citation manager Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley cannot acquire, paywall, or kill.

A non-profit organization built it in 2006 and gave it away.

The browser extension rips the full metadata, PDF, and DOI off any paper on JSTOR, Elsevier, ScienceDirect, or Wiley in one click.

You can annotate inside the reader. Cite into Word, Google Docs, LibreOffice, or OnlyOffice in 10,000+ styles.

100% Opensource.

https://t.co/uDbX72w2XK

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@dwarfstarmom2 @ABC @sarahadams Yeah, Los Angeles was full of defense contractors after WW2. A few are still around as the formerly empty spaces around those companies are now filled with schools and houses.

We have the same scenario in Silicon Valley. Still a few toxic companies in the mix with residential.

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@ClimateBen We just had a six sigma event here in California in March. That was nuts.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Locals didn’t think Roundup was being sprayed near Lake Tahoe. So @natethecurious went to find out.

Nate dug up maps from the Forest Service's website, and headed to a spot where one of them indicated spraying might already be happening.

Public uproar has echoed across the Tahoe area since April, when our yearlong Mother Jones investigation revealed that, in California, the fastest-growing use of glyphosate—the main ingredient in Roundup—is to spray forested areas, including this massive new project around Lake Tahoe.

As the public outcry grew over the past few weeks, news begin circulating on social media that the Forest Service was backing off. “They cancelled the plan!" one person wrote. "People showed up to meetings, called our representatives and it’s finally cancelled. OUR VOICES MATTERED ON THIS ONE.”

But that wasn't true. At Sierra-at-Tahoe, Nate stood on a mountainside that clearly had been doused in glyphosate. The plants around him were nearly all dead—killed with the controversial herbicide, which the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer has deemed a probable human carcinogen—and that a 2020 report from the US Environmental Protection Agency said likely harms 93 percent of endangered species.

You can read Nate's full report at https://t.co/MQyaBkIMgb.

[Kat Scott 🐀 @kscottz]

After 3 years of trying I finally saw the Tiburon Mariposa Lily (Calochortus tiburonensis).

It only grow in Tiburon and is critically endangered.

Hard to believe we have plants like this in the Bay.

Sometimes when people say, "not in my backyard" there's a good reason for it.

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

@ProfBillMcGuire It didn’t even come up in the California governor’s debate last night.

A disaster that may cost the state 10’s of billions and there’s not a whisper of concern.

[Patrick E. 🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇦 @figment4]

Why privacy is important.

Your data can be used against you.

[Aria Westcott @AriaWestcott]

The buyers were not just marketers.

The FTC documented that Kochava's data let buyers identify medical professionals who perform specific procedures, link devices at addiction centers to specific people, and trace individuals from domestic violence shelters back to their homes.

[Aria Westcott @AriaWestcott]

The buyers were not just marketers.

The FTC documented that Kochava's data let buyers identify medical professionals who perform specific procedures, link devices at addiction centers to specific people, and trace individuals from domestic violence shelters back to their homes.