Running Mac

digital lifestyle consultant, mac consulting, web, audio & video design in Los Angeles

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@DevinOlsenn @nursedanakay @DavidMoss @scotsrule08 Amazing accomplishment 🤩 Go Tesla, go FSD! 🎉

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@elonmusk Also serious Venom vibes somehow. Making it even more captivating?!

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@elonmusk Must renew infrastructure in LA and CA overall. With Boring Co help, put power and other infrastructure underground, also add waterlines and sprinkler systems/water cannons as instant defense against wildfires. Can add robotic delivery systems while you’re at it.
🤔🧐

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

Finally 🙏 Hopefully it can also read good now, so it can interpret images of spreadsheets correctly and not create hallucinatory entries that make you rip your hair out 🤞😉

[Tech Dev Notes @techdevnotes]

Grok 4.3 can create PDF and almost any file formats like Sheets, Slides, Doc

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

Lay off the almonds and almond milk, they’re not that healthy if you consume too much and meanwhile we’re killing all the bees and using all our water for this dumb trend 🤦‍♂️

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every February, 70% of the commercial honey bees in the United States, roughly two million colonies, are loaded onto lorries and driven to California. They are going to pollinate the almonds.

80% of the world's almonds come from one valley in California. Over 1.3 million acres of nothing but almond trees, blooming for three weeks in monoculture, requiring more pollinators than the state can produce on its own. So the bees are trucked in from every corner of the country. Florida. New York. Montana.

The bees are fed sugar water for the journey because their own honey has been removed to lighten the load.
They arrive in the Central Valley to a landscape that is, for three weeks, pink and white blossom, and for the other forty-nine weeks of the year, dead. Nothing to eat. No forage. No diversity. Just almond trees and bare dirt, sprayed regularly with fungicides and insecticides that were deemed bee-safe in adult bees but turn out to be lethal to larvae when combined.

In February 2025, commercial beekeepers reported the worst die-off on record. Around 60% of commercial honey bee colonies in the United States dead in a single pollination season. Financial losses estimated well over $139 million. Some beekeepers lost 90 to 100% of their colonies.

The almonds are marketed as plant-based. Clean. Ethical. The preferred alternative.

The preferred alternative requires the single largest managed pollination event in human history and it is quietly killing the pollinators faster than they can be replaced.

Every glass of almond milk is, statistically, a small contribution to the largest pollinator die-off on record.

This is not in the advertising.

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@elonmusk @boringcompany Pleaaaase Yes 🙏🙏🙏🙏
California needs an upgrade (many TBH) and a Hyperloop would be amazing 🤩

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@SawyerMerritt Best charging network on the planet! Are there any stats about how many kWh/GWh are generated using renewable sources? My guesstimate is 7 GWh. Real numbers would be great, also yearly progression towards solar/batteries.

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@SecKennedy This! 1000 percent this! The robot talk has me think of Interstellar and how we need healthy innovation, not more poison to combat poison.

[Levi Leatherberry @Levi_LCL]

🚨👨‍🌾Here's what everyone missed about the Rogan RFK Jr. interview clip making the rounds. 🌱The organic small farmer's view of the whole problem.

We are dying out here guys... to make the change everyone talks about. But the MONEY goes UP - not down to US the farmer.

As a small organic farmer, I see the glyphosate crisis firsthand.

We're investing BILLIONS into treating the diseases it causes, but almost NOTHING into the real solutions.

Small farmers like me are left out of the money to fix it.

We are the solution. Small organic farms that use DIY robots and lasers (I make both and share them open-source to help other older farmers).

If even 1% of the billions in grants went to us every year, we could revolutionize food production, create jobs, and build a sustainable future. 🌱

Instead, all the money goes to Big Ag and Big Pharma—the very companies that created this problem.

They poison the land, workers, and neighbors for generations, while getting rich from slow “fixes” that don’t really fix anything.

Small farmers with real solutions are left out. If we had funding, we could scale, employ more people, and compete with the mega farms. 10,000 small farms would hire 100x the people of just 5 giant farms.

We need to stop funding the multinational cartels that bankrupted our countryside and start investing in people.

The HHS & USDA have the money to unlock a true farming revolution if they shift priorities and support those who never poisoned their communities.

DIY robots that farmers can build, fix, and upgrade cheaply are key to scaling with an aging farmer population and cutting down on pesticides.

The answer is simple: Invest in small farmers, not the corporations that are destroying our land. We can literally solve this problem with light (lasers) and CITIZEN lead projects.

It should be profitable for young people to start farms, not impossible because of land costs, insurance, and rigged crop prices.

Let’s make small farms the backbone of American agriculture again. 💪

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@SecKennedy Hope you‘re away of this bill and you’ll work to have it canceled. We need to know about the ingredients that are unhealthy. A bill like this being passed is living in a totalitarian and corporatist nightmare.

[Dr. Eric Berg DC @dr_ericberg]

Here's something that might shock you… They're trying to ban us from telling the truth about sugar.

A bill is currently being pushed that could make it illegal to say negative things about sugar, even if they are true. It's not because the information is false, it's because a powerful industry doesn't like criticism.

The bill quietly expands protection to ALL agricultural products, including sugar. It even adds "any agricultural practice used in production," meaning criticism of pesticides, insecticides, and water contamination could lead to lawsuits.

If this bill passes, a powerful company could sue you for talking about the dangers of sugar or pesticides, even if you are speaking the truth. It would allow ultra-processed food companies and chemical companies to operate without accountability, ultimately affecting public health.

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@SecKennedy I‘m certain you know this and understand why the people are so upset about the new Trump Monsanto brotherhood. Glyphosate is evil and we must stop using it yesterday. We should never have started. Same goes for GMO seeds. I hope it’s not too late.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Glyphosate was found in rainwater samples across the United States in a 2021 USGS study.

In 75% of air and rain samples tested in the Mississippi River basin.

Glyphosate is not being sprayed on the rain.

It is being sprayed on millions of acres of crop land and becoming airborne, drifting, and precipitating across the watershed.

It is in the water that fills rivers.
The rivers that irrigate other crops.
The rivers that flow to the sea.
The sea where the fish are.
The fish you eat.

The argument that glyphosate is contained within its application boundary is demonstrably false.

It is in the rain.

The rain has no boundaries.

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@lea_C02 @SecKennedy Ugh, there’s no escape 😞

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

I understand the diplomatic difficulty of walking a good line with this issue but I don’t support business as usual regarding glyphosate use. Bayer Monsanto certainly is mighty powerful but we must move to better farming practices as quickly as possible. This seems like another battle lost.

[GMO/Toxin Free USA @GMOFreeUSA]

"‘Safe’" BPA substitutes have been tied to fertility damage, fetal harm, and generational effects, a review published in Archives of Medical Research has found.

Concerns about BPA have led some manufacturers to phase it out and replace it with structurally similar compounds, most commonly bisphenol S (BPS), bisphenol F (BPF) and bisphenol AF (BPAF). While BPA exposure has declined, BPS and BPF use is rising, especially in North America and Asia.

The review found that these BPA substitutes—widely used in plastics, processed food and food packaging, children’s toys, and paper receipts—can interfere with the same hormone systems and gene-regulation pathways that control reproductive development in both males and females.

The authors say analogues were introduced without sufficient evidence of their safety, and subsequent studies show they have adverse effects similar to BPA, warranting more scientific and regulatory scrutiny. BPA has been associated with impaired memory and learning, infertility, heart disease, stroke, metabolic disease, type 2 diabetes, preeclampsia, obesity, and cancer, studies show.

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@DillonLoomis Couldn’t agree more 👍

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

Booooh 😔☹️

[Oasis @oasishealthapp]

Vital Farms confirmed that its pasture-raised hens are routinely fed a supplemental diet primarily made of corn and soybean meal

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

I mean, why, why use glyphosate? It is the absolute worst. Regenerative organic farming is where we need to go. Unless poisoning us is somehow intentional?! 🤔 (Monsanto/Bayer, nice loop of making us sick, then “healing” us with an antidote 🤦‍♂️) Not!

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

Nicole Shanahan exposes the shocking practice in US farming that's banned in Europe.

Spraying glyphosate on crops right before harvest to dry them out faster.

Europe BANNED this risky desiccation practice years ago because of the heavy chemical residues left in our food.

We're literally eating it — in wheat, oats, beans, you name it. Scientists have begged the EPA to stop this for OVER A DECADE.

Nicole's fighting back: “This is one of the EASIEST things we could fix right now.”

Watch this eye-opening clip — it will change how you see your grocery cart & the 'safety' of our food.👇

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

Oh man 😞

[Oasis @oasishealthapp]

Testing reveals Vital Farms eggs contain more linoleic acid than canola oil

A polyunsaturated fatty acid known to promote inflammation.

The report found that 23.5% of the fats in a Vital Farms egg are linoleic acid, which is higher than the 19% found in canola oil.

Since selling to BlackRock, Vital Farms has switched their feed from pasture forage to a soy blend. To support growing sales, all their 575 family farms now rely on this supplemental soy feed.

When eggs are labeled as pasture-raised, this might now mean they are fed soy and kept in cages with only temporary access to pasture.

Unfortunately, this situation is all too common with brands that sell out.

We created the Oasis app to test and show you what's really inside what you eat

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

@niccruzpatane Plus, they don’t rely on the passengers to close them and won’t wait wait around for some generous soul to close them, like Waymos have to 🥸 Those poor “basterds” 🤭

[Running Mac @runningmacla]

No thanks to farmed salmon that is less healthy and artificially colored.
https://t.co/PxaQjGhdly