“This study is really the final nail in the coffin for what caused the Permian–Triassic mass extinction,” said Sperling, the study’s senior author and an associate professor of Earth and planetary sciences in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. “The biggest mass extinction of all time started from a world that is very similar to today in having a relatively cool, relatively well-oxygenated ocean, and then there was a giant injection of carbon dioxide into the Earth system. Understanding how Earth and Earth’s biota responded back then could inform us of what’s to come.”

Books printed before 2022 are free from AI slop which makes for uncontaminated training data. SMH, I hate this timeline.

“Most people do not realize how much of their life is spent playing invisible status games. This video breaks down social hierarchies, groupthink, dominance games and why fitting in can quietly waste the energy you could use to build skills, projects and freedom. The better move is not pretending you are above everyone, but becoming weird, competent and harder to categorize.”

Court filings in the Scattered Spider hacking case reveal Microsoft provided the FBI with a complete IP history tied to something called a Global Device ID (GDID)

It’s kinda like a MAC address

From the lawsuit:

dynamic, semantic terms related to DEIA and generated a list of terms” for flagging grants. McLorg Decl. ¶ 8, Ex. E(1) at ¶ II Stipulation, Nos. 3 & 4 Resp. A review of terminated grants showed concentrations of titles containing “equity” (238 titles), “diversity” or “diverse” (103 titles), “community” (111 titles), “gender” (58 titles), “underrepresented” (50 titles), “inclusion” (45 titles), and “justice” (46 titles). 1st PI Order at 11, 15; see also McLorg Decl. ¶ 8, Ex. E(2) (NSF Grants Spreadsheet). For NIH-HHS, the target list expanded over time. NIH-HHS implemented the Executive Orders through a series of internal directives requiring termination of grants in disfavored categories, beginning with “DEI-related” projects and expanding to include “gender,” “transgender issues,” “vaccine hesitancy,” and “COVID-19.” McLorg Decl. ¶ 7, Ex. D(1) at ¶ II Stipulation, Nos. 1-5, 3-4 Resp. NIH-HHS identified grants using a combination of grantee-specific terms and subject-matter keywords, including “work force diversity,” “structural racism,” “sexual orientation,” “health equity,” “diversity effects,” and “promote diversity, health equity.” McLorg Decl. ¶ 7, Ex. D(1) at ¶ II Stipulation, Nos. 3 & 4 Resp.; see also id. Ex. D(2) (NIH-HHS Grants Spreadsheet). NIH-HHS further acknowledged that, in some instances, grants were identified on lists compiled by DOGE and provided to NIH-HHS, and that “[i]t is possible that DOGE used AI in compiling the grant lists it provided.” McLorg Decl. ¶ 7, Ex. D(1) at ¶ II

StOp InTeRroGaTiNg Me!

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Damn it! I was out. I haven’t cracked a pack in years. But they just had to draw me back. Shaka, when the walls fell.

Y’all are like, “Schedules?! I just can’t”. And I’m like, “Tacking on last minute things to the thing we agreed was going to happen!” I’m so tilted now.

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I found a new passports.gov, and it doesn’t belong to the State Department. When I called them to ask about it, you’d be surprised what they said.
After last week’s dig into vote.gov and the National Design Studio, it felt like the right time to talk about passports, what’s being built, and how fast it’s all moving to be ready before July 4th.

The full investigation: a passport portal built by the National Design Studio and registered to the Executive Office of the President instead of the agency that actually issues passports, three photo servers sitting behind a sign-in gate with no seal and no privacy notice, ad trackers wired onto the real State Department passport page where the privacy policy link is dead, and login.gov getting a new feature that lets an outside organization verify your identity without you in the room.

Read the full article: thedreydossier.substack.com
TikTok / IG /  X:   thedreydossier

Share it with someone who deserves to know what’s being built in the space between the government you can see and the one you can’t.

Thanks for being here.

Atomic Habits by James Clear It’s got some helpful advice but it reads like a Ted Talk. It’s like (axiom)(anecdote)(academic research)(broad over simplification or sweeping generalization)(summary conclusion).

There’s good advice and I’m sure if you follow it you may get results, but I wish it were more academically rigorous.

This one ended up on my DNF list. I heard the buzz about it and wanted to see what the fuss was all about. But I just didn’t see it.

In case anyone forgot, like I did, the Moda Center is owned by the City of Portland.

Bemotrizinol

This was worth reading. It made me a bit nostalgic for a simpler time when the net seemed untamed and full of possibility.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbX13_mahKc

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey

The horse’s mouth https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/YellowKey

They are still not ready for human treatment, but this study was actually an interesting read.