Dr. Brapp

Katharine Macgregor, Trump’s deputy secretary of the Interior visited Denali AK this week, and I had some words for her. May the stink of her association with this admin never wash off. No peace and quiet for fascists, quislings or collaborators.

it really is amazing how accurate the “do you support both Palestine and Ukraine” litmus test has proven to be

Several hundred folks showed up in Wasilla, AK today to tell Trump he wasn’t welcome. His motorcade had to run the gauntlet of protestors with flags and signs. #NoKings #VoteBlue @maddow.bsky.social

He looks like he's on image 3 of an Animorph graphic of a guy turning into Joe Rogan.

we gotta keep the DSA kids away from certain strains of "lefty" "news" sources. this is important, there are two primary visions of future leftism in America, one is hopeful and will help people and the other one is literally a paid op for a consortium of some of the worst people in the world

I've seen this with dinosaur size comparison style silhouettes but never with a real photo

HIGHLIGHT OF THE SUMMER, nothing more needs to happen, I have seen this pika so so close I am ready to curl up in the darkness now

One more thing: “Evidence-based” by defn means commoditized and uncreative. To get evidence in neuroscience for ex requires spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. For an educational topic, getting evidence usu means running a big expensive trial too. Stop fetishizing “evidence-based.”

My band was playing a show like 2 miles west of this tornado. We were completely oblivious

LLMs predict what can be predicted given their training data. That's fine for some applications but for others the part that can't be predicted is the whole point

COMMENTARY: Alaska writer Erica Watson reflects on the Alaska LNG project through her personal archive in a commentary for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/05/20/a...

The best to ever do it

My representative, everyone 🤮

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Babby’s first testimony to the legislature! I testified that the revisions to the AK LNG pipeline bill SB208 are an improvement but if the project doesn’t work without subsidies then it doesn’t work. (Link starts with my 2 min) www.ktoo.org/gavel/video/...

Opened this thread to post "we already have neo-andean architecture" but I've already been beaten to it at least twice

Ground clearance? 4 wheel drive? No thanks, those cost money.

The example is terrible but this case is more or less a solved problem. For inverse problems where the forward model is known but lossy, (like colorization), you can apply data fidelity constraints. No guarantee the colors are correct but a B&W > color > B&W round trip would at least be consistent

Mid-century bebop jazz demon hunters

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10

I’m holding the Senate floor tonight in protest of legislation that would allow a copper-nickel sulfide mine on the doorstep of the Boundary Waters. Not this mine. Not this place.

Last tracks of the season (probably. There’s rain in the forecast)

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

Hungarians showing how to win big in an unfair election: organize AND protest AND vote AND demand profound change.

Frankly, Orban should be grateful JD didn’t “Pope Francis” him iykwim

JD my man never thought this day would come but thank you bro great help great success

OTD: April 4, 1865: President Lincoln (accompanied by his son Tad) visited Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital that Union troops captured the day before. Liberated slaves hailed him in the burnt out streets. Lincoln went to the White House of the Confederacy which Jefferson Davis had fled.

IMO it's letting the current hype crash & burn, people actually doing interesting stuff with LLMs continue doing them w/o fanfare, and after things have died down if something actually good deserves mainstreaming you either rebrand it (if it's Too Soon) or go "this isn't your grandma's LLM" (if not)

found some of that good ass hi-res 1999 shit. these are the pictures that would be on the wall at subway if subway were about computer

28 confirmed Alaska #NoKings so far: Anchorage, Bethel, Cordova, Fairbanks, Girdwood, Glennallen, Gustavus, Haines, Healy, Homer, Hoonah, Juneau, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Kotzebue, Mentasta, Petersburg, Nome, Seldovia, Seward, Skagway, Soldotna, Sitka, Talkeetna, Utqiagvik, Valdez, Wasilla, Wrangell 🫶🏽🙌🏽

Cordova, Alaska #NoKings 65 people, population 2,300

Girdwood, Alaska #NoKings 📸 Kiana Peacock

Kodiak, Alaska #NoKings 📸 Wendy Eskew

@alaskabeacon.com Wrangell Alaska rocks the NO KINGS Day! #AlaskaSky #NOKings #Alaska

Bethel in far west Alaska. Note the frog suit and saxophone. Everyone in great spirits! #nokings #alaaska

42 people including families & children & dogs rallied & marched through our island town. Wrangell Alaska rocks. NO KINGS! #NoKings #AlaskaSky #Alaska @altnps.bsky.social