Notices by Michael Busch (michael_w_busch@mastodon.online)

@carnage4life

I have gotten multiple messages from the managers of my retirement fund this year about how they are trying to limit risks so that they don't lose everyone's money in a market bubble.

So. Yeah.

@bugsnbuns @marick @inthehands

Reporting from the Chilean outlet Canal 13 suggests that Luis León may have changed his name or been using the identity of another man, who died in Chile in 2021.

Which confounds reporting of what actually happened in this case.

"Vuelco en el extraño caso de chileno deportado por Estados Unidos: Familia habría entregado un nombre falso"

https://www.13.cl/programas/la-tarde-es-nuestra/momentos/vuelco-en-el-extrano-caso-de-chileno-deportado-por-estados

A Cal State Channel Islands professor was arrested for protesting ICE yesterday.

The California Faculty Association is trying to figure out where he is:

https://www.calfac.org/statement-condemning-the-abduction-and-disappearance-of-cfa-members-in-camarillo/

(Link via Jonathan Flowers at Cal State Northridge - https://bsky.app/profile/shengokai.bsky.social/post/3ltprkohzz22x )

@ai6yr

From 1987: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Comfort-flood-claimed-10-lives-thirty-years-ago-11293761.php

Also on the Guadalupe River.

It is profoundly disappointing to witness scientists using the most-likely-next-word automated plagiarism machines.

Since they both produce output without regard for accuracy and are based on wholesale theft.

And yet I have encountered four examples of scientists using them so far this week.

#subpost

No, you do not need a language model for that task.

Important heatwave reminder.

Since I once flash-burned my hand by very briefly touching a railing during a heatwave in Southern California.

QT U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov
2025 June 23

You probably shouldn't be at the playground, but if you are, remember to check for hot playground equipment. Kids could get second degree burns or worse from hot equipment.
https://bsky.app/profile/cpsc.gov/post/3lsbqil55pk23

"In about 10 hours of observations, NSF–DOE @VRubinObs discovered 2104 never-before-seen asteroids in our Solar System, including seven near-Earth asteroids (which pose no danger)."

Find all the asteroids.

https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2521/

@inthehands

The Star Tribune reports that he was caught in Sibley County: https://www.startribune.com/melissa-hortman-shooting-vance-boelter-suspect/601373342

"Amid warnings from state officials following shootings, crowds show up for #NoKings rallies in Minnesota"

"Gov. Tim Walz would not be speaking as initially planned."

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/06/14/warnings-state-officials-following-shootings-no-kings-rallies-minnesota

@MaryAustinBooks @inthehands

That G4 storm was what caused the bright aurora a week ago now (June 3-4).

Science Daily is behind the times.

There is nothing on the space weather forecast for the next few days.

Yet again:

Managers do not have to follow illegal executive orders.

And #ImpeachTrump, USA.

QT Steve Herman @w7voa
2025 June 6

CNN - The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort which could begin as soon as today.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

https://bsky.app/profile/newsguy.bsky.social/post/3lqxa5jszhk2r

Yet again, USA:

Require that Congress ensure that everyone can get up-to-date COVID vaccines.

And remove Prasad, remove Makary, and #ImpeachRFKJr .

QT Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com
2025 June 1

Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lqkkljh7222o

@claytoncubitt.bsky.social @inthehands

"the first War of the Machines seems to be drawing to its final inconclusive chapter — leaving, alas, everyone the poorer, many bereaved or maimed and millions dead, and only one thing triumphant: the Machines. As the servants of the Machine are becoming a privileged class, the Machines are going to be enormously more powerful. What's their next move?"

- Tolkien, 1945

The headline is "Donald Trump seeks $400 million airplane as a bribe", local newspaper.

Do not use euphemisms.

@xgranade @futurebird

The "LessWrong" contingent in Silicon Valley is an apocalyptic cult that has re-invented very specific Christian concepts, just with "AI" in place of "God".

@kelpana @xgranade @futurebird

"Roko's Basilisk" is Pascal's Wager.
"The Singularity" is Evangelical rapture.
"Recursive simulated reality" is Mormon eternal progression.

@Rasta @inthehands @EricFielding

That quote, which I have encountered multiple times today, claimed "Not a single international cargo ship at the Port Of Seattle. The port is dead."

There are three.

Again: This is not to diminish the economic crisis. It is to counter disinformation.

And I am done.

@inthehands @Rasta @EricFielding
That quote is false.

As of this writing; there are three cargo container carriers docked at SEA. One in from South Korea, one in from Vietnam, and one in from Oakland (registered out of Portugal) - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-122.350/centery:47.581/zoom:15 . There are also two cargo container ships from China docked in Tacoma.

This not to diminish the economic crisis that is now happening.

It is just to counter disinformation.

@steggy @xenotar @broadwaybabyto

Celiac was described in the 2nd century CE.

It was untreatable until the late 19th century, not well managable until the 1950s, and rarely diagnosed until the 1990s and later.

Now we understand that ~1% of people have it; with actual changes in incidence being much less than changes in diagnosis.

This is also about autism and many other things.