"Helene was a massive storm when it traveled across the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week. Seabirds likely fled the storm’s extreme winds—which reached 140 miles per hour—and ended up in the eye, where it’s calm. Once inside, they essentially got trapped, unable to pierce through the fierce gusts of the eye wall. When the storm dies down, the mass of birds will probably dissipate, Kyle Horton, a researcher at Colorado State University who studies bird migration, told Vox" https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/374541/hurricane-helene-storm-wind-birds-wildlife
A: "I don't think companies should use seed patents to enforce monopolies and monocrops" B: "Loool get a load of this conspiracy theorist loser, worried about dNa and cHeMiCaLs, don't you know there's also DNA in conventional food!?"
Story broken by "a fourth-year journalism major and the Summer 2024 university editor for The Alligator. Outside of the newsroom, you can find him watching Wong Kar-Wai movies and talking to his house plants."
@jonny saw that floating around and did not want to wade thru it all, but if you did, can yo tell me how they decided that a preschooler is two orders of magnitude less compute than an elementary schooler etc? based on anything other than vibes?
police seem to have arrested several students and at least one [edit: at least three, see below] professor at University of #Wisconsin#Madison#MadisonWI this morning
Princeton preemptively announced that Gaza solidarity protesters would be arrested & banned from campus; this happened to 2 within minutes this morn
Pton defends this as viewpoint-neutral time/place/manner rules, but this is ridiculous—there's no precedent for this, even in the 2011 Occupy, 2015 BLM, and 2019 Title IX camps/occupations
"Experts fear that H5N1, which was only first detected in cows a few weeks ago, may have been transmitted through a type of cattle feed called 'poultry litter' – a mix of poultry excreta, spilled feed, feathers, and other waste scraped from the floors of industrial chicken and turkey production plants."