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• Untitled (https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7ezk4/farmworkers-endure-brutal-conditions-during-historic-heat-wave)
  RT @LaurenKGurley: I spoke to a cherry picker who is working thru ‘heat dome’ in Yakima Valley, Washington. She’s hasn’t had a break in 28 days.

  There are 70+ y.o.s and children in fields & workers are suffering heat illnesses. No law requiring breaks or shade in the PNW.

• Perk up With the Best Latte and Cappuccino Makers
  Tired of plain espresso and pour-over? Add some milk to your mornings with one of these barista-worthy makers.
• (400) https://twitter.com/NicoleStoutPT/status/1409959585566412810
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• (400) https://twitter.com/NWSSpokane/status/1410013357252354049/photo/1
  RT @NWSSpokane: Now the moment a lot of you have been waiting to hear about. 𝗦𝗽𝗼𝗸𝗮𝗻𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱 (since 1881)! At 4:07PM the mercury surged to 109°F. This breaks the old record of 108F set on August 4th 1964. #wawx
• (400) https://twitter.com/cindygallop/status/1409471868847931398
  RT @HBCompass: If I had a nickel for every guy I’ve heard insist that Wikipedia was a true meritocracy.
• (400) https://twitter.com/majorlinux/status/1409876067062628358
  RT @QuinnyPig: So what is my inferred salary, @LinkedIn? If attackers know information about me that you won’t tell me yourselves, we have a problem.
• (400) https://twitter.com/sourpatchlyds/status/1409508703905234963/photo/1
  RT @sourpatchlyds: Carl Sagan knew what was coming.
• Untitled (https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/when-it-gets-real)
  RT @nijhuism: "We have a model for how change is supposed to happen—an orderly transition. It is no longer possible to achieve that orderly transition." — @AlexSteffen on our era of discontinuity: #climate #PNWheatwave
• (400) https://twitter.com/ellenchisa/status/1409843079843041287/photo/1
  RT @ellenchisa: It’s so pervasive that it never occurred to me that there was no research behind the water cooler idea 😳

  (@ethanberstein would be cool to add an MHC case on unique aspects of remote work!)

• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/upshot/remote-work-innovation-office.html)
  RT @ellenchisa: It’s so pervasive that it never occurred to me that there was no research behind the water cooler idea 😳

  (@ethanberstein would be cool to add an MHC case on unique aspects of remote work!)

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• Fear of Assault Keeps Women From Walking – Streetsblog USA
  RT @amydiehl: Survey (N=298;12 countries) finds 70% of women and 0% of men listed sexual assault as one of their biggest fears when walking in their communities. @Mike_E_Lake
• (400) https://twitter.com/Obnoxious_Wolf/status/1409895933085569026
  RT @emilymbender: Indigenous in AI and the International Wakashan A.I. Consortium in the NY Times!
• Yakima Valley Community Foundation
• (500) https://blogs.imf.org/2021/06/28/sub-saharan-africa-we-need-to-act-now/
  RT @RobinWigg: IMF sounding the alarm on the massive third COVID wave washing over Sub-Saharan Africa now, where less than 1 in 100 adults have been vaccinated (compared to over 30/100 in the rich world). This is grim reading.
• (400) https://twitter.com/RobinWigg/status/1409566151642865665/photo/1
  RT @RobinWigg: IMF sounding the alarm on the massive third COVID wave washing over Sub-Saharan Africa now, where less than 1 in 100 adults have been vaccinated (compared to over 30/100 in the rich world). This is grim reading.
• (400) https://twitter.com/zachdcarter/status/1409486265355997189/photo/1
  RT @zachdcarter: Not a particularly difficult mystery to solve.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/business/economy/jobs-workers-unemployment-benefits.html#click=https://t.co/okOuf7ZyTS)
  RT @zachdcarter: Not a particularly difficult mystery to solve.
• (400) https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1127980318852390912/photo/1
  RT @NewYorker: We’re going to need a bigger bookshelf.
• Training the Next Generation of Indigenous Data Scientists
  A new workshop explores the right of Indigenous people to govern the collection, ownership and use of their biological and cultural data.
• Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought | Science
  Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought
  Global warming has pushed what would have been a moderate drought in southwestern North America into megadrought territory.
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/arizona-maricopa-2020-audit-review/2021/06/28/98da5e64-d863-11eb-9bbb-37c30dcf9363_story.html
  RT @Matt_Kiser: Arizona’s Maricopa County will replace voting equipment, fearful that GOP-backed election review has compromised security
  via @CurrentStatus
• The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor’
  The term has become a central part of an important conversation about the division of household work. But the sociologist who coined it says it’s being used incorrectly.
• Pacific Northwest heat wave makes the case for incentivizing heat pumps
  That recognition will drive a large group of people to invest in air conditioners for the first time. If we are smart and act fast, this wave of consumers making new AC purchases can be steered toward efficient heat pumps (which also offer cooling services), boosting an energy transition that electrifies everything instead of just making climate change worse.
• GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
  GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/emilykager/status/1409587060478857218
  RT @EmilyKager: I realized way too late that this looks like a rhetorical and minimizing question but it is a THREAD. I AM the angry lady I speak of. 🤦‍♀️
• Perspective | I have known hot places. The Northwest heat wave feels apocalyptic.
  Seattle was my rainy haven, seemingly insulated from extreme weather.
• Three Core Ideas to Make Remote Work, Work
  Credit: Robert Occhialini / Flickr I have been working for distributed companies for over 5 years – long before this pandemic malarkey and everyone becoming a “remote work expert”. The realit…
• Mise-en-Place for Knowledge Workers: 6 Practices for Working Clean
  Knowledge work is unique among skilled professions in that we lack a culture of systematic improvement. Other skilled trades – from carpenters to welders to nurses to pilots – have been around long enough and are repeatable enough that the best practices are widely understood. How to frame a door, how to weld a seam, … R
• Untitled (https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/gov-inslee-heat-wave-is-beginning-of-permanent-climate-emergency-115635781914)
  RT @GovInslee: I was on @MSNBC with @chrislhayes to talk about the connection between our record heat and climate change. WATCH:
• Affect Theory and the New Age of Anxiety
  How Lauren Berlant’s cultural criticism predicted the Trumping of politics.
• Ms. Categorized: Gender, notability, and inequality on Wikipedia – Francesca Tripodi, 2021
• (400) https://twitter.com/bcjordo/status/1409639004899725312/photo/1
  RT @bcjordo: Eastern Veil Nebula – taken last night from my driveway. #astronomy #Astrophotography
• (400) https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/1409480628819664901
  RT @ASKusmer: it’s hard to imagine seeing the absolute weather chaos striking the world this week and not thinking the climate crisis is a number one global priority.
• (400) https://twitter.com/RiceyCoops/status/1409494106225537027/photo/1
  RT @RiceyCoops: A blue whale going under a fishing boat in Booth Bay Harbor, Maine.
• (400) https://twitter.com/chasingmoonbk/status/1409478882336649217
  RT @poppy_northcutt: After seeing “Hidden Figures” some think we did these calculations manually. Not so. Not in our head, not by hand, not with a slide rule. We used what were for the time high speed computers. Development on Univac 1108. Then into the IBM 360 at NASA’s Real Time Computer Complex.
• (400) https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1409548945936769041/photo/1
  RT @mcnees: Physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus, for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  Image: APS
• Research confirms link between sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s disease
  New research confirms long-suspected links between sleep apnea and Alzheimer’s disease, finding identical signs of brain damage in both.
• (400) https://twitter.com/ap/status/1408847789191307264
  RT @Carnage4Life: As I sit in a blacked out room as record temperatures rise above 100°F, I can’t help but think if we can’t get people to wear masks or get vaccinated during a literal plague then there’s no way we’ll ever get the political will to make any sacrifices to address climate change.
• Take All Your Pictures to the Cleaners, with Google Photos Noise and Blur Reduction

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• (400) https://twitter.com/bengrubb/status/1409321404407836674
  RT @manjusrii: Auslan is the only way to convey the full *absurdity* of being startled by a deer whilst sunbaking in the nuddy.

  Props to this incredible interpreter

• (400) https://twitter.com/WeatherProf/status/1409113893285335041/photo/1
  RT @WeatherProf: To put climate extremes into perspective we measure against the average. The sigma is the standard deviation of a normal distribution of expected values. In this case the heat dome sigma max is 4.4 – that means it’s outside of 99.99% of expected values or a 1/10,000+ chance (1/2)
• (400) https://twitter.com/axios/status/1409252593935831041/photo/1
  RT @axios: Toyota is the no. 1 donor to Republicans who objected to certifying the 2020 election results — by far
• Untitled (https://www.axios.com/toyota-leads-donations-among-election-objectors-ebae427b-6f47-4591-aa28-31f366e6e2e0.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_content=politics-electioncertification)
  RT @axios: Toyota is the no. 1 donor to Republicans who objected to certifying the 2020 election results — by far
• CoVariants
  SARS-CoV-2 Mutations and Variants of Interest
• Lord of the Roths: How Tech Mogul Peter Thiel Turned a Retirement Account for the Middle Class Into a $5 Billion Tax-Free Piggy Bank — ProPublica
• Chris Crocker, 'Leave Britney Alone' Video Creator, Reflects On What's Changed
  Chris Crocker opens up on the reignited interest in his 2007 viral video while asking the important question: Why did it take the world this long to care about Britney Spears?
• The Last–And Only–Foreign Scientist in the Wuhan Lab Speaks Out
• (400) https://twitter.com/meganeabbott/status/1408820553893429255/photo/1
  RT @meganeabbott: So wonderful to ponder Peter Lorre and Vincent Price conducting cat auditions for TALES OF TERROR
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/inmates-pandemic-biden-trump-policy/2021/06/25/e89aa28e-d376-11eb-baed-4abcfa380a17_story.html#click=https://t.co/1pQHTQIAjC
  RT @DyjuanTatro: Gwen is one of about 4,500 people who were released from federal prisons last year to protect them from contracting the coronavirus. But she is the latest example of how systems of probation & parole perpetuate failure rather than facilitate success.
• (400) https://twitter.com/UltraStableMan/status/1408897458709618693/photo/1
  RT @UltraStableMan: Wenn am 1. Juli die Homeoffice Pflicht ausläuft und du das erste Mal den Besprechungsraum betrittst:
• (400) https://twitter.com/hectorperezjr/status/1409172247584018433/photo/1
  RT @hectorperezjr: Highway sign up here in the Pacific Northwest 😂 🥵
  #seattleheatwave #PNWheatwave
• Full Stack Data Analyst – SynMax
• (400) https://twitter.com/BenNollWeather/status/1408787884522442756/photo/1
  RT @BenNollWeather: Putting the Pacific Northwest heatwave in perspective—

  Portland, Oregon will be hotter than about 99.8% of Earth as it smashes its all-time temp record on Sunday 🔥

  The only places (⚫) expected to be hotter: Africa’s Sahara Desert, Persian Gulf, California’s deserts 🤯

• (400) https://twitter.com/HaidariHomaira/status/1409105172039675916/photo/1
  RT @HaidariHomaira: In #flutter Class we learned How to change the dice image by using Variable. @CodeToInspire #flutterdev #coding #AfghanGirlsCode #100DaysOfCode #flutter
• Refreezable Cooling Ice Bandana
  Cooling Neck Scarf ice Bandana gives relief from the summer heat with a reusable wearable ice pack. Lightweight cooling ice bandana is perfect for keeping cool when mowing, gardening, sporting events, construction, and can be worn to help relieve pain from migraines and headaches. The wrap fits all sizes and has a hands free Velcro strap for easy application and universal fit.
• (400) https://twitter.com/DyjuanTatro/status/1408979290562121728/photo/1
  RT @DyjuanTatro: This is 76 yr old Gwen Levy who was returned to prison for not answering a call from her federal probation officer while in this computer class. They told her lawyer, “because she could have been robbing a bank, [we’re] going to treat her as if she was robbing a bank.”
• Repelling Bugs With The Essence Of Grapefruit
  Scientists are working on a new, natural bug repellent. It’s non toxic, non-greasy and smells like grapefruit. For insects it’s deadly but for humans it’s safe enough to drink.

  Nootkatone is also effective against ticks, and scientists think it will work against bed bugs, head lice and other insects, too.

  Moreover, nootkatone is so nontoxic you could drink it. In fact, it’s already an approved food additive, officially classed as "Generally Considered Safe." It’s also a natural ingredient in some foods.

  "If you’ve had a grapefruit, you’ve consumed some nootkatone," Dolan says, "or drank a Squirt, for instance."

  Dolan, who is leading a CDC team to develop nootkatone, says it could be put into soaps and sunscreens, so people wouldn’t have to apply a separate bug repellent.

  But that’s not all — it turns out that nootkatone could be both a repellent and an environmentally friendly pesticide. That’s because it doesn’t just repel bugs — it kills them.

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• Enough is Not Enough: Reflection on Sexual Harassment in the Federal Judiciary – Harvard Law Review
  RT @ekp: I keep thinking about her point how deciding to report harassment/discrimination is similar to deciding to have a child. You’re uninformed when you make the decision, because you can’t really understand the positive and negative impacts until you live them
• Attributing Extreme Events to Climate Change: A New Frontier in a Warming World
  The emerging field of extreme-event attribution seeks to answer the question: “Has
  climate change influenced the frequency, likelihood, and/or severity of specific extreme
  events?” Over the past 15 years, new methods and modeling techniques have made this
  an increasingly tractable scientific question, but substantial challenges remain.
  More than just a scientific exercise, these efforts have substantial implications
  for public policy, infrastructure design and management, legal liability, and climate
  adaptation in a warming world.
• ‘Castrate, kill, remove voting rights’: Ex-Marine, Georgia deputy was in extremist cell, feds say
  The arrest of a Georgia sheriff’s deputy who is a former Marine shines a light on the growing concern inside the intelligence community about the far-right radicalization of military service members and law enforcement offices.
• The Sky Thief: Beebo Russell's Last Flight – Rolling Stone
• Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out
  Diagnostic tool being piloted by NHS England shows ‘impressive results’ in spotting tumours in early stages
• (400) https://twitter.com/MayaCPopa/status/1408218021907345408/photo/1
  RT @MayaCPopa: For anyone who needs this poem by Wendell Berry tonight:
• Opal Ice Maker: Soft, chewable ice at home | GE Appliances

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• (400) https://twitter.com/PDXFire/status/1408538023311167488/photo/1
  RT @PDXFire: In 2017, the Eagle Creek fire was started with fireworks and burned for 3 months and destroyed 50,000 acres. We can’t afford that kind of devastation again. PLEASE do NOT play with fireworks in any natural area. Our very existence depends on it.
• ‎Grief Feels Like You’re Losing Your Mind. But ARE You?
  If you’ve ever experienced grief, or if you’re experiencing it now, you know it can feel like your mind is imploding.
  And it’s extra scary because people don’t talk about that.
  Megan Devine (@refugeingrief) has wise words on pain, truth, and perseverance.

  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/depresh-mode-with-john-moe/id1557803544?i=1000526250778

• Untitled (https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/125567224/tiddlywink-stuck-up-christchurch-womans-nose-for-37-years)
  RT @DrBradMcKay: A 45yo woman in Christchurch was tested for COVID-19 with a nasopharyngeal swab and it dislodged a tiddlywink stuck up her nose for 37 years 👃🏼😳
• (400) https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1408582695794483204
  RT @ohshitcircuit: new reporting says HALF of Israel’s delta variant cases are in people who had been fully vaccinated. WSJ article is paywalled, but looks like this data is from the Israeli health department
• What do different Twitter emojis mean? — Conor Bronsdon
  Ever wondered what all of those emojis in Twitter names mean? Confused by why your friend has roses all over their Twitter profile? This article can help, with a list of twitter emojis and the
• DeJoy’s USPS slowdown plan will delay the mail. What’s it mean for your Zip code?
  The Postal Service’s plans will delay a third of mail in 27 states, according to a Washington Post analysis, hitting states west of the Rocky Mountains especially hard.
• Rubrix
• Scientists hail stunning 'Dragon Man' discovery
• Internal Amazon documents shed light on how company pressures out 6% of office workers
  Amazon systematically attempts to channel 6% of its office employees out of the company each year, a target Amazon calls "unregretted attrition." Critics say the system resembles the controversial "stack ranking" practice many companies have abandoned.
• Discovery of ‘Dragon Man’ Skull in China May Add Species to Human Family Tree
  A laborer discovered the fossil and hid it in a well for 85 years. Scientists say it could help sort out the human family tree and how our species emerged.
• (400) https://twitter.com/robwdavis/status/1408465272395034624
  RT @jessepiedfort: Reminder: This weekend is what we’re experiencing at around 1° Celcius of global warming; that’s where we are now.

  If we really step it up, we ~might~ keep the damage to 1.5-2°.

  Under status quo policies, 4°+ is most likely.

  I shudder in horror imagining a world warmed by 4°.

• (400) https://twitter.com/BrainDeadAir/status/1408461407692201984
  RT @tezcatlipoca: I don’t understand why anyone gets confused, they can just read the manual
• (400) https://twitter.com/snotzthecat/status/1407917714316877825/photo/1
  RT @snotzthecat:
• (400) https://twitter.com/buitengebieden_/status/1408324892806766594/video/1
  RT @buitengebieden_: What sheep get up to when no one’s around..
• From the Book of Mick, Keith, and William
  RT @tracykowal: For Rolling Stone and Shakespeare fans; here’s your mash:
• Report: Seattle remote workers put in more hours than in-office workers
• (400) https://twitter.com/triciakickssaas/status/1407754902370193410
  RT @IanColdwater: I think a lot about what my life would be like if a single person growing up had told me I had leadership ability rather than getting me in trouble for being bossy all the time. I think I would have taken over the world by now
• How an “unqualified” 27-year-old Zimbabwean teacher created a top tutoring academy on WhatsApp
  Maxwell Chimedza says he doesn’t know how to use a computer, but his 32GB cellphone was all he needed to coach his students in Zimbabwe.
• Dresses With Pockets
  Over TEN THOUSAND dresses & skirts with pockets on one site. Featuring items from over 45 manufacturers, including wedding gowns, prom/formal wear, and plus sizes
• 4 Myths about Testosterone
• (400) https://twitter.com/ScottSeattleWx/status/1408262112565075979/photo/1
  RT @ScottSeattleWx: So save this tweet for #Seattle weather history: Seattle has never had a day hotter than 103 nor consecutive days over 100 yet both are in the official @NWSSeattle forecast more than 48 hours ahead of the event. #wawx
• (500) https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/black-campus-police-officers-sue-university-of-washington-claiming-unbearable-racism/
  RT @kstewart: UW’s Black campus police officers file multimillion-dollar claims over ‘unbearable’ racism – The Seattle Times
• Atmospheric CO2 is "our biggest resource" says Made of Air
  Berlin startup Made of Air has developed a bioplastic made of forest and farm waste that sequesters carbon and can be used for everything from furniture to building facades.

  The recyclable material is 90 per cent carbon and stores around two tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) for every tonne of plastic.

  By 2050, Made of Air hopes to be storing up to a gigatonne of CO2e a year in the material, which is also called Made of Air.

• (400) https://twitter.com/typewriteralley/status/1408284288588472322/photo/1
  RT @typewriteralley: This month is 8 years since Seattle passed its last major climate action plan. That plan calls for a 20% reduction in the number of vehicle miles travelled in the city by 2030. We have achieved the opposite, VMT is higher now than it was then.
• dimitreOliveira/bert-as-a-service_TFX: End-to-end pipeline with TFX to train and deploy a BERT model for sentiment analysis.
  This repository is designed to demonstrate a simple yet complete machine learning solution that uses a BERT model for text sentiment analysis using a TensorFlow Extended end-to-end pipeline, and making use of some of the best practices from the MLOps domain, it will cover steps from data ingestion until model serving and consuming it either with REST or gRPC requests.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/50ShadesofVan/status/1408030718966513671/photo/1
  RT @50ShadesofVan: An unfathomable temperature anomaly: approaching 25°C above normal for B.C. – huge red flag to have anomaly greater than average temperature. An equivalent negative anomaly would see highs near freezing. #BCHeat
• (400) https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1408192480990924806
  RT @clozilly: This has been said for years, but everyone needs to understand that anti-abortion people are also anti-birth control; they come for your abortion access, then they come for your birth control.
• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: Incredible Temperatures Are Being Predicted and Confidence Is Now High That It Will Occur
  Quite frankly, I am somewhat in shock looking at the raw forecast model predictions or the statistically calibrated versions of their output.  The event being predicted is so extreme and so beyond expectation that my natural inclination is to dismiss it.  

  But I can’t.  Multiple modeling systems are essentially doing the same thing.  Large ensembles of many forecasts are showing similar solutions from most of the runs.

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• Meet Aerospace Engineer Judith Love Cohen
  RT @ameeliah: Tonight’s internet rabbit hole reveals that Jack Black’s mum was an absolute badass: pioneer engineer in the space program, author, feminist trail blazer and goddamn ballerina
• (400) https://twitter.com/tveitdal/status/1408040710922674185/photo/1
  RT @tveitdal: Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest

  Scientists are trying to find the cause of an affliction that leaves victims with crusty eyes, swollen faces and the inability to fly
  @OHWildlifeCntr @Fuglevern

• Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest | Birds | The Guardian
  RT @tveitdal: Mystery illness strikes down birds across US south and midwest

  Scientists are trying to find the cause of an affliction that leaves victims with crusty eyes, swollen faces and the inability to fly
  @OHWildlifeCntr @Fuglevern

• Gender and leadership in organizations: Promotions, demotions and angry workers
  " Finally, low-rank employees send more angry messages to female managers, and are more likely to question their decisions."
  This seems not unrelated to how women teachers (at least at college level) get worse evals from students than their male counterparts. Of course we already knew that "Numerous studies have shown that, holding performance constant, women in a position of power are
  judged more negatively than men."
• (400) https://twitter.com/AnnieCushing/status/1407867429049487360/photo/1
  RT @AnnieCushing: A pair of red-billed leiothrix.

  Photo by Rahul Ghosh. More photos:

  #NaturePhotography

• Record-breaking temperatures more likely in populated tropics: New research shows that most extreme heat events are going to occur in the tropics rather than the poles
  New research shows that most extreme heat events are going to occur in the tropics rather than the poles.
• Kenyan Habitat & Environment Conservation
  RT @SheldrickTrust: #HumanElephantConflict is now the biggest threat facing elephants in Kenya. It’s root cause? The loss of wildlife habitat, which is bringing humans and elephants together, making saving wilderness areas all the more important:
• (400) https://twitter.com/SheldrickTrust/status/1407783024159252486/photo/1
  RT @SheldrickTrust: #HumanElephantConflict is now the biggest threat facing elephants in Kenya. It’s root cause? The loss of wildlife habitat, which is bringing humans and elephants together, making saving wilderness areas all the more important:
• ‘The water is coming’: Florida Keys faces stark reality as seas rise — The Guardian
  Officials prepare to elevate streets despite financial shortfalls, amid recognition that not every home can be saved
• Daring Fireball: 'I Swallowed One of My AirPods'
  RT @daringfireball: ‘I Swallowed One of My AirPods’
• (400) https://twitter.com/idvck/status/1407613965245587456/photo/1
  RT @idvck: Genuinely astonishing
• (400) https://twitter.com/highcountrynews/status/1407741992503808002/photo/1
  RT @highcountrynews: There are 50 active large fires in the U.S. today, 49 of which are burning in the West. Welcome to the pyrocene:
• West coast wildfires signal a planetary fire age — High Country News – Know the West
  RT @highcountrynews: There are 50 active large fires in the U.S. today, 49 of which are burning in the West. Welcome to the pyrocene:
• How the Delta variant took over
  The Delta variant accounts for 90 per cent of new Covid-19 cases in the UK. Scientists fear its global spread is going unchecked
• Brave Search is a new alternative to Google built on its own index
• The Rocket Behind Snowflake’s Rocketship
• The Quest for Cancer-Detecting Blood Tests Speeds Up
• The Cloud Genie
  In which I demonstrate how to spend hundreds of millions of dollars a month in an @awscloud “free tier” account without speaking to a human, and very likely without tripping fraud alarms.

  The Cloud Genie

  There’s a joke that I’ve always been partial to: a software engineering type rubs a lamp and a genie appears.

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• Untitled (https://thephoenix.substack.com/p/the-drought-in-the-west-is-climate)
  RT @EricHolthaus: We are in a climate emergency.

  This heat is climate change. This drought is climate change.

  We’ve got to say it. Over and over and over.

• (400) https://twitter.com/nbcnews/status/1407496652932407296
  RT @michele_norris: Pay attention
• (400) https://twitter.com/pascal_bornet/status/1355944052483629058/video/1
  RT @UniverCurious: The magics of physics!

  via @pascal_bornet

• (400) https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1407153469082017792/photo/1
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: When I say the Republican Party is drifting not further to the right, but further from the real… this is what I mean. Pattern description by @pbump.
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/06/21/after-seven-months-debunking-false-belief-that-biden-won-because-fraud-hasnt-budged/
  RT @jayrosen_nyu: When I say the Republican Party is drifting not further to the right, but further from the real… this is what I mean. Pattern description by @pbump.
• (400) https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1401929347791941637
  RT @A_K_Nain: This is one of the most fun exercises I did last week. The best thing about a good API with a great mental model is that it makes the implementation of even complex tasks very easy. Keras is ❤️
• (400) https://twitter.com/fritschner/status/1407387293418143750
  RT @JoyceWhiteVance: Folks, this isn’t a drill
• Tree pollen carries SARS-CoV-2 particles farther, facilitates virus spread
  Most models explaining how viruses are transmitted focus on viral particles escaping one person to infect a nearby person. A study on the role of microscopic particles in how viruses are transmitted suggests pollen is nothing to sneeze at.
• Untitled (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/weather/wildfires-erupt-after-hottest-week-history-across-parts-west-ignited-n1271603)
  RT @RepJayapal: Climate change is here and now.

  We need to make real, meaningful investments to save our communities and our planet.

• Streamline your ML training workflow with Vertex AI | Google Cloud Blog
  Karl
• Keras documentation: Image Captioning
  Transformer-based
• What Google’s AI-designed chip tells us about the nature of intelligence
• NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction
  We present a novel neural surface reconstruction method, called NeuS, for
  reconstructing objects and scenes with high fidelity from 2D image inputs.
  Existing neural surface reconstruction approaches, such as DVR and IDR, require
  foreground mask as supervision, easily get trapped in local minima, and
  therefore struggle with the reconstruction of objects with severe
  self-occlusion or thin structures. Meanwhile, recent neural methods for novel
  view synthesis, such as NeRF and its variants, use volume rendering to produce
  a neural scene representation with robustness of optimization, even for highly
  complex objects. However, extracting high-quality surfaces from this learned
  implicit representation is difficult because there are not sufficient surface
  constraints in the representation. In NeuS, we propose to represent a surface
  as the zero-level set of a signed distance function (SDF) and develop a new
  volume rendering method to train a neural SDF representation. We observe that
  the conventional volume rendering method causes inherent geometric errors (i.e.
  bias) for surface reconstruction, and therefore propose a new formulation that
  is free of bias in the first order of approximation, thus leading to more
  accurate surface reconstruction even without the mask supervision. Experiments
  on the DTU dataset and the BlendedMVS dataset show that NeuS outperforms the
  state-of-the-arts in high-quality surface reconstruction, especially for
  objects and scenes with complex structures and self-occlusion.
• Ranked Choice Voting Reveals the Weird Math of Elections
  The New York City mayoral race could show whether a new way of measuring voter desires can actually be an alternate timeline for democracy.
• Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Greatest Heat Wave In Northwest History?
  Cliff Mass Weather Blog: The Greatest Heat Wave In Northwest History?
• Birds acting blind when approached, dying by hundreds. Scientists don't know why.
• (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1407550476107882500/photo/1
  Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle
• Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle
  Ground Temperatures Hit 118 Degrees in the Arctic Circle
• (400) https://twitter.com/BruceForbes4/status/1405527107057246209
  RT @Revkin: And a lot of that heat is accumulating more in the Arctic, @BruceForbes4’s research domain, than elsewhere.
• Untitled (https://poets.org/poem/ordinary-time)
  RT @POETSorg: Days come and go:
  this bird by minute, hour by leaf,
  a calendar of loss.

  I shift through woods, sifting
  the air for August cadences
  and walk beyond the boundaries I’ve kept

  —Jay Parini

• (400) https://twitter.com/VoteShieldUS/status/1395838041571352580/photo/1
  RT @VoteShieldUS: NEW: VoteShield is now available in Washington and Oklahoma!

  Our tool now reviews public data in 21 states: AZ, CO, FL, GA, IA, KS, MI, MN, MO, NV, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, OK, PA, TX, VA, WA, WI.

• Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds | Arctic | The Guardian
  RT @theresa_konrad: #Arctic sea ice thinning twice as fast as thought, study finds

  #ClimateEmergency #ClimateActionNow #ClimateJustice #COP26

• Home | VoteShield
  We provide state and local election officials with the most advanced data analysis available to detect unauthorized or improper changes to voter databases.
• Home | Online Passport Appointment System
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• (400) https://twitter.com/alisonmartino/status/1407068705440223239/video/1
  RT @alisonmartino: Remarkable color footage of a drive down Sunset Strip in 1963. This was back when the Whisky A Go-Go was called the Party, the Rainbow was the Villa Nova, and The Roxy was a strip joint called Largo. Also notice the 9000 building under construction next to Scandia.
• Perspective | I wanted to be a better husband. So I planned my kid’s birthday party.
  Even well-intentioned fathers often leave the bulk of household ‘˜mental labor’€™ to moms
• dagger.io
  Using Dagger, software builders can automate the deployment of any application to any infrastructure, in just a few lines of code.

  Solomon Hykes

• Stanley Tucci: the flirty hero of foodie TV you need in your life
  The actor charms the pants off everyone he meets in this culinary travelogue that will whet your appetite for a trip abroad when it’s finally allowed

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• KeyboardCleanTool
  Link to: https://folivora.ai/keyboardcleantool/
• This one email explains Apple
• I Know the Secret to the Quiet Mind. I Wish I’d Never Learned It.
  Of all the injuries we suffered, mine is the worst. My brain injury has shaken my confidence in my own personality, my own existence.
• We Should All Be More Afraid of Driving
  Two terrifying car accidents taught me that, despite what we like to believe, we can’t control what happens on the road.
• Building (glass) bridges
  Glass bridges may seem a bit scary, but there is a lot of engineering that does into keeping them strong, sturdy and unbroken.
• Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases
  Jaana
• Flipping USB Connectors. Bayesian decision analysis shows why… | by Allen Downey | Jun, 2021 | Towards Data Science
• Big Oil wants you to believe a tanker full of fossil fuel can be "carbon neutral"
  The latest greenwashing scam tries to rebrand hydrocarbons as carbon-neutral
• (400) https://twitter.com/NoContextBrits/status/1406925353759776769/photo/1
  RT @NoContextBrits: Of course Covid would say that.
• (400) https://twitter.com/aidan_smx/status/1406380826867245058/photo/1
  RT @aidan_smx: Urbanists failed to consider
• (400) https://twitter.com/itvnews/status/1406887601647370240
  RT @anneapplebaum: this is genuinely shocking
• 50 Reasons to Love Joni Mitchell's ‘Blue’
• Untitled (https://vajenda.substack.com/p/a-modest-proposal-all-men-of-impregnating?r=fbh1f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter)
  RT @DrJenGunter: A Modest Proposal: All men of impregnating age should be prevented from drinking alcohol to improve pregnancy outcomes
• Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers | Conservation | The Guardian
  RT @alfonslopeztena: Bee-friendly urban wildflower meadows prove a hit with German city dwellers — Countrywide scheme is flourishing after being set up to reverse a 75% decline in insect populations
• BigQuery provides tighter controls over data access | Google Cloud Blog
  RT @blv: BigQuery row-level security enables more granular access to data #GoogleCloud
• (400) https://twitter.com/noUpside/status/1406325523991564293
  RT @gnat: A thread of interesting things I’ve found on the net lately.

  1/ Renee’s thread on mis-/dis-info tropes is gold. This week’s must read. Do not read anything further in this list until you’ve read this.

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• How ranked-choice voting could change the way democracy works
  More places are adopting ranked-choice voting. Why?

  With the ranked-choice ballot, if none of the candidates receives a majority of first-choice votes, the last-place candidate is eliminated, and her votes are distributed to her voters’ second-choice candidates. The process repeats until one of the candidates collects more than half the votes.

• [Essay] A Complicating Energy, By Elisa Gabbert | Harper's Magazine
  On a year without strangers
• 16 types of useful predictions
  How often do you make predictions (either about future events, or about
  information that you don’t yet have)? If you’re a regular Less Wrong reader
  you’re probably familiar with the idea that you should make yourbeliefs pay rent
  by saying, "Here’s what I expect to see if my belief is correct, and here’s how
  confident I am," and that you should then update your beliefs accordingly,
  depending on how your predictions turn out.

  And yet… my impression is that few of us actually make predictions on a regular
  basis. Certainly, for me, there has always been a gap between how useful I think
  predictions are, in theory, and how often I make them.

  I don’t think this is just laziness. I think it’s simply not a trivial task to
  find predictions to make that will help you improve your models of a domain you
  care about.

  At this point I should clarify that there are two main goals predictions can
  help with:

  1. Improved Calibration(e.g., realizing that I’m only correct about Domain X
  70% of the time, not 90% of the time as I had mistakenly thought).
  2. Improved Accuracy(e.g., going from being correct in Domain X 70% of the time
  to being correct 90% of the time)

  If your goal is just to become better calibrated in general, it doesn’t much
  matter what kinds of predictions you make. So calibration exercises typically
  grab questions with easily obtainable answers, like "How tall is Mount Everest?"
  or "Will Don Draper die before the end of Mad Men?" See, for example, the
  Credence Game, Prediction Book, and this recent post. And calibration training
  really does work.

  But even though making predictions about trivia will improve my general
  calibration skill, it won’t help me improve my models of the world. That is, it
  won’t help me become more accurate, at least not in any domains I care about. If
  I answer a lot of questions about the heights of mountains, I might become more
  accurate about that topic, but that’s not very helpful to me.

  So I think the difficulty in prediction-

• HifiFace: 3D Shape and Semantic Prior Guided High Fidelity Face Swapping
  HifiFace: 3D Shape and Semantic Prior Guided High Fidelity Face Swapping
• A Juror's Guide to Going Rogue | Practical Ethics
• The birthplace of the modern apple
  4/ The modern apple comes from Kazakhstan. Russian scientist Nikolai Vavilov called it in 1929 on the basis that the ‘centres of origin’ of a species lie in the places where you find its highest genetic diversity. DNA testing confirmed it.

  https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20181120-the-birthplace-of-the-modern-apple

• Physicists bring human-scale object to near standstill, reaching a quantum state
• Tropes and Networked Digital Activism #1: Trope-Field Fit
• Oregon Has Legalized Human Composting
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/19/us/politics/republican-states.html)
  RT @nycsouthpaw: Georgia Republicans throw people of color off county election boards in an effort to make the election results easier for the party to subvert.
• (400) https://twitter.com/Climatologist49/status/1406695665661485056/photo/1
  RT @Climatologist49: The sun rose this morning in parts of eastern Alaska before it finished setting in parts of western Alaska. @capture907 @AlaskaWx
• The memo you're not supposed to see: 11 ways to hide money offshore
• The Guitar Playing of Julian Lage
  His music appears to be a revelation unfolding in real time—a genuine portrayal of an interior state.
• How I Found A Vulnerability To Hack iCloud Accounts and How Apple Reacted To It
  This article is about how I found a vulnerability on Apple forgot password endpoint that allowed me to takeover an iCloud account. The vulnerability is completely patched by Apple security team and it no longer works. Apple Security Team rewarded me $18,000 USD as a part of their bounty program but I refused to receive […]
• Blue Animals Are Different from All the Rest — The Atlantic
  Some of the colors we see on creatures such as blue jays and poison-dart frogs aren’t created by pigments at all.
• My Father Vanished When I Was 7. The Mystery Made Me Who I Am.
  My dad was a riddle to me, even more so after he disappeared. For a long time, who he was – and by extension who I was – seemed to be a puzzle I would never solve.

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