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  1. mokidugway

    Meet the 19-meter Cretaceous kraken that swam with mosasaurs

    Unusual Arrangement of Bones at Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada https://21sci-tech.com/Subscriptions/Winter-2011_ONLINE/Kraken.pdf Triassic, but related.
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    Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide “countdown”

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/feb/28/chatgpt-ai-chatbot-mental-health Here's another death-by-AI from close to where I grew up. I wonder how many of these get reported on - are we seeing the tip of the iceberg, or most of it?
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    US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers

    Yeah, was gonna say that's one way to cross corners...
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    YouTube bans two popular channels that created fake AI movie trailers

    FFS, Google pushing dozens of these a day into my pixel's news feed thing when you swipe left is a big part of why I disabled that feature.
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    Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles for you

    I'll pile on with the game sounds to long. Braid was great, I "beat" it in 3 nights and really enjoyed it. I liked everything about The Witness (even the theater's videos!), but it took me YEARS to get thru it (def. didn't 100% it) and then after I "beat" it, I was like, "huh, thats it then"...
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    macOS 26 Tahoe: The Ars Technica Review

    Here's an land-surveying-specific article of the border history between CA and NV, if anyone's interested: https://juliacbulette.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/The-Colorful-History-of-the-California-Nevada-State-Boundary.pdf
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    Federal firings could wreak havoc on Great Lakes fishery

    Thanks for this article. I work for the US Forest Service and my program covers 3 Forests across 2 states. While my org chart gives me 9 employees to supervisor, I only had 4 of those positions filled when they fired half my excellent crew for the same reasons outlined in this article. So I'm...
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    Meet the winners of the 2023 Ig Nobel Prizes

    So... how often do you have a fleeting sensation of novelty or unfamiliarity concerning something you have seen or experienced before? Do you feel 'peculiar'?
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    The truth is out there: Celebrate 30 years of <em>The X-Files</em> with our 30 favorite episodes

    The mix and match of the MOW episodes and story-arc episodes is what made the show great. It was exciting when you realized you were watching an Arc episode! But the MOW were generally even better. It would be great if more shows nowadays followed this format, rather than everything being a...
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    US Forest Service is the latest government agency to try electric trucks

    As an employee of the USFS, the question not answered in the article nor the comments that is most pertinent: do any charging stations accept a WEX card???
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    The evolution of whales from land to sea

    They are legion, and they generally don't think you exist either (as a christian who accepts evolution and does not take Genesis literally). And your 'sanity' argument is crap since they control so much of our government. I suggest you try to break into their silo and put your efforts there...
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    Calif. lawyer accuses governor of interference in Activision discrimination suit

    Let me introduce you to the City of California City (third largest town in CA by land area): https://www.google.com/search?q=california+city
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    The US Southwest is seeing its deepest drought in 1,200 years

    Your expectations are wonky. I grew up near the mouth of the Columbia River, but at some point upstream it has just as much water in it as the part of the Colorado you saw. The Colorado R. also doubles in size when it meets the Green River in UT. Its portion within CO itself is just a small...
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    New spinal implant gets paralyzed people up and walking

    Is there a button on their controls to contract the muscles just right to 'stand'? Obviously there wouldn't be fine controls to 'balance', so the walkers would still be needed, but I wonder if they are able to go 'no hands' for very long or if the leg just collapses? If this is the case, I...
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    Surprise eruptions are Earth’s overlooked threat

    Its not the Wilderness Act's fault funding for wilderness trail maintenance crews is pretty much non-existent. This is coming from a guy who cleared trail w/ crosscut saws within wilderness on a seasonal USFS trail crew over twenty years ago, when funding was "existent". The USFS now pretty...
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    It’s a good time to learn the immune system—and this is the book for it

    In A Nutshell is awesome, been watching and supporting their Patreon for 6 years now. It's been great for the kids (started around kindergarten), they watch it probably like I watched Transformers or whatever as a kid. Got this book for my 6 grade daughter but she hasn't read it yet, and I don't...