Connor Stedman
connorstedman.bsky.social
Connor Stedman
@connorstedman.bsky.social
Land, ag, climate, systems thinking, history. A Holocene, if you can keep it.
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As others have noted, these redactions appear to be blatantly illegal (assuming Fox News' report is correct).

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
4. Get the bag anyway.
December 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
It makes no sense at all, requires willful denial of physical reality.
December 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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As a result, some of the subpopulations are the rarest whales in the world, but there's reason for tentative optimism.

The Atlantic right whale populations have been increasing (slowly) as a result of whaling bans, changes to fishing technology.

Right or wrong, let's have more whales, please! 🐳
Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing
Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There’s a fair bit of material on this in Lisi Krall’s book Proving Up: Domesticating Land in US History
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Trump correctly understands he can’t apologize or it’ll get worse which is also the thing that happens from him continuing to double down.

unironically impeach him over this. Its not a complicated story to follow and he’s going to get even worse if pressed on it
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Yet one more reason we cannot allow LLMs to serve as epistemic grounding is that we cannot triangulate among them the way you can among reasonable independent sources. They bullshit in the same way and end up agreeing with one other about things that are completely false.
December 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM