“Under colonization, the total mass of pink salmon and chum salmon dropped by 40 percent. Forage fish — such as herring, eulachon, surf smelt, and anchovy — declined by 99 percent, and sturgeon were nearly wiped out.”
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This is… a bad take.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
Ben Goldfarb
I finished The Buffalo Hunter Hunter a few weeks ago— it’s absolutely extraordinary.
Thanks to all who turned out to hear me talk about sharks and culture!
Ok we do have one king in Seattle. #ichiro #nokings
Roxane Gay
Kelly P Bushnell, PhD 🌊
Some quiet underwater moments from this week of good viz: perennial fave ratfish, Taylor’s sea hares so massive they weigh down their blades of eelgrass, and so many jellies that the entire surface layer felt like a big soft invisible ball pit.
In contrast, a good take:
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More on Taylor’s sea hares from Nautilus this April!
Here in Puget Sound we’ve seen more, and larger individuals, this year than in my lifetime.
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Seattle showing up as usual! 70,000 on this gorgeous PNW day. 🌲🌊✊
(The monorail even gave us a beepbeep and everyone lost their minds 😹💙)
#nokings #noICE
My review of @sgj.bsky.social's 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,' is up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. It confronts the haunting specter of American genocide through the vampire tale, charting the depths of trauma & vengeance in the wake of the Marias Massacre.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...
Jan 22 at 4:30-5:20 pm learn about the History of #SalishSea Basking Sharks from @drkelpy.bsky.social Kelly Bushnell PhD. Free registration alumniq.wwu.edu/index.cfm/ev...
Billy Joe Stratton
Salish Sea Institute
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
Billy J. Stratton examines Stephen Graham Jones’s “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter.”
