Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1hNot to be "what did you expect" but it was incredibly obvious that this would happen as soon as it came out how the bill was worded. If anything he'll use it to put 500% tariffs on the European countries that still get gas from Russia while not applying it to China and India who buy a lot more. 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 1hI guess he doesn't care much about the copyright on it because someone posted it on Youtube and it's still up www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J-f...youtube.comMeet the Feebles (1989)YouTube video by Meta_Vince 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 9hThat doesn't make sense. Do they have a customized version of Outlook? Because unless it's somehow blocked, you can set up an inbox rule to automatically forward emails. 110 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 10hGaaaahhh it’s so infuriating seeing this happen all over! Just earlier this year I described a bunch of new species from TMAG specimens, and everywhere is already cut to the bone. 032 0
Reposted by Karl MagnaccaMichael Caterino @mcaterino.bsky.social · 14hWorking on a plant-insect relationships lecture and found something new to me. Midgley et al (2015) (doi.org/10.1038/npla...) reported a smelly, dung-mimicking seed that is primarily dispersed by deceived dung beetles! 'a' and 'b' below are Ceratocaryum seeds. 'g' is the beetles' typical target 49828 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Incredible to miss the point of both this performance and the movie this badly. 1250 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 16/10/2026This is where Hawaii is headed as well. There has been a little regrowth since the mass harvest of the early 19th century, but now there are proposals to log some of the last old-growth trees by claiming planted trees will regrow in unrealistic timeframes. 120 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 16/10/2026But also, I think that would ultimately be a poorer resolution, and agree with this 011 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Besides everything else, the age of Alito and Thomas (and health of Roberts) means that if they unite to block Trump appointments – an easier lift than court expansion – a big shift in the court is possible by 2029, which is the earliest it could happen anyway. 100 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 16/10/2026Well, the programs look the same but work about as well as replacing human employees with a lousy LLM does. I guess that’s another layer of irony though. 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Tbh I was a little surprised they let Jamelle back after he eviscerated that nonsense argument. 140 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026This is a guy who *himself* got racist death threats from nazis about his adopted children and gave an impassioned monologue, almost in tears, about how being made fun of on Twitter by the woke left was objectively far worse than that. 180 0
Reposted by Karl MagnaccaRod Page @rdmpage.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I don't want to be that guy, again (doi.org/10.59350/wvw...) but the latest data citation corpus from @makedatacount.bsky.social @digital-science.com has errors. Within minutes Claude found duplicate rows (5), datasets citing themselves (!) (6,743), and has "datasets" that are actually papers.doi.orgThe Data Citation Corpus revisitedBlog by Rod Page on biodiversity informatics, taxonomy, systematics, phylogeny, knowledge graphs, and other topics. 112 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Meanwhile a CD costs $13-16, basically the same as it did in 1992. 010 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Also even if I wanted to go back, there's just...nobody there. There are literally only three of the people I follow who still post regularly. 010 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026And when the programmer ask an SME "send me all your data and I'll plug it into the machine and then ✨the magic will happen✨", it's impossible to include all that context in a spreadsheet. 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026He got suspended for a couple of days for saying something mean (probably unjustified, but c’est la vie) and took his ball and went home. 010 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Hang on, isn’t that Curtis Yarvin in the poster? 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026I suspect it’s something he was expecting to be asked at some point so he was fully prepped for it. 020 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026A termite walks into a bar and says “Is the bar tender here?” 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Yes, having had to go through this process and about to undergo it again, it’s absolutely more important. Also, consider listening to people if they tell you that the limiting factor is not the ability to analyze the data! Because otherwise even a perfectly correct ai will give bad outputs. 010 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Nebraska had Ben Nelson not that long ago, even if his last election win was 20 years ago. Mississippi at R+5 feels a lot more jolting to me. 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It’s like a bizarre ritual, not just about dominance but determining the dominance hierarchy. They’ll often expect you to do it back to them and get annoyed if you don’t participate. 010 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Seems to confirm my immediate thought that they put a “$15,000” price tag on it because they thought nobody would actually pay that. 170 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026But if they ask that he’ll get mad and say “you’re a really terrible person for asking that”, so they can’t. 020 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Even before you get to the technical dumbshittery there's a pretty big problem right here 0270 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026lmao the reviews are available under the paper and they're about as hard-hitting as you'd expect if the authors' coworkers reviewed it. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downl... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downl... 110 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026IIRC Shirer talks about it in Collapse of the Third Republic, it may have been through 37 but I think not later than that. But of course they were constantly worried about Mussolini simply flaking out and losing heart. 010 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026People always think of Italian Fascism and Nazism as two peas in a pod, but as late as 1936 Mussolini was considering allying with France against Germany. 190 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026It looks beautiful, but look at those rocky hills and think about what you can grow in them... 020 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Interesting, another group of Magnaccas from Vastogirardi (about halfway between Barrea and where my family is from) also went to Ohio. Some changed their name to Manack. 120 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 14/10/2026Did she actually say "when I moved to China" or just "I moved to China"? The first I saw mentioned had the latter, and in the video I couldn't hear what she said at all. That sounds like an excuse for not taking it rather than an outright lie, obviously not that she's beyond that. 100 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It took 40+ years of going "why is everyone so weird???" to realize oh wait – *I'm* the weird one. 130 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026When the Republican party can get a majority half the time nationwide, then the problem is the country, not that "the only places those people win are gerrymandered districts or specific states." 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Least-favorite, even against A Horse and His Boy? 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026You said it's not about the country, it's specifically about the Republican party, but they're about half the country. Clinton only won by 2% in 2016 and Harris lost the popular vote. 100 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 13/10/2026It took 40+ years of going "why is everyone so weird???" to realize oh wait – *I'm* the weird one. 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 13/10/202623 is less than half. And these aren’t backwaters empowered by Senate proportionality, Texas and Florida are among the biggest states. 100 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Finally something I can support, they should smoke as much as humanly possible. 000 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I can't find the original but pretty sure that fly is a chloropid. Also the honeybee is a drawing (AI?). Incredible not to be able to get pictures of possibly the two most photographed insects ever. 140 0
Reposted by Karl MagnaccaMiles Zhang | 张远濛 @ymilesz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Your regular reminder to not publish or review for MDPI, what is this hot garbage of a figure. Drosophila and Nasonia are mixed up, and the photo of B. kinseyi is MY PHOTO of Eupelmus parasitoid that I reared out of B. kinseyi gall, instead of the inducer. Thanks for lifting and not crediting me? 25815 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Pretty sure that’s not Drosophil melanogaster either? Not sure what it is at this resolution but it kind of looks like a Scaptomyza. 131 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Being published in an MDPI journal is a bit of a res flag. Doesn’t *necessarily* mean it’s bad but their review process is between thin and nonexistent. 152 0
Karl Magnacca @kmagnacca.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Honestly this seems even worse to me. At least with sex determination there are genes and body parts (ie biology) involved, even if they’re not taking into account the full picture. There’s no biology involved in reading preferences! 010 0