My favorite repeat photography location ever has just been updated: @Geotripper has spent 21 years visiting the place where a road crosses the creeping segment of the San Andreas Fault, and (between resurfacings) the consequences of paving over a plate boundary become increasingly visible.
#geology

https://geotripper.blogspot.com/2023/10/why-did-road-cross-san-andreas-fault-21.html

I have eaten
the honor
that was in
this place

and the esteemed deeds
you were probably
commemorating
here

forgive me
they were a message
a system of messages
and so important

If the folks working on high-temperature superconductivity got together with the folks who worked on cold fusion we could have lukewarm superconfusion.

#physics

Lithospheric drips (a relatively cold and dense mass of lithosphere that sinks vertically into the upper mantle) have been identified using geophysical methods in the Great Basin and now in northern Borneo. The Borneo study published in Nature was accompanied by this startling artist’s depiction of a lithospheric drip.

More on Borneo here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-023-01201-7#data-availability

#LithosphericDrip #Delamination #GreatBasin #NorthernBorneo #geology

Another judge disparages generative AI for legal research. In re Vital Pharmaceutical, 2023 WL 4048979 (opinion isn't on PACER yet)

It's also an interesting ruling on who owns a social media account. For more, see https://bit.ly/42dDzug