Euan Mason

@TreeStarMan
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Father / husband / professor in forestry / astronomer / musician / Aotearoa born / raised in Suisse & USA / super curious / driven / keen to improve the world. Refugee from Twitter.
https://www.treesandstars.com/
We're entertaining at McKenzies' bar on Pages Rd, Friday April 17th at 8 pm.

Conservationists alarmed by new report into New Zealand's freshwater

The Ministry for the Environment and StatsNZ's Our Freshwater 2026 report highlighted the worsening quality of groundwater.
Conservationists alarmed by new report into New Zealand's freshwater

The Ministry for the Environment and StatsNZ's <i>Our Freshwater 2026</i> report highlighted the worsening quality of groundwater.

RNZ
Organisations call on govt to ditch LNG import terminal
The Sustainable Energy Association and six other organisations have combined to present another proposal to deal with the country's winter energy problem.
Organisations call on govt to ditch LNG import terminal

The Sustainable Energy Association and six other organisations have combined to present another proposal to deal with the country's winter energy problem.

RNZ
SpaceX satellites would outshine the stars | The Narwhal

Elon Musk’s space exploration company wants to launch so many satellites, they’d outnumbers stars in the night sky

The Narwhal
In line with #FIFA’s #seating policy, #Trump has found that his seat is now in the corner of a stadium, behind a pillar. Not only that on closer inspection his FIFA #peace prize turns out to be a #war token. 🤣
I point out subtle details, in the alt text.
LLMs are poisoning the knowledge base that has been painstakingly accumulated over the course of human history. We will, if this is allowed to continue, find that we have "destroyed the Library of Alexandria" once again. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y?utm_source=Live+Audience&utm_campaign=4b50fd2341-nature-briefing-daily-20260408&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-33f35e09ea-49717696
Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real

Bixonimania doesn’t exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?

Thank goodness the slaughter in #Iran has stopped. #Trump killed a whole lot of people, lost lives of US servicemen, destroyed infrastructure, murdered children, spent billions, lost millions in military hardware, and sent the world into recession. Yet Iran still enriches uranium, probably now really does want a nuclear weapon, and controls who does and does not go through the strait of Hormuz. Trump's "victory" has turned to ashes in his mouth. #uspol
NASA photos from the Moon are incredible

If the news are correct, the US went to war, killed many people, dramatically reduced its arsenal, increase oil prices and generated inflation all over the world, spent billions in the process... to end up in a worse situation than before the war.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/07/world/live-news/iran-war-trump-us-israel

Trump threatens ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’ ahead of his Iran deadline

Trump’s warning comes ahead of his 8 p.m. ET deadline for Iran to make a deal, as the US also struck military targets on Iran’s strategic Kharg Island. Follow live news updates.

CNN