incredible graphic from @ember-energy.org on just how more efficient and secure renewables are

and all of them are senior university administrators

My favorite exchange from a Chotiner interview thus far. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

this goes for everyone engaged in slop-spamming in all contexts

"Like a cat leaving a dead bird at your doorstep, Anthropic catalogs the grim future that its products might produce, shrugs its shoulders and then returns to its furious efforts to make these warnings a reality." 😂 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...

I wanted to embrace this op-ed, but it largely ignores the Silicon Valley AI hype and magical thinking of the last 2-3 years, and then concludes by expressing relief at the prospect of returning to it. That hype, which at times borders on dishonesty, also sowed distrust and anxiety in the public.

Increasingly coming around to the idea that they only decided to hear the birthright citizenship case to tee up an easy “look how moderate they are” story to obfuscate otherwise continuing to gut democracy

this is why I think its our duty to lay out clear policies for students. framing it as their "choice" elides the structural forces buffeting them, but places blame and responsibility on them for not being able to overcome those forces

i don’t know who needs to hear this (well, I do -- most researchers in the behavioural sciences using llm-as-a-judge or as synthetic human): setting the temperature to 0 does NOT make llm outputs deterministic

Europe has already cut its energy bill by 29% but nobody talks about it. EU energy use in 2024: 854 Mtoe. Without efficiency gains since 2000 it would have been ~1,103 Mtoe. That's energy nobody had to generate, import or pay for. New policy brief out today 👇 www.janrosenow.com/uploads/4/7/...

NEW: the US government intervened Monday on behalf of xAI in a lawsuit over its gas turbines, claiming that the company needs to run the turbines in order to power Grok, which is "vital" for national security lots of wild stuff in the filing:

it actually brings me great pleasure to know that billionaires are so afraid of journalists that they’re trying to build whole new systems for justice to diminish our power. despite corporate consolidation, we continue to do something they can’t fully buy and it drives them mad. stay mad, assholes.

Republicans do this, but on the basis of slander instead of truth. They exploit media to smear and blame their opponents, while Dems root partisan appeals in policy and ideology. In other words Republicans say Dems are shitty people; Dems don’t return the favor. www.offmessage.net/p/black-mold...

Can’t believe you only have to kill 700,000 Africans to make a trillion dollars

The Ohio Organizing Collaborative is, for lack of a better phrase, a completely normal NGO. For the FBI to raid them - and people who are just associated with them - is a serious attack on ordinary civil society and almost certainly an effort to influence Ohio’s midterm elections.

Elements of the worst case scenario for autocratic consolidation in the United States can now be readily identified in our daily news feed. Ho-hum, just another day of...*checks notes*...federal agents pursuing an organized, coordinated program of election subversion & civil society intimidation.

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people's money

Holy shit, these people have no idea: The people launching the pogroms against immigrants in Belfast are loyalists, i.e. loyal to the British crown. They hate the concept of being Irish.

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

lmao

The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to restrict the right to vote for groups that it sees as its political enemies.

Breaking: Trump says he's nominating Jay Clayton, the current U.S. Attorney for the SDNY, to be Director of National Intelligence. Just this week on CNBC, Clayton said the "American people are right to question" California's elections. To be clear: There is no evidence of fraud in those elections.

predictably getting that Schumer nod of approval

I talked with NBC for this report on Medicare Advantage denials. When I say the prior authorization denial rates are staggering in this area of health care, I mean it. Among many other things, it calls attention to the need to get service-level, not just aggregate reporting of denials and reversals

MacFarlane: What do you think your constituents think about this slush fund? McGovern: They think Trump is a corrupt son of a bitch who doesn’t give a shit about them.

Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio. Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%

I think the truth might be a bit more disturbing yet: the open statements of white supremacy have not harmed his business interests. Investors seem aware—they simply don't care.

The computer lost the mandate of heaven when the humble, helpful "program" was replaced with the insidious "app"

Just once, I would like one of these congresspeople to say “If you’re not willing to acknowledge reality about this, then I have no reason to trust you about anything else. I will vote no. I yield the rest of my time.”

tech oligarchs untethering from reality in their politics and ideology is not unrelated to their financial success being untethered from their companies providing real value in the real economy. they've been willing a fake reality into existence for years.

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

I do not fully trust critics who are not both lovers and haters. All I want is for you to have some kind of taste, some kind of ethic, and I want you to argue in favor of it, which should inevitably mean that you greatly admire some works in your chosen field and definitely don’t admire others.

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

My article, State Climate Superfunds, has been years in the making, and I'm so thrilled it is now published with Columbia Law Review: columbialawreview.org/content/stat...

Everyone who says that you need to learn and use AI heavily right now to avoid being permanently left behind is telling you that they believe the future will feature profound and inescapable inequality and they’re okay with that.

Today, there is a hearing on a bipartisan tax bill that is likely to pass, and that will make crypto a tax favored asset, because, of course.

The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

This is exactly it. The work is the point.

Listening to the NYT interview with Scott Pelley and it strikes me that the primary divide in this country is between people for whom money and power rise above all principles and people who care about things like decency, ethics, law, respect for knowledge and expertise, etc.

So many people focused on Bari Weiss asking to make protesters look more violent and glossing over Pelley admitting they’d already dug deep for the most violent protester footage they could find. His interview is more of an indictment of corporate media than many want to admit.

People sincerely do not like these facilities, and I do not see why that's our problem to solve. If industry wants to solve that themselves, they're welcome to. I do not understand why they get dibs on our political capital

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

Big get for El-Sayed

In my experience when people say this, it's because they like their "idea" at its vague, first glance stage and absolutely resent the process of fleshing it out, where they discover it actually wasn't so perfect or complete.

FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job https://theonion.com/fcc-to-investigate-tv-shows-where-the-mom-has-job/

How to replace @ssrn.bsky.social? Look to @socarxiv.bsky.social, talk to @philipncohen.com. Buy lawarxiv.info and have Claude or even real humans(!) code a reboot. Get on the law librarian listserv and spread news about the new common repository. A collective action problem, but solvable.