Many of you have called or texted to ask my thoughts on the rapidly developing situation in #Venezuela I hope this blog post helps shed light on where our focus should be in the coming days —> doubleclick.blog/the/ REMEMBER: Talk to Venezuelans about Venezuela!

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

🚫 Don’t: “Everyone is a little autistic.” ✅ Do: “Autistic traits are not exclusive to Autistic people and it’s the cumulative constellation of traits that they have that fundamentally differs from the lived experiences of Non-Autistic people.” (A bit wordy, but maybe the nuance is worth it.)

A new paper in the journal Landslides (Darrow and Jacobs 2025) presents a landslide inventory that extends over a century for Alaska. It clearly demonstrates that climate change is driving a significant increase in landslides in this US state. eos.org/thelandslide...

This hits a little harder while I'm in the middle of Life After Cars by the people of @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich not to throw a huge embarrassing snit over not having his ego fluffed.

Hard to pick one, bikes bring so much freedom and happiness, from taking the kid to school to fun rides, to epic mtb rides! Looking forward to many more to come in 2026 🚵‍♂️🚲

What an amazing thread. Bikes are freedom. Bikes are joy.

4. Comparing geoengineering to sticking a knife in a plugged-in toaster is my new favourite analogy. #TabClosed2026

As someone who lives next to a canal and because of this, is now a huge canal nerd, this story is 🤯 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

State Dept. source speculated to me in March that the purpose of making fentanyl a WMD "is a combination of designating fentanyl cartels as terrorist organizations and creating justification for conducting military operations in Mexico and Canada" and "deporting drug users who are not citizens."

How about starting by funding existing universities decently and the staff and researchers that they hold?

Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.

Autism: I start when it is time ADHD: I start when I feel like it AuDHD: I start when the pressure finally beats the paralysis (Dr Kojo Sarfo)

In addition to all of the other benefits already reported about NYC congestion pricing, "In the first six months of the program, air pollution – in the form of particulate matter 2.5 micrometers and smaller – dropped by 22% in the Congestion Relief Zone (CRZ)" news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

Now that it’s been a few months, can anyone recommend the most up to date database/article of climate scientists and/or climate science that was DOGE’d or otherwise gutted by this administration?

This is what scientific hell looks like. A pile of AI slop with a pseudo meaning that will do more harm than good. Probably just harm really. And Nature makes money publishing it.

Our built environment isn't ready for the changes we've made to our natural environment.

A reminder that cars aren’t a technology problem. They’re a geometry problem.

That's kind of the definition of exponential growth... Definitely isn't sustainable.

I love everything about this. Also, "adversarial poetry" would be an excellent name for a rock album. arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

We’ve 100% lost the war on using phones while driving and it’s the worst.

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So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

This. Every “very smart bad man” has driven dozens of women (many of whom were smarter) out of academia.

For those wondering how you get on and off a penny-farthing. *A guy walking by said to his companion, “That looks incredibly dangerous.” 😅

i feel like we need to pause and reflect on this insane collection of words

Cyclists should be able to treat a stop sign as a yield sign and a red light as a stop sign.

Can we please, for the love of Pete, blast all the genAIs into the sun? Pretty please?

My partner texted me "Dick Cheney said 'over my dead body' about Zohran winning" earlier and I had been too busy at work to check any news, so for several hours today I thought Cheney was still alive and being obnoxious.

The difference between the French and Americans in two headlines. 😆 Sorry @alecluhn.bsky.social

Six things you should know have happened in America since Monday - in 2 minutes. youtu.be/s7jnLHoBMF8

A 2021 study from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics showed that 52% of all trips in the U.S. were less than three miles. 28% of trips were less than one mile. With slight tweaks, many of those trips could be done on bikes, e-bikes and other light electric vehicles, and walking.

For #BlackHistoryMonth, I feel compelled to tell you what happened to me last night in a hotel bar in Nottingham...[1/10]

I agree 💯% with this take. I once mentioned this on Twitter in response to people calling Donald Trump “fat” and “orange”. Some people got quite cross with me 🤷🏾‍♂️

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well, there you have it

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

It’s important to flood social media and news channels with news about how ICE lies, so that potential jurors see it.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

Students as political science professors teach them about U.S. politics from their textbooks.

Some hope with glimmers of accountability showing up in France. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Despite everything I still have fundamental faith in the American people turning this around and making things better. [reads any New York Times focus group] Fuck this. Fuck everything. Burn it all down. [drinks directly from tequila bottle]

A very big Onion announcement: The Onion has spent the last two months working on a masterpiece. It's a documentary titled Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. It's so good, in fact, we were set to release it in theatres nationwide on October 2nd. Then two weeks ago, Charlie Kirk was shot.

Driving. Free the cities and ride bikes.

Karen Attiah at WaPo championing Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed by the Saudi govt for writing critically about them, then getting fired from WaPo for writing critically about the US govt's veneration of Charlie Kirk is such an illustration of this moment, and how "free speech" has been manipulated.