Screaming, crying, throwing up, etc.

I mean, just put this in the dictionary next to 'billionaire' tbqh.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

The Heritage Foundation has found a new vein of shame to mine. Science and climate denialism, now hand in hand with denying recognition to segregated black troops who served and dug their country's own war cemetery. Shameful.

Some thoughts on why Remembrance is so important, and why attempts to police it should be resisted.

Ah well, nvm.

We need to do a World Cup of Nonsense Charts. The escalation vortex 👑 is in danger.

AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points

The #COP30 world leaders summit is about to start, and on this thread I'll be tracking how world leaders address energy transition (specifically fossil fuels) in their speeches. Let's go!

There's a line of argument that takes the billions of people using AI/LLMs - many millions intensively - and concludes they should be proximate to thousands and thousands of tragic incidents, even *if* completely harmless. And then there's this - and you realise people are rightly going to jail.

'Area-pundit finally comes around to the value of gender studies!' [contemptible]

"Here is the graph, which is so wild, the climate scientist had to call a colleague & check it" It is true actually! In the Global Carbon Budget we do not usually show the LUC like this, because of interannual variability & uncertainty. But it is what the data says! politiken.dk/klima/art106...

UK shooting itself in the foot, as well as letting down nature guardians...

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

This doesn't even include the cost of avoided climate damages, or account for any of the co-benefits of climate action!!! 😮‍💨 #CostOfNotZero

If we're starting another quantum hype cycle, I need people to understand that there are pretty much just two practical problems we *know* have an exponential speedup on a quantum computer. These are: 1. Breaking the internet 2. Being quantum A few other problems have a smaller speedup, or none

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Nice, concise, dense thread on attribution nuance around hurricane Melissa 🌀

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres before Cop30 Story by me and Wajã Xipai. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Evangelicalism's deferred rewards pitch is similarly shaped enough to Silicon Valley's current marketing model that this partnership was more or less inevitable I suppose

'[Climate change contributing to Hurricane Melissa by] strengthening top wind speed by 10 mph, and increasing potential damages by 50%.' Environmental changes that sound small can have massive effects when they key cross breakpoints and thresholds. From @environment.theguardian.com live blog.

A year ago, Spain was hit by deadly floods They were supercharged by climate change Yet in their wake, climate-denying politicians gained influence - which risks undermining climate action, making people less safe Today we publish new research on this troubling dynamic🧵 www.scri.org.uk/derailment

Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.

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From an excellent article on why AI isn't a "get out of jail for free" card. We appear to be in danger of believing that Soviet central planning failed because computers and data weren't good enough and forgetting that there are constraints on growth from resources and climate change

I found a capybara pebble🤎

Random math fact: the golden ratio (1.618) is very close to the conversion ratio from miles to kilometers (1.609), meaning you can use the Fibonacci sequence to convert between miles and km: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, etc.

*Gets lost in 'cats with jobs' Wikipedia* *Finds out that Japan made a cat station master after their fame rehabilitated the finances of the regional train line* *Cat promoted to superintendent and given special crab treat by CEO* *Cat is the only female manager in the company* *Close Wikipedia*

Tom Clancy's Having a Mental Health Breakdown on a Train 2 🤗🫥

Two questions to every Con MP, frontbencher and source should be: 1. Why do you have a Idi Amin style immigration policy more extreme than the BNP? 2. Why do you keep lying about having a Idi Amin style immigration policy more extreme than the BNP?

Fascinated by the philosophical and theological implications of this

some encouraging evidence here that green-labelled bonds and loans are actually achieving something meaningful documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/0...

Absolutely shameful that this piece of unworkable, xenophobic nonsense is being proposed by a supposedly mainstream party. Parts of the right are self-radicalising at such a rate, and for what? To impress 10-15% of electorate who are hard authoritarians? Let it be an albatross around their neck.

This thread would be incomplete without a picture of the dog in question. He’s the one on the left.

Important new carbon markets story from @benelgin.bsky.social in Bloomberg: Verra acknowledges it issued too many carbon credits to a controversial forest offset project, but hasn't implemented a remedy — despite backing companies' use of these credits. 🎁 Gift link below.

All this time I thought “Butlerian Jihad” was a winking reference to the conservative paranoia around gender liberationist ideologies in the vein of Judith Butler. Now I learn that it’s something about computers

"This is not genocide. Trust us, if we wanted to carry out genocide, we could do it." I mean, what do you say anymore.

The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increased by a record amount last year, says @wmo-global.bsky.social. The record annual rise comes amid growing signs that forests, peatlands, oceans and other natural "sinks" are failing to absorb as much CO2 as they normally do. wmo.int/publication-...

Get yourself a social network that will regularly relitigate historical imperialisms, and update the tier-list based on who turns out to be married to people with niche publishing records and domain expertise. Spanish Empire 🚮😅

The alternate headline - "Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk" kinda gets to the point a bit quicker. @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's point the other day that lots of bat, snail, ecosystem protection is just the mine-canary for this...

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different. Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

As ever, Dan is great here on why we need to pay attention to leading indicators in planning - even (especially?) when they're potentially stupid feathery/slimy creatures. No one relishes the complex world we know we live in, where it's less theres no free lunches and more there's no free land.

This one tipped me over this morning. Why the horse. Human emotional responses are so irrational. What do you say. How do we stop the death laid on deaths laid on deaths.

The evidence on the deficiencies of the median, or even above average, offset scheme just keep piling up. We now need: - High integrity only, or - Carbon credits without (likely false) offset claims Do check the actual study as well, which is very readable www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Truly searing report by the NYT’s Roger Cohen on where 🇮🇱 & 🇵🇸 stand 2 years on. “Israel at war with itself” is the title. 2 Octobers ago I told BBC that Israel was diving headlong into “the terrorism trap.” It didn’t have to. Netanyahu strode right into the door Hamas opened. Some reflections 🧵 1/

Amongst everything else that can ,(and should) be said against this - it's clearly, surely not sustainable or workable from an enforcement perspective. It's madness to arrest people for objecting to a proscription.

Pretty bleak, and a warning for the change model that put large emphasis on enthusiastic, voluntary corporate action. Note - lots of NZ activities and investment will still be being pushed, but geographically segmented, and with very different PR.

The 2025 EAT-Lancet report has been published 6 years after the original report broke ground in synthesizing knowledge about our food systems. This new report provides a scientific update on what constitutes a healthy, sustainable, and just food system in today’s world. eatforum.org/update/the-2...

Will have to dig 🪏 in, but interesting how the simpler, cleaner policy instrument of carbon taxation now has majority economist backing it over the more encompassing, firster-best (😅) trading scheme. Pol econ nuance eventually gets digested and wins out. #greensky #climatesky #econsky