Scientists have correctly projected the global average temperature rise for decades. The last 15 years have brought an acceleration (still within the projection range). Here's how temperatures have stacked up against model runs published in 2007.

The hottest week of the year is becoming a public health threat. Much of Europe in June saw its worst-ever heat wave. @ccallahan45.bsky.social estimates more than 20,000 heat-related deaths there. Records fell across the US, disrupting July 4th plans in DC and beyond.

Cold records are vanishing. There are half as many as there would be without climate change. Heat records are occurring 4x more than you'd expect without greenhouse gas pollution.

New York City “added 38,682 units to its housing stock last year—the most new apartments completed in a single year for the city since 1965, according to the Department of City Planning, when developers rushed to complete buildings before a new zoning resolution.” www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

surely we are netting out close to even on the water issue when you pit new data centers against -2,000 golf courses

funny how in concept this feels very early 2000s but the actual quality of execution needs it to be in the 2020s

great interview with the guy who makes 3blue1brown, unquestionably one of the great math and science communicators of our time. they really get into it because Dwarkesh is also more or less a professional science teacher

literally every time, without fail, these stats come from a “research“ produced by marketing departments of startups selling the idea of more effective AI use! hello! it’s straight up bullshit and there is zero reason to believe it entelligence.ai

ironically believing cope like this amounts to letting yourself win in the game of thinking about stuff

Oh man, putting England and Norway, our palest countries, in Miami in July feels like a cruel prank

I see this one making the rounds so I am sharing a bit of a warning. This is a non-peer-reviewed, poorly detailed report from an advocacy organization. Some key information is missing, and what is reported ("The steepest judgment gap.. comes from male Gen Z") smells like p-hacking.

I haven’t heard anyone complaining that the whole thing is ruined by gambling. is that right, and if so, why?

ooh yes

From the Telemundo broadcast just now by the commentary team during a slow-mo replay of the goal and a shot of Haaland with his hair down: "This is a perfect goal. The ball didn't touch anything." In exaggerated, gravely, dramatic voice: "TERMINATOR"

you know who else made a call to a higher power to reverse a penalty for us

“a full-scale debate about the computer is developing. The contestants on one side are those who, briefly stated, believe computers can, should, and will do everything, and on the other side those who, like myself, believe there are limits to what computers ought to be put to do.” (In 1976!) ...

what the fuck! this calculator doesn’t work! and it turns off when I close the blinds!

let’s fucking go

something people will keep getting very wrong in AI and hiring discourse is that what firms need is not workers who can use AI. AI can use AI (people who don’t use agents will have trouble with this). firms need workers who can complement AI by doing things AI cannot do

looks like I was a few days early to humanities in engineering discourse

*sharing a screenshot from an article that cites another article quoting one (1) “New York financier” who says his firm prefers humanities grads to STEM* this is because the humanities teaches you critical thinking

this is exactly right and explains why most handwringing about building systems we don’t understand is misplaced. pre-LLM software engineering already consisted almost entirely of building systems we did not understand

starting to think this standard characterization is just false, not in a subtle way but in the bare and straightforward way “it‘s raining” is false when it’s not raining www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

great read if you wanna know how silly all the articles about companies scrambling to cut AI spending were. it’ll be funny when the labs announce another 50% jump in ARR

we're living in insane times, and I think becoming insane is tremendously helpful

everything semianalysis reports sounds insane

my wife was like “wow this lady really decided to make herself the face of explosive diarrhea“ and the article did not disappoint nypost.com/2026/07/03/h...

Wake up babe, incredible new america in a nutshell image just dropped

we should just follow Deng Xiaoping on Mao and say America is 70% good and 30% bad

I don’t really get the hopelessness here. the cost of avoiding at least some of these pathologies has just gone down by like 95%. the best open weights LLM knows 100 times as much about a11y as the typical dev and does not get bored

just learned about trusted publishing. instead of giving your release job an npm token, you tell npm that this workflow in this repo is allowed to publish to npm. github itself is the trusted entity. this rules, hate dealing with tokens docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publ... github.blog/changelog/20...

She’s either insane or a visionary.

correcting a beloved figure‘s grammar is perfect bluesky content. people are so excited to denounce prescriptivism

"same" I say to myself as I reach super saiyan levels of insufferableness

I have a new favorite account. this is such a steep dip I figure it must be outages rather than just the air cooling down after the storm? it was shockingly cool out for a bit though

I agree with this — I think people underestimate the value of additional capability and are reading too much into open models reaching Opus 4.5-ish level. it does mean that capability will soon be free. it doesn’t mean people won’t also pay for more xcancel.com/deanwball/st...

Bilbofication

relevant ProZD youtu.be/lxrCyqXzHI8

it’s 88 degrees and it just hailed a little. what the fuck

shocked this perfect headline for bsky RTs isn't based on real research. it's an ad for consulting services. the "research report" doesn't even say what its actual findings are. it just has a few cherry-picked stats. it's embarrassing codeforgoodnow.com/wp-content/u...

very funny example of how companies use lawyers to harass labor and suppress speech. but you cannot suppress matt bruenig

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

strange and interesting from @mariaa.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2606.22748

we love a chart library example gallery don't we folks www.layerchart.com

just kidding! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

had never seen this

neat charts! the comparison to countries is a little funny because people in all those countries use Google, so Google's energy consumption is theirs too

always fun when nikita just goes online and posts "of course the haters were exactly right about why twitter feels like sticking your head in a blender" xcancel.com/nikitabier/s...

cute