The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Out of the 2159 Jews who lived in my Zayde's village before the war, 20 survived. The Germans, with assistance from Lithuanian police, shot 2000 people in two days. The rest were sent to ghettos, or hid in the forest. My Zayde hid, and I get to be here today. I can't forget, I hope you won't either.

I also love Penn and Teller for doing this: youtu.be/RfdZTZQvuCo?...

They really have no idea. The External Active Thermal Control System (EATCS) on the ISS has huge radiators but can only remove a maximum of about 240,000 BTU (about 70KW) worth of heat from the complex per hour. Data centers generate waste heat in the megawatt-hour range (tens to hundreds).

who is that you hear screaming? it is me, I'm the one who is screaming. many thanks to ashley judd for sharing with me her memories of working on michael mann's HEAT; at @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/ashl...

8/ There have been numerous complaints about this practice, which appears to be taking place in many different units on many different fronts in Ukraine. It's possible that some men are deliberately being sent to their deaths so that their commanders can steal their salaries.

One of the things AI coding agents are bad at is telling you you're trying to do something that doesn't really make sense and you probably meant to do this other thing that everyone else does because it makes more sense. Several gigawatt datacentres could be saved

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

feel this in my bones

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

If CO2 emissions go to zero in 2050 (top), the sinks (green) will bring atmospheric CO2 back down (middle), & temperature will stabalise at ~1.7°C (bottom). Going to zero today will keep us <1.5°C Constant emissions leads to 2.6°C, rising rapidly thereafter. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A very deluxe chessboard, mid 16th century (Schloss Ambras Innsbruck)

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have

Most of these topics are facets of the same root cause: the majority of the work lies in determining what to do, which cannot be estimated, rather than doing it, which can be estimated easily. To that end, KISS: all work is Small or Large, and if you aren't sure, call it Medium and move on.

Quite the thread

29/ As soon as they sign the contract, the recruits are taken away to buses for transportation to their units and training camps. Many will receive only a few days' perfunctory training before dying in Ukraine within a couple of weeks of being recruited.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Telling graphic on the gender pay gap in east & west Germany 35 years on, on Unity Day www.ostbeauftragte.de/ostb-de/aktu...

there should just be one snake that's long enough to always be everywhere snakes are needed

It's absolutely astonishing: In just about 13 years, Norway has skyrocketed from virtually no sales of zero-emission battery electric vehicles to nearly 100% of all new passenger car purchases.

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

wrote a little bit about the greatest to ever do it

IEA says: 1. China's oil demand peaks in 2027 due to EVs. 2. Global demand for combustible petroleum fuels FALLS by 2028. 3. Global oil demand, including for petrochemical feedstocks, peaks and begins to fall by 2030. See IEA Oil 2025 Analysis & Forecast iea.li/40auS5I Petrostate politicos freak!

Last year the EU paid €21.9 bn for Russian fossil fuel imports while at the same time providing Ukraine with €18.7 bn of financial aid. energyandcleanair.org/publication/...

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Civilization, visualized Positively mesmerizing: www.chronotrains.com/en/explore/2...

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

it's 2074. president TrumpAI, demands a military spending increase. senate minority leader ChuckGPT has indicated support despite DoD budget share crossing his 105% red line. outside, tanks and jets blanket a dead landscape. the groans of their decaying metal bodies fill the air like whale song

andrew chen of 3sixteen explaining why you may not feel the tariffs yet IG 3sixteen

A cheery Saturday-morning read

Share a great movie or TV scene that takes place in a restaurant

And now: A thread regarding my thoughts on "1.5°C"--not only as a Paris Agreement target, but also re: relevance to recent #climate events & overlaps (or not) w/geophysical realities. (This was originally written as a response to a journalist, who used excerpts in their article.)

I don’t think 1.5 degrees failed because it was too ambitious. It failed because hardly anyone made a serious effort. Just look at fossil fuel subsidies. Any serious attempt to phase out fossil fuels would have started by immediately stopping all fossil subsidies.

EXCELLENT DECISION MAKING JON YOU ARE A SHINING EXAMPLE

A good way to impress new people is to show them how far you can throw their car keys

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A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source. In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up. @ember-energy.org

In the past year we've had a series of papers with results that've shocked #climate scientists - the globe is heating #FasterThanExpected & we don't fully know why The public discourse is not keeping up. Here's a series of 5 new studies that climate hawks & journos need to have on their radar 🧵

Once more with feeling.

Are you a journalist writing about a current heatwave? The images you choose are critical to the story. The @climateoutreach.bsky.social team have shown some ideas here which help stress the risks rather than the typical ice creams: www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...

Today’s sunset with a view of Mt. Fuji

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

With current trends and policies, we'll transgress all planetary boundaries in 2050, except for ozone depletion. Targeted interventions — e.g., the Paris Agreement — can help, but not enough. More effective policy measures are needed to ensure we live well within the planetary boundaries.

This is incredibly powerful from the WHO’s Emergencies Director, Dr Mike Ryan, on the world doing nothing as the children of Gaza die. “This is an abomination.” (🎥 Middle East Eye)

I've been using tic tacs as a bribe to get my kids to climb into their car seats, "hey once you're buckled you can have a red one" you know, grade A parenting stuff. anyway they invariably drop their tic tacs on the floor and demand another and that's kind of like what the US Navy is doing right now

Much ado about the role of renewable energy (RE) in the Spanish blackout. The investigation into the effective cause is still ongoing, but many pointed to the fact that RE has no ‘inertia’. Is that true? The answer is: yes, but ... 🧵

Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...

For #AlienDay, my deep dive into the creation and destruction of the iconic Space Jockey. filmstories.co.uk/news/alien-t...