I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding insideclimatenews.org/news/1202202...

... at a party balloon. Well done everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

The Guadalupe River flooded catastrophically in 1998. This was before the fracking boom put hundreds of massive oil tanks in its floodplains in the Eagle Ford Shale. Now, locals worry a repeat could trigger an environmental disaster.

Anything under 15 minutes doesn’t do it justice

Strong student reporting from the Epstein files thedailytexan.com/2026/02/10/f...

NEW: There's been another round of layoffs at the lab formerly known as NREL. Weeks after scrubbing “renewable energy” from its name, the National Laboratory of the Rockies in Golden has cut 134 staffers. www.cpr.org/2026/02/09/n...

You gotta appreciate a reporter who gets a tip from ... a nun. Hear @dylanbaddour.bsky.social explain his tipster and his latest data-rich investigation about the effect on fracking on Texas floodplains. He and @peteraldhous.com are on ICN's Sunday Morning: insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

Here's @texastribune.org with our @insideclimatenews.org story on flood hazards to tank batteries and other oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River Basin. w/ @dylanbaddour.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2026/02/09/t...

ICYMI at the weekend: @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I on flood hazards to oil industry infrastructure in the Guadalupe River floodplains insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

EXTRA: @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I were interviewed about our story on flood hazards for oil infrastructure in the Guadalupe River basin by @jsmithhopkins.bsky.social for the @insideclimatenews.org Sunday Morning video: insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

NEW from @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I for @insideclimatenews.org ‘A Disaster Waiting to Happen’: How the Fracking Boom Put an Oil Field in the Guadalupe River Floodplain insideclimatenews.org/news/0802202...

One small mercy in all of this mess is that to my knowledge we have been spared Lawrence Krauss's planned book on #MeToo

Synthesis of the murky world of Epstein, Tech Bros, Science Bros, Edge/Brockman Bros. Glad to see the extensive links, including to my reporting from 2018-19. www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

It's a conundrum ... (Background: www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete...)

1/3) To add to @danvergano.bsky.social's reporting: In 2014-15, Epstein ($250K) & Leon Black ($2M) were funding L. Krauss' Origins Project as a strategy to gain influence [via @peteraldhous.com) buzzfeednews.com/article/pete.... SciAm EIC @mdichristina.bsky.social was Origins board member at time.

Epstein files show a complicated relationship with science and journalism Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show www.scientificamerican.com/article/epst...

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

👀 Martin Nowak, Harvard mathematical biologist, was supposed to get $5 million from Jeffrey Epstein's estate www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/b...

Perhaps the current owners are departing via vertical take off, performing a couple of barrel rolls, and therefore not leaving that particular fixture behind

Accidental SVG art from a current project

ICYMI from the weekend: @dylanbaddour.bsky.social and I on a surge in pollutant emissions from oil and gas facilities in Texas in the big freeze insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

Four days of icy weather in Texas = oil, gas and petrochemical facilities released 1.6 million pounds of regulated pollutants. Companies were allowed to vent or burn off pollutants, because of "enforcement discretion" during the big freeze. ICN did the data: insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

Every journalist whose theat model includes this administration/the federal government needs to be aware of this. Signal for desktop + touch ID + they have a warrant = the feds can read any of your signal messages that haven't disappeared.

NEW from me with @dylanbaddour.bsky.social for @insideclimatenews.org: Oil, Gas and Petrochemical Facilities in Texas Emitted 1.6 Million Pounds of Regulated Pollutants During Last Week’s Icy Weather insideclimatenews.org/news/3101202...

Touched by the hand of Ofra Haza ... open.spotify.com/track/53O11d...

A team effort today on the winter storm's wide reaching impacts, climate change, FEMA cuts and the health hazards of extreme cold. Stay warm and check on your elderly and unhoused neighbors! insideclimatenews.org/news/2601202...

🧵All of our @ucscscicomm.bsky.social students' pieces from the fall news features class have now been published @mercurynews.com. Here they are: 1/ Olivia Maule on an app to track Monarch butterflies fitted with tiny bluetooth tags www.mercurynews.com/2025/12/06/l...

Anti-ICE protesters fill the streets of downtown Minneapolis during an "ICE Out" rally on Jan. 23. 📷️ Alex Kormann/The Minnesota Star Tribune Continuing coverage: bit.ly/3ZsrBxQ

How Trump Has Pocketed $1,408,500,000 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW in @mercurynews.com from our @ucscscicomm.bsky.social news features classes: @pepperstclair.bsky.social on efforts to engineer a comeback for the endangered and beautiful San Francisco garter snake www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/22/s...

Nicely done @burritojustice.bsky.social! burritojustice.github.io/maplibre-glo...

Deeply disturbing apnews.com/article/ice-...

I’m used to these two being closely aligned. Watching developments with alarm

In the cuts DOGE made, there is a clear pattern of ideological and partisan targeting. Look at federal jobs. @adambonica.bsky.social has documented that DOGE job cuts were higher in agencies seen as serving progressive goals. "The efficiency rationale was a cover for ideological restructuring."

Ocean Damage Nearly Doubles the Cost of Climate Change insideclimatenews.org/news/1501202...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

NEW in @mercurynews.com from our news features classes @ucscscicomm.bsky.social: Daniella García Almeida on a push to understand California's coastal fog www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/13/p...

Immigration Agents Are Using Banned Chokeholds and Other Moves That Can Cut Off Breathing www.propublica.org/article/vide...

The people who live here fly a few different flags. First time I’ve seen Greenland

👀 "[T]he laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status to fool adversaries into dropping their guard, then attacking and killing them." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

City looking fine this evening

Climate Cooperation Will Suffer as the U.S. Disengages From International Commitments insideclimatenews.org/news/1001202...

Visual investigations reporting teams reaching the same conclusion: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

🧵Context/analysis on Venezuela and Greenland from @insideclimatenews.org colleagues: 1/ Oil Industry Will Eye Venezuela Warily, Experts Say insideclimatenews.org/news/0701202...

In addition to the UNFCCC and IPCC exits, Treasury just announced it's withdrawing from the global Green Climate Fund, calling it a "radical" organization

LATEST from our @ucscscicomm.bsky.social news features classes in @mercurynews.com: Albert Chern on preventing fentanyl overdoses in Santa Cruz county and the role played by harm reduction amid opposition from some community groups www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/08/f...

Until the tech stack changes enough that the LLMs are no longer able to provide useful answers for a lack of training materials.

NEW in @mercurynews.com from our news features classes @ucscscicomm.bsky.social: Kari Goodbar on the surfing economy of Santa Cruz and threats from climate change and coastal defense www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/02/s...