This is no way to live, man

I was genuinely and deeply radicalized by the Iraq War(s) and the surrounding media coverage, and where we are now is so exponentially more diseased that I genuinely don't even have the words

All Republican members of Congress, no matter what other good and bad things they've done in their lives, will be remembered for choosing party over country and keeping this guy in office when it's clear that he's 100% unfit for office.

love too wake up to see both a stunning picture of earthrise from the moon and a pronouncement of genocide from the mad king

I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...

Job in sustainability education at CU Boulder: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Globally, Dakar; I had no real expectations but the city and people were lovely, and far more accomodating of my extremely limited French than they had any reason to be. In the US, probably Norfolk.

Time series of elevation and storage for Lake Powell (1963 to March 2026)

Almost eight years ago, I wrote for the New Republic that we should ban targeted ads that surveil you across the internet. (newrepublic.com/article/1478...) I'm doing what I can do by banning them from the website I run. prospect.org/2026/04/06/w...

I’d love to rule out 8.5 impacts too. Surely Roger would agree we should fund NCAR, NSF SBE, etc so we can get to the bottom of this!

Now this is high praise!

Evergreen

When asked what he thinks about his article being shared by climate deniers, Nordhaus said, “I don’t actually care.”

i want to thank the neighborhood brass band for playing "war pigs" when we turned the kids loose for the easter egg hunt yesterday

I keep saying this and none of you believe me, but here's the truth. Here's the difficult truth. This is SSP3-RCP1.9

Things are moving fast in the energy world thanks to the latest war. I cover a lot of the highlights of the past week in this piece.

my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame

we color eggs because jesus dyed

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Social media engagement overall has stalled, even decreased. It's not a single platform issue. In digital marketing, our metric is now "engagement." Not traffic, users, or views. About 30% of social profiles are fake, and 30-40% of web traffic is just bot traffic. www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

some things do not need hockey stick-shaped growth to be successful

How it started /// How it's going ICYMI -- @madisoncondon.bsky.social and @vsrikrish.bsky.social 's new (and sure to be evergreen) piece in defense of the unfairly maligned climate scenario RCP 8.5

People are often surprised that the banking system still runs on legacy COBOL code and much of modern physics still uses FORTRAN. Well, one good thing is you don’t end up running two versions of Outlook. Sorry, Artemis II crew. You’re at Clippy’s mercy now.

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0

Gift article. "The [Bhagat Singh Thind] ruling led the government to strip citizenship retroactively from Mr. Thind, his lawyer and more than 50 other naturalized citizens of Indian heritage." One of those 50 was my grandfather, Vaishno Das Bagai. This time it could happen to birthright citizens.

we gotta send so many guys to the Hague

This is literally a war crime and a national disgrace.

This is a great piece, and I'd never made this connection to War of the Worlds before despite knowing about Wells' politics. It just re-affirms that there is no such thing as apolitical science fiction.

In which @madisoncondon.bsky.social and I expand on our argument that "extreme" climate scenarios, such as RCP 8.5, are actually useful and we should use them as part of climate risk analyses. Thanks to @progressivereform.bsky.social for encouraging us and giving us space!

ok we’re doing funny tweets again so I’ll do a thread of just stuff that’s already on my phone.

And the articulation and context of the work — did it stem from a clear hypothesis, was there something off that merited further investigation, and exactly what do the findings tell us and what questions are now or remain open — is the essential part of scientific writing. These require insight.

I suppose the lesson from today is that some academics are totally fine ruining people's lives for their own greater glory.

thomas also laughingly described the way claude code ensures it outputs functioning json: it takes the result, tests against the spec, and if it fails, keeps giving it back to the llm repeatedly in a loop until it passes it IS funny, AND this is also the ONLY way to get working code out of an llm

It's Trans Day of Visibility and I wrote about how visibility without protection is a trap, and it often seems like the loudest calls for us to be visible are coming from those who have done nothing to protect us. www.coyotemedia.org/im-supposed-...

pretty remarkable to decide that you want to make no points and convey no opinions and then decide *sci-fi* is the genre for you

This is a decade old from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social but we make college expensive to fail AND expensive to succeed. When we make it an expensive commodity students will respond rationally to that. tressiemc.com/uncategorize...

America's biggest planned gas plant is for a data centre. When it's operational, it'll emit the same as the old coal plant. That's because even though it generates more energy, the new data centre demands so much of it that emissions remain just as high. blog.gridstatus.io/hype-or-hype...

yes, most of what you know about the civil war came from people who weren’t there and had an agenda (shelby foote-esque southern sympathizers). people who were there described it as a jihad against the satanic plantation aristocrats

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

I’ll kick in another $600.

Thanks to Agentic, *I'm* in control. Not my spasmic valve.

there's also something so weird about this idea that what appeals to, say, someone in Baltimore won't appeal to say, someone in Detroit. like, every state has a few major cities, and those cities have more in common *with each other* than they do with their neighboring rural areas

Being mad is fun #ithaca #nokings

just to be clear: Imane Khelif is *biologically* a woman. she's not a trans woman, the entire intellectual edifice of terfism is a completely capricious attempt to define anyone they don't like out of being a woman

"A University of Oregon study found that when states legalize sports betting, intimate partner violence increases by roughly 10 percentage points after upset NFL losses." yourbrainonmoney.substack.com/p/gambling-i...

Staff and administrators saw one final year of pay raises exceeding inflation this year, but that won't happen again for a while. Tenure-line faculty have had raises below inflation every year for the past decade. Tenure and promotion boosts are often modest (3-10%), and only happen twice.

Good. Polygraphs are fake. Using them to test whether a sexual assault accuser is telling the truth is no better than consulting their horoscope. www.propublica.org/article/utah...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities