Great thread. We need an all of the above strategy, including various approaches to mitigation (which can then be tailored to the needs of a given locale) and adaptation (particularly given the increased committed impacts from this lost era). Any risk management now is better than waiting.

This is what smart friends group chat's for

This administration lied about the people it sent to an overseas torture prison. It lies about the people it’s deporting. It lies every day to gain political advantage. Not a chance in hell they won’t lie about huge swaths of people they suspect might vote for the other party.

Research rarely surprises, and that is not a failure. Its value lies in carefully (dis)confirming, qualifying, or bounding what we already think we know.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

i think about this a lot. you could send an army of ghosts to elon musk's mansion and at the end of the night he would still just be the world's dumbest nazi

CBS destroying a brand they built up over the course of like 100 years for one criminal idiot is a pretty funny bit

this image is maybe the single greatest joke in TRADING PLACES. and also a pretty apt description of the trump/vance/national conservative vision of america

watching my favorite christmas movie and what is possibly the great american comedy about class and race

Nativist italian americans are so funny. Wym your whole personality is being italian and then talking about immigration the way people used to talk about your ancestors

A good pal designed this gorgeous "Protect Trans Kids" logo. Also available on a shirt! siler.printful.me

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

What are we doing here? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I mean, they will now, or something geofencing related. The problem is there's always another thing, and it gets ever-worse as you scale, which they have to do kinda fast now if they are even going to pretend to ever be in a position to make money

it occurs to me that the waymo failure in the SF blackout is precisely the kind of failure we were trying to help with: when traffic lights go out navigating intersections resolves to social negotiation, which requires theory of mind, which AVs ain't got

look i'm not an "impeach the cheeto!!!!" guy but if this is in fact what happened I'm not really sure what other political response is more prudent

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

the epstein files as rick owens fall/winter 2024

Really appreciate the justified anger in this piece by @ryanlcooper.com. The GOP's narrative about trans people "is and always has been a lie. What these people actually have is a seething, obsessive hatred of trans people. They want them either back in the closet or dead."

i dunno if i was all about USA being an AI leader you know what I wouldn't do? blow up NCAR

My collaborator and friend Chris Piecuch's new paper confirms: despite what the Department of Energy claimed, sea-level rise is indeed accelerating around the contiguous US

I'm not sure most folks are aware of the immense magnitude of loss this would entail for the global weather and climate community, and beyond. NCAR has played a greater cumulative role in advancing weather prediction and atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world.

Derek Lowe, on a previous attempt to apply "AI" to material science. After this failure, one would think Google would be more cautious but the arrogance of tech knows no bounds.

The word "game" is doing a whole lot of work in this post marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...

Alternate headline: “Turd gets flushed” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

just the sheer amount of work and expense and idiocy that goes into preventing trans people from fulfilling basic human needs, my god

The additional irony on this one being that Google did, in fact, fire Timnit Gebru for saying "Hey, maybe the real risks of AI aren't the AGI ghost stories, but [list of things that all turned out to be the real risks of AI]."

i asked chat gpt to fact check an article for me

the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.

blood-and-soil nativism repels me on a cellular level

Check out Zeke’s latest model-observation comparison. As I’ve said many times, climate models are excellent.

It's the 160th anniversary of the United States' refounding, the ratification of the 13th Amendment.

I switched to Kagi earlier this year and have no regrets. I spend so much time in a search engine that the cost is well worth it. Paying is no guarantee against enshittification, but it helps, and so far the search product (I don’t use the AI) has been fantastic.

it is MIRACULOUS that we got rid of lead paint and asbestos when we did. if we had tried that today, there would be people whining about how we're restricting their rights.

I guess I’m not surprised but the characterization of people re: Zillow as being either “for” or “against” climate transparency is so simplistic. You can be all for climate data and also questioning whether products like First Street are appropriate for property level risk assessment.

Nice to see this innovative cat bond (modeled by my team at Moody's!) getting some attention! Fortifying roofs against hurricanes is a win for both insurers and insureds, but requires upfront investment. Instruments like this cat bond unlock the capital that is needed for these mitigation measures.

wife got a timer for all of our christmas lights so obviously thinking of this

Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.

Today, DOE renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), one of the crown jewels of U.S. science and engineering for renewable energy, the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). We should be reinvesting in our world-leading national labs not renaming them. www.nrel.gov/news/detail/...

If a man personally implicated in war crimes can remain atop the Pentagon, why would he stand by and risk his freedom should Vance (or Trump again) lose the 2028 election? And unless Bradley sees the inside of a brig, the message to USSOCOM's chain of command is that no action is impermissible.

most famously fat is a store of resources built up in rich times and drawn down in lean times. but it's also a protective layer against external shock, an anti-wear substance distributed throughout the system, it both retains and generates heat for homeostasis—and these uses do not consume it!

if people are going to exhaust me with how "politics is like pro wrestling" they should learn that good bookers find the result they want and then book backwards

people who are taking issue with how the instructor handled this student’s (imo unacceptable) submission are missing the point entirely. revise and resubmit? give a low nonzero grade? why think any of *those* responses wouldn’t have sent the libsoftiktok machine in motion too?

Hi, in case you're curious, we looked at the performance of different models last year: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

Everyone is getting upset about the data centers. They pollute a lot and use a lot of energy and will eventually be very ugly/huge vacant buildings. And I understand being mad about that. Until you consider the state of the lazer tag industry at this moment, and how much help that sector needs.

you have to be able to look bad faith in the eye and say absolutely not, even if that bad faith is coming from the highest levels of government if you can’t, you do not - in any meaningful sense - have an institution, and all the kids who go there will learn is to weaponize bad faith themselves

Kelly's point is why I think the merits of Zillow removing climate risk scores (www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...) is fairly nuanced. To make it clear: Zillow clearly did not do this for the right reasons, and the realty and developer lobbies have long been opponents of better climate information.