Top 10 reasons why Democrats need to talk about climate change now: 🧵

I wonder what we could instead pay energy companies to leave in the ground at a serious discount to their net present value at the moment.

I haven't yet read Kim Stanley Robinson's Ministry of the Future. Does it tell us what happens next?

History will look at how a small number of rapacious and malicious plutocrats, with the full complicity of a thoroughly corrupt and intellectually bankrupt political party, caused the epic collapse of the greatest nation on the planet.

Why do philosophers discuss a fictional Trolley Problem? Chernobyl invented a real one. Pilots could make the radioactive waste come down on Belarus, killing fewer, or let it move in the clouds, likely eventually raining down on a more populous Moscow. theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yes, Reader's Digest is undead, and apparently producing horror fiction, combining a critical sociology of AI as a mirror of the worst of us ([email protected]) with a reboot of "The Stepford Wives".

Conflicts already give Trump exceptional powers; full-scale war will give Trump emergency powers. He has run his party into the ground. He will need all the power he can concentrate in himself to get his party and himself through the next two years. There will be no peace.

mad neuroscientists marching in Berkeley

His one idea is that due to an overwhelming force advantage the US can have its way as long as it does not inhibit itself with wokeness. Thus, the only thing he has to do is unwoke the military. He does not have to prepare for their counter-moves or use any intelligence whatsoever. Which suits him

Is there a conversation planned with @akshatrathi.bsky.social?

Any chance it was an Iranian state-backed party that traded on the inside information?

World's top energy executives are meeting in Houston for the annual CERAWeek conference this week. I hope this chart is the talk of town.

Note that if 42.5% of people under 50 are GOP-leaning & 31% of them identify as racist, ≈ 87% under 50 don't. Yet 13% may be more than enough to cross a threshold that could bring new people in that could then get a new threshold crossed for more people to be brought it. Vigilance is required.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

The rot revealed in the US military & diplomatic efforts, by @phillipspobrien.bsky.social: phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/the-rot-is... Deeply disturbing. BTW, Phillips—what is your take on the US sinking of the Iranian ship off Sri Lanka?

I will never not be angry at the way tech bros have told us that the danger is apocalyptic superintelligence when it was always obvious that the reason to worry is that we would put dumb AI in really stupid places.

no quarter can or should be given to hold this evil to account

I think @normative.bsky.social made this point yesterday, but once you get beyond the outrage of the brutality of the original “arrest” here, you also have to confront the fact that a D.A. CHOSE TO PROSECUTE THIS and a judge SENTENCED HIM TO A YEAR IN JAIL. Total system fail. WTF

Thread makes sense but offered as only as plausible.

Fuck. Will the US really never catch up in materials science? My daughter is going to grad school next year at one of the US's best grad schools in material sciences. Should she go work for an AI company instead that won't use more math than she learned by her sophomore year or work in finance?

American hegemony began in Fordism; it may end in fossil fascism.

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous this is.

Usual rule of thumb is that you don’t need to attribute evil when some actions can be explained by stupidity. Here it’s the other way around.

That the illegal destruction of USAID will kill more than *20 million people* in the next five years, & has ALREADY KILLED 600,000 in just one year, is a world-historical crime that Americans aren't being told about in the terms & with the repetition necessary for them to believe it.

just another bit of bad news that will devastate our children's lives

On the power situation in Puerto Rico to which Bad Bunny called attention. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end... Trump doesn't do Infrastructure Weeks in Puerto Rico. He does Destruction Terms.

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

Alex Pretti, a person of honor, is dead because he was moved to action by the treatment of immigrant neighbors, the brutal murder of Nicole Renee Good, and the thuggish treatment of a peaceful woman protestor moments before he was pepper-sprayed in the face, beaten, and shot ten times.

The most important chart for understanding the energy landscape in 2026. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Even today, some things can be said with absolute certainty. These lines will never cross again. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Plenty that is baffling these days, but few things are more baffling than some major auto companies looking at this global trend and deciding NAH, NOT FOR ME

Learning language is learning what not to say; it is learning what’s prohibited for whom and when. The poverty of stimulus argument works best not in terms of acquisition of language but in an understanding of prohibition. 1/2

Grok can’t compete with us in how fast we learn the boundaries of acceptable speech and behavior. It is a dubious advantage that we have over these new forms of intelligent beings.

CBS News just cut a segment in which an expert explained why the ICE agent who killed Nicole Good violated procedure. I think of how quickly humans learn what the boundaries of discussion are. We don’t need terabytes of data. Language is a system of prohibitions that we learn frighteningly fast

The point has already been reached within CBS News that such interviews would never be done in the first place. It doesn't take too many cases of repression for reporters to learn what the boundaries of reporting are. They aren't LLMs that need terabytes of data to learn.

'The university, not only generates the pioneering ideas that benefit society & contribute to democratic self-government, but also fulfills the innately human drive to understand the world & live a good life. The unwieldy structure of the uni contributes to its success but leaves it vulnerable.'

Yesterday was the coldest day of the year! Of course it was. If you want to know how often we expect records break to you can find more here:

‘We had whistles, they had guns.‘ —Becca Good

There are going to be overenrolled courses on gender ideology at Texas A & M about what was going on in this cop's mind.

Fantastic piece. I am reminded that in *Business Cycles* Schumpeter gave up his earlier theory of imperialism as a feudal hangover for a theory of social imperialism. That Trump is restricting himself to a sphere of influence may suggest the limits of the power that he can project abroad?

It's not meant to actually make America richer. It's meant to make American rubes think that the way to get richer is for a great nation to focus on seizing territory and resources in its sphere of influence so that the US understands and mirrors what Russia is doing rather than fights Russia.

It seems that the ICE cop shot dead a defiant white woman married to another white woman. So the war on the undocumented is for ICE a license to handle anything that bothers them in any way they see fit.

The humanity and the human rights of those of us simply suspected of being here illegally or not belonging here have been stripped away, just as the warmth that our body radiates can be dissipated. We are living in the wind chill of eliminationist racism.

"They are doing real, heinous things to facilitate the creation of content, and we must be clear about that, but it is always in service of the creation of the content and not durable policy." cooperlund.medium.com/the-trump-fl...

What do you get when you combine America’s prejudices into one (anti-black racism, racist nativist and Christian zealotry)? Trump’s Birtherism. Then mix that white Christian nationalist idea of America with leadership of Barbie Noem. The barbaric racial dystopia of a new American racial state

The invention of ever more powerful and insidious technologies of want creation was fully predictable (see JK Galbraith screenshots), and if Heidegger saw the essence of technology in convenience, want creation may disclose the essence of AI.

Love Prof Wolff's discussion of naming the world and his concept of cumulative disadvantage.

We're excluded from a free good, sunlight, because our work organization forces us to earn an income by being indoors all day. The compensation for the good of which we are deprived, sunlight, is the private consumption of commodities that leaves us moribund due to their declining marginal utility.