Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.

A project that would make energy more affordable and reliable for more than 40% of Americans is cancelled, just days before a new EO is released calling for accelerated funding and permitting for data center energy projects (including reducing and removing environmental review wherever possible).

If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR

Platforming this kind of junk in 2025 is itself anti-science

As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...

In all fairness, Trump uses IQ in the most historically accurate way possible, as a way to do a racism in service of eugenics.

Another thing this chart shows is that one of these groups is much more in touch with empirical reality than the other. Believing that whites face more discrimination than immigrants or Black people is like being a flat-earther. Propaganda works.

Websites that use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery have become a lucrative business, and “Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to generative AI” has allowed them to persist. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...

if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test

Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against an AI and energy summit planned at CMU on July 15. Leaders in AI and related fields and President Donald Trump are expected to attend the invitation-only event, convened by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.

I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event.

In a policy memo published by @scientistsorg.bsky.social‬, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social‬, and Emma Strubell, recommend that approaches to measuring AI’s environmental impacts consider the use cases that are driving energy consumption, and how data centers impact communities. fas.org/publication/...

HEY NYC TRANS PEOPLE: Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...

🚨 Call for Papers: LM4Sci @COLM_conf 2025 🚨 Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada! Submission Deadline: June 23 Notification: July 24 Workshop: October 10, 2025

NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care: on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid... & Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

Protect transgender scientist! 🏳️‍⚧️

This looks like the cover of their third album

there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation.

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

Utilizing new streamlined permitting process, California approves world’s largest solar-plus-storage project www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora... Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process. #Upshift 🔌💡

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

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As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition. The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.

A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

I get tired of people who take themselves too seriously. We are all little dumb dumbs doing the best we can, just get a grip

We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

Why is the AI company Nvidia pushing for a 10-year ban that'd stop states from putting in safeguards around AI? Because they want to shape the rules so they can make more money. This is just one more example of Nvidia putting its profits over consumers and national security.

Immigrants who are forced toward the United States by economic and political forces governed by colonialism and imperialism live their entire lives full of heartache about what they left behind and what they contended with when they got here

this is such a good representation of American Christianity

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

We don’t need to guess what tariffs will do. We've seen this movie. Bush tried steel tariffs in 2002. Trump did it again in 2018. Both times, same plot: a handful of steel jobs saved, tens of thousands of downstream jobs destroyed.

Yes every conservative social media site becomes a tropical rainforest of school shooters and Ponzi schemes but did you know that there is a left-wing social media site where people are rude to the nation’s center-right political pundits

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

ICE is a much greater threat to this country than illegal immigrants. The current administration ia by far the greatest threat this country faces. The problem is not st our borders. It is in the White House.

Staff who are being terminated from the National Endowment for the Humanities this coming week received their last full paycheck this weekend. A reminder that appropriations for full staff salaries were made through September 30, 2025. Terminating us now was never necessary, just cruel. #NEH

Next time transphobes call trans healthcare "experimental" you can show them this

Mexico has only one gun store in the entire country. Almost all criminal guns come from a handful of dealers in the 4 US border states, and the US gov fights tooth and nail for Americans to keep selling guns to cartels and buying their drugs, but somehow we’re the criminals

Division by weight/strength/size is the obvious answer here. We already do this in dog sports where sex of the competitors is not tied up in weird gender norms. Are male border collies larger on average than female? Yes. Does that matter when considering an individual competitor? No.

Okay listen... i am not at all angry when i say this because a lot of people who say this and mean well but are really clueless because the media narrative on this is so disconnected with reality. A trans only category would not work in any sport, anywhere. There are not enough trans athletes.

Hallmark of an AI-written paper review

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.