If you're looking for a good "oh shit" number visualized well, I present the number of billion dollar "natural disasters" in the US since 1980. Trump canceled the government's counting of these, but they are maintained now here www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Small mental adjustment, sharing out loud: we all say there’s climate change mitigation & there’s adaptation (to climate change) - both are needed. But within mitigation, there are both emissions reductions and enhancement of GHG absorbing sinks. Both are important! Morning thought after reading.

22 years ago tonight, my partner and I went on our first date! Happy to report we’re doing better than ever these days.

Possibly the most wonderfulest thing I have read in a long time!! theconversation.com/why-so-many-...

On the power of writing down what you're sensing: Mary Greer says “the important thing is to express and objectify your intuitive awareness so that by becoming aware of your behavior patterns you will be free to change them.”

People older than me I don't want to email saying "I hope you're well." Because no shame if and when they're not. You're 70, 80 years old? I'll just say "it's nice to be thinking of you" as my sign off. Cheers, Marshall

I’m showing off 3 new tools I’ve made for information synthesis next Friday. We’re almost at 100 registrants and I’d love for you to join us. marshallk.com/ai-2026.html

In the final part of my 5-part series on the history of blogging and RSS, we come to 2003: when RSS Readers like NetNewsWire and Bloglines burst onto the scene, Google buys Blogger, WordPress debuts, and 16-year old Aaron Swartz live-blogs a Dave Winer keynote. cybercultural.com/p/blogospher...

I’m showing off 3 new tools I’ve made for information synthesis next Friday. We’re almost at 100 registrants and I’d love for you to join us. marshallk.com/ai-2026.html

I used to think if I just gave people the right information, everyone would make a good choice & change. (Really, I did!) But now I figure good info is at best “necessary but not sufficient.” Some great info, though: UK says net-zero is now the cheapest path fwd! www.carbonbrief.org/net-zero-sce...

Wow, OpenAI is entertaining a $1B investment from Disney and Disney is like "well, we have $5B in the bank, but ok..." So says The Information's newsletter.

To be a hawk and to be yelled at all day by crows. What a life!

Researchers, leaders, sales people, and activists: Would you like to see opportunities before others do, evaluate them faster, and act more effectively? Come check out 3 new tools for that: marshallk.com/ai-2026.html

I take notes because I love the richness of compounded learning, across multiple contexts, validating my post self’s judgment, as a gift to my present and future self.

Reading about hyperlocal economies and realizing my favorite beer on the world is brewed less than a half mile from my house!

Here in Oregon we had a giant ice storm a few years back. Kicked our asses for a week+ and cost $800M in damages. For context, $20B in flooding this week in SE Asia, 1500+ dead. “New normal” scientists say www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed-5-...

That I can make an application and my computer can now say "before I proceed, here's a key question you need to answer and three different ways we could approach it." And I can say "what's your recommendation? my priorities are x and y." It will then make a case. Amazing.

@paraben.bsky.social beautiful bird by the way!

Instead of Sustainability, I’m thinking of saying “Energy and paradigm transition.” I think that could help widen the circle to appeal to new people.

I'm developing an app with Claude Code and as I ask it to do something, it suggests a way to do it. It asks me if I want to make the change. I say "maybe, what do you think? How else might we accomplish our goal here?" And I'll be damned if it doesn't come up with great suggestions. Amazing.

I just ordered some holiday gift teas from this local indigenous group; good people, recommended: www.rooted-ways.org/alhalpam-apo...

Seems like a weird strategy for dealing with global warming: “we’ve all got to agree on the plan, even Saudi Arabia!”

Going from the Claude UI to Claude Code makes me feel like I can jump over buildings.

Look at the roots on that prairie grass!

New Trump policy would declare 91% of wetlands not wet enough to protect, says EDF blogs.edf.org/growingretur...

Halfway through #COP30, how’s it going? I’m watching a great Ask Me Anything by the journalists of @carbonbrief.org Recommended. www.carbonbrief.org/cop30-carbon...

It’s Sunday night, I’ve put on a kettle for tea, my sweetie will now do quilting while I read aloud book aloud.

I’m sure the owners of the world’s largest beef company are in the VIP circle at #COP30 in good faith! earth.org/cop30-brazil...

"Designing a system for intrinsic responsibility could mean, for example, requiring all towns or companies that emit wastewater into a stream to place their intake pipe downstream from their outflow pipe." -Donella Meadows thesystemsthinker.com/dancing-with...

DeSmog is so good. Eg www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/m... yay @desmog.com.web.brid.gy

Methane Response Basecamps get $100M from Bloomberg. End-to-end systems for detection from space through on-the-ground trained teams to respond to super emitters with action & policy. Cool! www.globalmethanehub.org/2025/11/06/m...

Anyone who cares about climate will be pissed off about this bullshit www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/m...

FERC is advancing a huge controversial gas pipeline through 5 states in the South Eastern US, next to a 30 day comment period. No public hearings are scheduled. appvoices.org/2025/10/31/f...

Nice: Google Earth pro users can now use Gemini AI chat to explore climate change consequences and plan disaster response. Good use of AI. grist.org/technology/g...

Interesting take on Gates from a real insider: this comparison between China's deployment-focused approach and Western innovation focus (pushed by Gates) paints a real picture for why the two countries have looked so different in terms of, well deployment.

Devastating. Must-read gut punch of a post about a quiet hero, the nitty gritty of stand-out climate coverage, and the Trump era silencing of this stand-out voice in mainstream media.

Now imagine if that was said after Biden bulldozed the entire West Wing with zero approval/oversight. Now imagine this is happening while Biden is sending the military into “red” cities and blowing up boat after boat in international waters. It’s insane.

Great podcast: War on Cars interviewed on Volts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...

Disappointed by the internet, I just disabled comments on a WordPress blog. It has come to this.

Important, terrifying, depressing, important. www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Why do right's odious lies & horrifying claims break through not merely as rhetoric but policy? Because center-left keeps wielding thermometers to take temperature while right power up flame throwers to change it. New evidence from Germany: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

If you want good news: I just saved a bird’s life. My cat came home with one in his mouth, I made him drop it, and it flew away.

Sign of the times: You can now get Scouting badges in AI and cybersecurity. Good. www.fastcompany.com/91421962/the...

These floating solar panels move in the wind and capture sun both directly and reflecting off the water. Cool! www.designboom.com/technology/f...

Every night, fish living in the deepest parts of the ocean rise to the surface & eat plankton, taking the carbon in the plankton down into the bottom of the ocean. The equivalent of 2x the exhaust of all cars on earth. Will a vote pass to conserve those deep sea fish? earth.org/the-oceans-m...

Emodiversity: “In 2017, positive psychology researchers published findings that suggested emodiversity-which they defined as ‘the breadth and relative abundance of emotions that individuals experience’ - is more significant to wellness than happiness…

Open Lunar Foundation launches the Lunar Ledger Project, an open and transparent ledger of lunar activities (of which many, many, many are planned in the next few years) www.openlunar.org/blog/ledger-...

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

I don’t want to reduce manual labor. I want to pay people better and treat them better for manual labor.