Marshall Kirkpatrick
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Climate action consultant
http://earthcatalyst.co/
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...
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Michael R. Bloomberg Launches Unprecedented End-to-End Global Methane Emissions Reduction Effort ā From Space Detection to Rapid Response - Global Methane Hub
BelĆ©m, Brazil, and New York, NY (November 6, 2025) ā UN Secretary-Generalās Special Envoy on Climate Ambition and Solutions Michael R. Bloomberg today announced a new $100 million investment to accele...
https://www.globalmethanehub.org/2025/11/06/michael-r-bloomberg-launches-unprecedented-end-to-end-global-methane-emissions-reduction-effort-from-space-detection-to-rapid-response/
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Anyone who cares about climate will be pissed off about this bullshit
www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/m...
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Major American LNG Exporters Habitually Break Air Pollution Laws, Report Finds
With Trump propelling the U.S. LNG industry into a massive expansion, companies are flouting landmark environmental laws.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/10/29/major-american-lng-exporters-habitually-break-air-pollution-laws-report-finds/
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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...
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FERC releases Environmental Assessment of new Transco SSEP pipeline
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released an Environmental Assessment for the methane gas pipeline Southeast Supply Enhancement Project, proposed for Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, ...
https://appvoices.org/2025/10/31/ferc-releases-environmental-assessment-for-ssep/
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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...
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Google Earth gets an AI chatbot to help chart the climate crisis
New AI features in Google Earth let users ask chatbot-style questions to find changes in the climate. The system could eventually predict disasters and identify the communities likely to be affected.
https://grist.org/technology/google-earth-gets-an-ai-chatbot-to-help-chart-the-climate-crisis/
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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.
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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.
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7 days ago
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15 days ago
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 āredā cities and blowing up boat after boat in international waters. Itās insane.
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Great podcast: War on Cars interviewed on Volts
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v...
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Yes, you weenies: a war on cars
Podcast Episode Ā· Volts Ā· 10/20/2025 Ā· 1h 9m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/volts/id1548554104?i=1000732691021
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Disappointed by the internet, I just disabled comments on a WordPress blog. It has come to this.
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Important, terrifying, depressing, important.
www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...
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Sex Is Gay, Rape Is Epic, No Fatties: Young Right-Wing Men Are Obsessed With Male Power and Male Bodies
The group chat leak reveals what over a decade of incel messaging and Bronze Age Pervert have done to Young Republicans.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-rape-is-epic-no-fatties-young-right-wing-men-are-obsessed-with-male-power-and-male-bodies/
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Anat Shenker-Osorio
18 days ago
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...
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German far right setting agenda as opponents amplify its ideas, study finds
Normalisation of far-right stances likely to affect success of such parties at ballot boxes across Europe, say researchers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/18/german-far-right-setting-agenda-as-opponents-amplify-its-ideas-study-finds
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If you want good news: I just saved a birdās life. My cat came home with one in his mouth, I made him drop it, and it flew away.
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Sign of the times: You can now get Scouting badges in AI and cybersecurity. Good.
www.fastcompany.com/91421962/the...
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The Boy Scouts' newest survival skills are surprisingāand critical
The 115-year-old organization is debuting merit badges in AI and cybersecurity as it hopes to stay relevant in an increasingly digital world.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91421962/the-boy-scouts-newest-survival-skills-are-surprising-and-critical?partner=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=rss+fastcompany&utm_content=rss
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These floating solar panels move in the wind and capture sun both directly and reflecting off the water. Cool!
www.designboom.com/technology/f...
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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...
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The Ocean's 'Twilight Zone' Is Under Threat ā We Must Act Now
Scientists are urging nations not to authorize commercial fishing or other harmful activities in the deep ocean until we understand it better
https://earth.org/the-oceans-mesopelagic-zone-is-under-threat-we-must-act-now/
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Emodiversity: āIn 2017, positive psychology researchers published findings that suggested emodiversity-which they defined as āthe breadth and relative abundance of emotions that individuals experienceā - is more significant to wellness than happinessā¦
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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-...
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Lunar Ledger Launches with Industry Partners to Advance Transparency on the Moon ā Open Lunar Foundation
The Open Lunar Foundation has launched the Lunar Ledger, the worldās first open-access database of lunar missions and surface activities. Announced at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydne...
https://www.openlunar.org/blog/ledger-launch-press-release
29 days ago
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The Daily Show
about 1 month ago
Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!
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I donāt want to reduce manual labor. I want to pay people better and treat them better for manual labor.
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Amazing how much things have changed politically in the last 20 years
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhmp...
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Pat Robertson and Al Sharpton Commercial on Climate Change
YouTube video by Nate Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhmpsUMdTH8
about 1 month ago
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Rationing just fuel and electricity, argues
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
, could get us out of this climate mess and be far less statist than many other potential solutions.
about 1 month ago
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Big day over here.
about 1 month ago
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Doctorow on McKibbenās new book on solar is a great read
pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/o...
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of solar (and how to stop it) (23 Sep 2025) ā Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/23/our-friend-the-electron/
about 1 month ago
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Delightful lesson from history (1937!), help with digital addiction and its consequences.
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about 2 months ago
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Somehow Marc Andreesen manages to even ruin something as beautiful as *writing things down.* I watched this A16Z short hoping it would be about the connection between writing & creating value. But no, he made it about power. And individual capture of value.
youtube.com/shorts/2gSh-...
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Write Things Down
YouTube video by a16z
https://youtube.com/shorts/2gSh-oO18PM?si=Y4jWwX7_occRBE2L
about 2 months ago
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Anthropic: countries with low Claude use are "more likely to delegate complete tasks (automation), while high-adoption areas tend toward greater learning and human-AI iteration (augmentation)." My take: augmentation is more sophisticated & learned from peers.
www.anthropic.com/research/ant...
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Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption
To study such patterns of early AI adoption, we extend the Anthropic Economic Index along two important dimensions, introducing a geographic analysis of Claude.ai conversations and a first-of-its-kind...
https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-index-september-2025-report
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You know what Iāve got on my mind? Nitrogen fertilizer, when applied sub-optimally, is only partially absorbed by plants & results soil bacteria producing nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas 300X more powerful than CO2. Farmers need to be incentivized to manage fertilizers much better.
about 2 months ago
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āOPML as civic infrastructure.ā Yes!
about 2 months ago
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Mikki Kendall
about 2 months ago
This is why I have never understood the idea that Black people focus on slavery too much. Baby, it's the historical equivalent of last week. We're not even 200 years post slavery.
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It's a two-way network, too. When I was working as a journalist, we'd not only aim to get our stories on
@techmeme.com
- but we'd get real-time push notifications of every story that hit Techmeme from someone else. Any sources that beat us twice, we would go upstream & monitor their feeds closely.
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about 2 months ago
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This is awesome!!
lifehacker.com/tech/youtube...
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YouTuber Hank Greenās Focus App Just Overtook ChatGPT on the App Store
Focus Friend is a new focus timer app released by YouTuber Hank Green that helps you focus using a cute cartoon bean companion.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/youtuber-hank-green-focus-app-just-overtook-chatgpt-on-app-store
3 months ago
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Scope 4 emissions??? Apparently that's from
@worldresources.bsky.social
avoided emissions. I had an AI write a limerick about it: "There once was a scope known as Four, GHG Protocol said, 'Weāll ignore! Itās tricky to count, Makes double amounts, So for now, itās just folklore galore!'" Hah! Hmmm
3 months ago
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Have you ever seen police put on this own āPRESSā badge?!? I canāt find any record of it before this. Good coverage here
doublesidedmedia.com/2025/08/15/e...
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Eugene Police Debuts Own Press
DSM, concerned by the EPDās cosplay as members of the press, spoke to journalism experts who all agreed that this is bad.
https://doublesidedmedia.com/2025/08/15/eugene-police-debuts-own-press/
3 months ago
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You know how all those federal grants were killed for nonprofit groups? 5 of them won in court today and got a temporary injunction on the ending of their grants!
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3 months ago
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Either I described this really poorly, I donāt have credibility yet in this field, or this isnāt the huge deal I think it is. But I really do think itās a huge deal!
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3 months ago
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Trump administration loses big court case brought by 5 sustainability organizations. Grant cancelation may have been "capricious" - judge issued a temporary injunction against grant cancelation today
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Trump admin loses big court case, could impact thousands of organizations around the country. | Marshall Kirkpatrick
Trump admin loses big court case, could impact thousands of organizations around the country. The government isn't allowed to "capriciously" cancel grants. A federal judge today issued temporary inj...
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7361856942371188738/
3 months ago
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Thereās a whole lot of stupid in 2025: A briefing book on
Tesla.sexy
, the business providing AI moderation bots for Russian Discord servers, owned by Big Balls when he was 16.
www.perplexity.ai/search/b2ca3...
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Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/b2ca3eb9-124d-4cc3-b7e8-24673afdacf8
3 months ago
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A time clock app for software developers once wrote that its āmost productiveā 10% of users averaged work sprints of 52 minutes, followed by 17 minute breaks. Iām trying that today & it feels great.
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āThe most important part of the harvest is what you do not take, what you leave behind. Because that is what ensures the vitality, the perpetuity, of your system.ā Lyla June Johnston, Architects of Abundance (25:00)
youtu.be/zpLoNzE4fSc?...
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Architects of Abundance with Lyla June
YouTube video by KripaluVideo
https://youtu.be/zpLoNzE4fSc?si=fjlLVIrHhs7qty3i
3 months ago
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This is as good as Iād hoped, 25 mins in, and I had high hopes!
overcast.fm/+AAK4d9_N32E
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The Revolution Will Be Incremental with Rebecca Solnit ā How to Survive the End of the World
The sisters are ecstatic to build with writer, activist and historian Rebecca Solnit. Her latest book is No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays on Uneven Terrain.They talk about how solidarity is al...
https://overcast.fm/+AAK4d9_N32E
3 months ago
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āYou can have anything you wantā has historically involved some trade-offs, right? Come at a cost? Are we presuming thatās no longer the case with todayās technologies? Iād sure like to see that discussed whenever we talk about new tech. Hard to trust it otherwise.
3 months ago
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GPT-5 launch livestream starts in 15 minutes, at 10am PST. I'll be listening to it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_...
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Introducing GPT-5
YouTube video by OpenAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Uu_VJeVVfo
3 months ago
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Having an unusual background for your job isnāt very unusual these days. So you donāt have to start out the story of your career with that comment, ok?
3 months ago
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Surprisingly good case study imho
trellis.net/article/klea...
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How Klean Kanteen has steeled itself in the water bottle market
The stainless pioneer is withstanding tariffs, copycats and fads with a steady focus on its original values.
https://trellis.net/article/klean-kanteen-steel-water-bottles/
3 months ago
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āPatterns inform strategy; details determine success.ā A delightful saying from permaculture! Helps prevent premature optimization of details before understanding the whole, and ungrounded theory without on-the-ground specifics.
3 months ago
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Smart take on apocalypse
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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āSelf-termination is most likelyā: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/02/self-termination-history-and-future-of-societal-collapse
3 months ago
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Donāt panic, thatās what actuaries at insurance firms are for. And they are freaking out. Financially incentivized & legally obligated to be objective, the UK Society of Actuaries has this to say:
bfi.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?...
via Buckminster Fuller Institute
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To think we are facing existential risk because some people insist on selling their favorite way to spin magnets. Even though there are better, safer ways to do it!
3 months ago
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Any day I get to intro someone on how to use an RSS reader before 8am is officially a good day!
3 months ago
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