AI inevitably hallucinates and lacks the humility to admit uncertainty. Every “but humans make mistakes” answer hallucinates a social world where we forget AI systems are being sold as decision-makers free of human fallibility. www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Yes, Kirk Hagiography is pretext for authoritarian repression of the entire “left”. But it’s also hagiography to say Kirk would disapprove of the campaign against free speech: he started Professors Watchlist to harass, intimate & attempt to fire critics. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

Dressing up hate as debate? “… it is wrong to profit off the dehumanization of people because of who they are. I won’t celebrate his death, but I’m not obligated to celebrate his life, either”. @espiers.bsky.social nails it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

If you put “Hey fascist! Catch!” in the context of Extremely Online culture, a different picture emerges, one where the right is so focused on alleged enemies they’re missing what’s happening *among their own*, and it’s here that I must beg your pardon if I’m introducing you to groypers.

Curry labels Dessler ‘unhinged’ and Dessler replies by unpacking procedural flaws in the DOE climate (denial) report. Yet Pielke thinks it’s Dessler getting personal. Make it make sense. @michaelemann.bsky.social @andrewdessler.com

"Many boomers, especially white heterosexual men... have felt disoriented as their world has shifted and changed around them. The clean energy transition symbolizes part of this change."

Polly Winsor—historian of biology extraordinaire and Emerita Professor of the University of Toronto's IHPST—is the winner of the ISHPSSB's 2025 Hull Prize, the society's highest honour! Polly is the *first Canadian* winner of the prize, and its second female recipient. 🇨🇦 🌱🐋 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social

Why new nuclear power is a bad way to balance solar and wind davidtoke.substack.com/p/why-new-nu...

Small Modular Reactors: too slow, too costly, but pushed by an industry “burning through billions . . . in public money, chasing a fantasy that distracts and diverts resources from real, proven solutions.” www.climateandcapitalmedia.com/the-nuclear-...

As Trump goes on a deportation spree, it’s odd that one of the original grievances against the British King in the US Declaration of Independence (1776) was the King’s imposition of restrictions on the naturalization of foreigners.

Orwell said doublethink is holding two contradictory beliefs simultaneously, and that authoritarian regimes will rewrite history to warrant a current agenda. Remember, Trump withdrew in 2018 from Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear accord.

When will fake environmentalists stop pretending the IPCC lists nuclear power as more likely to lower emissions than renewables? And do fake environmentalists deserve “typos”? @drpauldorfman.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-sa...

I am privileged to announce the publication of the Anti-Autocracy Handbook: sks.to/autocracy 1/12

Trump says Putin does not speak with those who threw him out of the G8, and Trump agrees with Putin that’s fair. So all the G7 needs to do to stop hearing from Trump is form the G6?

As 2025 nuclear advocates project huge expansion to meet massive demand, remember history. E.g.: its 1977. The 10th World Energy Conference projects (by 2020) a 4x growth in primary energy demand (2x by 2020) & nuclear share of electricity of 50-60% (10% in 2020). @drpauldorfman.bsky.social

After 15 years of being lied to and cheated on the govt is moving to tackle the Gas Cartel - toying with the idea of a domestic gas reservation policy. #Whatsthescam #auspol @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/albanese-to-...

Guy (RPJ) who thought Trump’s election meant science had to make peace with Trump (2016) and that Trump wasn’t attacking science (2018) unsurprisingly now (2024) calls the idea of resistance to Trump “nuts”. 👀 @michaelemann.bsky.social

BREAKING: warship sinks on launch. North Korea asks Sweden for advice.

Dear Higher Ed, when authoritarianism comes for you, resistance is not futile. It might be the only option. theconversation.com/universities...

Centralized “Curriculum and Quality Assurance” teams in modern Higher Ed are some combination of Orwell’s Ministry of Peace and Ministry of Plenty. Discuss.

Canada’s SMR project. The GE Hitachi BWRX-300 was advertised as online by 2028 @ ~ CAD$950 million per unit or ~ $4 billion for 1.2 GW. Already 2030 grid connect and $21 billion. Australia dodged billion dollar bullets scuttling the LNP nuclear plan?

A Coalition MP not quite grasping that leaning into Trump was ALWAYS a bad idea in Australia and that thinking Trump 2.0 was positive for the LNP was indicative of a poor roots system from the beginning.

The Australian conservatives (the Coalition) claim the IPCC tells them that only by going nuclear can they decrease emissions. No, the IPCC does not recommend nuclear as the most plausible route to ambitious emissions reductions. @drpauldorfman.bsky.social reneweconomy.com.au/coalition-sa...

@dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social helping make sense of why baseload and nuclear face insurmountable barriers to complimenting renewables in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

Strange - or really no surprise at all? - that all those misinfo-skeptics who (apparently) feared a censorship-industrial-complex (if analysts investigated systemic deception) are pretty silent as research gets shut down by an actual censorship-industrial complex?

Hard to overstate the extent to which we have handicapped our ability to deal with adversarial abuse because “ceNsOrsHiP!” screamers have cowed people into ceasing to study, and companies into ceasing to mitigate, the most transparently manipulative things. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Elites are predominantly old men, born domestically, from business & economics degrees. Who are busy complaining about woke, DEI, wages, regulations and universities, almost as if they’re self-absorbed, insufferable cry babies clinging to privilege. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

On why we should not trust the Australian Coalition conservatives in their push for nuclear power. It’s a con job. arena.org.au/the-coalitio...

Dear Canada, don’t ban vegemite! It’s so good for you that it would make you strong enough to be an Australian 7th State or even 3rd Territory (if that’s your thing). Or help keep your elbows up against the yank’s 51st State thing. Act now @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

When autocrats attack universities, because universities are independent centres of ideas and dissent, silent self-preservation is NOT a formulae for protecting education and research. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Renewables provided over 90 percent of the world's increase in generation capacity in 2024. That's because renewables are the cheapest sources davidtoke.substack.com/p/renewables...

I had a joke about Prospero, but Antonio wrecked it.

The utterances of #RogerPielkeJr, as always, aging like mayonnaise on hot pavement in a heatwave: www.theguardian.com/science/poli... (h/t @darrinadurant.bsky.social)

From the Peter Dutton School of Public Policy Development @peterduttonmpposts.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social

The political problem with parasitic AI is that its most compelling use case is starving its own hosts — “fewer teachers, fewer degrees, fewer workers, fewer healthy information environments.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

Why is the Australian Gov’t blocking @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social from using FOI to access a report projecting the location of an AUKUS-related high level nuclear waste dump? michaelwest.com.au/radioactive-...

You’re a fossil fuel fan suddenly ethically animated by minerals mining? Coal, and iron/aluminum mining, had (suspiciously) previously been off your radar? Shifting to renewables decreases not increases the burden of mining. grist.org/energy/trade...

Have STEM students in the 21st century been groomed to be technocratic idealogues? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So, not only does gas set the price for electricity, and successive Australian Gov’ts have failed to organize a national gas reservation policy, they’re also running scared of the Gas Cartel and protecting their export profits? @michaelwestbiz.bsky.socia michaelwest.com.au/australia-ha...

Some counter-arguments to the idea that “net zero by 2050 is impossible” @james-bg.bsky.social www.businessgreen.com/blog-post/44...

Last week, I attended an excellent workshop at @lancasteruni.bsky.social hosted by @samuelfinnerty.bsky.social on "Higher Education's Role in the #Climate Crisis: Bridging Research Culture and Action". Here's a thread on some papers that came up in our discussion🧵

A cool roof option that is achievable at scale around Australia, to reduce direct absorption of heat from the sun, transfer of heat (thermal bridging) and radiation of stored heat by materials (emissivity)? Neotherm coatings. thefifthestate.com.au/home-and-lif...

Dear Australia, there is no nuclear renaissance. We are missing nothing. Stick to the renewables plan. reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-powe...

Total coincidence that Peter Dutton thinks cutting 36k jobs will produce $24b savings and the math says he thus thinks public sector jobs are on average $666,666.66

Interesting reflections by @timothyburke.bsky.social, that Trumpism might be the death of neoliberalism. timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-news-y...

The four accounting tricks behind Dutton’s nuclear costings, which show the LNP plan is both hundreds of billions more expensive than VRE and ignores climate risks. reneweconomy.com.au/the-four-acc...

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this