I hate it when people compare the amount of heat the ocean has absorbed to the power of atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It’s gruesome and not relatable. As my Japanese PhD student said when he heard the comparison, “It’s not a good memory for us.”

Irrationally annoyed by this essay, mainly because it does not follow a coherent line of argument and makes so many leaps of logic that the right panic about algorithms & screentimes devolves into an overly simplistic "reading books will save/solve everything" jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...

Whenever I meet boomer/late genX Indian upper middle class elites, their utter disinterest in the costs of our connected lives of luxurious convenience is so pervasive. They simply do not care if the working class are suffering, & are never convinced the working class are working hard enough.

India has a toxic combination of caste, class, entitlement which depends on the exploitation of the majority, and ignoring that oppression and worse.

ON BARI WEISS’S PODCAST AHAHAHA

"The realists, it transpires, have merely swapped wishful thinking about humanity’s ability to kick its fossil fuel habit for magical thinking about our ability to upend the laws of physics and chemistry." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7105...

It seems that Meta has removed on Threads posts that contained leaked information about its products Big yikes And a striking reminder of the importance of open platforms, i.e., platforms where us, the users, are in control – something Threads is absolutely not www.threads.com/@heaney_555/...

My favourite Robert Redford story is the one about why he got rejected for the lead role in The Graduate. RIP to a real one.

this is certainly true. and i think it follows logically that not doing so is a choice; and that such investors prefer the absence of strong public reporting to the prestige of owning such a thing

A movie star to his core, Robert Redford has died after a visionary career in cinema, including founding the Sundance Institute that transformed the market for independent films.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

The reporting on Charlie Kirk’s killer in the UK & US highlights again how fundamentally ill equipped mainstream media is to report on political violence in the digital age. They do not know anything about online far right meme culture & it’s starting to do real harm. #r4today

Tabs today was a genuine public service. (Many such cases, but especially on days like today.)

Once again, I'm struck by the fact that the one thing all these shooters have in common is, uh, the guns?

Nepal to the other countries with corrupt leaders:

just blurting out random statements now www.bbc.com/news/article...

Netanyahu praised Charlie Kirk, who was a raging antisemite, because Netanyahu does not actually view antisemitism as a problem if it is aimed at liberal and leftist Jews or if it serves his ultra-nationalism.

Liberals are doing the right’s job for it. By lionizing Charlie Kirk and refusing to acknowledge his real political project, they’re giving power to the right’s completely predictable effort to use his death to forward their goal of an authoritarian, fascist state.

All this suggests is that the shooter wants people to believe they're a far-left ideologue. Maybe they are; without more evidence, we don't know. But a far-right "accelerationist" wanting civil war, more hatred, more violence would do the exact same thing.

The absolute irony of saying political violence is never the answer on the eve of 9/11 even after decades of politically motivated violence under the guise of fighting a “global war on terrorism” while living in country built on political violence that’s done more violent regime change than anyone.

The last 48 hours have been surreal here in Kathmandu! Nepal’s youth recently started a viral online campaign exposing and targeting corrupt politicians & their children’s lavish lifestyles while the rest were struggling! Rattled, they tried banning social media altogether and all hell broke loose!

After claiming each AI prompt uses minimal energy and water, Google has removed any mention of its previous "net zero by 2030" objective from its sustainability website. Which remains adorned with ways AI can help the planet. Once again, after me: GREENWASHING! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

The immense satisfaction after reading a splendid paper that made you go "whoa" several times with its insights and conclusions. That just happened.

Wasn’t sure if clouds would cooperate but they did in the end and caught a lovely glimpse of tonight’s “blood moon” total lunar eclipse from Kathmandu!

Wasn’t sure if clouds would cooperate but they did in the end and caught a lovely glimpse of tonight’s “blood moon” total lunar eclipse from Kathmandu!

At least they won't have to worry about attracting bears...

Might have killed the plant too, wanted to kill the ants that infested the mint plant pot. tf...can't even keep an easy plant alive?! smh

incredible work. become uncarryable.

I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers. undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...

The purpose of AI is to destroy any consensus of history, example #4,528,926

Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.

Refuse to be called woke by someone who talks like a Harry Potter side character having a stroke. “Noshing on a poncy porous plimsoll?” Go to a hospital.

like not one person attending this school has read about so-called utopian cities built from scratch or read The Beach or history of communes in general?

For those unfamiliar: the “brains aren’t fully formed until 25” myth was a misread of a study that measured subjects’ brain dvlpmnt UNTIL age 25 & then the study stopped, & it was misreported as development ending then when really the DATA ends then & past 25 we have no data yet. Misreported science

Every tech update now is like: "Great news, the word processor you've relied on for twenty years has learned to juggle! Is it good at it? No! Does it help in any way? Of course not! Has it made it insufferable to use? Oh, absolutely."

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things

A recent discussion with a friend made me wonder which writers are capturing the millennial zeitgeist (the transition from analog to digital world, limitless opportunities for a minute followed by economic precarity and collapse of the world) really well? #booksky

Hey I just met you and I'm a whale But here's my number So call me, Ishmael

An Israeli strike in Gaza City late Sunday night killed six journalists, according to Al-Shifa hospital, including four from Al Jazeera.

The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.

I believe they call this "finding out" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

It is pouring outside we might as well have stayed at home and saved our money.

This level of capitulation only screams fear and blackmail, not alliance or partnership.

DuckDuckGo has added a feature to filter out AI images from search results.

NEW: i spoke to nine (!) scientists across several disciplines whose work was cited in the new Department of Energy report that downplays the severity of climate change. all of them say their work was misrepresented, cherry picked, and/or lacked context —

Not at all a coincidence that this type of clean-energy comms - which presents a positive case in forceful terms rather than trying to dance around the issue - is coming almost exclusively from non-US firms. The comparison tells us a lot about why the IRA failed. More below: 1/9

I’m tired and no longer capable of being measured when speaking to reporters… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Barclays follows HSBC in exit from banking industry’s net zero alliance. They all support Trumpism and chase profits whilst humanity and planet earth face crisis. Can't expect banks to voluntarily accept social responsibility, it must be imposed by law.

This false assertion about the ocean producing 50% of the oxygen we breathe is so widespread that @jpgattuso.bsky.social @bopplaurent.bsky.social and others have written about it here.