The fact that volcanic eruptions regularly substantially cool the earth, and we're technically capable of recreating these cooling effects ourselves at a reasonable cost, is why I feel geoengineering is likely inevitable (and why I am somewhat sanguine about the tradeoffs involved)

Hearing about people talking to "their agents" and reevaluating my position on these sci-fi characters

Would love to learn how they're doing this safely. Aluminum for branch wiring in a home is considered a safety liability now because of its tendency to loosen and oxidize, so I imagine for vehicles considerations about connections and anti-oxidants are important

That's right

I hear we're talking about athletes with incredibly long careers! Gordie Howe started his NHL in the 1940s and ended it in the 1980s. He played on a pro team with two of his sons

The real horseshoe theory is that both Bluesky posters and the New York Post are mad at Zohran for making the same recommendation that ConEd makes during every heat wave because everyone is allergic to personal responsibility now

I don't think this is a good or workable view, but I don't see it as worse than the categorical support for Israeli actions that has been the effective position of many Democratic politicians for decades now. And I think I support both groups moving towards a better position.

Meanwhile!

New and even worse definition of "omnicause" just dropped

Struggling to parse the reasoning where it's good for everyone to express solidarity with Gazans but the only reason one might, in good faith, express solidarity with Ukrainians is if one is ethnically Ukrainian

It is unfortunate that there are some lines of attack on the power of police and police unions that are likely to be politically potent (they are intentionally bad at their job of solving crimes) but other rhetoric (insane nonsense about restorative justice prayer circles) remains more prominent

If there was ONE thing I wanted to come out of the hell I went through with PPB after I got hit by a car, it’s that they keep giving the same excuses year after year for why they can’t do their jobs, when in reality they are holding the city hostage.

DSA critiques of the national Democratic party that range from exaggerated to completely false are, in large part, actually correct when applied to many NYC and NYS Democrats

Museums could use ravenous superworms to clean skeletons

kinda wild that dundon has been such a wiener that even the oregonian editorial board is starting to call him out and ask him to meaningfully show up to the table and negotiate with the city in good faith www.oregonlive.com/opinion/2026...

This was correct in 2014, as was "Sotomayor & Kagan should immediately retire in Jan 2021," as was "Thurgood Marshall should have retired in 1978" etc. Pretending Justices were irreplaceable geniuses instead of aging partisan votes in a 9-member super-legislature has been Democrats' fatal error.

Betting is so unregulated & growing so fast in the US that it's creating a growing population of problem gamblers—Researchers at the New York Fed looked at millions of credit reports to show that debt delinquency jumps in states that legalized sports betting (and their neighbors)

Well, Kash seems like he might be a pretty fun hang nowadays and doesn't seem to give that much of a shit about the whole fascism project and the other guys seem absolutely dreadful?

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here is what i think: we're not consumers or spectators, we are participants with agency. you should not hope that democrats will do anything. you must work to force them to do the right thing. the odds are long, but we are far from the first americans to face long odds. we will win.

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I want off this ride

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

Really important nuances about CCS in Bob’s thread. Here’s the top line and uncomfortable truth: CCS didn’t delay alternatives to industrial decarbonization— the work and spending on CCS was fairly minimal in context. Society delayed alternatives to industrial decarbonization, because nobody cared.

Given that "overall goals scored" is a tiebreaker in the world cup group stages, is there a potential situation where two teams facing potential elimination could collude to let each other each score 100 points in a match to both advance?

every single person in the Maine senate race comes out looking awful: -Mills for being an awful candidate -Schumer/Gillibrand for recruiting Mills and discouraging others from running -Platner for being a sicko -the activists/unions who recruited platner -Collins for being a fascist enabler

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

yes. you cannot win calvinball by taking advantage of the new rules. you have to fire the refs

I think it is not useful at all to say that "gentrification" is good. There are some conditions and some definitions in which you CAN argue this is the case, but there are also many where it's describing a process that's pretty awful for any but some home-wealthy incumbent property owners

putin is bleeding his country dry for his own ego and megalomania

A lot of my DSA affiliated friends sorta fall back on the smol bean defense for their organization and you guys run the biggest city in America. That is at the very least a moderately large sized bean accomplishment.

I can't believe Paxton is likely going to win

Kind of fundamentally disagree with this take. If for local environmental concerns and not engineering concerns, you reduce nuclear power during a heat wave and solar is perfectly capable of covering the gap. That does not mean 100% solar is the only way forward. Shit is useless in winter.

From a utilitarian perspective it's actually more important to praise and reward the politicians who changed their position to the correct one than it is the ones who were correct all along

Here’s what the air conditioning discourse illuminates: to deal with climate change we need to electrify & we need zero carbon electricity, we also need more electricity- like double or triple what we have. And we need more cooling & cooling equity. There will be folks fighting against all of that.

i’m so happy for him

British reply guy: "I am uncomfortable when the discourse is not about the Labour party's perfidy. Let's talk about that"

this is great for bluesky but how do i turn off UK localization

[clears throat] stalin had an email job

Babylon 5 is better than Shrek.

Continually impressed by @horsedisc.bsky.social's commitment to the bit

This is terrible. I understand why he is saying it, but it is honestly too exculpatory for the CPS and police. Even if it's official policy it makes no sense to go this far for what's apparently a completely anonymous complaint about a public figure

A lot of people assume that the housing market circa 1975-2005, when urban housing was cheap even without new development thanks to rapid sprawl and white flight, is the natural state of the world and not an historically anomalous period shaped by housing and transportation policy choices.

I’d love Dario to explain the philosophical difference between Anthropic buying books and using that content to train Claude and Alibaba paying for the Claude API and using those conversations to train Qwen? 🤔

Will Stancil co-authored this paper showing that "artist housing" can be mostly be seen as expensively subsidized affordable housing earmarked to white people. Pretty good research!

Gas generation down 40% in 12 months in the world's fourth largest economy! Wow!

Quite a chart. SF’s massive downzone was in 1978.

Russian aristocrats going to parties in Paris and London and then returning to their vast estates in a near-medieval country is oddly parallel to the way the Gulf royals behave today.

Pretty shocking how bad Dundon's PR is here, he could say he's open to some non-$0 amount and I think a lot of people might shift a bit. Makes me suspect he just wants an excuse to move the team out of Portland!