"My mayor Muslim / my bagels Jewish / my Christian Dior / Knicks in Four" is basically Keats to me

How certain schemes to improve the human condition have succeeded

are you just going to do this for every generation

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

Save time by not reading

Death is coming, eat trash, be free 🦝

seems bad

1/ The sustainability transition doesn’t just advance from the top down and the bottom up – change also happens in the middle, and that’s where most of us can make a real difference Quick thread on a great new paper showing how *everyone* has an influential role to play 🧵

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Rachel Carson was born 119 years ago today. Her 1962 book Silent Spring was responsible for revitalizing American interest in ecology after the consumption-driven 1950s, just as her books of the 1950s rekindled enthusiasm for marine biology. tinyurl.com/47bf62k4 #WomenInSTEM #Ecology #BioSky

And of course none of all of this gets at the extraordinary number of deaths, ruined lives, & enduringly damaged economies in *other countries*, the unfortunate targets of US military intervention. And then there are the high costs imposed on our allies.

The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.

I guess in my mind I theoretically knew that the guy from the small domino meme probably toppled the dominoes at some point but I'm still a little shocked to see the GIF of it actually happening

In Against Money, @arjunjayadev.bsky.social and I argue that finance plays a role in our economy equivalent to that of the central planning agency in the old USSR. Nice to see that we are not the only ones making that connection. www.ft.com/content/5490...

It is hard to be an “honest broker of policy alternatives” when you’re paid to produce propaganda for a particular alternative #researchethics

The fact that the government chooses to leak this to you is an implicit insult although you would have to be self aware to pick up on that so no worries.

Since I gave this talk in 2024, the social license of AI & data centers have only gotten worse. It’s time for AI companies to make major investments in communities & clean energy to rebuild our grid for everyone and enable electrification. It’s time for a climate amendment to the AI Bill of Rights.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Voters think they can have it all: an affordable life and a livable planet. They are right. Both is at the core of an anti-fascist economics that centers on making life livable for all rather than letting the far right dystopia of a burning planet rule. Chart via @triofrancos.bsky.social

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.

"the dramatic cost declines in batteries have now made 'firm renewables' — solar or wind paired with batteries — cheaper than fossil fuels in many parts of the world." This is game changing.

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

Really enjoyed this conversation. If you want to see what a bunch of super smart people think about our book, check it out.

Research funded by big bamboo, probably: A new method for creating high-strength bamboo molecular plastics with exceptional mechanical strength, thermal stability, and biodegradability that outperforms most commercial plastics and bioplastics while being cost-competitive and recyclable.

My annual Mother's Day post. Because some people had great mothers but lost them, some had or have mothers who never mothered them or stopped mothering them for some reason, treated them as adversaries or as worthless, and Mother's Day can be a punitive day for all those for whom this is true.

Today is the day that mothers are thanked for their vital work, without ever formally recognizing their vital work. Don't just thank your mother today. Fight to formally recognize the unpaid work of all mothers. UBI has always been necessary. Happy Mother's Day! ❤️ newmatilda.com/2017/02/23/m...

The people that make these climate-hushing arguments love the polls that ask Americans to rank the issues that are most pressing to them right now. So misleading! Obviously climate will not feel like #1 now (or for the near future), but voters have strong feelings about climate and energy! 2/n

Lower costs, energy independence, clean air and water, healthy people and communities…there are so many entry points.

He grinned a little as he thought it; for he had always liked that pause, that fearful pause, the moment before things changed.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

I see your Woke 2 and raise you Reconstruction 2

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “This is an attack on Black political power. To take away our representation.”

@jamiemartin2.bsky.social with a review of Eddie Fishman's book on sanctions that begins with references to the Japanese Red Army Faction, counterfeit Newport cigarettes, and the cult psychedelic rock band Les Rallizes Dénudés. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"If we wait for the hyperrich to finally realize that their fates are tied to ours—for their children to contract measles, or for them to get cabin fever in their apocalypse bunkers—it will be too late for many of the rest of us." - @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

People say that "individual actions" like changing your lightbulbs don't matter, but that right there is a lot of destroyed demand!

It’s shaping up to be a very strong - possibly even the strongest- El Niño on record. Here’s what global temperatures were for strong Niños (yellow) and very strong Niños (orange) since 1950: (Strong in 57-59; 65-66; 72-73; 87-88; 91-92; 23-24) (very strong in 82-83; 97-98; 15-16)

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

Battery-electric ferry reduced energy use 88% versus a diesel ferry during 16 months of operation in Norway, carrying 41,000 passengers per day back and forth over a river. Plus, 0 tailpipe or grid emissions from the BE ferry since Norway's grid is 100% WWS www.compositesworld.com/news/hyke-gf...

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

Happy Earth Day 🌎

Happy Earth Day!