Authors (and creators of all type), you need to post A LOT about your work. I have followed Chanda for years. I did not know about this new book until now. Even your fans will miss your stuff if you don't get out there and push it! It sucks, I don't like marketing myself either! But you gotta.

We are on a platform with no algorithm which means that we have to post repeatedly because otherwise people who weren't scrolling during the last post didn’t see it. also I spent years writing the book and will post about it as much as I damn well please lol

If you worked hard on something and want people to know about, you've got to speak up. There's like a three-week window when a new book comes out where you get a lot of attention and there is no shame in basking in every bit of it. You earned it.

Suppose a Bluesky user does not want any of their public data to be used for generative AI training. They would go in to app settings, find the data reuse preferences section, and configure “Generative AI” 🤖 to “disallow” 🚫. The app would create this public record in their repository:

“It's like we're at a time that somehow we think we have to give equal time to the people who believe that the Earth is flat,” says retired judge Nancy Gertner. “I mean, you don’t.”

In my admittedly not-super-deep experience, a piece of electrical equipment will usually have two limits: A higher magnetic limit tripped by short, high surge currents and a lower thermal limit related to sustained current draws heating up insulation, oils, etc. to the point of fire risk.

I end by challenging states to call gas utilities' bluff. Let them build networked geothermal in a neighborhood only if they shut down gas service to that neighborhood. See what they do. If they decline, then we can stop talking about gas utilities voluntarily turning into geothermal utilities.

Electric heat pumps are the main way to outgrow air and climate pollution from burning fossil fuels to heat buildings. Air-source heat pumps are the most cost-effective technology in most settings today, but in the coldest, densest cities, networked geothermal heat pumps may make sense. Quick🧵

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it. Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

Truck is in for service and I have to drive a dealer loaner. How are people driving ICE vehicles still, this is absolutely horrible.

"Last year saw a rapid increase in court sanctions against attorneys for filing briefs containing errors generated by artificial intelligence tools."

This is what bothers me the most about all of this. The willingness to just give up thinking, to fail to read some text or look at a picture before you use it. It’s like the ‘self-driving’ car you’re supposed to keep your attention on and you know people won’t. We’re automating our way into idiocy.

NEW: @wired.com has ID’d a number of the masked paramilitary agents in the exceedingly violent unit surrounding Greg Bovino that formed the leading edge of the invading force the federal government sent to Chicago last fall; @awinston.bsky.social and @regret.bsky.social have the story.

“A growing number of NHS staff are refusing to work on Palantir’s health data platform over ethical concerns about the controversial US tech company” Good www.ft.com/content/dbb6...

“’Human in the loop’ is necessary, but the process itself makes the loop stultifying, and encourages the human to take themselves out of the loop. That process is straight up dangerous. The temptation to let it rip is always there, and I didn't even have a boss pressuring.“ #genai+writing

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

It is really, really wild how persistent and prominent this remains in common LLMs. There seems to be an air of "well they fixed that" and it is 100% not true: most of the energy just seems to be going towards 'being plausible enough to be accepted', ie style and not accuracy or truth

new from me (and not an April Fools thing): I spoke in depth with @ilyaslebleu.bsky.social, the Wikipedia editor who first proposed the ban on A.I.-generated text in English articles. we talked about the idea-to-policy process, the disagreements along the way, and what other platforms can learn:

1/ Researchers @unihannover & @lut.fi performed a systematic literature review on the future role of solar PV in energy transition studies around the globe and found that solar PV emerges as the dominant energy source by 2050. doi.org/10.1016/j.rs....

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Some longer thoughts on this, because no matter how long the war lasts, its outcome is no longer in doubt.

Right, simply entertaining this challenge as if it's remotely legitimate is already discrediting. If there's a single vote to end birthright citizenship, we need to take this Supreme Court apart with sledgehammers and start over.

Two months ago, before the US attacked, you could have debated how much control Iran would be able to exercise over the Strait of Hormuz. Now Iran controls it. What military action in recent history can we compare this to, in which an aggressor has left a foe with greater territorial power?

Banging on this that batteries met up to 44% of demand on the CA grid yesterday, roughly equivalent to 6 hoover dams. Cheap batteries are powering the grid. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicola...

People do not appreciate what a vast, fundamental sea change batteries are bringing to the electrical system.

When inflation took off after the pandemic I sadly accepted that batteries would never make it below $100/kWh in nominal terms. Happily I was wrong.

Most people still don't understand what is coming in the world of energy. This graph should help but what would be good is to see this everywhere in the media so the public understood that what they think they know about renewable tech and EVs is not up to date.

They: “But we use AI responsibly!” Us: “Do you mean, smoke with a filter?” olivia.science/before/ @olivia.science

And regarding total cost of ownership, EVs are less expensive than fossil fuel cars ... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 insideevs.com/news/785921/...

I posted this yesterday. Since then, the US national average has risen to $3.980/gal. How long until $4.00/gal.? Folks want you to think you have no options but you do. Take steps to use less gas or better yet - as many of us can - buy an EV & get off the FF misery-go-round. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

the biggest lie the democrats tell, that their supporters believe, is that they are being wildly outspent by the right. it just isnt true. there are billions being spent on the left (to be fair its on the liberal/democratic side not "leftist") but its being thoroughly wasted on garbage.

Given that properties in California only get reassessed upon sale because of Prop 13, even limiting this to a true “mansion tax” seems unwise. The thing should be repealed entirely.

I cannot recommend this conversation between @pkrugman.bsky.social and @volts.wtf enough. Every point was a banger, and DR’s final exhortation that young people go into clean energy rather than finance actually made me tear up a little. So good. open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

“But after tens of billions of dollars of school spending…studies have found that digital tools have generally not improved students’ academic results or graduation rates. Some researchers &organizations like UNESCO even warn that overreliance on technology can distract students and impede learning”

It’s a bizarre time to be doing this, as the trade off between climate friendly and economically beneficial is increasingly nonexistent

This fucking party. Just absolutely incapable of mustering even the minimal baseline unity necessary to make an argument to the public.

BIG, EXCITING NEWS! Dr. Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social -- world-leading climate scientist and author -- is coming to Project Drawdown after leaving NASA. She will be a Senior Scientist, leading an exciting new initiative on "Emergency Brake" climate solutions. drawdown.org/news/world-r...

I don't really dig on "I hope everyone in America dies" as a left message because I live here and would prefer not to die and also because you're doing the thing of blaming a people for the misdeeds of their political leadership without helping them fight it and TBH it kinda sucks

French civil engineer Charles Joseph Minard was born #OTD in 1781. He was known for his contributions to information graphics, including his famous map of the losses suffered by Napoleon during his disastrous 1812 Russian campaign. 📈 📊 #DataViz Image: Charles Minard / Public domain

But i didn’t realize until after I’d graduated from college how much the reading habit had informed my ability to write and think.

Switching gears: I recently told an acquaintance who works in tech that part of learning how to write is about being a really aggressive reader. His response was basically why should I read a long book when I can learn a thing in an efficient short way, etc

If you are on the fence on whether to come out for #NoKings tomorrow, Forbes just reported that Trump, after a lifetime of business failures, added $1.4 billion to his net worth last year.

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

Now that I'm a full professor I can just show up in cargo shorts and a Hawaiian shirt and drop unhinged, provocative hot takes, right? My talk title is "Time: Ecology's final frontier?"

House procedure is normally a snoozefest that only insiders care about. But this one is just such a perfect distillation of the incompetence in the GOP, failure of Trump as a leader and weakness of Mike Johnson. Let's roll the video tape:

New Yorkers, join us in the first ever Mayor’s Municipal Madness: a competition of city fixes where everyone wins. Pick your fix and vote here: nyc.gov/madness

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

Dire stuff indeed. People I trust have been pointing out the AI bubble for over a year now, and here’s that bubble colliding with the fallout from the impulsive decisions of an elderly demented narcissistic sociopathic god-king.