Indeed, the ideas behind degrowth are sensible, but the label is off-putting to many people. Potentially easily fixed…

Ah, reviewer #3

Think about what it takes from us and especially learners bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Much more right here in our brand new, free, definitive assessment of why climate action is struggling. cssn.org/news-researc...

Fantastic!!!

So many examples.....the Canadian's government's recent pipeline deal, Biden's various permitting reform bills, Hochul's gas / wind farm deals in New York, Australia's ultra-lax permissiveness for FF projects, the UK's wild pro-CCS positions

So you have a centrist government comfortable with doing deals for new fossil infra in exchange for pro-climate policy, a fanbase that excuses it as fundamentally harmless, and a reality of wildly insufficient renewable energy growth and shockingly sticky yearly growth of coal, gas and oil use

I think overconfidence in a technological, free-market and autopilot energy transition also inspires a follow-on dismissiveness around governments approving, supporting or encouraging fossil fuel infrastructure (on the grounds that it won't compete with cheap renewables and therefore isn't a worry)

Good piece, interesting

It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina! The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years. Gift Link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

Disappointing but sadly not unexpected. Carney is a conventional, extractivist economist, limits to growth etc don’t interest him. Will just deliver more of the same etc etc ad infinitum. Our political systems can’t deliver leaders able to pull the plug on fossil fuels. Yet.

More inexcusable AI slop ending up in apparently “reputable” journals. What’s going on @springernature.com - only care about the money, is that it?

Oh yes

Brilliant piece from last year worth revisiting in the light of the COP30 fiasco www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Good piece

Don't call it AI or LLM. Call it the Expensive Mistake Generator.

So, below is EU President von der Leyen saying that the EU is "not fighting fossil fuels, only emissions." And here is the Saudi envoy to COP30 saying exactly the same thing. I'm telling you: climate politics are unified around the lie that we can keep fossil fuels & still deal w climate anyway.

yes, sure bsky.app/profile/iris...

Interesting. I am terrible at arguing my point. I always get lost in details or concede that my opponent could easily be right. I guess good debaters have quick wits but also cast-iron self belief…

18/11/25 - nocturn

Profits from scientific publishing are eye-watering, costing us billions. In ‘The Drain of Scientific Publishing’ (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820), (building on ‘The Strain of Scientific Publishing’ doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327) we show how it is harmful – and unnecessary.

When you switch from fossil to clean you only use like 30-40% of the energy to do the same stuff, bc most energy from fossil fuels is lost as waste heat What's I'm trying to say is that all climate action is degrowth WELCOME TO DEGROWTH EVERYONE

#CriticalAILiteracy #CAIL

The first news story on the publication (to be honest, odd title since it is neither a poem nor debunked as literature, but nice of the journalist and publication to be interested enough in spreading news of it): thefreesheet.com/2025/11/04/m...

Thank you, Alex. Here's everything in one spot olivia.science/ai I recommend the project syndicate piece with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @marentierra.bsky.social 💖

If only every single critical "AI" researcher had warned about the likelihood of this danger for machine learning-based systems for the past decade or so and if only an acronym like "GIGO" had existed for decades Prior. Oh If Only 😐 "Too much social media gives AI chatbots ‘brain rot’"

My reconstruction of Allen Smelt Mill (2017) is a good contender for being among my most challenging visualisation projects. It required months of effort, research, and problem-solving with the aid of 3D models. I wrote an article about the experience.... bob-marshall.blogspot.com/2018/01/reco...

The key question is whether he had also been drinking the wine before he “missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region”

Happy #Halloween This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death. Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper #RomanArchaeology

“Not everything that is buried is dead.” Heinrich Heine

Papyrus or vellum perhaps? Looking forward to the next “call for parchments”

Very pleased that @groene.nl translated a @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece by @olivia.science and me into Dutch 😌 www.groene.nl/artikel/ai-h...

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️ We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

My short story ‘The Unspoken’ online @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/the-unspoken/

DC 😍😍

Today the US honors the man who discovered Columbus, Ohio.

Sensible advice which I try to follow

Great read. Just the tonic I need to deal with multiple rejections

Important new study by the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social team in @nature.com finding that "the richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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How many reports have found exactly this now? Have to be more than a dozen.

Almost unbelievable. How do they get away with this shit?

AI: the ultimate human ingenuity in service of producing an abundance of mediocrity.

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

This is what I want to hear from a politician and why I am a Green Party member. Vote for real change, #VoteGreen 🌍💚

IIRC the awesome “Who Would Win” books called this match in favor of the squid