This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

This is what deindustrialization in a carbon shock therapy setting looks like. If the state doesn’t do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses downward, private equity will do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses upward (and out of country). on.ft.com/3WNWnA9

The committee that developed these EPEAT procurement standards is reconvening this month to start the process of upkeep.. if anyone has any good papers or news around low carbon solar manufacturing or sustainable materials, chemical stewardship, etc., please send them my way. #greensky #energysky🔌💡

You should ignore any political analysis that fails to consider how the right wing has captured both legacy and social media to spread propaganda in lockstep with the Trump regime. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Trump called Biden “sleepy,” because Trump is an old man who struggles to stay awake. Trump called Hillary “crooked,” because Trump is incredibly crooked. Trump called Ted Cruz “lyin’” because Trump is a serial liar. We’re a decade into this. How do people still not get it?

The carnage caused by FAA cutbacks cast a spotlight on the massive public subsidies required to have air travel function in the US. People think spending money on bike lanes and rail is socialism while TRILLIONS have been spent to prop up the airline industry and to build and maintain roadways.

Whatever is happening is happening on both sides of the Atlantic.

Have to say.. very tired of this now. We all know Brexit is a shitshow. Nothing is better. No one is happier. No one who really cared about our country or understood how anything actually worked would do this and then stand around scratching their heads at the mess.

On the BBC News front page, you can find out how two prisoners were accidentally released last year, about a TV celebrity's cancer surgery, and about how to make veggie meatball soup But no mention AT ALL of the COP30 climate summit I am lost for words www.bbc.co.uk/news

Climate reporting deluged by high carbon adverts. “I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil fuel companies. And I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil fuel advertising.” theecologist.org/2025/nov/08/...

Yes, but it's meritocratic barbarism. What are the conditions in which meritocrats would accept socialism, rather than the sincere hope for an adequate bunker (Zuckerberg), living in space (Bezos), or a million-robot army (Musk)?

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

"we investigate how often five basic #climate facts are conveyed in @nytimes.com news articles covering climate change from 1980 to 2018. With only one exception, the frequencies with which these facts appear in news articles today are vanishingly small" iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost of business travel.

What is GDP? An ongoing series

JD Vance has always been the long-term plan for right-wing tech billionaires to cement a dictatorship in America. “Vance has been anointed by Thiel and the rest of the anti-democracy movement as the post-Trump president, tasked with replacing the US establishment with an authoritarian regime.”

pretty crazy how the people diretly responsible for directly subverting democracy with no pushback or consequences continue to directly subvert democracy with neither pushback nor consequences

“A 0.5% annual risk might sound pretty low. But it’s a key metric for running a large insurance business in the Northeast. Why isn’t at least that level of risk the planning lever for local governments in that region, driving building codes, land use decisions, and investment priorities?”

The goal of Tesla shareholders is the sale of 2.5 robots per dead kid (though the kid count is surely going up, lowering the ratio), so maybe it's not just Musk who is sick. bsky.app/profile/bill...

Not a trillionaire yet, but already the richest person in the world, and one of the most lethal.

First: on electrification A new gigawatt hour of data centre demand is *materially* very different to a new GWh from newly-electrified households. As @hannahdaly.ie points out: the former either has no benefit, or does harm. The latter almost always is a benefit. Demand growth is not neutral!

This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over: 1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?

I took a shot at placing Mamdani's victory in the long scope of New York City's political history -- in the most recent issue of @vitalcitynyc.bsky.social , alongside a bunch more essays by some really sharp people. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/a-n...

Musk's $1 trillion compensation package: approved by Tesla shareholders. Regarding Peter Thiel's search for 'the Antichrist,' maybe that character has come and gone already, after making this system as it is.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Every 1C of global warming on average cuts the world’s ability to produce food by 120 calories per person per day, or 4.4% of current daily consumption, a new study finds - and the US Midwest will be among the hardest-hit impactlab.org/research/imp...

This article is a really, really stunning example of how wind power is received in Norway. A proposed wind farm site right next to a massive highway and industrial area is being opposed on the grounds that it 'destroys nature' and is too noisy 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

“He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible.” I increasingly think that the most powerful act we can take right now is to truly believe a better society is possible. Then fight for it but first we have to really internalize that better options exist.

As @ahjohnson.bsky.social points out here, the US media is stroking its chin & pondering why Trump wants to attack Venezuela. They somehow overlook his stated motivation, which is that Venezuela has the world's biggest oil reserves.

In the 10 years since Paris, we failed to take the actions necessary to hold to 1.5C. We now face the same challenge in the next decade, but for 2C. But now we also have to also contend with far worse #climate impacts as we try to decarbonise. The longer we wait, the harder it gets! #Overshoot

The Paris 2050 plan is the best single document we've seen for presenting an everyday understanding of life in a city as it decarbonizes, so we talked to @juliendossier.bsky.social about it: newyork.thecityatlas.org/education/ci...

I’ve been studying and practicing economic modeling for climate solutions for more than 3 decades and Genevieve is 100% right on this.

A lot of nyt folks, me among them, believed we could change the culture and the coverage from the inside. That by working within channels, we could convince the leadership of its obligation to cover trans ppl fairly. In hindsight I’ve come to think I was naive.

"Once these platforms are in place on CUNY campuses, they can license them at cost to SUNY, to NYC Public Schools, potentially to any educational institution who chooses them over the always overpriced, often enshittified, ever-extractive for-profit EdTech platforms."

Trump, Musk, Rubio, and the DOGE boys should always be inseparable from these hundreds of thousands of kids they killed

Microsoft just invested $35 BILLION into AI data centers. The transfer of wealth from public coffers to private hands is INSANE at this point. Tax the companies. Great story by @wired.com

I think he specifies it was all the *car* billboards but still very notable! Here in Sydney I reckon we’d have 50% non-EV billboards, and there are plenty of EVs around including Chinese ones

For the US, here: youtu.be/0PYxAUsPEBo?...

thinking about this again. any chart that includes the 80s should have a reagan annotation

Historically, we should be less surprised about the electorate, but be thinking more about the 'leadership class.'

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

AOC: "This is about, do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now? And they assignment is to come together across difference no matter what."

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

The lesson here is have good principles and stand on them. Stand for something that isn't power!

They’ll insist this is a one-off victory — something that can only happen in New York & nowhere else. They’re wrong. New York is the world financial capital — home of Wall Street & billionaires from across the globe. If everyday people can defeat oligarchs here, we can defeat oligarchy anywhere.