In case anyone cares, @antennapod.org lists my favorite podcasts for 2025: 1) @volts.wtf 2) Why Is This Happening? With @chrislhayes.bsky.social 3) @open-circuit.bsky.social 4) Shift Key with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessedjenkins.com 5) @catalyst-pod.bsky.social with @shaylekann.bsky.social

You know a thing that is very bad about this? This is the anti-trans playbook being played against women. Start with 'has the x movement failed the people it's supposed to help', then infantilize them, then make the case they can't be responsible for their own choices, then take their rights away

This is very good.

This is so good.

So happy that @volts.wtf put this on his podcast. As a cognitive psychologist by training and a current enviro person, this speaks directly to me. I also appreciate all the embedded links because my social identity knowledge is still at Psych 101 levels.

I truly love the @volts.wtf podcast, and this was one of the best episodes yet podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/v...

Dave hits some key points here on "science education" too! Can't info dump someone out of a socially informed value system that rejects that information. P.s. this is one of the best podcasts out there. Solid topics and have shared a ton of episodes with colleagues.

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But kids that fight racism too hard are the problem.

Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.

I wonder how she's feeling about her political career. She sold out everything she once valued, debased herself, placed herself on the side of evil, all in a crude grasp at power, and in return, she got shunted to the side & forgotten. Pathetic, richly deserved, but also, wooooof.

ICE guy strangles girlfriend (police called to his apt. 22 times in the last 1.5 years), is thrown in ICE jail.

Imagine being a society that responds to gun violence with concerted action.

great conversation here:

Such a treat to speak with @volts.wtf about social identity and the epistemic crisis. David is really sharp and does a fantastic interview - no small feat to make a plodding academic sound like a lively conversationalist! Highly recommend the podcast to anyone (like me) who didn't know it before.

this is so so interesting

I'm not the person to write it, but someone should write a piece describing how the military is undergoing a decentralization revolution much like the one that swept internet & telephony, and is currently sweeping through electricity.

Today on Volts: I've got a nerdy one for you! I talk with political scientist @samuel-bagg.bsky.social about the epistemic crisis & its roots in social identity. He explains why factchecking & media literacy classes will never solve misinformation -- why something deeper & stronger is required.

When is @bsky.app going to do something about the basic problem that people's "names" on this site are ... long, which means they eat up lots of characters, & complicated, which makes them almost impossible to remember?

Uber lobbied hard for the OBBB, the most environment-hostile bill in US history, and is now pulling back its EV subsidies. Uber sucks. Don't use it.

Remember that Trump DoE study that showed sea-level rise is no big deal? It was bullshit. Sea-level rise is a big deal.

Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ... ... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.

This is my shit here, straight & uncut.

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Tesla finally found a customer for cybertrucks! It's, uh, SpaceX.

If you're taking some comfort, thinking "maybe all this is just a simulation," sorry, scientists appear to have disproven that with math.

I just gave my 20yo a rundown of the day's news, and he said, "It's all so dumb, it's hard to take seriously and so it's hard to fight. We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians!" "We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.

Like everything these days, you'd blush to put it in dystopian fiction.

Man I remember Malheur so well. Such a clear signal of what was to come. Some of the most privileged & entitled white men in the f'ing world engaging in open lawlessness in the name of their own imagined victimhood ... ... and getting away with it. That's the true American template.

I genuinely don't know what to say about this.

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Man this shit is so funny. Yet another climate/energy policy "reset," this time from the left-scolders at the @searchlightinst.bsky.social. As is typical with these things, it features ...

I'm pretty into this shit.

Guys the atmosphere is glitching. Can someone shut it down & restart it?

Powerful stuff.

DJT, Oct. 2024: "We will cut energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months—not just for businesses but for all Americans and their families, and we will quickly double our electricity capacity, which we need to do to compete with China and other countries on Artificial Intelligence." ❓

Trump taking "anti-woke" a little too literally.

Just give it a couple weeks ...

The left needs more influencers who are mostly about other shit. That's what is moving all these young people right -- not "political content," but dumbass lifting videos & bro podcasts where RW politics is casual & taken for granted.

The conceptual revolution that hit the internet & telephony -- from centralized to distributed -- is coming for electricity. Tomorrow, I'm talking with Swedish broadband pioneer Jonas Birgersson, who is trying to refashion the energy system by modeling & building an "energynet." Got questions?

Enjoyed this @volts.wtf episode, wherein a Dem Senator who advocates for permitting reform implies that clean energy wouldn't see many benefits while Repubs are in the White House. (Fossil fuels certainly would.) So why would Dems not just wait until they take the presidency to do permitting reform?

cool cool cool

whut

This is someone's self-described line of work (on LinkedIn). 🤨

Endless lol.

Imagine being a nanny to a rich yuppie mom who *works from home* and is thus always hovering & watching. Truly nightmare fuel.

"If Dems had tweaked their rhetoric & 'framed' things the right way, political outcomes would have been dramatically different." This form of analysis is a) ubiquitous and b) utterly, delusionally wrong in 99.9% of circumstances.

Was about to write a post critical of Nate Silver but realized that I'm just indulging in meism.

Even after everything, I still find it staggering that anyone could look at, or listen to, this group of people and think, "yes, that's what I want for the country's future." Just an absolute concentrated tincture of the worst of humanity.

This was fun, have a listen!