An open letter to @sanders.senate.gov, @neildegrassetyson.com, and groups like @pauseai.bsky.social: Please stop propping up people who say they would literally "sacrifice all of humanity" to create god-like superintelligences, to quote Yudkowsky. Join me on Team Human, not Team Posthuman. Link👇.

My anecdote I heard this week is that Anhydrous Ammonia shortages are looking so severe that power plants that use it for NOx emission control are scrambling for supply. This use is one of the "first in line" customers who pay a significant premium for binding contracts. It's not good!

“We use ML trained on US death certificates from March 2020 to December 2021 to predict 155,536 unrecognized COVID-19 deaths. This indicates 19% more COVID-19 deaths occurred in US than officially reported.” The undercounting was concentrated among people of color & low income (read below). 1/n

How did we get here? Story from 2022: "Five years ago, when ExxonMobil came calling, city officials eagerly signed over a large portion of their water supply so the oil giant could build a $10 billion plant to make plastics out of ethane gas." www.texasobserver.org/corpus-chris...

For your consideration: Crowd funding for "The Sky is the Limit (NCAR--A documentary about a crown jewel of American science, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the peril it faces."

A new experiment for tracking monarchs: adoptamonarch.org is looking for donors to fund solar-powered radio tags to track monarchs in real time. They emit a Bluetooth signal that smartphones pick up, similar to AirTags. You can fund one monarch for $200, or part of one ...

The recent power outage that affected Cuba was visible last night from satellite imagery, capturing the reduction of nighttime city lights in the country.

the recording of today's episode of THE RIFT, a conversation about the iranian environmental movement with dr. maziar samiee, is now online: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

The chapter on 'Extreme Temperatures, Air Quality, and Public Health' of the book 'Climate Change Impacts in Texas' I wrote (with Melissa Allen-Dumas) has now been published. Link to chapter: lnkd.in/gKdf2iVN #extremeheat #climatechange #airquality #publichealth

The full background behind Trump's recently announced oil refinery at the Port of Brownsville that began more than a decade ago, and the political party fracturing under the pressure of soaring gas prices. My latest for Across The Americas — www.acrosstheamericas.com/port-of-brow...

The Brownsville community has been fighting this proposed oil refinery for many years now & we won't give up. Community members legally challenged the air pollution permit with TCEQ for this proposed oil facility years ago with the Environmental Integrity Project

I’m briefly in India. This is a facile observation, but Americans have barely scratched the surface in understanding how the rest of the world is reacting to this war. It’s already an Iraq War-style disaster in the global imagination, underscored by the thuggishness and caprice of the Trump approach

This is what ecocide looks like.

The real damage comes years later, with elevated cancer rates, leukemia clusters, respiratory disease, cardiovascular failure, neurological damage, reproductive issues. This is chemical warfare, with delayed carnage. Worse than radiation sickness. I am ashamed to be American today. 2/2

This is really getting scary. Follow my former office mate @neginowl.bsky.social for updates.

Some context for people just following on why this is very bad, horrible, no good: bsky.app/profile/alex...

Still time to submit comments to the FCC in opposition to Reflect Orbital's request for approval to help put a million orbital data centers into space: aas.org/posts/advoca... (SpaceX also has filed to do so, but the deadline for public comments has passed.) If you care, speak up!

May 2022. Had a memory of coming home one night and seeing the 'I did that' Biden sticker at a gas station for the first time and also having someone in a much bigger vehicle than mine asking for gas money.

We haven't won yet! Please read this post I made on the danger of claiming false victory: bsky.app/profile/laik...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116053742685475452 Deadline for comments on a million SpaceX "AI data centers" and a company that wants to deliver "sunlight as a service." If you have time and energy, please write a comment! Instructions below. (I heard a rumour that Reflect Orbital […]

They did it again twice today. It’s clearly deliberate and no surprise given they are likely being fed targets from Israel. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Neat watch on how to make a salient environmental issue go viral on the other sites.

Agroecology is simultaneously described as an academic discipline, a social movement, and a set of farming practices. In today's post, I explore the history leading to this unique situation

Who would I read to explore Internal Family Systems theory (aka "parts work") as a way to understand drivers of eological overshoot, authoritarianism and other crises of our times?

Well, this is a frightening scientific paper. It certainly raises the bar for "doom-scrolling."

Kinda wish the news would take a step of further inquiry of the 'eat real food' barbecue tour and ask bigger questions around cattle overgrazing, land-use change, and floods...

Possibly an interesting podcast series premiering March 13th on the backstory of #hydrogen in the UK on Nick Abson ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Ab..., music/TV producer & fuel cell investor ) interviewed by Harry Otto Brünjes.

"We were stunned to learn that eight #datacenters were already either operational, under active construction, or approved in Round Rock. This would be the ninth." Q&A with Protect Round Rock's Gary Oldham. deceleration.news/round-rock-t...

Do you suffer from cedar fever -- an allergy to mountain cedar (aka Ashe juniper, aka Juniperus ashei)? If so, I'd love to chat. I'm writing a book and want to include a brief bit from the perspective of someone whose life is severely impacted by pollen allergies. DM if interested! #allergies

The Bohemian Club is a secret society for the rich and powerful here in San Francisco. Yesterday @drboguslaw.bsky.social dropped a list of its members. Today we are releasing a searchable database of its members cross referenced with open source intelligence.🔎 thebohemiangrove.info

Bake sales to save nature "year after year, speakers would reiterate the urgency of making diverse natures investable, followed by the requisite admission that it would not be easy. view.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/dech.70035

Most UT alums don't realize the school is no longer run by academics but by a GOP lawyer who won't talk to the press and has launched a deranged purge of faculty and curricula. But once they're openly ousting faculty on the grounds of "ideological differences," the institution is pretty far gone.

Still time to write to your Senators (and get your friends to do the same). Casey Means is a charlatan with dangerous views on contraception, raw milk, vaccines and has a whole lot of conflict of interest--she's making money off it all. Just say no to the quack. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Yay something to listen to instead of SOTU...

New for @climate.us — five instrumental global temperature records aligned to the same pre-industrial baseline. Original data from the UK Met Office & JMA: climate.metoffice.cloud/temperature.... ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/prod... Globe by DSCOVR:EPIC: epic.gsfc.nasa.gov #climate #dataviz

Let’s play a game. Which of these are data centers, and which are ICE detention centers?

<splice for bookmarking aloud> of something lingering in my mind, notably when bumping into...

I have a question, how are folks politely questioning the use of genAI when you see it in local & niche spaces? Started to notice it casually used for images in neighborhood groups, newsletters, in comment replies, etc. (usually with zero disclosure) & been sitting with how to bring it up...

Been waiting for this. There’s no way they could have trafficked this many people without CBP assisting. Whether that is looking the other way or taking bribes. No way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the recording of today's episode of THE RIFT is now online, in which @gruberte.bsky.social and @jlappen1.bsky.social deliver a fascinating conversation on their new paper, what getting off of fossil fuels actually entails, and the hard work of energy transition: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Great paper by Vanessa Andreotti et al. on the need for neuro-decolonisation showing 'how colonial logics are reproduced not only through institutions and policies, but also through everyday ways of thinking, feeling, & relating that are often taken for granted." www.growkudos.com/publications...

I'm sure we've all seen the graphic that lays out the United States ' relationship with slavery. It's good, but I never thought it was quite impactful enough. So I made my own. I've used a few key events, including my birth, to highlight how recent these events are in history. 1 square = 1 year.

Reading the Liz Bruenig fictional-but-researched measles story weirdly reminds me of Katy Bowman, who gets featured in mainstream places like @npr.org about moving your body but in this 2015 Rogan interview mentions she delayed her kids vaccinations: m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ub5... (2:05:03)

@texasstandard.bsky.social Per reporting from the Big Bend Sentinel, this canyon within Big Bend Ranch State Park is within the proposed footprint of a new, steel border wall. The hundreds of feet of canyon wall, as seen from canoe, are apparently not tall enough for DHS' disastrous project.

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BREAKING: DHS waives dozens of laws to rush border wall construction through Big Bend State Park. They want to rob this iconic western landscape from all of us, locking away our fishing holes & campsites behind concrete and steel. It's a grotesque act of political vandalism.

"How do you build a wall across an arroyo?" - Paul Krafel, 2016 - roamingupward.net/home/the-bes... (Previously mastodon.social/@vivekgani/1... , twitter.com/vivekgani/st... )

Alright paleo peeps, what had we here? ~63mya #fossil #seacreature