Venezuela’s government is arresting journalists and sending paramilitary forces to suppress anyone who is too happy about Maduro's removal giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

Huh www.ft.com/content/8816...

And on this kind of garbage hang the fates of nations

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New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Happy NYE from Moxie and me! Let's make it a better 2026. (All time great pet pic by @vjeran.bsky.social.)

i don't have any plans for tonight. Lots of people thought I had a gig. I do not. But if I get 100 likes on this post, I'll stream a Daft Punk DJ session on Twitch for funsies at, let's say, 8:30pm PT / 11:30pm ET. Like early, because I'll have to set stuff up if this happens

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

If the bar for investigative journalism was, "we can't run it unless the subject agrees to speak on the record," there would quickly cease to be investigative journalism. *Though of course they should always be given the opportunity to.

New op-ed from @sktalati.bsky.social & Janos Pasztor highlighting their concerns about Stardust and private market efforts in the solar geoengineering space.

Much of SF lost power last night. Waymos blocked intersections across the city, even though they are Wayless than 1% of cars on the roads. They accumulated at their failure points--intersections with no green lights, in busy areas, and shut down traffic there.

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On #AGVTV at #AGU25, Dr. Melissa Kenney and I talked about the opportunity for the entire scientific community to contribute towards climate assessment research. Submit your papers at USclimatecollection.org. youtu.be/7Kb-hfwIUxQ?...

Meet Eba, the goodest girl in killer whale conservation, and go behind the scenes with scientists trying to save the majestic creatures in our latest TikTok

The Imperial Valley grows your winter vegetables, drains the Colorado River and generates tons of solar. Also public corruption runs rampant and a farm baron's wife just got killed under mysterious circumstances. Did someone say climate murder mystery? www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/mike-abatt...

And here I've been forgoing avocado toast for years like a sucker!

Very proud of @naemas.bsky.social and my story yesterday on how thousands of the estimated 16,000 known plastic chemicals get into our food. “The problem is, none of the plastics that we have right now are safe... That’s what the data tell us.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Sure, why not?

We have the technologies we need to cut pollution from the industrial sector. In our new report, we take a deep dive into an immediate, practical opportunity: electrifying low- and medium-temperature process heat in manufacturing food, beverage, paper and chemicals. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In an effort to demonstrate to a relative that a social post was inauthentic, I Googled the relevant terms — & Overview corroborated the details. The link went back to the obviously fake FB post, in a kind of AI Ouroboros that seems incredible worrisome for our ability to dispel disinformation.

“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” 🤡 @rani.bsky.social $TSLA @mims.bsky.social sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

A myopic and probably a “bet the company” decision [derogatory].

I wrote about the glaciers. A study out today projects their future, and it is grim.

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Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.

TR has a package of stories up today recalibrating the AI hype, exploring what it will deliver & where it's coming up short: www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...

I paid a really high sourcing cost after writing critically about this company in 2022 ... and, well ... www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/16/1...

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the end, it resorted to dumping thousands of tons of wood chips in the sea. www.wired.com/story/how-th...

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Best thing I have read about Stardust and its solar-geoengineering-as-a-service model -- which is unsurprising as it's by @jtemple.bsky.social. Little disappointed that all the people looked to for comment are in the US, though; these are global issues. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/10/1...

This queen raised a million bucks for charity by hiking 100 miles in drag [via @theguardian.com]

This is very good news for a 24/7 renewable grid. Advanced geothermal can supplement solar and wind by providing dispatchable power from places where we didn't use to think geothermal was possible. @fervoenergy.bsky.social @wsj.com @timlatimer.bsky.social www.wsj.com/finance/ferv...

I did a lengthy interview with the CEO of Stardust, in which he walked back the solar geoengineering startup's testing and deployment plans a bit. The company also intends to release details about its proprietary particles early next year and expects to open a US office soon.

New: Key Senate Democrats told @jael.bsky.social they want a permitting deal that supports transmission and clean energy, and that the current House proposal, the SPEED Act, "does not meet that standard." heatmap.news/politics/sch...

NEW: An AI conference was bombarded with complaints about peer reviews sounding AI-generated. A startup jumped in with an outside analysis, estimating that as many 1 in 5 could have been ChatGPT-written. Chaos ensued. Now the reviews are being reviewed. www.chronicle.com/article/the-... #ICLR2026

It appears that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has, within the past week, scrubbed a large amount of climate change content from its official website, as well as *removed human-caused warming* from the discussion on its "causes of climate change" page.

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The Department of Energy is one of the most significant global supporters of physical science research. I joined my colleagues at the @scientistsorg.bsky.social Addy Smith, Alice Wu, Zoë Brouns, and Arjun Krishnaswami to offer our perspective and warnings on DOE’s reorganization.

Scientists: have you been the target of an online harassment campaign, doxxing, or weaponized FOIA requests? I'd like to talk to you about steps you had to take to protect your digital security for an upcoming Nature story. (You can be anonymous if necessary.) RTs appreciated.

It's funny to see the tech industry collectively decide, now that securing electricity is crucial to its business success, that it needed to find a more pretentious way of putting it. So now everyone's in a mad dash for "electrons."

I wrote about our interview with Roblox's CEO and how platforms got too big to feel shame www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

BREAKING: Judge rules Lindsey Halligan's appointment was not valid, thus, she had no authority to present the James Comey or Letitia James indictments and the indictments are dismissed without prejudice.

The headline's fine, just read the story. (Applicable daily.)

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

I gave a talk yesterday about monitoring, reporting, and verification for marine carbon dioxide removal and you can watch it here at 2x speed if you wish. 🌊

Join us live at 10am as we introduce the Clean Industrial Capabilities Explorer in Washington DC. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpc...

Not to put too fine a point on it, but he called for their execution, which deserves at least to be in the dek.

The script writers of reality are a bit too on the nose today.

A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning. heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad