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Nice big feature on Stardust by @karlmathiesen.bsky.social & @corbinhiar.bsky.social this morning.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

1) this from @marisakabas.bsky.social is good as always 2) as she lays out, part of the problem is there is an entire class of journalist and of publication that is obsessed…OBSESSED with access. if access can be taken away then you need to pull punches www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

Major ground subsidence on the north and west side of Houston, especially around new developments in Katy, from overdrawing groundwater. Cracks foundations and increases flood risk. HT Ryan Riggs, and great reporting by @houstonchronicle.com 🎁 link ⚒️

Things that will get you kicked out of academia forever: - taking maternity leave at the wrong time - spending too much time with your kids - reporting harassment - not moving every 2-3 years - taking a partner's job/preferences into account - mouthing off before tenure

I just watched the whole video, and not a single reporter stood up for her. Everyone just pivoted to asking questions on other topics. This is shameful.

I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

Just put on a collared shirt and combed my hair and then realized it was a phone interview. Pfft, what a waste.

📣Bloomberg Economics is hiring a climate specialist: bloomberg.avature.net/careers/JobD...

More good coverage on crypto fraud in the NYT this morning. Note the phrase "at least $28 billion". It is undoubtedly A LOT more than $28 billion because the technology is so perfectly designed to be untraceable AND this doesn't include all kinds of fraud. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/t...

The absolute misogynistic delusion of claiming women don't succeed in academia because they aren't that smart is bad enough, but Larry Summers was also asking Epstein for advice on harassing a woman under the guise of mentorship. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

My interview with Meta CTO-turned-climate tech investor Mike Schroepfer for the SOSV summit is now available online. We discussed the state of climate tech investment, the shifting US policy landscape, and the energy challenges and opportunities presented by AI.

It should always be, if you have a nail everything looks like a hammer, never the other way around—almost nothing else looks like a nail! Close runner-ups include: Never pens, always writes. Semicolons are nearly pointless.

"I would want to see emissions going down for several years before I would stand up on a building top and shout that emissions have peaked" Please take note of my wise words... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

1/ If you're interested in housing and the debates within the Democratic party about how much is needed and how to get it built, you need to read this profile of CA NIMBY slayer @scottwiener.bsky.social by @jetjocko.bsky.social. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

NEW: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Eugene Scalia (Gibson Dunn) have gone to SCOTUS asking the justices to stop California's corporate disclosure climate bills (SB261 and SB253) from going into effect. The first of the two bills takes effect on Jan 1. The application is Docket No. 25A561.

NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:

How many profs in major PhD granting science departments have *not* advised even 1 Chinese student or Chinese postdoc in the last five years 😧?

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

But that would mean

When we submit the existence of essential services to the whims of private companies whose top goal is profit, we inevitably end up with failures like this that leave many people unprotected. This is also what’s happening with home insurance (which I study).

uh, holy shit? apnews.com/article/trum...

Hey, all: At The Nevada Independent, we are in the middle of our end-of-the-year fundraising drive. We are in good shape, but nonprofit journalism is not easy. If you believe in what we do and can spare $5-$10-$25 a month, please donate: nevadaindependent.fundjournalism.org?campaignid=7...

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With Leading Light withdrawing its contract to sell energy to NJ, the Garden State's only remaining offshore wind deal is with Attentive Energy, which is unlikely to get its permits to build anytime soon. heatmap.news/energy/leadi...

New York Times investigation finds home insurance companies have exploited loopholes in California wildfire regulations to avoid high-risk areas while still charging higher rates: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/u...

“[…] competing visions and narratives of modernity, over what it takes to modernize, to survive, and to flourish. Will the future be forward-looking, green and bravely planetary—or will it be backward-looking, carbon-intensive and stridently sovereigntist?” foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

How do we know it's a "major" deal if the terms aren't disclosed? Also, this context looks seems pretty important to me in considering what drove the deal 👉: trellis.net/article/pach...

Quick someone reward this CEO with a trillion dollars.

It's happening in the corporate and policy world as well. As @nathanielbullard.com pointed out in his excellent presentation from earlier this year, policy actions have been declining since 2021/2022. So has corporate interest in ESG. www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations

The Post (me and @kcrowebasspro.bsky.social) analyzed the social media posts and appearances of prominent politicians across the country. We found that no one is talking about climate change anymore. In 2025, mentions are 60% lower than in 2024. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I legit can’t figure out the play on these FAA flight cancellations. Who’s the White House trying to pressure. And who do they think people are gonna get mad at when Thanksgiving goes down the drain?

Scoop: Stardust Solutions, a startup seeking U.S. government contracts to cool the planet, has quietly begun lobbying on Capitol Hill. "We're informing members of Congress about our work and the need for appropriate and robust oversight," the CEO said. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

I mean, professional athletes are prohibited from gambling on their own sport, but I'm sure this is fine.

For all their talk of making America healthier, MAHA’s leaders have proposed little to actually make healthy food more affordable. Cutting tariffs, funding research, and modernizing regulations would all help make fruits & vegetables cheaper to produce and buy. t.co/47mdlFD06y

Never managed to get into the thorny topics of residential electricity demand and Hot Pockets, but still had a great conversation with @costasamaras.com on stage at #EmTech. Thanks for coming to Cambridge to join the event!

In case you missed our conversation on the Gates climate memo yesterday, the recording is now available! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUAX...

“The election of two new public service commissioners represents a seismic change in Georgia’s energy landscape and reflects a new politics of electricity in America.” heatmap.news/politics/ali...

Tough news for George Santos here.

Boston, come to MIT tomorrow to hear @jtemple.bsky.social and I talk about electricity, hot pockets event.technologyreview.com/emtech-mit-2...

Ahead of this month's COP30 summit in Brazil, billionaire investor Bill Gates is advising world leaders that global warming "will not lead to humanity’s demise." Is he right?

TR's #EmTech 2025 conference getting underway at the @medialab.bsky.social, with @mathonan.com taking the stage.

Daniele Visioni and I explain our concerns about Stardust and the commercialization of climate engineering in Technology Review:

www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/04/1... In @technologyreview.com, @davidkeith.bsky.social and I explain why, especially if you think solar geoengineering is worth exploring, you should be skeptical of for-profit attempts. We bounced around thoughts for a while, but it got more urgent obviously.

In an op-ed for TR, @davidkeith.bsky.social & @danvisioni.bsky.social voice deep concerns about Stardust & other for-profits racing into solar geoengineering — and asserting claims that, they argue, the science doesn't support.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/... This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about. During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.