A little bit of feel good for your timeline. And you'll never guess who I identify with in this beautiful uplifting video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiVn...

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Kijktip: @aukehoekstra.bsky.social geeft energie college! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICRW...

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

Yet another carbon capture failure. reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...

Ethanol is ridiculous when used as fuel. We need to stop it.

Plates, UK’s first Michelin-starred vegan restaurant, attracts mostly non-vegan diners, highlighting the growing appeal of plant-based fine dining.

Seriously, the article mentions 11 people killed on or by ebikes and emotorcycles over the course of a few years. Cars kill over 40,000 people in the US each year, including people on ebikes.

We rightly focus on richer countries' overconsumption & fossil fuel use as top drivers of planetary harm, but make it a taboo to also mention population: In African forests "carbon emissions are largely driven by fire..., shifting cultivation, agricultural burning & fuelwood burning" = subsistance.

“Whales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Polish meme translated into English.

Finally some fresh ideas in the talks about ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

We asked U.S. adults (~1k, representative) about their level of acceptability to standard animal agriculture practices, such as extreme confinement & painful mutilations. Unsurprisingly, most people don't approve 👇. Check out the full @faunalytics.bsky.social study: faunalytics.org/public-accep...

Want low-carbon steel & cement? Buy it! Public procurement is key to climate success. Spot on by Casier, @jorenverschaeve.bsky.social & Deboffe via @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/fECHpKy

Communities need used-book shops. As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories... We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.

"Trump’s campaign of retribution: At least 470 targets and counting" www.reuters.com/investigates...

Reminder: Russia can't afford to keep up this war. Their reserves are dwindling and the free world minus the US has a GDP of roughly $25 trillion while Russia has 2 trillion. With the lower oil price, the Ural discount, and the banking crisis looming, "the end is nigh" for Russia's aggression. 🧵

Yup, unless... we start to understand that a car was developed to carry a family of 5 over a highway while most city trips are with one person and at lower speeds. On average, autonomous vehicles should be drastically smaller. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

US defense is like US healthcare: pretty good if you can afford it, but hideously expensive per person compared to other countries. I thought that in fighter jets, the ultimate expensive weapon, the US would continue to dominate. Not so, apparently.

UK's media connection to facts and speaking truth to power is increasingly tenuous. Latest example: line saying Trump is corrupt was censored from the Reith lecture by @rutgerbregman.com and BBC journalists aren't allowed to quote the line. Bunch of cowards. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

To most people outside of the US, the Trump White House demands very little respect. Posts like this strengthen the view that it's a cult reminiscent of Kim Jong Un in Korea and Putin in Russia.

Fascinating that China now has a smaller percentage of people in extreme poverty than the US, and that in the US, extreme poverty has increased since 1990. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Those who feel that shifting to an induction cooker is too complicated, costly, or even impossible (renters, for instance) might consider buying a portable hob. They start at less than £30 for a single one and should do the job well! Good for your health, the planet (and your cooking)!

The EU could soon censor words like ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based steak’, a gift to the meat industry that raises costs & red tape for sustainable food producers -- unless we stop it! Join the call to EU Heads of State to reject the 'veggie burger' ban secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/... #Veggie

AI will enable productivity gains, they said…

🚨BREAKING: Kenyan court rules “sharing seeds is NOT a crime” The High Court ruled in favour of smallholder farmers and their right to save, share and exchange their own seeds. 🌱 This is a landmark verdict for food sovereignty over corporate greed. Learn more from @greenpeaceafrica.org ⬇️

REPORTER: What kind of concessions is Hitler and the Germans going to have to make? CHAMBERLAIN: The big concession is they stop fighting and they don't take any more land.

I concluded 40 years ago that the soul and consciousness are concepts invented by people who want to feel special and imagine there must be an afterlife for them. I don't see anything but a sliding scale between ppl and animals based on capacity for happiness and suffering. As for AI...

Hoo boy, another fictitious "EV market slows" headline from the Times *EU EV sales are up 25.6% in 2025* Receipts in thread.

A quiet EV upside the FT highlights: less noise. Cities like Beijing and Shanghai are already seeing calmer, quieter streets—and better sleep—as EV adoption rises. EVs are notably quieter at low speeds, though tyre noise dominates above ~50 km/h.

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

Don’t waste money on new fossil infrastructure, folks. Tropical islands can cost effectively transition off of fossil fuels using solar, wind and batteries. No LNG needed.

"We did not see enough discussion about livestock or meat production in particular, or even diets in general. So I think this is a pretty big missed opportunity." Dan Jasper, Sr Policy Advisor https://bit.ly/4afp4Oc @sentientmedia.org

Anders Opedal (CEO of Equinor) said something wrong here. He said that the IEA said no need for new oil and gas before, now they say more oil and gas needed. This is wrong. The no new oil and gas is if demand drops in line with 1.5C, and always has been. 1/

@hausfath.bsky.social is cautiously optimistic that LLMs might end up defragging our information ecosystem, and I agree. But I worry that users might not want that. LLMs could also become great cherry picking machines to bolster your side of the argument. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/consensus-...

Trump just posted this. How about "No Kings" and... no Nazi's?

A few years back, Pinker and Lomborg where examples for me. I *loved* the Sceptical Environmentalist! But Lomborg went on to cherry picking and often straight-up lying about energy in a way that must be conscious, and Pinker fancies himself knowledgeable about energy and climate change but isn't.

The Trump administration inherited an economy that the Economist called "the envy of the world" in a cover story a week before the election and easily could've coasted on that success (again) but instead they set it on fire.

This problem is a classic externality, and it requires either government regulation or industry compliance with some sort of code of best practices. It will not fix itself.

The fundamental problem with chatbots, social media, and many internet applications is that the companies are driven by profit-seeking to juice engagement to the detriment of people and society.

This is what I picked up from the bible too (before I became agnostic). I can't help but feel estranged from many strident Christians.

Disturbingly apt. politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/281705

I'm really glad renewable technology development doesn't depend on the COP negotiations. Petrostates, fossil fuel companies, and their lackeys can sabotage diplomacy, but it's becoming increasingly transparent what they do is simply evil, while we will ditch fossil fuels anyway.

I'm dying here.

I know how hilarious all of the "getting Grok to say that Elon would be the world's best piss-drinker" is, but from an AI alignment perspective, this sort of stuff is... literally the opposite of alignment?

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

Agree. But let me add cultured meat and precision fermentation as meat alternatives.

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."