I love how all the comments on “AI assistant” product ads are just “no” and ”literally nobody wants this” and “just stop.”

"Fossil fuels are now intermittent and uncertain... Renewables, thanks to batteries, have become actually pretty constant given the sun rises every morning." www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/i...

RIP Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026)

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

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in a cafe sitting next to a man on zoom call in which has been talking to (at?) colleagues nonstop for an hour. on my other side are two older women side-eyeing him, bemoaning the aggrieved overconfidence of young men.

Hey man. Me and my buddies are gonna go out to the desert this weekend and hallucinate some references, you in?

what percent of anti-AI rage is just a reaction to the way sentences like this make us feel?

I would love it if a student told me assured me they had "started their own investigation" after they were caught cheating.

This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.

Yes, calling a liquid "gas" used to bug me no end. Then I discovered that it ought actually to be "caz," not "gas." It's based on a trade name. A thread... 1/6

so much going on in this headline lol

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

lotta ppl sayin wild things rn

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Is it legal for Trump to order a government agency to hand him a huge pile of taxpayer money? Note that the White House is directly discussing this with DOJ!

My new essay in @foreignaffairs.com on the connections between energy and geopolitical sovereignty that the Iran energy shock has revealed.

I was happy to contribute to this NYT story by Eshe Nelson. My main point: I think the shift to EVs, heat pumps and solar panels is likely to be sustained, because there are two factors at play here, driving the behavioural response: the price factor and the shock-awareness factor. 🧵

sums of 2026 pretty well.

this kind of stuff is why Bourdieusian class critique isn't edgy anymore. under current conditions, it's usually just thinly veiled reactionary populism.

so they want "dollar dominance" and to reduce our trade deficit? I may only have an undergrad degree in economics, but I think this is incoherent.

who knew biopolitics could be this funny.

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so many things to say but it's pretty bleak that the alternative he offers to kids scrolling on their phones is "get them in a car."

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

"Trump is now effectively blocking any new wind projects in the US, according to the main renewables trade group, using the federal government’s power over all things air and sky to grind a routine approval process to a screeching halt," reports @jael.bsky.social: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig... 🔌💡

you gotta be kidding me

Cursed to scream this into the void forever but: this is an absurd comparison and tells you absolutely nothing at all about whether aggressive deregulation and The Free Market results in a lot of clean energy @ramez.bsky.social should 1,000% know better than to say something like this A short 🧵

I don’t really understand the fixation on “the national debt has outgrown the size of the economy” when they aren’t even commensurable accounting measures, GDP being a flow over an arbitrary time period, and national debt being a stock (albeit a liability with interest accruing over time).

Wind and solar have now beaten fossil fuels in Great Britain for a record 15 months in a row Just a decade ago, fossil fuels were generating four times more than wind + solar Now that's flipped: Since the Iran war, wind and solar generated twice as much as fossil fuels

Trump has pulled off an improbable feat: the oilman’s president has made fossil fuels both expensive and unreliable. People used to worry that addiction to oil made us dependent on Middle Eastern autocracies. We have learnt since 2022 that it also makes us dependent on Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.

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this is half correct. the problem is really not so much how people talk, it’s what they talk about. if you focus on the problems that actually matter to people and explain how you’re working to address them, you don’t need buzzwords, nor do you need to ban them.

writers: do not frame your argument against positions that others do not actually hold. find more generous and generative ways of intervening.

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The cunning of unreason.

Scrapping offshore wind: The Trump administration says it will pay two more energy companies, including one developing a wind project off Morro Bay, to abandon their projects. The federal government will pay $885 million to end the leases. @hayleysmith.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

Not weighing in on the broader argument but the Hegelian in me finds this compelling: “The fact that companies are desperate for power can potentially be leveraged to get them to finance some of the grid build-out that we need for decarbonization.“

I am annoyed and borderline disturbed by the not very well thought out conspiracy theorizing that has become increasingly common among normie liberals.

We need a total ban on gas leaf blowers in the state of Massachusetts.

an actual ad on Instagram. thinking about deleting my account.

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

W. E. B. Du Bois: Woke Gary Becker.

Nunes steps down from Truth Social, looks forward to spending more time with his cow www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...

Every day I read a news story that makes me feel like I need to apologize to at least one insane person in a John 3:16 van and today it’s this one