ICYMI: our new paper on climate risk to US drinking water utilities. Climate impacts threaten water utilities across multiple hazards: fire, drought, sea level rise, flooding, extreme weather, & other hazards. But many long-term utility bonds don’t mention the risks: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

[after the demise of VCRs and cassette players] All My Tapes Gone

[suddenly absent my carefree sense of whimsy while skipping through the idyllic countryside] all my traipse gone

Despicable and vindictive

[forgot to plant garlic] All My Scapes Gone

[frustrated dessert chef] All I Make’s Flan

[Salvador Dali developing his signature style] All my shapes gone

[superman after his luggage is lost] All My Capes Gone

A year ago, the government "established" a strategic crypto reserve, and did not sell off surplus crypto confiscated from crimes, with an implicit goal of keeping the price high. Good question to ask is how much the taxpayers have lost since then by not selling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than one to one point two trillion of value lost. Depending on the breaks." www.nbcnews.com/business/mar...

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex

The Post's climate reporters did some of the best climate reporting and they and their colleagues deserve the freedom to hold power to account.

This will be a great conversation tomorrow, all are welcome.

Dril's "you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them", but real. Loser stuff.

As I said on #WITHpod, the Administration is like a cartoon villain throwing thumbtacks in the road impeding renewable energy. Demand is up from AI, and they are artificially restricting supply and making clean energy functionally illegal to build. It's a crisis. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Join us online tomorrow on Thursday February 5 at 9:30AM ET for a webinar on Climate Change, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Security with @erinsikorsky.bsky.social, Dr. Kyungmee Kim, and me. Register here: councilonstrategicrisks.org/2026/01/27/c...

Out there it's Wednesday but on here it's Friday, sincerely grateful for you all.

Endless Escalator Behind the Shopping Mall in a Large Suburb

let 👏 him 👏 cook

I specifically ordered a LITTLE SHOP of horrors not an every waking moment

Deleted a post about “what’s your least favorite song” because the vibes are bad enough already. Instead: what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long? Mine: “Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town” (Pearl Jam)

The treatment Ms. Rahman suffered at the hands of her own government is absolutely sickening. Elected leaders must pursue accountability to the fullest extent of the law.

This goes to my longstanding soapbox: everything is a disability policy from housing to health care to urban planning to mass transit.

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

I suspect that economics is not the only discipline in which you can get results like this.

econ dudes can you not be like this nobody likes u

creeptocurrency

my god this thread, on what is being done in our name

New postdoc opportunities in my group at Rutgers-New Brunswick, working on sea-level rise projections and/or coastal climate risk assessment & management

📣 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗽! I’m looking to hire 𝟭–𝟮 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀 to work with us across the group’s research areas, including: 🤖 Deep reinforcement learning 🚦 Traffic modeling & control 🧠 Neural combinatorial optimization

Congress should immediately hold hearings because a special government employee (SGE) should have no decision-making authority, can only work 130 days per year, must have an extraordinary capability not available in house, and I believe cannot have any direct reports. bsky.app/profile/cost...

The League of Women Voters of Los Angeles County has held two Zoom info sessions about climate change risks to SoCal water supply, most recently last Saturday. Both CC deniers & "nature-based" supporting environmental groups are underplaying the risks.

...SO have you ORDERED "The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back" yet? bc you should do that instead 😏 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Loser stuff

There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it

At times I am reminded of the incredible sacrifice @costasamaras.com made in giving up poasting to serve in a federal role. Truly we can never repay our public sector for their dedication.

Republican Congressmen, AGs, state finance officers, etc. have been undertaking a hazing campaign the last three years sending threatening letters to investors demanding they, e.g., "Abandon... the practice of framing deterministic future outcomes as long-term risks" www.esgdive.com/news/state-g...

This is a great paper - and its implications and methods can be applied across the world of revenue bonds. More of this, please!

🚨Our new paper led by Dr. @zialyle.bsky.social looked at how climate change poses risks to US drinking water utilities & if their bonds disclose these risks to investors. Utilities serving 67 million people have high risks, but 36% of their bonds don't mention climate: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

this is a very cool thing to do and also highlights one of the biggest keys to Zohran's appeal: he just thinks New York City is really neat people who live somewhere want to vote for someone who likes it there and wants to make it better, not someone who wants to use it as a springboard

is this blueskyism?

Also, there are generic kinds of research that will benefit many firms, and one firm doesn't want to do that.

Private R&D is important but it cannot substitute for federal R&D. Why: 1. Firms ramp up & down R&D based on tax treatment. And there are bad incentives to over classify work as research. 2. Firms have incentives to keep innovations as in-house trade secrets instead of share innovations publicly.

good morning youtu.be/6jvGK8Z29f4?...

Coming up this week: Power crisis in the frozen South.

👇🎯 Not once has the national media asked a GOP politician about affording ICE the way Biden/the Dems were asked about the cost of student loan debt relief & literally everything else for the last 50 years.

Right now: the federal government has to help these folks and get the power back on, and if they can’t, they should resign After that: we need a Grid New Deal and rebuild the grid for this century

They get mad over on twitter about following federal law, in this case 8 U.S.C. § 1158

CHOTINER: So you moved to the country recently. ME: I do really like peaches. CHOTINER: Hmm. Millions of peaches, doesn’t that seem like a lot? ME: I’ll be supporting the local farm economy— CHOTINER: You said here you were planning on obtaining them for free. ME: Look out! CHOTINER: Okay