It's hard to process that we're somehow living in a discount Tom Clancy novel. Frankly, I'm terrified.

[looking at my apartment which rarely drops below 26 in the summer]

X is currently the world's most popular child porn site, that anyone can access. Seems bad.

I guess it's not surprising but it is still completely disgusting and outrageous that the ABC is going to both-sides American fascist militia murdering civilians

I'm excited to announce the official Nullschool app is here! earth.nullschool.net on mobile browsers works fine, but the app is nicer. Full screen display, persistence across sessions, text size that matches device settings. Even landscape works well. And, like the website: no ads! Links below ⬇️

Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen is blunt: If the U.S. attacks a NATO ally, the post-WWII order dies and America becomes the threat NATO was built to stop.👀

Don't want to roast this too hard because the intent is good but note how it gets framed - "AI hallucinations", "a lying AI chatbot" No: this is fraud being committed by a bunch of lawless, amoral crypto scammers. There is no "ethical dilemma": report it as a non-response from the company. Simple.

Bloomberg's X account has more than 800k followers. Their most recent post was shared five times It would basically come at close to zero cost for outlets like Bloomberg to delete their X accounts, and "We don't want to use a non-consensual deepfake abuse app as a comms platform" is a fine excuse

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

As @jbakcoleman.bsky.social and I wrote, “Every time a scientist abdicates their work to an AI tool, that is a tacit admission that the work is not worth being done by the scientist.” Same goes for instructors.

Whew, and here I thought aviation emissions were going to be a problem

So little was known 18 years ago when I started researching climate comms. I'm blown away by how much we now know. This study, led by the incomparable Jan Voelkel with his all-star band, and released today in @natclimate.nature.com confirms that many distinct message strategies can work...

France at the UN Security Council: "The military operation which led to the capture of Nicolas Maduro runs counter to the principle of peaceful dispute resolution and the principle of non use of force. Violations of the UN Charter... chips away at the very foundation of the international order."

2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).

this is why you must always oppose every act an imperialist country does, because then they’ll soon come for everyone

Every US voter who didn’t do everything they could to keep Trump from regaining power… I mean EVERYTHING… owns a piece of this.

Just incredibly spineless. If this is the standard of response to a blatantly illegal invasion of a sovereign country, you can bet it won't stop there. I hope the EU has plans to defend Greenland beyond stern words.

We had a good run

This includes conferences!

Incidentally, someone check on Greenland because they must be sweating bullets right now.

Given that Trump's is an authoritarian regime, this is correct.

This whole thing really feels like it will be the definitive failure of American democracy. Not looking forward to what follows.

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

The Australian government must unequivocally condemn the lawless aggression of the US if its position in the international community is to be taken seriously.

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

My New Year’s resolution is to be even more of a hater to “A.I.” A soul-murdering scam to create a generation of dead-inside drones - if you use it on the reg you’re a clown at best and if you promote it you’re lower than the shit on Satan’s hoof, sorry I don’t make the rules etc.

MSF (Doctors Without Borders) was born in part of the realization by the Red Cross that they'd failed to speak out against the Holocaust of Jewish people in the Nazi camps. Founding MSF in 1971, former RC medics vowed to bear witness as well as rendering aid. Israel is blocking MSF from Gaza now...

it's genuinely fascinating to me that "you cannot facilitate a genocide against a people and still expect their vote" is too advanced for some analysts to understand.

Heartbreaking news. I was lucky enough to know her while I was working at UNSW and she was one of the nicest and most capable people you'd hope to meet in this job. What a tremendous loss.

"60% of oil, gas and coal power plants slated for retirement in PJM postponed or cancelled those plans this year" www.reuters.com/business/ene...

No matter how much you hate 'AI', you don't hate it enough.

Painted cycle lanes are the non-smoking sections of today's urban landscape. Both recognize a problem and the harms it causes, but are designed without the will or imagination required to implement a real solution.

The better question is, why is anyone?

New pre-print from some fantastic Master students we supervised in the last couple of years. Here we look at the interactions between the AMOC and Nordic overturning in a box model and GCM 🌊 egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?

AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone - tech is now more expensive - you cannot trust most media of reality anymore - programs barely function - energy prices - literal psychosis - your voice can be literally stolen for evil - more spyware but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.

"A.i." is a tool of racists and fascists and liars. Do not use it and do not spread it. Abolish "A.i." from every space and org you have authority over - at the very least from your own computers and social media feeds.

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‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people

Gearing up to start in 10 minutes with @simonoxfphys.com and @hmoluseyi.bsky.social! Join us live on the link below and on Reddit at www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

Holy hell, Australia has lost it

[dying from cringe] I've never met this country in my life

The US is not just Europe’s unwilling ally, but an adversary steeped in far-right ideology | Cas Mudde

Here are the press release on the retraction of one our Nature papers www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... some explanations www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late... the journal's comment www.nature.com/articles/s41... Please note: The fact that climate change causes huge economic damages is not disputed..

New review led by @ariaan.bsky.social on climate effects of the Southern Annular Mode, the most important mode of climate variability in the Southern Hemisphere. Read it in @natrevearthenviron.nature.com at doi.org/10.1038/s430... 🧪 #academicsky #climate #climatechange

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button