“This mistakes action for achievement, dismantling for building, and corruption for progress.”

Trump administration to dismantle key climate research center Any such plan "would set back our nation’s ability to predict, prepare for, and respond to severe weather and other natural disasters,” said Antonio Busalacchi, who oversees the center: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

The market has decided that unprofitably spending billions of dollars to build AI datacenters in the hopes that OpenAI can come up with $1.4T in spend is a bad bet. The podcast interview between Sam Altman and Brad Gerstner was the nail in the coffin for investor confidence.

Individually and collectively we must choose to turn away from hate, especially the hate of those different from ourselves.

So we're taking away from actual, needed physical infrastructure investments to create plagiarism machines. Got it.

Alberta country music star Corb Lund says the citizens petition initiative he had filed against coal mining in the Rocky Mountains has been retroactively killed by Alberta’s new legislation:

Did you know that Catastrophic floods that swamped much of southern British Columbia in 2021 were at least twice as likely because of burning fossil fuels? Did you know that fracked gas exported as LNG is as dangerous for the climate as coal? globalnews.ca/news/8622139... #bcpoli #bcflood

Ah yes, the ESO, that climate firebrand, touting net-zero.

Between Medicaid cuts and physician burnout we are heading towards a collapse of primary care in the U.S., along with a mass exodus from public health and science. And I don't blame doctors. They didn't get into medicine to spend their hours refuting crackpot Facebook theories.

This description/reflection from @mattdinan.bsky.social on how he essentially delegitimized using LLMs as a way to outsource student thinking/writing is a model on how to work through your values and build a course around them. mattdinan.substack.com/p/the-ai-ske...

The decline of democracy in the US means you can’t visit the US if you commented on the decline of democracy in the US

I’ve been on vacation and watched Poilievre’s press gallery dinner speech after listening to this podcast Not only does Poilievre make weird personal “jokes” about individual journalists, it’s batshit anyone at a press gallery dinner would laugh at or applaud homophobic / anti-Palestinian jokes

New analysis: The last German gas-heated homes face €4,000+ in annual extra costs by 2045 from rising grid fees. Smart regulation can avoid this - our research on this thorny issue: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Yes! Who asked for reality to become a matter of opinion?

UPDATE: 3 things I learned today 1) Political leaders haven’t thought much about the health threats of CO2 capture and storage. Eg CO2 pipelines have kill zones. Leaks can acidify aquifers and mobilize heavy metals. 2) 45Q tax credits for CCS are now by far the biggest subsidy to oil and gas AND…

My thought go out to Canadians in the Fraser Valley affected by floods. These real world impacts on people, crops, livestock, our food supply, should cause Canadian politicians to reevaluate their priorities on climate change. But I won’t hold my breath, the fossil fuel lobby always shouts louder

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

Alberta government amends bill after chief electoral officer warns it harms trust, independence It’s a pretty scathing letter from the elections head, and my math says gov amended bill no less than 6 hours after every MLA received it. From me today: www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/alb...

This is a solid piece on where Canada is getting it wrong. We should be shoring up our own democracy as it declines in some conspicuously obvious places instead of weakening it at home.

The ECHR was set up after WWII to ensure that fascism never again arose in Europe. Why do the right want to curb/limit/leave/abolish the ECHR? Because it does what it was intended to do, that's why...

Good morning with good news: Solar is 50% of 5.4 million global energy sector jobs added since 2019! Solar has 5 million global jobs. Jobs in the power sector exceed jobs in fuel supply for first time, as the Age of Electricity gains pace. iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/e5b9e... #energysky

@jaredwesley.ca: Did the premier of Alberta attack the constitutional role of the courts in Canada’s democracy? Yes, she did, and in no uncertain terms. #abpoli

Michael Burry continues to hit with the dotcom era analogies. First it was Nvidia is Cisco, a critical hardware manufacturer but overvalued. Now it’s OpenAI is Netscape, a groundbreaking innovator that was eclipsed by an incumbent leveraging its monopoly.

"First he came for the female reporters, and I said nothing because I wasn't a female reporter." The silence of media bosses is an embarrassing scandal.

Important to remember that if this were true (it's not), but just IF there were any colorable case to be made that judges have engaged in "an unconscionable campaign of bias and hostility" there are judicial remedies. If you disagree with a court, you appeal. You don't throw a tantrum on X.

EVs beat petrol cars on lifetime emissions — even on “dirty” grids. Battery production is carbon-intensive, but EVs quickly repay that debt and end up 21–71% cleaner over 250,000 km. We can’t wait for perfect grids: electrify transport and clean the grid now.

We've got a new Nesta feature on Energy Abundance out today! Longtime readers will know I am an advocate of energy abundance, via renewables. That would mean having a big excess of electricity only some of the time. So, how could we use those periods of abundance to improve our lives?

Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!

In a rational world this science would hold more weight than the rantings of an uninformed unelected layperson with poor impulse control.

💯 this. And I hate that not only does it provide air cover it also makes it ‘obvious’ that AI really is that transformative which encourages the trend.

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

This quantification method clearly demonstrated that the risks to climate, ecosystems, and human lives posed by individual fossil fuel projects are not 'negligible' but, in fact, 'serious’ threats. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Yep. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has not been shown to work at scale, and even if it did, it would only scratch the surface of what's needed. There is no alternative -- WE MUST STOP BURNING FOSSIL FUELS.

Kudos for these women for standing up and doing the right thing but they're trying to ban trans women from e-sports now? Absolutely ridiculous.

So here's the Good news/Bad news depending on how racist you are: White people are already extinct. It already happened, hundreds of years ago.🤷🏿‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/mekk... Your great-great-great grand pappy was getting busy before racism was invented. Now none of y'all score 100% on your 23 and me.

It appears from another chat I was involved in that Windows may be more than a way to run Steam! Crazy if true.

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lots of news coverage this morning about £28 billion investment approved to upgrade the UK's energy network. BUT: The majority of the spending – £17.8 billion - announced today is to maintain Britain’s gas networks rather than build new transmission lines.

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

No parallels should be drawn to AI. There are no lessons to be learned here.

Ottawa-Alberta MOU: Federal funding shouldn’t subsidize making climate change worse, says former mayor of Toronto and co-chair of Elbows Up for Climate Coalition, David Miller. youtu.be/6-PeGSPp-Uw?...

$5.4 billion* for a 300 MW* SMR by 2032*. If TVA can't get it done on time and budget, no one can. For comparison, you could build about 10x more solar 4 years sooner, for less cost. Opportunity cost is a real thing with finite cash. *subject to changes www.timesfreepress.com/news/2025/de...

Rolling back food stamps seems bad but I guess if you realize it’s to give very wealthy people a tax cut

"Ottawa’s about-turn to allow access to federal tax credits for capture carbon projects that then use the C02 to boost oil production in old wells is a “game changer” for industry, the oil services sector says." So as predicted we're now going to pay the oil biz to produce more oil.

TL;DR Middle management is hard. Caring is required, but the kind of care you provide matters.

Current facial recognition technology & artificial intelligence tools can't tell most racialized people apart. The error rates, at 35-45%, are highest for Black women in some studies. Black women who are already over policed, at risk of violence, and underserved, will now be falsely arrested, too.🤬

Tetra Pak just launched a heat-pump-based pasteurization system that can cut energy use by up to 77%. Electrification + heat recovery = massive efficiency gains. This is the kind of behind-the-scenes innovation that quietly transforms entire sectors. www.foodtechbiz.com/business-upd...

Yes to this 💯. Look at work like Recoding America and others to see how process improvements beats processing efficiency.

What’s that? Free trade works and improves local productivity? Crazy if true. What if all the economists are right?