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Make no mistake about it, if those numbers are even close to true, there is no way all of the weather forecast offices can exist as they do now. A full-on attack on public weather services. If a car lost 25% of its parts, it doesn't slow down. It just doesn't work.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

A great success story of #CitizenScience.

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Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem said she's going to eliminate FEMA at a Trump cabinet meeting today. Here's what states say is at stake for them in disasters. www.npr.org/2025/03/21/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Doonesbury gets it.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Hey folks, another Elon death toll update for those who celebrate www.statnews.com/2025/03/17/w...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

The people who produce this Mauna Loa atmospheric CO₂ record have a lab in Hilo, Hawaiʻi, about 50 miles (80 km) from the observatory. By closing the lab, it'll be really difficult to maintain the CO₂ observations.

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

I'm delighted to say that the issue of the @thebulletin.org magazine that my colleague Dan Drollette and I have been working on for months, all about tipping points, is out today. My introduction to the issue is here: thebulletin.org/premium/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

"Most of the new moons fall in the Norse cluster, meaning astronomers are now on the hunt for dozens of obscure Viking deities. “Eventually the criteria may have to be relaxed a bit,” Ashton said."

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How does climate anxiety explain the far right? It's not denial, and science isn't the answer. "Framing disasters within a moral narrative gives an authoritarian agenda powerful justification." thestartingpoints.substack.com/p/trump-and-...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 Yesterday I shared my views on how disordered discourse has captured the US state and the risk of that happening elsewhere, but I don’t want to leave you hanging without proposing a solution.

submitted 32 days ago • 78 comments

Another wave of layoffs hit the federal government, this time including climate scientists and modelers at NOAA. An estimated 800 employees were fired, likely ensuring that the US government won’t be able to model the weather or predict extreme events going forward . www.npr.org/2025/02/27/n...

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Semafor reports on CEOs belatedly awakening that Trump's predatory economic ideas will capsize the US economy. www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

submitted 33 days ago • 74 comments

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Americans who rely on social media as their main news source are more likely to encounter conspiracy theories, according to a technology professor. Here are some tips for information literacy on #TikTok (and here): @anneo.bsky.social @uconn.bsky.social #misinformation

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

An absolutely scorching OpEd by Harold Varmus, Nobel laureate, on Trump's destruction of the vaunted US scientific & biomedical enterprise & on Trump's kooky picks to lead the US health & science agencies Gift link to share far & wide www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

1/ Sometimes a constitutional crisis sneaks up on you, shrouded in darkness, revealing itself gradually. Other times it announces itself dramatically. Gift link.

submitted 48 days ago • 4 comments

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

submitted 55 days ago • 1202 comments

US Wikipedia editors are starting to use strategies to protect themselves and the site that were first used under authoritarian regimes www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Normalcy bias is one hell of a drug.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

@mattyglesias.bsky.social: “If we seem to be unsustainably lurching from crisis to crisis, it’s because we are unsustainably lurching from crisis to crisis.” www.vox.com/2015/3/2/812...

submitted 53 days ago • 3 comments

In today's Odd Lots Newsletter, i wrote about Walter Ong Thought, and how as we return to Orality, we're completely re-wiring the logic engine of the human brain. Get the newsletter here: www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

submitted 54 days ago • 28 comments

White House budget proposal may slash NSF funding from 9 billion to 3 billion a year.

submitted 54 days ago • 29 comments

Do you want the good feedback, or the bad feedback? timharford.com/2025/02/do-y...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

This Daily Show clip is so good, but make sure to stick around to the very end for Bill O'Reilly.

submitted 55 days ago • 30 comments

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

submitted 57 days ago • 93 comments

AI systems with ‘unacceptable risk’ are now banned in the EU

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

submitted 59 days ago • 918 comments

Lead-cooled small modular reactor technology developer Blykalla has announced a strategic partnership with Swedish powdered metal producer Höganäs to develop specialised materials and manufacturing processes for Blykalla's SEALER technology. www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/hog...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 68 days ago • 1355 comments

It's going to be difficult for folks to accept that the U.S. we knew no longer exists. We're going to be forced to make some very tough decisions about what options remain for retaining some piece of American democracy

submitted 69 days ago • 28 comments

Gift link to Kyle MacLachlan's essay on #DavidLynch in the NYT. "It’s why he never wanted to explain his work. He wasn’t trying to be surly or obtuse....It’s just that explaining his art after the fact seemed antithetical to the very point of making it."

submitted 73 days ago • 40 comments

Not all surprised that TrumpCo launched its own meme coin as he evangelized cryptocurrency. It's a Ponzi scheme. If official new US policy buys this and other coins, it will only be to siphon more US wealth into his pockets. Much faster grift than cutting taxes! www.forbes.com/sites/digita...

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments