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Climate Action Tracker: The climate is warming and sea levels rising way faster than governments are acting

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Researchers found 15 people in Kansas City who had changed their mind about climate change, and asked them why. Fascinating! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 70 days ago • 42 comments

As someone who coruns an independent media organization with a paywall…I regret to inform you that they do work and if you want independent journalism to exist you are going to have to subscribe to some publications. Doesn’t have to be all of them! You can rotate, which I do!

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

submitted 103 days ago • 181 comments

we are not paying enough attention to commercially available phone-cracking and spyware being sold to any government who will buy it

submitted 104 days ago • 4 comments

More than 60 countries held elections this year. Many researchers and journalists claimed AI misinformation would destabilize democracies. What impact did AI really have? We analyzed every instance of political AI use this year collected by WIRED. New essay w/@random_walker: 🧵

submitted 104 days ago • 3 comments

I made a new gif for a new site tracking JWST observations of exoplanets (still a work in progress): jlothringer.github.io/Dashboard.html What an exciting ~3 years it has been! ✨🔭✨

submitted 104 days ago • 2 comments

Going through my father's old papers and scanning them in. Here's a PDF draft of a plasma physics textbook that he wrote in the early 1960s, but for some reason never published. I would be happy if someone got some benefit from it. drive.google.com/file/d/1V2F4...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Here's my slides from my #AGU24 talk earlier today. Lots of folks in the session already took care of the meteorological and climatological side of #Helene, so I spent a good time talking about the emotional side. Buckle in folks, here comes a thread. drive.google.com/file/d/1nhzL...

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

One thing that lacks attention: all of this is only possible because Romanian president declassified findings of their intelligence agencies and did so at an unprecedented scope and pace. Declassification and transparency seem like one of the most effective ways of fighting a foreign influence.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Black Friday Deal Alert! Enjoy our current atmospheric CO₂ because we'll never see it this low again!

submitted 121 days ago • 19 comments

This is gaining momentum - publishers are now starting to see more web traffic come from BlueSky than other platforms (and not that horrid shit place). Keep sharing your news source URLs here, both traditional and independent media. pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/bl...

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

After a week of ~illness 🤒🤧 I've done a LOT of scrolling. To reinvigorate my brains and introduce myself to this app, I'm going to post 7 pieces of both past & recent (mostly journalistic) writing that I've loved

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

submitted 124 days ago • 94 comments

Looks like the people who use @hf.co haven't reacted well to the original backlash - there are now six new large datasets of Bluesky posts uploaded onto the site, including one with 20x the amount of data as the original dataset that caused the issue huggingface.co/datasets?sor...

submitted 122 days ago • 3 comments

The least surprising headline tonight. - Facebook just lost dismissal motion of FTC lawsuit to break it up - FTC also has show cause to ban Meta from collecting minors’ data - Zuckerberg is personally named in massive Delaware suit - last week SCOTUS rejected Meta’s appeal for Cambridge cover-up

submitted 122 days ago • 14 comments

Some interest in social media research ethics this week. A while back, we looked at over 500 social media research papers so that you don't have to. Only 28 papers mentioned consent, so don't be surprised that researchers aren't seeking permission to use your Bluesky data. tnhh.org/research/pub...

submitted 122 days ago • 1 comment

In report led by @waqasejaz.bsky.social we document "platform ambivalence"–people rely on platforms for info, while also remaining sceptical, many concerns are widespread, even as people also appreciate a range of personal and societal benefits reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/what-do-peop... 1/5

submitted 122 days ago • 2 comments

the internet sucks in part because no one makes their own personal websites anymore aftermath.site/website-musk...

submitted 123 days ago • 179 comments

By hiding the true costs of AI (data, energy, human labor), it's really easy to make AI seem magic. Can you imagine if Open AI had to disclose exactly how many millions of hours of human feedback they gathered? ChatGPT would seem a lot less magical then 🦄

submitted 525 days ago • 1 comment

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

submitted 123 days ago • 470 comments

Or, he could read the tons of research on this by scholars, media, etc. That says, I’m going to need academics to do a better job communicating with the public. Some do. Many don’t. Folks can’t remain in the ivory tower speaking only to each other. Public facing work is vital, esp now.

submitted 124 days ago • 5 comments

New blogpost: deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

submitted 125 days ago • 166 comments

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

submitted 141 days ago • 116 comments

Redrawing the global warming stripes. In a new paper led by Sebastian Sippel published in Nature today, we show that the early 20th century global ocean surface temperatures and thereby global mean surface temperature were warmer than previously thought. Thread... (1/13)

submitted 130 days ago • 7 comments

Updated periodic table with origin of elements in the Solar System (for boron and lithium at least)

submitted 132 days ago • 46 comments

In the end, the Gulf Stream is not slowing down and the #AMOC ... just marginally. That's fascinating and relevant for climate modeling and the current and future needs for ocean observing! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 204 days ago • 2 comments

As @kencaldeira.bsky.social estimates: "each kg of CO₂ ultimately melts about 650 kg of glacial ice." Also a physical reality (with some uncertainty) that adds spice to what Ketan says. kencaldeira.com/2018/03/how-...

submitted 133 days ago • 3 comments

Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

submitted 137 days ago • 69 comments

Starter packs are genius, but I was surprised there wasn't a list of them for people to find. So I built it: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack... The website monitors the packs being shared and adds the ones it finds to the database. Missed your stater pack? Message me and I'll get it added.

submitted 139 days ago • 1169 comments

Spending the day calling around to try and find any previous colleagues and coworkers of Bonnie McBride, for a writing project I'm currently working on. If you knew her or know someone who might have, would much appreciate a DM 🙏 #exoplanets #astronomy #womeninSTEM

submitted 275 days ago • 2 comments