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submitted 8 days ago • 2976 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 8 days ago • 230 comments

The DOJ has a response to POTUS. Carved in stone.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Cultural Revolution comes to America. Disturbing stuff.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Exceptionally grim @financialtimes.com essay by Keir Giles of @chathamhouse.bsky.social: archive.ph/287LE

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Relevant:

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Forget Thames Water for a moment. Politics, corruption... local issues. This is far more important. But using the UK to illustrate global issues. Selling our ancient planet, ..and who profits. It's not complicated. From the Royal Institution, and by @timsmedley.bsky.social youtu.be/rC38A-9YaOE?...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"Peatlands occupy just 3% of all land, but contain more carbon than all of the world’s forests. However, farmers and miners are draining the peatlands, releasing so much CO2 that if they were a country, they would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world." 🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

How did they get here? Some people are responsible for orders of magnitude more CO2 than others. As a rule of thumb, those least responsible will be those that suffer the most.

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Two studies published yesterday in Nature Climate Change find that Earth has effectively already warmed 1.5°C. Yes, this seems to be happening silently, but to be clear: over 1.5C of heating some places become uninhabitable and the risk of tipping points rises enormously. 1/n

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Key issue of the times ...laws are no good without enforcement and Trump has a fair bit of power over enforcement, plus senate+congress majorities on his side.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

After the Nazi takeover in 1933 they began shutting down the homosexual infrastructure of clubs, networks, communities and publications. In 1934 brutal persecution of homosexuals and eliminating all manifestations of homosexuality became a priority of the state. In 1935 large numbers were arrested.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

The loss of Arctic sea ice this year compared to the mean for the 2010s amounts to over 3 times the surface area of the UK, for instance...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Long Lecture of the Month. How LLMs work and where they are going, from Andrej Karpathy. Absolutely terrific imho, but you'll probably want to break it into three episodes. youtu.be/7xTGNNLPyMI?...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Short (about 15p+refs) thoughtful and densely written paper on 'The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking'. tldr: not entirely negative. I expect the coming gen of Assistants will increasingly add a chain of thought and show critical reasoning where appropriate. advait.org/files/lee_20...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Or twenty-five ebikes doing 900,000 miles each. Which is an impractically huge number for an ebike. At a more sensible 9k miles/bike/year, that's 2500 ebikes off a single acre of solar.

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fwiw: 'The Telegraph has a higher proportion of young readers, with over four in ten (43%) aged between 18–39, compared with 37% on average elsewhere.'.. So, not all old rich men living in London. Although: pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Ohhhh this is bad 👇

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

If there’s one main takeaway from Kanye’s deeply hateful ranting on X, it’s that even self-proclaimed “free speech” protector Elon Musk, like old Twitter, has limits and a need to moderate content. It shows that his “free speech” pitch has always been full of holes.

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

Trump says he’s fired the chairman of the Kennedy Center and named himself chairman.

submitted 16 days ago • 496 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 16 days ago • 271 comments

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private funder of biomedical research, yesterday killed a $60 million program aimed at making universities’ STEM education more inclusive. scim.ag/3EtS0US

submitted 17 days ago • 85 comments

While China and others nurture home grown talent, the US, instead of buying up the global market in STEM, will be left with nothing but a few credulous engineers who think that sending someone to Mars is helping humanity. Those who are left will also be seeking a more civilised world.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Goodnight. Sleep well.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Guys, I’ve just seen the worst job advert in the world. Absolute state of this.

submitted 18 days ago • 521 comments

1/ @lizdye.bsky.social & I just telephonically attended what we thought was going to be an all-day evidentiary hearing in the Alex Jones bankruptcy regarding approval of a settlement that would have paid out the Texas Sandy Hook families. Instead, it was a 20-minute ruling in favor of Alex Jones.

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

They could have just added “DEF” at the beginning

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

Tesla's mission is "accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy". Taking a 3 tonne truck to buy a bag of oranges through a fleet of empty robotaxis (built by robots!) shuttling to their next fare might help a bit. While the boss casually dismantles environmental and climate science.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

For a deeper understanding of what is threatened in these departmental raids, consider reading 'The Fifth Risk' by Michael Lewis, stories following the first Trump inauguration. Project 2025 called NOAA an agency ‘harmful to US prosperity’. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

First priority of fascists: destroy science and independent thought. They are not wasting time.

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

Relevant: Bread-powered bikes not as efficient as you might think ; ) From Mike Berners-Lee, There is no Planet B.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

An acre of land can power a car to go 13,000 miles per year using biofuel (corn ethanol), or 900,000 miles per year using solar.

submitted 20 days ago • 42 comments

NEW: The lie that conservatives are censored on social media is giving cover to something dangerous: the nationalization of US social media by Trump and Musk. My @opinion.bloomberg.com column today (gift link):

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

'..Outside the west, there are even more stark divisions. In South Korea there is now a yawning chasm between young men and women, and it’s a similar situation in China. In Africa, Tunisia shows the same pattern. Separate spaces, separate cultures for men and women? www.ft.com/content/29fd...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I clicked the article - to learn that this was experimentally confirmed back in 2003(!) We have fire fighting drones, surely by now some entrepreneur could be spraying a lightweight black paint onto turbine blades? Even program an AI to do it on autopilot?

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

With poor conditions in Brazil and Vietnam, and the threat of tariffs on Columbia, the price of coffee could rise by 20-25% over the next few months...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This image is doing the rounds amongst outraged Canadians. I had a go at verifying these numbers at cbp.gov but didn't persevere. But eg doubters could also see: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Quite a sign when Stephen Walt, one of the most renowned scholars of international relations in the world (and Harvard professor), writes an article in Foreign Policy arguing that "Noam Chomsky has been proved right" foreignpolicy.com/2024/11/15/c... A 🧵 on the article

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

Peter Lucier over at the other place posted this memo of clubs now banned at West Point. The website was pulled down.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

EXTRAORDINARY EVENT WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY REWRITTEN 46.5 Rivadavia ARGENTINA HOTTEST DAY EVER RECORDED IN FEBRUARY IN SOUTH AMERICA Also National record in PARAGUAY destroyed Hundreds of records brutalized Updates soon...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Coinciding with record low global sea ice last month - and a 20C anomaly in the Arctic was previously seen in Feb 2018. That will slowly become less unusual until sooner or later the first summer will pass the official standard for a historic ice free Arctic.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

submitted 19 days ago • 108 comments

the crux of feldman's argument is this and it reads like a brief for why we should trust the wallet inspector

submitted 20 days ago • 213 comments

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 1035 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. (Such good work @peterjukes.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social are doing at the moment.) bylinetimes.com/2025/02/04/k...

submitted 20 days ago • 51 comments