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“The rich are exclusively responsible for climate change” and “carbon taxation is regressive” is an oddly combination of beliefs

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Ask yourself, "Does this shart joy?"

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

"Forty-five percent of complainants said officers beat them while they were handcuffed, and 27% alleged the excessive use of chemical spray, two factors cited in the DOJ’s findings."

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

another stack of bodies to add to Elon’s pile

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 36 days ago • 32 comments

"Women are PIs on 58% of the canceled grants, although they are PIs on only 34% of all active NSF grants. Similarly, Blacks are PIs on 17% of the terminated grants, although they make only 4% of the total pool. Hispanic PIs and those with disabilities were twice as likely to lose a grant."

submitted 22 days ago • 32 comments

Typically cool and concise newsletter. I didn't know Ben Franklin had connected a volcanic eruption in Iceland with hazy skies and colder weather in North America.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 24 days ago • 321 comments

Really cool how TikTok determined that I'm in Norway and immediately began pushing machine-generated right-wing xenophobic memes into my feed [Fisrt image: pensioner vs asylum seeker; second image 'nationalist!!']

submitted 32 days ago • 25 comments

I know, norms and all that, but the default Dem position should be: We think this is illegal but if the courts say you can do this then we are going to rip the guts out of the entire conservative movement. No more Heritage, FedSoc, etc. All of them lose their tax exempt status.

submitted 33 days ago • 221 comments

I don’t know why the Anglosphere continues to debate how to do electoral reform when the Kiwis already have an optimal model with split-ballot MMP

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

On its own, enhanced rock weathering may not be enough to sequester much carbon. But organic additives might give a substantial boost, finds new research.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

As summer in the Northern Hemisphere approaches, it is important to keep in mind how temperatures are changing 🌡️ Shifting distribution to the right ➡️ increasing societal risks from extreme heat The driver? Humans... The burning of fossil fuels Visualization created by NASA svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5452/

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

Guy who's replied to 2 out of 300 people: "‪Muting this now. I've already responded to basically all of the arguments against this understanding of history somewhere else in this thread, so if you're thinking about trying to argue with me about this, you should, instead, not.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I worry that most of the focus on "AI for science" is getting it backwards. Try to do great science and build awesome technology. Build AI tools when it would be useful. Setting out to do "AI for science" will lead to all sorts of lamplight effects and square peg round holes.

submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

I love zany energy transmission/storage ideas (particularly w/ trains). Sadly this probably isn't zany enough. Coal trains are currently 30% of US railroad traffic and they carry 27 GWh per train. Battery train replacing *just* coal generation w/ renewables requires 27x increase in throughput...

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