This is great.
As I wrote in the Globe a few weeks ago, all public officials -- and municipalities, too -- should leave X.
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This is great.
As I wrote in the Globe a few weeks ago, all public officials -- and municipalities, too -- should leave X.
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
Out of all this evil, it might be revealed: renewables make us (+ people in the Middle east) safer, are more price stable & (side-benefit) denies successive US presidents excuses to blow-up a region trying to recover from previous efforts to blow them up. Grim watching.
www.ft.com/content/dac7...
Coppicing celebrated in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Paul Evans.
#naturewriting #countrydiary
Most of us assume big firms use cutting edge tech to minimise pollution & harm to people's health, & regulators make sure companies clean up after themselves. The reality, in the fossil fuel industry, can be different, as this @oilfieldwitness podcast explains:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
In short, classic right wing ‘austerity’ measures in which regular folk pay the price for bad management and poor governance.
Where to begin? Gross incompetence. A stunning failure to understand economics, social capital, & true cost accounting. Mismanagement of infrastructure planning for a cheap political stunt. And soon “sustainable” development with public tax dollars to subsidize private capital resource extraction.
This is the face of an administration that, as a wise friend noted, built budget forecasts on the sound forecast indicator of “we sure hope oil prices stay high”. So now they scurry around looking for scapegoats, the classic blame aversion tactic of the nasty and incompetent or both.
Subscribed. I just listened to the Season 3 Finale of the Lost Boys Pod and was hoping you were on BlueSky rather than solely on the dead bird. Will I catch up with you before you reach the series finale? 🤔 (Great podcast series, by the way!)
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Amazing record for the FIFA
“[Ocean acidity is …] the seventh of nine planetary boundaries to be transgressed, prompting scientists to call for a renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels, deforestation and other human-driven pressures that are tilting the Earth out of a habitable equilibrium.” ~ Jonathan Watts
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks
www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
If you continue to contribute to the success, visibility and profitability of Musk's platform X, by still posting there, ask yourself why.
eels are wondrous and in decline.
Determined to reverse that collapse, the Somerset Eel Recovery Project is weaving together science, folklore and community creativity to bring back not only the eel but a lost sense of local identity.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
On Roundtable with Enda Brady discussing the collapse of the latest round of Plastics Treaty negotiations. The source materials for most plastics are oil + gas. Countries opposing a cap on plastic production were mostly oil producing nations. Coincidence?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXoj...
'This story is a narrative mudlark, we are picking up stories as we go'
The following article discusses the lives lost to the River Severn. It's a personal tale, linked to my own families story.
nearlyknowledgeablehistory.blogspot.com/2022/03/loss...
#History #localhistory #Shropshire
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
You can read the full article here:
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
“Canada's pursuit of mega fossil fuel expansion projects stands in stark defiance of the ICJ... This historic ruling is not merely a legal opinion; it's a global mandate that shatters any illusion of continued fossil fuel impunity." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/23/n...
How Canada became the centre of a measles outbreak bbc.com/news/article...
Alberta "has the highest per capita measles spread rate in North America."
"What's changed is the rapid spread of anti-vaccine misinformation both in her community & beyond after the Covid-19 pandemic."
Among the many ethical and economic and environmental issues of AI, perhaps the real kicker is the lack of choice. That's the clearest indicator of the corporate drive behind this manufactured 'need' in which we, the end-users, are a captive market to line the pockets of the few.
"As a whole, the benefits of AI seem esoteric and underwhelming while the harms feel transformative and immediate."
Duke appears to have lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies, or signal transduction www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...
"Extreme summer weather patterns have tripled since the 1950s" | Great piece in @upenn.edu's #PennToday on our recent @pnas.org article, providing critical context for the extreme heat we're seeing right now in North America and Europe: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...
Someone commented earlier this week that this sort of thing betrays a profound lack of respect for oneself, one’s work, and any readers one might have.
I talk funny, do I? Hmmm.
The West Chapple Farm murders were a 1970s riddle and John Cornwell wrote a celebrated book about them. Did he, though, get it wrong? A engrossing 50 year whodunnit with a perplexing cameo from Ted Hughes on.ft.com/3GoApil
