Dr. Greg Kochanski

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Trained as a physicist, done a few things since. Horrified that we're still drilling gas wells in the middle of a climate crisis. #Pittsburgh
Our generation was told liberal economics would make us free. Look at us now. We were misled

Switching close but stifling social networks for a state safety net once gave us more choice in how we lived. Now we’re losing both, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian
@steve Well, 1% of people are in the top 1%. So if you're doing trials you multiply each "top X%" number by X, then normalize then all so their sum is 100%.

@jzb It should be possible: you can run Linux on many Android phones, and then there are music players for Linux. Or, it looks like you can compile Rockbox to run on Linux.

I think it's not trivial, but this could be your next hobby.

What the Climate Fight Is Really About

Hint: it's all about minimizing risks & endemic uncertainties

My latest column just out today: https://gwagner.com/climate-uncertainties/
#climate #ClimateShock #economics

What the Climate Fight Is Really About

Hint: It's about minimizing risks and uncertainties.

Gernot Wagner | Economist and Author
‘People need to be riled up’: meteorologist names US heatwaves after oil and gas giants

Guy Walton has christened two previous heatwaves this summer Amoco and BP in attempt to name and shame fossil fuel firms

The Guardian

Ah, the Biden administration.... I'm really happy that Biden is the first US President to take climate change even half-seriously. Raising fees for drilling on Federal land is good; raising the royalties that go to the Federal budget is fine.

But, it'd be better if the crisis was taken fully seriously: why why are we still drilling for gas?

https://gizmodo.com/biden-administration-raises-fee-drilling-federal-land-1850664166

Biden Administration Wants to Charge Oil Companies Drastically Higher Fees for Drilling on Federal Land

This includes increasing royalty fees and better protections for fragile ecosystems and heritage sites.

Gizmodo

Want to know the hottest 14 days ever recorded on planet earth?

They were the last 2 weeks. No exceptions. #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

@pluralistic
"But what if, instead of trying to force Zuck to be a better emperor-for-life, we passed rules requiring him to let his subjects flee his tyrannical reign?"

This is crucial.

Meta won't let people delete their Threads account unless they also delete their Instagram account. That's Meta's Berlin Wall around Threads, designed (though they will have lots of "technical" reasons why it isn't) to prevent Threads users leaching into the Fediverse.

The wall must fall.

#Threads #Meta

@Andrewhinton Richard Wolff talks about this. He frames the pro-democracy movement as bringing democracy into all the parts of our lives where it is currently lacking. Work is a primary part of our lives, yet there is no democracy there.