#Scientist, #advocate, and #educator in the field of #climatechange. Author of uplifting #climatefiction #novel "A New Faith." Read or download the novel for free at https://tinjar.ghost.io/a-new-faith
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As an almost 70 year old man, I have some advice for young men.
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1. Your voice doesn't need to be heard. In fact, realizing that you don’t HAVE to have an opinion on everything and voice opinions or ideas in meetings or social gatherings, is amazingly liberating. You can actually just shut up, and relieve yourself of all that effort and stress. Let Bob utter his embarrassingly dumb idea, let Shirley have a say. You can just let it be for the most part
This map shows the cost of charging an EV at home across the U.S. Home-charging is significantly cheaper in all 50 states than fueling a car with gasoline.
Source: Yale https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/whats-cheaper-fueling-your-car-with-gas-or-electricity/ #energy #uspol
Watching Fedi and the world react to the US president go absolutely unhinged in public, threatening war crimes as his cognitive grip disintegrates before our eyes, watching the horror and the outrage…there is something I want to tell you from Minneapolis.
And I’m not sure how, and I’m not sure if I can, but I want to try. People are always thanking us and calling us heroes and asking us for some kind of…something, anything we can offer in the face of the authoritarian march, and well, here it is, here is something, if I can figure out how to say it.
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So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function
Absolutely pathetic
I will say this again: Science isn’t just something that nerds do, it’s the foundation of the modern world.
It’s why this app exists. It’s why child mortality rate isn’t 50% anymore. It’s how we’re able to launch people to the moon. It’s how we’re able to grow food that feeds half the world’s population.
A 1% annual wealth tax on billionaires in Illinois would, by itself, balance the budget.
A 2% wealth tax on billionaires would pay for universal single payer healthcare for everyone in Illinois.
Tax the billionaires.
Since NYT is not immune to #LLM - I asked the free version of Gemini to write a NYT-style book review of "A New Faith" and it was completely unsurprisingly vapid stuff getting some things right and many wrong. And in the quest to keep me hooked, it wrote nice things about the book which do show why it can lead to psychosis. This stuff is just not good!!
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His main weakness seems to be to express himself clearly. I think what he is trying to say is that writers should let AI do the boring bits of writing - just like programmers. Though I feel he is falling into the techbro worldview here, in which writing emails to direct your minions is the same as writing code so a machine can execute a command. I think that view is fundamentally wrong (both factually and morally).
He does acknowledge the need for humans to learn without a machine to achieve mastery, while claiming that 100% of college students use it - and then never bother to discuss the Interesting question: if his claim is true, what does this imply for the future of writing?
His use of AI in his own mind, is justified because he is a good enough writer to use the machine, rather than be used by it. (Whatever exactly that means.) This machine - which he himself claims to produce only average work - somehow enhances his work.
AI producing slop is ok, because people have created bad art throughout history - which he proclaims to be the same as AI slop. So claiming that the origin and intent of the output does not matter. Which I disagree with, and to me is on a similar level of art criticism as "my three year old could have painted that".
You are right, that this article is all over the place and also not terribly insightful.
https://www.imf.org/-/media/files/publications/wp/2025/english/wpiea2025145.pdf
" #oil shocks transmit unevenly through #labor #markets with lasting impacts across #countries #sectors and demographic groups, extending well beyond short-term #macroeconomic fluctuations"
This disruption is not a blip - horrifying impacts will continue for the poorest and most vulnerable folks for a long long time!
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