robinsonmeyer

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Thinking about climate change, energy, the real economy, and more.

🌏 I’m the founding executive editor at Heatmap, a new climate media company.
🖋️ I’m a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
🔬 I cofounded The COVID Tracking Project in 2020.

Respirating, highly structured, undergoing homeostasis, capable of growth.

my workhttps://www.theatlantic.com/author/robinson-meyer/
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Don’t think it’s a coincidence that US consumer confidence leapt to a 2-year high right after Biden started campaigning on the economy. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-14/us-consumer-sentiment-jumps-to-highest-in-nearly-two-years
US Consumer Sentiment Jumps to Near Two-Year High on Job Market

US consumer sentiment soared in early July to an almost two-year high, bolstered by easing inflation and a strong labor market.

Bloomberg
amazing opener on this linkedin message from a stranger

As the EPA tries to regulate carbon pollution from power plants, it’s following a recent Supreme Court ruling like an instruction guide.

A major case last year is shaping how the agency names the rule, talks about it — even tweets about it. I wrote about it:

https://heatmap.news/politics/epa-biden-supreme-court

The Supreme Court Is Living Rent-Free in the EPA’s Head

A desire to please the Court may have rendered the EPA’s new power plant rule a little too ineffectual.

Heatmap News
Northern Virginia somehow proving that you can have it all (decent bike trails, transmission lines, a brewery/cafe that backs up to the path)

ChatGPT can and will produce sexist responses because the training data is sexist, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves — the AI is capable of all kinds of foolishness

https://mstdn.social/@[email protected]om/110256652352102993

Eodyne (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Well this is...about what I expected #AI #ChatGpt #bias #discrimation #misogynist

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An old boss used to call the sticky way that this feeling accumulated “micro hate” and I wish it was in all of our vocabularies https://open.substack.com/pub/maxread/p/why-would-anyone-subscribe-to-a-social?r=8z69j&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Why would anyone subscribe to a social media platform?

The lost quality of "Doesn't Make Me Wish I Was Dead"

Read Max
please, mr. meyer is my father’s name. you can call me