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📣 Breaking:
"Resource scarcity tends to unleash dark forces in human psychology and capitalism."
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/w...
This is for the "we have made no progress" camp
The Pentagon won't say "climate."
Fortunately, they're still preparing for what's coming.
@amandakhurley.bsky.social has the full story:
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World Bank Climate Change Knowledge Portal chart Observed Change in Distribution of Average Maximum Surface Air Temperature. Japan • 1951-2020 What you can see in this figure We compare successive 30-year climatology periods by visualizing their 30-year mean and spread (standard deviation) using a bell-shaped distribution. Understanding the Data: Implications and Utility This approach allows us to discern, for example, if years are becoming consistently hotter/drier/wetter or if more intense temperatures are occurring with greater frequency or if variability is becoming larger or smaller, even in cases where the average temperature (the mean) shows little change. Extreme events have the most impact over human populations. This plot gives as a first idea on the historical change in extremes. Chart shows three distributions: Yellow, 1951-1980, average max temp ~14.6°C Orange, 1971-2000, amt ~14.9°C Red, 1991-2020, amt ~15.6°C
Japan had to invent a new word for "severely hot day."
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The Beatles in their ~1964 "mop top" phase
get off my lawn, teenagers
"Many people ask what are Beatles? Why Beatles? Ugh, Beatles, how did the name arrive? So we will tell you. It came in a vision — a man appeared in a flaming pie and said unto them 'From this day on you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you, Mister Man, they said, thanking him."
" #ScienceUnderSiege: A Crisis of Trust and Credibility--Exploring why science is under attack and how knowledge survives in a polarized, media-driven world" | Please watch our panel discussion at #CWA TODAY 3:30pm MT/5:30pm ET.
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Headline: U.S. Will Pursue Ships Helping Iran Beyond Mideast Dek: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. would continue its blockade of Iran for as long as necessary, saying "we can do this all day."
Captain America in fistfight pose saying "I can do this all day."
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Chart Allbirds Value Has Tumbled Since Its Debut Spiky peak market cap at $4b. Stone-drop decliens in the months after that, to a long tail. $22m today.
True story:
1) Once beloved shoemaker Allbirds IPO's in Nov 2022, worth $4b.
2) Value collapses almost to nothing.
3) It rebrands as an AI tech stock.
4) Stock jumps 373%.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Chart of global fossil-fuel consumption, electricity consumption and GDP, all indexed to 100 as of 1973. Before 1973, GDP and fossil fuels rose in tandem. After 1973, GDP and electricity were in tandem, tripling by 2020, while fossil fuels decoupled and haven't even doubled. Source: Ember
Remarkable chart from this great @ember-energy.org piece. The '70s oil shocks permanently broke the fossil-fuels/GDP relationship. The 2020s shocks will trigger an even more dramatic paradigm shift against polluting fuel and toward clean energy
www.electrotech-revolution.com/p/the-new-tw...
I need a car that can fit four of these in the glove compartment.
Economists say the oil market is "tight". Supply and demand are typically fairly balanced, which means small shifts in supply can have disproportionate impact on prices.
The largest supply disruption in history happened in March and oil price stayed below $120. Time to revise the "tight" part?
we should tho tbh
Headline and dek: Meta builds AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to interact with staff CEO is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop 'personal superintelligence'
cool new oxymoron just dropped
New: The escalating cost of California's climate-driven wildfires now adds $41 to the average monthly power bill for customers of the state's largest utility - nearly 20% of the bill. Such "climateflation" undermines electrification of the state economy. Free link
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
“I would prefer to be societally useful,” said Atte, who goes by 1-800-LIQUIDITY on Polymarket and declined to share his full name because of safety concerns.
talking w @eroston.bsky.social for this article was fun bc it combined my two special interests: climate and what markets are good (bad) at. but I definitely didn't supply the best quote:
🎁: Do Weather Prediction Markets Work
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Lemme know when it's archeologist fashion accessory bag day
indygear.net/indiana-jone...
who has a book coming out that people can preorder so they have something to look forward to and then be pleasantly surprised when the book just shows up on their doorstep
The images of Earth from Artemis are amazing. But if we destroy our ability to understand (and live on) our planet, all they are is pretty pictures
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...
Experts don't seem like they've hit on the obvious solution here, which is to dress oil tankers up like Hollywood producers and get them through the Strait of Hormuz by saying they're scouting a new sci-fi movie.
This is crazy cool. I'm part of the opening sequence of this video that has received an Emmy nomination for the opening sequence.
The Bloomber Primer team is amazing and this totally deserves it. The whole video is very cool, do watch! youtu.be/RIuGbHb_b-s
😂
Projections that the world could be destroyed in the next century should always be tempered by the thought that since 1945 we've known the world could be destroyed in the next 90 minutes.
art002e009276 (April 6, 2026) - In this view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible at the top half of the Moon disk. It is identifiable by the dark splotches. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater that appears below the lava flows, dark in the center, is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides as is partly visible from Earth on the edge of the Moon. In this image, we have a full view of the crater. Everything below the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us. Credit: NASA
At this stage of the game, it is crystal clear that the internet, as a whole, was a huge mistake. But every now and then, we find incredible uses for it, like this photo gallery of Artemis II pictures.
www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...
This is simply one of the greatest things to happen on the internet ever. EVER!
Big thank you to @dreyesceron.bsky.social for the shot of pure joy.
“We can do a lot of extraordinary things in space right now, but nailing this capability is one that we need to certainly work on,” said NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman.
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What word in what language means the elation felt at seeing a beloved book on a friend's bookshelf, followed by the memory that you bought it for them, followed by the gratitude that they kept it?
