Tbh, I have other skills that pay way more. Can you imagine that? 🤔

And yes, I did go after my bank. You should too.

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

Yes, what I do has energy and emissions costs. That's a tiny fraction of emissions created by **$4.6 TRILLION in fossil fuels**

I use text. Energy-wise, one big text chat = 0.002% of one second of AI video.

Let's keep things in perspective, thanks.

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Your phone camera? AI. Your phone autocomplete? AI. The ads you see on websites? served by AI.

Watching videos on the internet? Minute per-minute, that takes 2-4 times more energy than AI text chat (what I program).

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How are political parties relevant?

I'm proud to be one of the Grist.org's 50 people making a climate impact in 2025, for my work with parsing financial institution climate policies. Thank you @grist.org !

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HSBC accused of ‘bulldozing through’ key climate policy with $1bn Glencore deal New analysis from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and The Independent has found that in May 2023 the bank helped raise funds for the mining giant despite climate promises

🎉 My work was featured yesterday in an article in The Independent. 🎉

Not only is #HSBC violating the sprit of its #climate policy, it's violating the wording too. What other policies and and regulations might it be disregarding? 🤔

Gas Leaks Posing Danger to Massachusetts Communities In the latest effort to prevent methane leaks that pose explosive dangers to communities, kill trees, and cost families and businesses money for gas that never reaches their home or office, Conservati...

In 2016, I led a team researching the suspicious disappearance of methane leaks from public records. Now, that work is being used in a lawsuit requiring National Grid to fix the leaks.

clf.org/newsroom/gas-leaks-posing-danger-to-massachusetts-communities/

lostleaks.csail.mit.edu

Mobile screenshot showing a map of the Los Angeles Pacific Palisades wildfires

Still think that money will save you from the climate crisis? Think again.

Looking at you #miami

Prisoners' dilemmas and the NZBA Game theory explains why US banks are dropping out of the Net Zero Banking Alliance

Banks will collude on all sorts of things - not on solving the climate crisis though. That one is not a priority.

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“My faith demands - this is not optional - my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I can, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.”

And so you did. Rest in peace Jimmy Carter.

winter solstace at stonehenge. The low sun casts red rays through one of the henges.

Happy Winter Solstace?

Winter solstace is energy is dark, wicked, and only infrequently happy. How about, "Have a Wicked Solstace," instead?

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Do you know of open source environmental projects that can use funding? openclimate.fund is putting up money for these projects

#openclimatefund

Thanks for the shout out @x-a-n-d.bsky.social . It's always nice to see that people are interested in our work :)

@matt-levine.bsky.social - Your empty voting piece got me thinking. What if someone's not financially motivated and they'd like to borrow stock simply to vote.

Empty voting might sometimes be illegal, but what about paying for votes?

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