So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out
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Natural gas (methane) comes with natural benzene. Right into your home for no extra cost. Financial cost, that is.
"it is generally considered that the only absolutely safe concentration for benzene is zero."
American Petroleum Institute report (1948) published with Harvard.
They knew.
![The report lists 12 "action insights", each with three "action recommendations". (The list
was cut down from a shortlist of about 40-50 insights, Carbon Brief understands.)
One of the most striking in the draft is "action insight 5", which says: "Take immediate measures to prevent future emissions. Ban new fossil infrastructure, mandate deep methane cuts, accelerate electrification and inscribe fossil-fuel phase- down targets in NDCs [nationally determined contributions] and clean-energy pathways
support to low and middle income countries (LMICs)." The accompanying three "action recommendations" include "halting all new fossil-fuel extraction and infrastructure projects ahead of a final investment decision", "implementing deep, legally binding methane cuts in the energy sector" and "inscribing] targets for fossil-
fuel phase down, electrification and green exports in NDCs". (The draft report includes multiple references to "phasing out" and "phasing down" fossil fuels, rather than the "transition away from fossil fuels" language that was, ultimately,
agreed by countries at the COP 28 UN climate talks in Dubai in 2023.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xalxqffcayyidntafmptzhta/bafkreian2ufespiadxcuyeock76lqppss4i5hlj5ccgc6zryh2gniizgl4)
The report lists 12 "action insights", each with three "action recommendations". (The list was cut down from a shortlist of about 40-50 insights, Carbon Brief understands.) One of the most striking in the draft is "action insight 5", which says: "Take immediate measures to prevent future emissions. Ban new fossil infrastructure, mandate deep methane cuts, accelerate electrification and inscribe fossil-fuel phase- down targets in NDCs [nationally determined contributions] and clean-energy pathways support to low and middle income countries (LMICs)." The accompanying three "action recommendations" include "halting all new fossil-fuel extraction and infrastructure projects ahead of a final investment decision", "implementing deep, legally binding methane cuts in the energy sector" and "inscribing] targets for fossil- fuel phase down, electrification and green exports in NDCs". (The draft report includes multiple references to "phasing out" and "phasing down" fossil fuels, rather than the "transition away from fossil fuels" language that was, ultimately, agreed by countries at the COP 28 UN climate talks in Dubai in 2023.)
A preliminary scientific “synthesis report” circulated to the 50 nations at the conference on fossil-fuel phase out in Santa Marta, Columbia, recommends real-talk "action recommendations" including the ban of new fossil infrastructure and fossil-fuel phase-down targets in NDCs.
This is the way!
Hm. That explains a lot.
Let’s make college free instead of banning kids from playing sports.
The Michigan news is just fully sinking in for me this morning. We can win elections. In Michigan, in a lot more of the US, in India, everywhere. We can get rid of terrible people and groupings and replace them with much better ones.
I think, on reflection, one of the things that frightens me most about the world at present is the impoverishment of imagination in political and civic life - the inability to think that we could do things differently, better, and that the rules we made up can be easily unmade again.
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
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So miss me with the AI literacy solutions. In fact, keep missing me until you propose “AI literacy” that teaches folks how these systems incorporate systemic oppression into its operations. That’s the kind of literacy we need.
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
So I am reflecting on AI as one does and I have come to realize that “learn to use AI” and “embrace AI” and “develop AI literacy” won’t fucking protect ua from existential and stochastic harms of AI, and my overlooking this as a vector for criticism is really something.
> LLMs are labor intensive, are economically infeasible, and pollute the environment, and these properties may outweigh any proposed benefits. For example, poor quality air directly harms human cognition, and thus has compounding effects on educators' and pupils' ability to teach and learn.
AI 🤝🏻 air pollution
knowledge of harm
does not prevent it
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
The truely frustrating thing is those who took it seriously, who cared about the risks to others and changed precautions as we learned more, really did pay a price that will never be understood by the free riders who thought having to eat on the patio instead of inside was too big of an ask. 🔚
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Cover of the business of racism: labor and environment in Brazil's racial Capitalism by Ian Carrillo
The Introduction of my book is currently free to read.
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"James Goodwin, co-executive director of @progressivereform.bsky.social, said it was notable that the Supreme Court in the mercury case had just chastised EPA for not considering both costs and benefits side by side at the same time." www.eenews.net/articles/lea...
The way people trust ChatGPT even though anyone can easily make it say anything— to everyone.
🚨🚨Revised paper 🚨🚨
The Balance of Power in Franchising
w/@ulrichatz.org, Blake Eliason, @mikelipsitz.bsky.social, @pnorlander.bsky.social, & @stpinto.bsky.social. We built the 1st comprehensive panel dataset of franchise contract terms: 46,000 documents, 4,500 chains, 20+ provisions, 2009-2024.
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Most importantly, we demonstrate that contra @mattyglesias.bsky.social, it is indeed possible to quantify the intangible aspects of corporate power using new text analysis methods and demonstrate that it has grown over time.
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12/ This is now a high-likelihood, high-impact risk.
#AMOC collapse would devastate European agriculture, shift tropical monsoons, raise Atlantic sea levels by up to a metre, and destabilise food systems globally.
Yet it's barely mentioned in national security planning. That has to change!
Globe showing the Atlantic Ocean with arrows depicting the AMOC circulation: warm surface currents (pink/red) flowing northward from the tropics toward the Arctic, and cold deep return currents (blue/purple) flowing southward. The background shows sea surface temperature trends, with a prominent blue cold patch, the "cold blob", south of Greenland, contrasting with warming (orange/red) across the rest of the ocean.
1/ There's a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic that shapes Europe's #climate, drives monsoons, and keeps sea levels stable along the US coast.
In the last 5 years, the scientific evidence that it could collapse has shifted dramatically.
Most people have no idea. 🧵
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I definitely agree with your argument overall. No reason to care about you if you don’t vote. But to try to win a primary there does need to be a primary to try to win?
this sounds kinda like a "who cares" achievement but its a very exciting milestone for rich guys who are extremely invested in a future where robots they control are slavedrivers and prison guards for the rest of the human population
"you let somebody in office" is like the plastic straws of politics. "you made the pacific garbage patch."
making a broader, systemic issue a matter of personal, moral failure is only ignoring the problem for what it is.
Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.
