Is this kind of reporting credible? How could the accomplished people described here be simultaneously so brainless and in such fear? Almost like a 'fear of missing out' -- ? www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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"One-quarter of men aged 18-29 said they trade stocks daily, and almost two-thirds of them (64%) report feeling like failures ... "The findings were strikingly similar to outcomes among men who gamble" (They're the same picture) Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Some 64% of Young Men Who Trade Stocks Daily Feel Like Failures

Surging retail trading isn’t just transforming markets; it’s also highly correlated with demoralization in young men, according to a new study.

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The U.S. universities that have taken the most money from fossil fuel companies: UC Berkeley: $154,302,577 U Illinois Urbana-Champaign: $108,221,802 George Mason: $63,935,218 Stanford: $56,622,194 UT Austin: $45,421,866 LSU: $44,211,304

Fueling Knowledge: Oil and gas money shapes research, creates ‘echo chamber’ in higher education

Louisiana’s flagship university is looking to partner more closely with petrochemical industries in the state

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Organization Kids™ keep pulling the trigger on PAC money but as with Mamdani, just get a clicking sound

Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 6h ago

I’m sure it’s happened before but I can’t recall a candidate winning a statewide nomination while being outspent ~9:1

The East Coast is ok for the next few days. The West Coast is not ok. youtu.be/KCwUz-keZo4 Strange times.

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YouTube video by City Atlas

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Analysts estimate that 70%+ of Microsoft, Google and Amazon's present and future AI revenues are from Anthropic and OpenAI's compute spend and model sales. Outside of two unsustainable AI labs, demand barely exists, and they've massively overbuilt capacity. www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-deman...

The AI Demand Bubble

If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in...

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Kinda starting to think the politicians who represent us should act before all this gets vastly worse.

Met4Cast@met4cast.net · yesterday

Many parts of southern England recorded 0mm of rainfall in July, a first since records began in 1871. No sign of meaningful rainfall in the next 2 weeks either as high pressure re-builds, the drought continues. 📷 Blackheath, London

3/3 2) a National Climate Service would "...bolster the fed. gov.'s own planning capacity, both to make decisions about physical adaptation & also to aid in crucial oversight of our macroeconomy & fin. sector." More: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications... @rooseveltinstitute.org @toddntucker.com

Stand Up a National Climate Service

Exploring why the U.S. needs stronger climate science infrastructure, adaptation planning, and public access to actionable climate risk information.

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Not sure if @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org looked into this as a slightly different category, but very large scale fires can have a notable impact eg 3% loss over 5mths in North America & Europe due to Canadian wildfires in 2023 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

NEW – Factcheck: How nuclear, gas, wind and solar power are affected during heatwaves | @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @iain-staffell.bsky.social @henrypreston.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/yfvQnUS

Our history, why we now have Trump, why the center of the Yale campus is now named for a Trump financier, and what constrains Krugman's thinking, all in two paragraphs from 2013. ecoethics.net/2013-ENVRE12... @ghostpanther.bsky.social @jgkoomey.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

Welp.

Hell Gate *subscribe today!*@hellgatenyc.com · 2d ago

This past weekend, former Mayor Eric Adams was in Wisconsin Rapids—population 18,654—trying to convince residents that they should allow a real estate developer to build a data center in the heart of their town. The public hearing did not go well. hellgatenyc.com/eric-adams-i...

Professor Mike Berners-Lee, in this month’s Byline Times, explaining why it’s time for the government to level with the public about the climate and nature crisis. Article online here: subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/88/n... #NationalEmergencyBriefing #TimeToStepUp

Really great work from @zekehausfather.com and @andrewdessler.com

Gavin Schmidt@climateofgavin.bsky.social · 2d ago

About time! www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fixing-one...

I'm glad Krugman is around, but I hope someday he'll wake up. 'Trump' is not one guy, he's a product of our system (even the 'power advantages' below). This system was dysfunctional long before Trump. The rot was masked to some extent by Krugman & peers who served to provide a veneer of logic.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 2d ago

From Paul Krugman's substack. Trump has been a disaster for the US and its standing in the world.

The speed of #climate change has accelerated dramatically in the last decade, from 0.2°C per decade from 1970 to 2015 to 0.35°C per decade over the past ten years. And politicians still fiddle while we burn. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming

Global warming appears to have shifted into a faster gear. After removing the effects of El Niño, volcanic eruptions, and solar cycles, researchers found that the planet has warmed at roughly 0.35°C p...

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Individual & systemic change are 2 sides of same coin. “…We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems, and that this agency should be actively leveraged to achieve meaningful climate change mitigation.” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Leveraging agency for climate change mitigation - Nature Climate Change

Climate debates often frame individual behaviour and systems change as distinct pathways to action. We suggest that social change arises from individuals’ agency within their roles in societal systems...

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For those of you new here I ran for city council in Astoria in 2021 on the slogan of “Public Space for the Public Good.” I didn’t win (bike lanes are unusually political) but that doesn’t mean I don’t love waxing poetic about the decline of our public spaces @fortune.com fortune.com/2026/08/02/b...

America is running out of places to hang out as movie theaters, bars, diners and bowling alleys drop to all-time low | Fortune

Chronic isolation has the same health impact as smoking 15 cigarettes a day.

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From @claretotty.bsky.social, a definitive piece on our situation, with receipts. Recommended read: clarejfarrell.substack.com/p/im-so-angr...

I'm so angry I'm almost on fire

We warned the media liberals about climate collapse. Their cowardice is the greatest threat to life on earth.

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Climate change leads to conditions that encourages rapid spread.

City Atlas@cityatlas.bsky.social · 3d ago

"The wind blew smoke and flames across North Indian Trail Road so quickly, firefighters were yelling at people nearby to run." www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Caption writers aren't able to keep up, as it says "Randy Bui surveys the damage of his home," and there is no home. www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Not sure which hurts worse this morning: the fact that 600+ families just lost their home, or the knowledge that this will only keep happening in a warming world.

Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 3d ago

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

So, now is a good time to mobilize to help protect immigrant neighbors. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social is hosting virtual ICE-spotting & KYR trainings this evening & Tuesday. Please consider signing up. (2/3)

Know Your Rights & ICE Spotting Training with Hands Off NYC [Virtual] · Hands Off NYC

Join us for a free virtual Know Your Rights training where you'll learn what to do if you see immigration agents — at home or in your community — and how to protect yourself, your loved ones and your ...

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"The wind blew smoke and flames across North Indian Trail Road so quickly, firefighters were yelling at people nearby to run." www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

'When the sun rises, we are going to be in shock': Thousands evacuated in north Spokane as wildfire crosses river into city

Walls of flames destroyed dozens of homes and other structures in the Indian Trail neighborhood and more areas of Spokane on Saturday amid one of the worst natural disasters in the city’s history.

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"in March 2026 Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon official associated with the American Enterprise Institute, openly urged Morocco to organise a new 'Green March' of unarmed civilians into Ceuta and Melilla." Shouldn't this be in the 1st or 2nd paragraph of a US story on the faux 'migration' photo op?

Chris Bertram@crookedfootball.bsky.social · 4d ago

Interesting piece from @nandosigona.bsky.social

Hungary's PM Péter Magyar: “Due to the further drop in the Danube's water level, one of the last two generating units at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant will be shut down at 1:30 am… “…tomorrow it will be completely shut down for the first time in 44 years.” #climatecrisis

kilogram of carbon burned and emitted to the atmosphere as CO2 as having your name on it, and adding to the toll of human suffering throughout the next hundreds of generations of humans on Earth.

Every additional tonne of fossil fuel burned irreversibly ratchets up the temperature of the Earth. If we have control over some of that fossil fuel, and decide to keep it in the ground, that is a quantifiable palpable reduction in how warm it can get. We need to do that. Think of each