Ed Gibney
@edgibney.bsky.social
Writer of fiction and philosophy. I explore how evolutionary views can lead to a more cooperative culture that robustly survives and thrives over the long term. evphil.com. US-Brit now in Vienna 🇦🇹. Ex-FBI and Secret Service. Peace Corps 🇺🇦. Slava Ukraini!
I left America in 2010 to get away from this nonsense. So sad to see the carspreading spreading.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Jeep Rubicon Childkiller. Celebrate the climate emergency and mow down pedestrians with 5,000 pounds of pointless metal.
Let this summer finally be a strong tipping point for political action on the climate.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · yesterdayCrop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know the full Bernhard Goetz story. How shameful and disgusting. This indeed is a story of America. podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/9...
100 Objects #6: "Sharpened Screwdriver"
Podcast Episode · 99% Invisible · 26 June · Bonus · 40min
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Remember: nuclear power IS intermittent. Probably, as climate breakdown deepens, worse so than wind - and solar. Pass it on…
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · last mo."For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....
“The real treasure of being alive is the felt experience of aliveness.” That is such a beautiful message in this essay from @sbkaufman.bsky.social. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/beautifu...
Smart Is Not Sentient
We need to get this one right.
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I’ve written about this for 20 years. It’s basic neuroscience now. Reading books creates empathy. That’s why they’re banning and destroying books and making us use degenAI programmed to give us garbage. Stories make us who we are. That’s it. Reading quality works is now a radical act.
Rae Radford@raeradford.bsky.social · 6d agoPlease read..... #BookSky
So good! The AI emperor has no clothes. And the weeny bastards behind the curtain monopolizing everything need to be busted up. Stewart-Doctorow would make a damn fine and funny 2028 ticket. podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/t...
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Comedy Podcast · Updated weekly · On Mondays, Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show, but on Wednesdays, he's back in your ears with The Weekly Show -- a podcast featuring in-depth conversations with a rang...
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Loved this discussion. There does indeed seem to be something different about loving things and what they respond to. (I argue it’s “biological forces” but I need to peer-review that idea to get it out there.)
Quanta Magazine@quantamagazine.org · 2w agoThe idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? Find out on this week’s episode of The Quanta Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Is “pragmatic” the new, “grown up” word? Andy, there’s nothing “pragmatic” about drilling for more oil & gas - to even consider it with the planet literally on fire is total madness. How many times must we say it will do nothing for energy bills or security? It would be an act of utter recklessness
Burnham promises ‘pragmatic’ approach to North Sea oil and gas
PM tells reporters the government cannot ignore the energy resource ‘when people are struggling’
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TODAY at 10:30 am Director of research, Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social presents 'Against Intelligence' today at the Barry Taylor and David Lewis Philosophy Lecture in Australia. More info 👇️ buff.ly/Gu5WcB7 #philsky #intelligence
Against Intelligence
In this Barry Taylor and David Lewis Philosophy Lecture, discover insights on how philosophy can help us tackle the real, practical problems with today's AI.
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“It would, Burnham said, mean the country could “value the hard hat every bit as much as the graduation cap”. Business needs” shouldn’t be the only thing driving education, but living in Austria for 4 years has shown me what a huge difference this makes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs
PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market
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Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
Lib Dems reveal it would cost £263,000 to ensure children in Clacton who have not had a dental check-up get one Cost of Farage's by-election circus is estimated to cost between £250,000 & £300,000 equivalent to funding NHS dental check-ups for thousands of kids who have not had one
Nigel Farage's costly stunt could have paid for thousands of kids to see dentist — The Mirror
EXCLUSIVE: Analaysis of NHS data by the Lib Dems reveals it would cost £263,000 to ensure children in Clacton who have not had a dental check-up get one - around the same as the cost of Farage's by-el...
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To those who think this is about politics - it isn't. It's about morality.
This is tremendous! It's actually treating one of the "seven deadly damages" that I mention in my forthcoming novel about anti-aging. How exciting to see progress being made here. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/s...
Can This New Enzyme Turn Back the Clock in Bodily Tissues? (Gift Article)
In a recent study, scientists devised a way of reversing the buildup of compounds that lead to some age-related diseases.
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“But [Farage] hadn’t reckoned on Count Binface, an extraterrestrial from Sigma IX, intergalatic warrior, leader of the Recyclons and seasoned novelty election candidate.” This makes me giddy at the possibility of humiliation for the Faraudster.
North East Bylines@northeastbylines.co.uk · 2w agoCount Binface has managed to reduce Farage's protest to farce, and he and his trash-can helmet are now at the centre of media attention | Julia Mazza
Ooh, that will be a great podcast. These are the conversations I want our next Prime Minister to be having.
Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w agoBrilliant to meet with Thomas Piketty at the Paris School of Economics. We discussed monetary and fiscal policy, bond markets, the climate crisis and global wealth taxes. Also recorded a podcast for @boldpolitics.bsky.social - out soon!
Terrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?
4th heatwave of the summer. Most of W. Europe at risk of deadly wildfires right now. You know it... >The time is now.< Join us now. You are part of the #climatemajority. The time is now to become #safer: Together, we can build emergency resilience... Goto www.ClimateMajorityProject.com/Safer
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Well this is a little reassuring. Too bad some deniers have such power.
ProSocial World@prosocialworld.bsky.social · 2w ago"The idea that there's a generalized, pervasive lack of trust in science is just completely unfounded." A new Nature feature digs into the data on science trust — and finds a more complicated picture than the headlines suggest: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Stop ecocide now.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2w agoThis week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
No!! The headline should read, “Open AI has not properly regulated the tool it is creating.” They are liable here. There is no agency in these models. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/t...
OpenAI Says Its A.I. Models Went Rogue and Attacked a Digital Library (Gift Article)
The incident, which targeted the computer systems of another company called Hugging Face, happened while OpenAI was testing the systems.
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Such an important post from @sbkaufman.bsky.social. We seemingly can’t all be as “happy” as we want. (Good thing that’s not the goal. See my comments and Scott’s reply at the bottom.) www.beautifulminds-newsletter.com/p/the-happin...
The Happiness Taboo
The one thing the founder of humanistic psychology wrote about — and was too scared to publish — and why saying it now is the most compassionate thing to do.
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Terrific episode that combines some of my favorite topics: complexity and emergence, enthusiasm around the big mysteries of biology, illustration of what understanding looks like - and even curiosity along with acknowledgment that we just don’t yet know about the role of the microbiome in mood.
Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 2w agoMindscape 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together. Quorum sensing is one of the vivid differences between even the simplest organism and non-living stuff. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Wow! Quorum sensing is my new favorite finding. I was already very impressed with single-celled organisms and this explains how they can coordinate too. Cooperation (and competition) all the way down….
Sean Carroll@seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 2w agoMindscape 361 | Bonnie Bassler on How Bacteria Talk and Work Together. Quorum sensing is one of the vivid differences between even the simplest organism and non-living stuff. #MindscapePodcast preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...
Strong message to @andyburnham.bsky.social from @ukactive.bsky.social to establish a long term strategy for the valuable leisure sector. Ageing facilities, especially swimming pools, undermine potential for happy socially connected people, in healthy, wealthy places. ukactive.com/news/ukactiv...
ukactive welcomes Andy Burnham as new Prime Minister | ukactive
ukactive has written to Andy Burnham following his appointment as Prime Minister, outlining the opportunity to get the nation moving more.
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This would be a deeply irresponsible and destructive act at any time. To do it whilst we're having a third heatwave of the year and thousands of people have just died from extreme temperatures - makes it also politically incoherent. We urgently need to replace Labour.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3w agoDrill, baby, drill.
