“Some people have privately admitted …that they've embraced AI in order to earn a career-boosting corporate reputation for "thought leadership"….other people (especially non-technical people) sincerely believe that AI is about to "change everything".” This is exactly my impression.

City Atlas@cityatlas.bsky.social · 4h ago

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...

YES. Student loans are a form of inter generational shakedown.

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 2d ago

When we don't adequately fund public universities, and instead force students to take out loans, what we as a society are really doing is borrowing money from the younger generation—their hard-earned future income—to fund a necessary project that benefits us all: building an educated society.

Hey btw, while everyone is paying attention to Michigan for just one night may i point out that for about a decade now a bunch of us have been trying to protect the Great Lakes from a menacing oil pipeline? Learn all about here: thecurrentowdm.substack.com

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If they can send even a single scientist to prison over something that plainly did not happen, they can imprison anyone for anything at any time for any reason. Those are the stakes. You don’t hear that from legacy publications like NYT.

This essay reminds me of Gilgamesh, who did heroic acts to gain immortality, but failed the final test - which req him to stay awake. A metaphor for reciprocity w nature? Embrace sleep, change, limits. Embrace being the drop of water that sinks back into the ocean wave. Live with it all.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · yesterday

Please read my @theflytrapmedia.com piece today about my lifelong fear of death and the afterlife and the futile pursuit and heroic rejection of immortality. www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-futile-p...

This news should have a link to Ray Bradbury’s 1950 short story, “There will come soft rains,” set on August 4 2026. About an automated smart house that keeps working / talking after its human occupants are dead. Until it burns down in a fire.

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · yesterday

4 AUGUST 2026 WRITE DOWN THIS DATE-EUROPE CLIMATIC HISTORY IS REWRITTEN ANEW Thousands and Thousands of records are being shattered in pieces in Germany,Switzerland,Austria,Czechia,Slovakia,Poland,Slovenia,Croatia,Hungary,Ukraine,Belarus,Romania,Serbia... Widespread 40Cs Tbc

Case in point- keeping electricity on in ppls houses during heat/drought emergencies on a hotter planet requires changes in supply. Solar energy is the key, along with adapting nuclear plants.

Carbon Brief@carbonbrief.org · yesterday

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

“Spring herself, when she woke at dawn Would scarcely know that we were gone” (Teasdale) Bradburys story about a last automated house that burns down in a fire while an Alexa-like voice is still talking…. Super eerie and relevant to today. Read it.

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

It’s time to regulate media for lies and exaggerations. Why not?

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 2d ago

🧪 Medical professionals are losing the attention war on YouTube. In a 3,958-video sample, independent creators produced the lowest quality content but captured the highest viewership using exaggeration. #MedSky

I think that’s the goal. Undermining higher ed so fewer people will learn progressive ideas or critical thinking. They just can’t take the criticism?

Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 2d ago

I genuinely don't know if higher-ed will survive this administration.

Heartbreaking.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Five months ago, we learned that ICE seized drawings and letters from children in the Dilley ICE concentration camp. I sued under the Freedom of Information Act. Today, I got responsive documents. www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

we had an entire ICU team that was dedicated to flipping patients onto their bellies to give them a last shot at oxygenating before their inevitable deaths, but ok

Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d ago

RFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>

Great thread comparing our US kleptocracy to Putin’s approach. Unsurprisingly, Trump copied much of what Putin did. And here we are.

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3d ago

Then there’s really nothing stopping a dictatorship from accumulating a huge amount of power and a kleptocracy from accumulating a huge amount of money.

Not sure the folks who advocated nuclear as one of the primary solutions to the energy transition thought of this problem?

Palma Polyak@palmapolyak.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hungary's new government is tested very early. Paks nuclear plant is about to go offline for the first time in 44 years because the Danube is drying up. That's nearly half the country's electricity. Collapsed supply & gas prices spiking throughout the region. Just brutal. apnews.com/article/hung...

Immortal words. At least until the end of capitalism.

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot@leguinbot.bsky.social · 4d ago

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

The El Niño phenomenon can cause more than flooding.

Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 4d ago

Do you remember the Central Florida Tornado 🌪️ outbreak of 1998? I was live on-air during it in Central FL. That was a very strong El Niño year. There’s no telling when, or where, or how many, in this region, but we should be prepared for a busy winter. #elnino

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts” - Rachel Carson

In other words, don’t plan a family bicycle trip in Italy.

Kevin Wilson@kwilsonhfx.bsky.social · 4d ago

Shocking.

RIP to those that lost their lives. 😢🙏🕯️ #Europe as a whole really needs to fast-track the European alternative to #Patriot missiles pronto

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 4d ago

9 killed, 30 injured in Kyiv following a Russian attack. Our Air Forces managed to shot down only ONE of twenty-seven Iskander-M ballistic missiles and ZERO Zircon/Onyx anti-ship missiles.

Ok, you know what to do.

tyler@tylergscott.com · 5d ago

in portland someone spray painted penises around potholes, and they got filled pretty immediately www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

It’s not just us, it’s all of nature that’s impacted by extreme weather in a changing climate. We’re all in this together. 🐎

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · last wk.

In Biscarrosse, southwestern France, horses were set free into the wild to escape fast-moving wildfires. Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated in Europe due to the fires.

Where’s today’s Silas Soule? He’d be protecting trans people.

Patrick McCray@patrickmccray.bsky.social · last wk.

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

Not good.

Sam Carana@samcarana.bsky.social · 2w ago

At times, the Jet Stream can move over parts of Antarctica, enabling warm, moist air to move over Antarctica. Temperature anomalies of about +30°C were forecast to hit areas over Antarctica on July 18, 2026, i.e. winter heatwave conditions on Antarctica. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2026/06/wate...

@paulnoth.bsky.social

Can there actually be a “vicious” speech that is “unifying”? Nope.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

White House says Trump to give ‘unifying yet vicious’ speech at rescheduled press gala

Heads up everyone.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 2w ago

2026 is on track to be the warmest (~35% chance) or second warmest (~63%) year on record, while 2027 is very likely (92% chance) to be the warmest on record on the back of a growing super El Niño event. For more, check out my new Carbon Brief State of the Climate Q2 update: www.carbonbrief.org/...

I just want to point out that “burning weeds” isn’t a cause. It’s what makes the smoke but not what started the fire.

San Francisco Chronicle@sfchronicle.com · 2w ago

A vegetation fire near the Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard sent plumes of smoke over San Francisco. Firefighters said the cause was likely burning weeds.

If our government is planning a “massive attack” on civilians in #Iran after the House of Reps just voted to force the war to end, I don’t think we should be talking about anything else right now. No one else should die for this stupid misadventure. It has already cost too many lives.

Musk is up there with Pol Pot or Hitler in terms of body count, and the tech press still treats him as a good topic for soft focus talk with the genius interviews. It's sickening.

Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 2w ago

whoopsie, made a mistake and killed 14 million people.

Can we please not be too afraid on the Left to say that people should be respected regarding their gender identity? Then we can let all girls play girls sports, let all women use women’s bathrooms, and move on.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 2w ago

this is how dumb you sound, democrats, when you accept the absurd premise that this is an issue that you need to campaign on