Rob Carlson
@robcarlson.bsky.social
I aspire to leave the planet in better shape than I found it. Managing Director, Planetary Technologies: @planetaryops.bsky.social 2024 Bloomberg Green Champion Accidental Affiliate Prof of Computer Science, @UWCSE.bsky.social Home: synthesis.cc
Blue Morning Glories, 1935 #americanart #georgiaokeeffe
Here is a nice take on what happened with the near collapse of Situational Awareness by Swati Chaturvedi at Calculus VC. TL;DR Hedge funds are not equipped professionally or architecturally to do early stage investing. Leave it to VC's. Also, banks got very lucky. calculusvc.com/situational-...
Situational Awareness Meets Margin Cell - Calculus VC
While browsing the news last week, a headline caught my eye: AI hedge fund loses billions. I paused for a second: Was this the sound of the other shoe dropping? It turned out to be the story of Situat...
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Stanford University is searching for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science 🌎 ✨ Broad search, department may be any within the Doerr School of Sustainability, including Oceans! 🌊 Apply by Nov. 1. Please share! facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in Climate Science - Stanford University, California, United States
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the field of Climate Science. The home department may be any of the seven departments in the Stanford Doerr School of...
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McGill: Assistant Professor in Earth and Planetary Sciences, Solid Earth Processes (Tenure Track) We seek a colleague who investigates the chemical, mineralogical, and physical composition of the solid Earth and its interactions with other Earth systems. Review of applications will begin Oct […]
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Please stop flying your personal drones over wildfires. They can ground or collide with our firefighting aircraft, disrupting time critical firefighting and threatening people’s homes. Your photos are not worth someone’s home. If you fly, we can’t.
Cheeky hed. Marmots got money troubles: Cuts to UCLA research lead scientists to OnlyFans www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
Marmots got money troubles: Cuts to UCLA research lead scientists to OnlyFans
Researchers at a UCLA-affiliated lab launched an OnlyFans account to post videos of wild marmots to generate funding and offset federal cuts to universities.
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Underneath solar panels, plants grew much more and used less water, "Chiltepin pepper plants produced three times as much fruit as those grown in full sun. Jalapenos matched their usual harvest while using 65 percent less water. Tomatoes grown under the array came in at twice the normal yield."
hoergen@hoergen.bsky.social · 4d ago*American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity* #Erneuerbare #Renewable #Solar #Photovoltaik energiesmedia.com/solar-panels…
"The [US] administration is corrupt, incompetent and, most important, hostile to the norms and values that animated the founding fathers. The Declaration of Independence proclaimed liberation from tyrants. Donald Trump wants to be one."
Rob Carlson@robcarlson.bsky.social · 3d agoThe rise and fall of US hegemony Martin Wolf | 23 June,2026 www.ft.com/content/5a9f...
The rise and fall of US hegemony Martin Wolf | 23 June,2026 www.ft.com/content/5a9f...
The rise and fall of US hegemony
On the eve of its 250th birthday, America and the world order it created are in crisis
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Couterpoint: LLMs ("AI") are mathematically guaranteed to make mistakes and hallucinate. You may find their advice expensive. Bloomberg: AI Bots Are Excellent Financial Advisers. And They’re Free www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
AI Bots Are Excellent Financial Advisers. And They’re Free
Everyone should have access to financial advice — and now they do. Just fire up your favorite AI chatbot, and at your fingertips is advice that’s as good as any human can provide, or better. The bot p...
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Suddenly my accidental, fake professor of computer science gig is requiring that I actually learn a lot of actual computer science right quick.
A Fundamental Flaw Leaves LLMs Strikingly Vulnerable To Attack "It's really incredible that these things are being deployed everywhere to control super-critical systems." 😳 "The best defense could be to expect the worst." slashdot.org/story/26/07/...
A Fundamental Flaw Leaves LLMs Strikingly Vulnerable To Attack - Slashdot
joshuark quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers arg...
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Good grief - of course! I once scraped off the biofoul on a barge that had been in marine water for a single month-multiple invasive species! Months of stuck ships will be entire ecosystems. 🫣
Ships stuck in strait of Hormuz pose ‘super-spreader’ biodiversity threat, scientists warn
Biologists say cargo ships stranded in Gulf may carry highly potent invasive species around the world as trade resumes
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Ember@ember-energy.org · last wk.Asia-Pacific has been the main driver of growing fossil consumption, but it's still below the world average per capita as electrification accelerates. Notably, China's road fuel demand is plateauing at six times below the US on a per capita basis. ember-energy.org/lat...
Asia-Pacific has been the main driver of growing fossil consumption, but it's still below the world average per capita as electrification accelerates. Notably, China's road fuel demand is plateauing at six times below the US on a per capita basis. ember-energy.org/lat...
Maybe @soundersfc.com should trying playing at Interbay. @sounderatheart.com
Ballard FC@goballardfc.bsky.social · last wk.The Fortress 🛡️🏟️ 19 matches played, ZERO losses. In 2026, both Ballard FC and Salmon Bay FC went undefeated at Interbay Stadium. Thank you to our amazing fan support that helped make our home a fortress all season long! #UpTheBridges
This would still be a price to sales ratio of ~50, which is still insanity, and any assertion that this makes sense is an indication that analysts are huffing rocket exhaust. SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Morgan Stanley Says www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
SpaceX at $100 Would Imply Zero AI Value, Says Morgan Stanley
The selloff in SpaceX shares has driven the stock near a level that would imply investors are assigning no value to its artificial intelligence business, according to analysts at Morgan Stanley.
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It is astonishing to me that the press is so credulous of claims by OpenAI. OpenAI has been falling behind on performance and is trying to raise money. It is more likely that a human screwed up and they portraying this event as a demonstration of capability for the purposes of advertising.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoWhen OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face’s internal systems last week, they spent mere hours carrying out a hack that would have taken a skilled human far longer, sources say
Our economy has become so concentrated in a handful of giant A.I. corporations that the risks of a recession or crash are rapidly growing.
Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Are we watching an AI revolution, or a slow-motion economic disaster?
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The dude just upwind of me at this cafe is starting his day with a double espresso and a ginormous spliff. I wonder what occupation makes that good preparation.
Yeah but 4 weeks ago they were worth $167B. So that's nice, I guess.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2w agoGoogle said its equity holdings include $94.1 billion in SpaceX shares, after the space-and-AI company’s blockbuster initial public offering