Willard

Willard

@climateball.bsky.social

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Willard
@climateball.bsky.social

200B is a big number, 50B away from the province's debt. Montreal's STM has a 7B deficit.

Taras Grescoe 🚇@taras-grescoe.com

Alto is now targeted by people in Toronto + English Canada, who see it as too Québécois (HQ in #Montréal , francophone executives), and the Parti Québécois, who see it as a non-Québécois conspiracy imposed by Ottawa and English Canada. It’s neither. It’s just a smart idea, one whose time has come.

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Daniel Haran
@danielharan.bsky.social

The resulting assets were also useful and had more than a 3-5 year useful life. We won't need that many data centres, nor that many chips.

Mr Market Miscalculates 🇪🇺🇺🇦🏴‍☠️@mrmarketmis.bsky.social

Yes, railroads were built in three big investment waves Yes, it is totally possible that the same will happen with AI But every single time investors were cleaned out (PS: and a 3x investment - from 2 to 6 in the chart - in 50 years is like 2.2% CAGR...)

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Martin Stendel
@martinstendel.bsky.social

The Greenland Ice Sheet shrinks for the 30ᵗʰ year in a row. The last year with an ice gain was 1995/96. Greenland and Antarctica together lost 11309 Gt of ice between 1979 and 2023. This has raised the global sea level by around 32mm. See the complete report at www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-g....

carbonbrief.orgGuest post: Greenland ice sheet shrinks for 30th year in a row - Carbon BriefGreenland has now marked the 30th consecutive year where it lost more ice than it gained.  Over the 12-month period…

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Charles Ornstein
@charlesornstein.bsky.social

One heck of a story about how oil companies face no consequences for their serious violations in Oklahoma. This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It. @nickbowlin.bsky.social @readfrontier.bsky.social

propublica.orgThis Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.Staff at an Oklahoma regulatory agency spent over a year building a case against Citation Oil & Gas, a company notorious for oil field pollution. Instead of disciplining the company, agency leaders ch...

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Prof Bill McGuire
@profbillmcguire.bsky.social

Well, who'd have thought? "the [world's] richest 0.1%...... are heavily invested in disaster preparedness, recovery and reconstruction – a market that is projected to grow from $70bn to $92bn a year by 2029" Another win - win for the parasitic super-rich www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.comSuper-rich get ‘double dividend’ from causes and costs of climate crisis, report findsOxfam says investing by rich in disaster recovery widens inequality and gives incentive to delay climate action

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Glen Peters
@glenpeters.bsky.social

Replying to @glenpeters.bsky.social

Why did GHG emissions rise in 2025? The biggest increase was in the USA, followed by international transportation. India, Russia, & the European Union all had slight declines. Chinese GHG emissions rose, still not peaked.

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Michael Brown
@mjibrown.bsky.social

Don't forget to tell students to not use AI as that sloppy shit is for overpaid consultants.

Greg Britton@gmbritton.bsky.social

"The Western Australian government has said it is “extremely disappointed” and is seeking an “expedited” cost recovery from Deloitte after errors were discovered in a report about a potential university merger, including AI-hallucinated references…."

theguardian.com‘Extremely disappointed’: WA government seeks reimbursement from Deloitte over flawed university reportState paid consultancy firm $166,000 for feasibility study on merging the three tertiary institutions
Willard
@climateball.bsky.social

never trust any Matt www.independent.co.uk/voices/donal...

independent.co.ukWhisper it, but maybe Trump isn’t that bad after allThere’s a lot to criticise, but let’s face it: unemployment is down, major corporations are paying their bills, he’s arranged a meeting with Kim Jong-un and he’s advocating for gun control
YARDCG@yardcg.bsky.social

"because Kurdistan would be a reliable ally in a hostile region, because Kurdistan would reduce the West’s reliance on Russia for its energy needs, and because we should prove we’re serious about extending human rights and liberal democracy..." - this, but for carving Provence out of Le Pen's France

independent.co.ukThis is why the West should support the Kurds in their quest for independenceThe autonomous, quasi-sovereign Kurdish region north of Iraq is the most peaceful in the region. In a region where the West is only now starting to learn the bloody lessons of the past, maintaining a ...
Willard
@climateball.bsky.social

i thought adjuncts were created for that kind of thing (and not second class professors)

Patrick Stokes@patrickstokes.com

Neither of the people in this photograph are qualified for an academic job (see also "Professor" Bill Shorten). I like Ardern a lot, and creating a role using her experience for mentoring is great, but hospitals don't say "we've hired Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman to do heart surgeries this month."

theguardian.comJacinda Ardern joins University of Sydney as lecturer and mentorFormer New Zealand prime minister will focus on leadership, social cohesion and public health in new role

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Brad Johnson
@climatebrad.hillheat.com

...or maybe we shouldn't rush to build data centers

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com

In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence. www.theclimatebrink....

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Henry Gould
@henryghenrik.bsky.social

Spy novelists would have trouble competing with this storyline. A murky contretemps between a Riddle and a Talkington... 😎 In U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

nytimes.comIn U.S. Gas Talks With Kremlin, Hidden Financing for Alaska Project Emerges (Gift Article)Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

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Energy and Policy Institute
@energyandpolicy.org

“It’s wild that utilities can just give money directly to their regulators, and they do so by the thousands in Louisiana,” he added. “That is at least explicitly illegal in most states.” lailluminator.com/2026/10/21/h... @lailluminator.com

lailluminator.comPSC candidate accepts more than $100K from state-regulated utilities • Louisiana IlluminatorThe contributions come as the Public Service Commission has been at the center of high-stakes decisions over the buildout of power-hungry AI data centers around the state.

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George Takei
@georgetakei.bsky.social

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

Lonnie Rouse worked at the Hanford nuclear site for nearly 20 years. It was so toxic, he said, that the floor once melted the rubber off his boots. Now he needs 24-hour care. The DOE has appealed his workers’ compensation claim more than 20 times.

propublica.orgNuclear Weapons Waste Made Workers Sick. Despite a Law Meant to Help, the DOE Keeps Fighting Their Claims.A 2018 Washington state law was supposed to help workers who got sick cleaning up Hanford, a former federal nuclear weapons site. Eight years later, the DOE has spent nearly $12 million fighting to de...

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Grandiloquent Word of the Day
@grandiloquentwords.bsky.social

Kompology [kom-POL-uh-jee] (n.) - Boastful or vainglorious speech; extravagant self-praise. “Admiral Merriweather’s kompology grew so extravagant that, by the conclusion of dinner, he had claimed credit for thirty-three naval victories, twelve royal marriages, and the invention of the teakettle.”

Willard
@climateball.bsky.social

bacon was once the cheapest cut lobster was used as fertilizer and fed to prisoners

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

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J. Magnolia Gilligan
@jmgilligan.org

People who think embracing GOP hatred of trans people is the only way for Democrats to win in that part of the country should remember that in 2025, John Ewing became the first Black mayor of Omaha NE by running this ad. He beat Republican incumbent Jean Stothert by 12 points.

Erin Reed@erininthemorning.com

Josh Turek of Iowa, Democrat, comes out with one of the worst anti-trans ads yet. Not only is it an anti-sports ad, it proposes a ban on federal funding for gender affirming care. That would hit all medicaid and medicare patients, and any ACA federally-subsidized plans as well. Horrific.

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Michael Brown
@mjibrown.bsky.social

Among the many things climate change deniers don’t understand is significance. They spend years looking for errors in climate data but don’t understand that what they find is almost always insignificant. It’s also why they’ll never be satisfied by any rigorous report on climate data.

Graham Readfearn@readfearn.bsky.social

The Australian newspaper has been claiming a "forensic audit report" shows BoM's temperature data has "widespread error". For 15 years climate sceptics have been claiming a conspiracy around the data. Is anything different this time?

theguardian.comThe BoM’s temperature record keeping is under attack – again. What’s going on? | Temperature CheckAn ‘audit’ of the Bureau of Meteorology main dataset for measuring climate change claims it contains ‘widespread errors’. It doesn’t stack up

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mr. TIM
@timkellogg.me

the wildest result: Consciousness starts at incorporation. Claude is *NOT* conscious, but Anthropic PBC is, and the IPO is technically human trafficking