Max Tide

Max Tide

@maxtide.bsky.social

Checking the mess we're in, and doing things - - mostly studying humans, change, climate, history, politics. Feeding myself w/ domestic/wild hybrid, off grid electricity, building things, getting connected and involved. 🔸10% Pledge @GivingWhatWeCan

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Dag. We really need those methane cuts. Among much else. Climate was an emergency situation a while ago... Hard to tell from looking around at western civ leadership.

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social

5/ Methane. The scenarios have methane emissions falling fast this decade. They are still rising. Weber et al. (2026b) find that without methane cuts, net zero CO2 by 2050 still gives nearly 2°C, & 1.5°C is off the table either way. Correct all 4 assumptions & the true gap's much wider than drawn😬

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10/11 💎 High-income nations could mobilise 6.6 trillion USD annually by taxing high polluters and closing tax loopholes. 🪙 The money and mechanisms exist - what is missing is political courage. 🌸

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Former U.S. intelligence official Jay Stratton was the most senior U.S. official to investigate UAPs and says there is a "legacy UAP program" which is reverse engineering non-human craft. There's too many people who are all saying the same thing.

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“Its reactor running hot would create a huge nuclear signature, and it would suffice as a pre-selected area within US waters known for past UAP activity. The goal, exploit a decades-old pattern. Draw a UAP close enough to monitor, track, or if possible, capture or recover.” 🛸 🪤

apple.newsHe Used a Nuclear Submarine to Lure an Alien Spacecraft—and Found Something That Defied Physics — Popular MechanicsJay Stratton led the classified operation that tried to trap something that wasn’t from Earth.

Omg. Watch to end. Metaphor for our relationship to modern civ, especially fossil fuels under Trump world disorder.

Dan/iel Mudford@danmud.bsky.social

You can hear him screaming "Fucksakes!" in his own language whatever it is.

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I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

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Supercharged Pacific, Super Slow Atlantic!🌀 It’s truly night& day in the Atlantic vs the Pacific, with Atlantic Cyclone Energy at a record low, while the Pacific is vying for a record high! ACE is the accumulated cyclone energy when combining all the storm’s intensity and longevity in each basin.

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BREAKING on MS NOW: MS NOW White House reporter Laura Barrón-López has been denied entry to the White House despite the court order restoring press access.

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Good morning with good news: US solar surged 24% to 50.8 TWh in August 2026, compared to 8/2025! Combined solar & wind also rose 24% to 84.7 TWh in 8/2026. S&W were 18.2% of US electricity in 8/2026. That's up 2.3 points from 15.9% in 8/2025. Their share peaked at 26.5% in April 2026 #energysky

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"AI investment is projected to total $10.3 trillion from 2025-32 ... a staggering 3.6% of GDP/year. Never before has the US economy been so dependent on the buildout of a single industry." And we were told a clean-energy transition was too expensive (gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

wsj.comThe AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. HistoryData-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

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Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.

Judy Trinh@judytrinh.bsky.social

Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.

Curious if any other climate people are considering becoming anti-Ai people? It seems to pose similar risk levels but looks increasingly more imminent. #greensky #climatecrisis #climatechange

If you struggle to imagine how Ai could take over the world without its own bodies (yet), consider how fast data centres are being built even tho most people don't want them. Ai has human collaborators, some are just stuck but some are insane.

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Correction: most of the Drive was open for the event. It was just closed to cars.

CBS News Chicago@cbschicago.bsky.social

The annual Bike the Drive was under way on Chicago's iconic DuSable Lake Shore Drive on Sunday, and most of the Drive was shut down for the event.

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“disruptive truth does not arrive on our terms. It arrives through strange, unwilling prophets and unsettles our categories of what counts as credible. It forces us to ask whether […] we would rather cling to our skepticism than confront truths that exceed our understanding.” - D.W. Pasulka

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🇺🇸 Texans: Interested in leading Citizens for Disclosure in Texas and helping push UFO/UAP transparency toward disclosure? Anyone in the U.S. and around the world can join for free. 🌎We’re already active across 14 Latin American & European countries. We push here, you push there. Together. 🛸👇

Crisp@crisp91.bsky.social

Citizens for Disclosure is a global movement focused on transparency and accountability regarding UFO disclosure! Join via the link below👍🛸 newparadigminstitute.org/take-action/...

This story oughtta be common knowledge for so many reasons.

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social

AI safety starting to freak out more people with the hugging face AI agent breakout. Can any country make public policy? interesting argument from @kyleichan.bsky.social How China became climate-pilled and what that means for AI. @katemac.bsky.social www.highcapacity.org/p/how-china-...

There's a real person named Les Cleverly. They seem to be doing well. Were the parents cheeky bastards or not clever enough to notice the issue...?

This is a crazy headline, given that such a large percentage of people believe one of the wildest things one can believe. (I also am fairly certain some ufos are non-human intelligence or their craft).

Opinion Today@opiniontoday.bsky.social

Americans Still Skeptical That UFOs Are Aliens. (Gallup) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260826

"I am critical of people who say that this is definitely nothing extraordinary and those who say that this is definitely something extraordinary. We need to go right up the middle of this and take a look at the data. Let the data speak for itself. Apologies. I am remaining violently neutral. "

Community members reflect on the weight of life detached from the industrial infrastructure of urban life. A gentle, deliberate love letter to the rainforest, farm life and our unwavering efforts to withstand the changes we face as humanity and technology march forwards.

A pensive glimpse of a community living off-grid on a remote farm in B.C. Seasons pass and the cycles of life and death express themselves across livestock, machines, crops, rainforest and humans alike.

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To Republicans and independents in Michigan, hear me out: If you believe in America first, that our tax dollars should be spent here in Michigan, I hope you'll give us a chance.

Apparently China saved the western world by curtailing imports of oil by 50% maybe because they're dependent on a stable global economy. This means that anti-globalists elected the Trump cult, who recklessly attacked Iran and they were saved by globalization. We're gonna die of irony.

UK's intelligence officials have warned that the UK has “no future” if their findings are not urgently acted on. War, cost of living, famine, migration, destabilization. The report is being kept partly secret by the UK gov't. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... Maybe this is an emergency?

theguardian.comUK has ‘no future’ if it fails to act on ecosystem collapse threatening national securityMPs demand publication of full report that outlines catastrophic consequences amid concerns for food security

$1.8 billion annual would have stayed in our BC economy if we had transitioned light-duty transport to electric as fast as some of our peers (according to rough calculations). Given the current risky outlook for oil prices, how much will we choose to send to fossil-fuelled dictators going forward?

Carney implements reverse carbon-tax. After cancelling the carbon tax in 2025, Carney doubles down by offering a discount on fossil fuels to support continued consumption well into the future. Carney will also be sending tax-payer funds directly to oil producers. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

cbc.caCarney temporarily suspending federal fuel excise tax on gas, diesel and aviation fuel | CBC NewsA day after sweeping three byelections in Ontario and Quebec that gave him a majority in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is temporarily removing the federal excise tax on gas ...