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Geoengineering / public health / geopolitical crossover episode!
Research confirms that when temperatures rise, gun violence increases. What was previously unknown, was the effect climate change has on gun violence. A new study by Climate Central links climate change to an increase in gun violence. Read more: thetr.ac/0edNF
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🚨🗞️Weekly Solar Geoengineering Updates from 31 August - 06 September 2026🗞️🚨 solargeoengineeringupdates.substack.com/p/weekly-sol...
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Replying to @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social
So while we may look at a Beroe and see this: 📷 by Alexander Semenov; www.flickr.com/photos/a_sem...
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Why are we putting technologies that would have qualified as magic just 50 years ago into toys for children?
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Looked up the website of Michael Sarian's AHS/HSA, mentioned in a new puff piece from @motherjones.com --wasn't expecting that! What a cool dude
Does anybody who went to K-12 in California in the 1980s remember using an Apple ][e computer as a result of Apple's "Kids Can't Wait" program? It would be interesting to see its impact vs. later donation programs like "Google's Chromebooks for Education" hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/k...
who is giving South African fur seals rabies?
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I'm learning via being a semi public presence online that a lot of people will condescendingly make up these rules on the spot and then act like everyone knows them
In science communications, if you're trying to correct the record on something, be brief and be level-headed. Lobbing 100-page blog posts across the internet (25 pages of which are Bluesky screenshots) is unprofessional and sloppy. I don't know what else to tell you.
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Replying to @moskov.goodventures.org
What that looked like on the ground: Pakistan went to a four-day week and closed schools for two weeks. Sri Lanka rationed fuel by QR code at 25 litres/week. India rationed cooking gas to one cylinder per 25 days. US drivers, by comparison, trimmed about 3%. damstrait.net#overview-burden-grid 5/7
legendary softball post by @bencollins.bsky.social. technical people prefer (probably 10:1 or more) to talk to other technical people about technical things than to do any kind of public relations or outreach whatsoever, which has led to the present public misunderstanding problem
Talk to the people who would use this for dream use cases — the cancer scientists, the people who want to make material goods out of it — and they will tell you it’s either a marginally useful if unreliable trick or completely useless. It has produced 0% of the utopian products promised.
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Replying to @zachweinersmith.bsky.social
A) many people think machines in principle cannot have subjective experience. This seems to me to require some sort of dualism, which I don't find convincing. It requires you to posit a new universe of physics, and often the claim boils down to gut feelings, aka "dualist seemings."
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