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Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.

Doom scrolling is doomed

Stretched Thin: Protestant Attorneys Face Overlapping Delta Conveyance Project Hearings The week of February 23-27 presents attorneys representing Delta communities with an impossible calendar. The State Water Board's Delta Conveyance Project water rights hearing has added February 23, 24, and 25 as hearing days. The Delta Stewardship Council has scheduled its appeal hearing on DWR's certification of consistency with the Delta Plan for February 26 and 27—and has required that parties appear in person.

Stretched Thin: Protestant Attorneys Face Overlapping Delta Conveyance Project Hearings

The week of February 23-27 presents attorneys representing Delta communities with an impossible calendar. The State Water Board's Delta Conveyance Project water rights hearing has added February 23, 24, and 25…

DWR’s Selective Conflict: It Applies in Court, But Not Before the Agencies On Monday, February 9, 2026, Administrative Hearing Officer Nicole Kuenzi denied Somach Simmons & Dunn's motion to stay the Delta Conveyance Project water rights hearing pending resolution of DWR's disqualification motion in Sacramento Superior Court. The hearing will continue as scheduled, with most of the protestants' rebuttal case likely to conclude before the March 20 court hearing on DWR's motion.

DWR’s Selective Conflict: It Applies in Court, But Not Before the Agencies

On Monday, February 9, 2026, Administrative Hearing Officer Nicole Kuenzi denied Somach Simmons & Dunn's motion to stay the Delta Conveyance Project water rights hearing pending resolution of DWR's disqualification motion…

Court Grants Stay in Delta Conveyance CEQA Cases — Judge Questions DWR’s Position Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Stephen Acquisto today granted Somach Simmons & Dunn’s motion to stay the consolidated Delta Conveyance Project CEQA cases through March 27, 2026. He set a hearing on DWR’s motion to disqualify the firm as counsel for Sacramento County and the City of Stockton for March 20, 2026. From the bench, the judge described the potential disqualification as “monumental.” He indicated that he understood how severely it would impact Somach’s clients: local governments representing approximately two million Delta-area residents who have relied on the firm’s representation in Delta Conveyance matters since 2007.

Court Grants Stay in Delta Conveyance CEQA Cases — Judge Questions DWR’s Position

Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Stephen Acquisto today granted Somach Simmons & Dunn’s motion to stay the consolidated Delta Conveyance Project CEQA cases through March 27, 2026. He set a hearing on DWR’s…

State Tries to Sideline Sacramento & Stockton’s Lawyers — Court Hears Stay Request On January 23, 2026, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) filed a motion in Sacramento County Superior Court seeking to disqualify the law firm of Somach Simmons & Dunn, longtime counsel for the County of Sacramento, the City of Stockton, in three of the ten consolidated cases challenging DWR’s approvals of the Delta Conveyance Project. Somach has represented these local governments on Delta matters since 2007.

State Tries to Sideline Sacramento & Stockton’s Lawyers — Court Hears Stay Request

On January 23, 2026, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) filed a motion in Sacramento County Superior Court seeking to disqualify the law firm of Somach Simmons & Dunn, longtime counsel for the County…

In a new article over at Carbon Brief, I explore why the past three years – 2023, 2024, and 2025 – have been exceptionally warm. The main culprits turn out to be a combination of El Nino and internal variability, declining aerosols, and a strong solar cycle: www.carbonbrief.org/...

Response to Jay Lund’s “Nine California Water Rites” Jay Lund published a clever satire of California water rhetoric today, and he’s right that policy-based evidence-making occurs in our water debates. I worked with Jay and other Delta Independ…

Response to Jay Lund’s “Nine California Water Rites”

Jay Lund published a clever satire of California water rhetoric today, and he's right that policy-based evidence-making occurs in our water debates.

But Jay's framing misses something critical…

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As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.

Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M

If you’re interested in why the #Antarctic overturning circulation is very likely closer to a tipping point than the #AMOC, I touch on the topic in this 10 minute talk presented virtually today at #COP30. Starts at approx. 20 min mark.

Short 🧵. Several folks routinely do a great job updating global mean temperature comparisons between observations & different model generations, which shows their impressive skill, but I think as a public communication tool downplays the explanatory and predictive power of climate science 1/

What an awesome thread!

September 2025 was the third warmest on record in the Berkeley Earth dataset. But this downplays how anomalous it was; without 2023 and 2024 this year would have been well above any prior records and well above the long-term trend:

In that moment Ged understood the singing of the bird, and the language of the water falling in the basin of the fountain, and the shape of the clouds, and the beginning and end of the wind that stirred the leaves.

Sigh.

Chinese freighter halves EU delivery time on maiden Arctic voyage to UK A Chinese container ship has completed a pioneering journey through the Arctic to a UK port, state-run news agency Xinhua reported, cutting in half the usual transit time for the electric vehicles and solar panels aboard destined for Europe.

Welp. The Arctic now has a shipping route. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

📢 Submissions are now open for the U.S. Climate Collection, a joint @theAGU + @ametsoc initiative.

This special collection will publish U.S.-focused climate assessment science that’s free to read, ensuring rigorous, accessible science informs decisions for years to come.

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In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong".

Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

We really need to do the work regionally. I did get “regime shift in
Antarctic sea ice” onto the top recommendations of things to pay attention to at our
Emerging Climate Symposium in California.

From DeepSeek. Why I find modern transformer models to be fascinating.

YouTube video by This Week in Science (TWIS) This Week in Science Podcast (TWIS) - Episode 1030

My co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social and I spoke with @drkiki.bsky.social about our new book #ScienceUnderSiege earlier today on the #ThisWeekInScience podcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILJE...

Lumi.

Anthropic irks White House with limits on models’ use The AI firm declined requests by contractors working with federal law enforcement that could see its tools being used for surveillance.

Anthropic told U.S. law-enforcement contractors they cannot use Claude AI for domestic surveillance.

The Trump White House is angry, seeing the ban as unpatriotic and politically selective.
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It's hard to overstate just how off the charts warm the Pacific is right now. The swath of the basin from California to Japan (a HUGE area) from 25N to 60N is ~3F (1.6C) above normal. To put it into math terms that is 6 Sigma/ standard deviations above the mean. More… 1/

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.