Vivek Srikrishnan

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

What drives me nuts about this dialogue: diversity and inclusion training was a corporate response to the statutory requirements civil rights laws. None of these laws have been repealed by Congress. Congress can pass the laws under Section 5 of the 14th Amendment, which has also not been repealed.

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

My article is out! On how ‘ecosystem services’ went from a word for those aspects of nature that economics cannot express to a word for nature's economic value, and how concerns for planetary habitability disappeared from the environmentalist vocabulary.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Beware of AI videos like the one below.

And, AI sucks for many reasons, but among the worst is that it destabilizes our shared reality.

Think of how much better off we'd be if every established researcher got in the habit of writing papers entitled "Second thoughts on [thing I'm famous for]"

@MrAndyNgo Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes. The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence. In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons. photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

An Interview With the Portland Chicken Rachel Saslow

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

HAHA, I used the same meme in a Slack post about this!

Some real quality concern trolling here: "Pielke said that Otto’s inclusion in the IPCC report could harm the international scientific body’s reputation."

How Anti-Corruption Can Be a Winning Issue for Democrats It’s a powerful, unifying theme—and it’s tied to the crisis of democracy under Trump.

"For Democrats, this particular moment of cartoonish graft presents a huge opportunity to unify around an anti-corruption platform.…Their agenda must meet the moment and include game-changing initiatives that let voters know they recognize corruption is pervasive."
www.thebulwark.com/p/anti-corru...

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

An escalation of wood / furniture pricing will drive higher replacement costs and more expensive insurance claims from natural catastrophes.

Same thing businesses have known for ages about violating regulations. That get a competitive advantage, that might not get punished at all, and if they do the punishment is far lower than the benefits they gained.

Deafening Quiet from the Scientific Establishment Leaders are underestimating the risks of not fighting back

The scientific community needs a war mindset too open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

So it's a big problem - southeast England in general has a big problem with its aquifer, which can't be wished away however convenient it would be if there was enough water for the economic growth we wanted. There are solutions that people are working on but they need more Investment...

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

Eric Brakey @Eric8rekey I was detained by Border Patrol and Customs for 90 minutes coming back from a @RoyalCa ribbean cruise today in Florida. After they rifled through all my belongings, read my personal joumal, and confiscated rny phone and computer, I had to explain to them that the aFreeStateNH is a non-violent, peaceful libertarian movernent that builds community, culture and political change. We were invited to New Hampshire in the early 2000s bythe Govemor of the state. We reject violence as a path to creating change. In detail, I had to explain the nature of the Defend the Guard rnovernent and assure them that I was not part of a violent extremist group seeking to raise a militia for insurrection against the government. At one point during my detention, I asked for clarification on what rights I had here as a US. citizen and was told that they did not næd a warrant for anything in my possession, including all my elæ•tronic devices. They eventually let me gu Truth be told, I am shaken up and in shock right now. Rate "oposed CMnmu nity 11:59 AM 5, Views

Reminder: Never travel out of the country with your main cell phone (or without backing it up and then doing a factory reset) or laptop.

CBP agents are effectively Redcoats and they WILL delight in reminding you that they owe you no rights.

mac from always sunny saying "but who versus? who are we doing it versus?" because he cannot understand a plan that does not have a victim

every time you read a story about how no-strings-attached direct payments to vulnerable, marginalized or otherwise needy people are a big net profit to the society disbursing them, and you ask "why doesn't america do that?", please know that this is the answer why

Again, going in circles, but Trump ****literally**** does not understand how the American government works. He has ****never**** understood it. He was, until this administration, protected from his own stupidity but now there is no longer anyone at the helm. It’s ***actual*** anarchic governance.

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

I feel like that is important to remember. Because one day a lot of people will distance themselves from this very obvious, very much on the record monopsony and authoritarianism and claim it was all a conservative boogeyman.