Madalsa

On that note: Has Byung-Chul Han written about AI yet?

Out of the Wilderness In hope

L.M. Sacasas, a favourite writer of our times, out of the wilderness
"one of the intuitions about our technological milieu: the arc of artificial intelligence bends toward demoralization...The burnout society has phased into the demoralized society."

theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/out-of-the...

when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean

Update from EIA confirms a decline in natural gas use in California with 2025 data. www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

New Yorkers unite against Con Edison; stock falls [FREE TO READ] Power exchange

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Now, slow cooking some dal makhani while I watch the Monsoon Wedding to celebrate Mira Nair (Zohran Mamdani's mum)

Gave the Orin Foster Environmental Lecture today at U Buffalo and spoke to some amazing students!

Based on very cool analysis by @benkeys.bsky.social and Philip Mulder @nber.org
www.nber.org/papers/w32579

NYT: “.. high insurance costs are cascading into the broader real estate market, suppressing home values by an average of $44,000 in the top 10 percent of U.S. ZIP codes most vulnerable to hurricanes and wildfires ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

On the flip side if I were to find a way to use this consistently, yes, my EV fuel and maintenance costs could be… zero

The only public charger next to my house is free and two cars have been parked there since last night.

Price the power and idling.

New record for wind-powered electricity in Britain The National Energy System Operator (Neso) has predicted Britain could hit another milestone in the months ahead by running the grid for a period entirely with zero carbon power, renewables and nuclea...

Wind was delivering 22.7GW during the evening peak on Nov 11, nearly 44% of power, equivalent to 22 million homes supplied

The System Operator said "our national grid can run safely and securely on large quantities of renewables generated right here in Britain"

news.sky.com/story/new-re...

⚠️ When “technology will save us” becomes a climate risk!

A new paper from great colleagues takes a careful look at techno-optimism — the belief that technology will largely solve climate change — and what it means for real-world climate action.
(1/4)👇
osf.io/preprints/ps...

Capturing the elusive FERC EQR - Catalyst Cooperative With support from GridLab, Catalyst is creating a open, cloud-native version of the electricity market data recorded in the FERC EQR.

A short blog with some more details on our new project to create an analysis-friendly version of the huge @ferc.gov EQR electricity transaction dataset, with support from GridLab @ricoconnell.bsky.social #EnergySky #OpenData

catalyst.coop/2025/11/17/c...

makes me sick to my stomach
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Cool paper

Really nice figure from Holland et al showing that Coal continues to remain on the margin for significant number of hours in Midwest, Texas, and West.

(Yes yes yes, I agree future will shift this out, but as of now, it's there).

www.nber.org/system/files...

Life beyond literature On January 1, 2024, I embarked on a project I had had in mind since my retirement four years earlier: to spend a year without reading a single book, newspaper, magazine, learned journal, academic trea...

"On January 1, 2024, I embarked on a project I had had in mind since my retirement four years earlier: to spend a year without reading a single book, newspaper, magazine, learned journal, academic treatise". Wonderful essay by Dan Karlin on his experiment
www.the-tls.com/lives/autobi...

amazing q&a with paul krugman

i'm just trying to understand how one climbs up in merica

this is paragraph written by olivia nuzzi

ew

New Post: Katie Wilson is Seattle’s Next Mayor seattletransitblog.com/2025/11/13/k...

Massive Outage Left 93,000 Customers Without Power Across Wyoming, Region A massive power outage left most of northeast Wyoming in the dark Thursday, along with areas in Montana and South Dakota. Nearly 93,000 customers were…

A fire at a coal power plant in Wyoming and cascading shutdowns leave 93,000 without power. WECC frequency dips to 59.77 momentarily.

cowboystatedaily.com/2025/11/13/m...

I’m enjoying feral motherhood movies — ”if I had legs I’d kick you”, “die my love“ -- especially as most people fail to explain why fertility is falling across the globe. Maybe it’s because the world is deeply hostile to motherhood and perhaps a 2 hour can show you that

Waymo will now drive on Bay Area freeways and in San José The robotaxi company will also begin offering curbside service to and from San José Mineta International Airport.

sfstandard.com/2025/11/12/w...

Waymo now on freeways.

we are cooked

Here we come to the fundamental epistemological shift in whose midst we find ourselves. It is a shift away from the idea of knowledge as justified true belief, discovered by hard work and careful investigation, verified by its correspondence to evidence, and towards an idea of knowledge as the product of the pleroma of data, mediated by artificial intelligence. In other words, AI is a greater intelligence than us, and what it generates is the truth. The implications of this shift are profound, of course. It would mean a world where 107 lost books of Livy generated by AI are the lost books of Livy. It would mean a world where AI cannot ‘hallucinate’, because AI is itself the arbiter of truth; if AI seems to have erred, it must be us who are wrong, we who are misremembering the past or what we learnt in the pre-AI era. It would also mean a world without private thoughts, for if someone wants to know what a person thinks about something, they can ask a chatbot. What AI thinks you think is what you think.

Oracles from the Pleroma of Data Generative AI and the dawning new epistemology

Worth your time
drfrancisyoung.substack.com/p/oracles-fr...