Robinson Meyer

Thank you and thank you for writing it for us!

This Thanksgiving, I'm grateful to @heatmap.news for their always-incredible coverage, and for the chance to adapt my AI market structure report into a piece for them!

How to Make Your Climate Giving Count, According to an Expert Podcast Episode · Shift Key with Robinson Meyer and Jesse Jenkins · 11/26/2025 · 57m

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How to Make Your Climate Giving Count, According to an Expert Rob preps for Giving Tuesday with Giving Green’s Dan Stein.

If you care about climate change, where should you donate?

Dan Stein leads a group that researches the most high-impact climate nonprofits, and he has five big recommendations for 2025. On our new episode of SHIFT KEY, we chat about those picks and his thinking today:
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In fairness, accusing the current pope of being the antichrist is one of Peter Thiel’s most traditionalist and conservative behaviors

Discovering what British people call a “flapjack” is like discovering Russian has a word for “light blue” — it’s not so much exasperating as it is earth-trembling such a thing could demand its own category

To the degree the response to Mamdani-Trump has been especially deranged, it may be because it reveals the relative unimportance of whatever it is we’re all doing here

eupecadillo

not an eucatastrophe, but definitely the first eumisdemeanor our country has gotten in a while

Only in New York baby only in the USA

a graph of year-on-year change in US blue collar employment

The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since the pandemic—year-on-year job losses have hit 59k as manufacturing industries lose jobs at a rapid pace while growth in construction & transportation has nearly zeroed out

The Center for Public Enterprise wrote about this last year, fwiw: publicenterprise.org/report/smoot...

House Permitting Bill Would Block Trump From Pulling Permits It was approved by the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday by a vote of 25 to 18.

“A key House panel this afternoon advanced a bipartisan permitting deal that would include language appearing to bar Donald Trump or any other president from rescinding permits for energy projects.” heatmap.news/energy/speed...

Manufacturing consent

Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.

People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
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Democrats’ New Affordability Message Is Complicating Climate Policy The transition to clean energy will be expensive today, even if it’ll be cheaper in the long run.

State-level Democrats have embraced affordability as a new theory of how to win.

That approach is reshaping some of their climate policies. Across the country, Dems are slow-walking GHG mandates or accepting more fossil supply to help stabilize energy prices. heatmap.news/politics/dem...

Results: Are You Smarter Than an Eighth-Grader From 1899? 14/14 Congrats! You’d be smart at any point in American history!

frankly not a given and a big relief nymag.com/intelligence...

We’re watching a shift where AI simulates the cohesion and reinforcement that used to require an entire online community. A single person can now build a complete parallel reality with nothing more than a prompt window. Which seems bad.

How Clean Energy Could Prepare for an AI Bubble Rob and Jesse talk data center finance with the Center for Public Enterprise’s Advait Arun.

On this week’s episode of Shift Key, we talk to @advaitarun.bsky.social about the financial anatomy of the data center boom and what its unraveling — or continuation! — could mean for clean energy and electricity innovation. heatmap.news/podcast/shif...

How Clean Energy Could Prepare for an AI Bubble Rob and Jesse talk data center finance with the Center for Public Enterprise’s Advait Arun.

I'm on @heatmap.news Shift Key this morning to talk all about "Bubble or Nothing" and the fragility of the data center investment boom!

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In the new Ken Burns documentary, they have a historian talking about the significance of the Boston Tea Party demonstrators dressing like Indians, and I was like, ok, that’s smart, but who is this guy. It was Philip Deloria.

You know the best part of your and @byzantienne.bsky.social’s love for that story is that I was reading A Memory Called Empire WHILE writing it!

that’s right

NIH grant cuts have disrupted hundreds of clinical trials, study finds The second Trump administration has been defined by widespread cuts to federal spending, including at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). | The second Trump administration has been defined by wid...

Cuts to NIH grants have disrupted at least 383 clinical trials, with infectious disease research hit especially hard. A stark example of the real-world repercussions of Trump and co.'s health policy 🧪 my latest:

if the Washington Post editorial board is now perceived as Bezos stooges, that actually opens up a massive opportunity in the district for a credible, 'good government' local interview and endorsement operation

More broadly, the 2024-2025 pro-Democratic shifts seem to be biggest in the poorest areas while in the richest towns the electorate got more Republican, ruining many a narrative

Wow, why did you never use the Ricoh GR III? That’s the other one I think about all the time. (And yes lol we have the same relationship to Craig Mod camera talk)

Japanese expensive?