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America is now one big bet on AI It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day Investigation shows extent of green land lost across UK and mainland Europe to development from 2018 to 2023

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From Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" damn I wish I had written that line
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The 2025 assessment of Planetary Boundaries
Report: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org#reports-sect...

The warped economics of insuring climate destruction Industry is exposing itself to steepening losses on natural catastrophe cover

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The Debt to David Graeber

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YouTube video by Essentia Foundation All 325+ Competing Consciousness Theories In One Video.

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How the Trump administration gutted America’s disaster relief agency Since the US president retook office, Fema has undergone radical change. Amid hurricane season, some question its ability to respond to calamities

Privatization of natural disaster/ crisis management already well on its way. Stand by for much more militarization. Erosion of bureaucracy makes disasters convenient lever to deepen executive control.

The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders As Donald Trump has launched a series of blunt interventions in the corporate and financial worlds, he has received little pushback from industry or investors

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Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

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We will soon be able to talk with other species. Which will be first? Scientists have long and studiously avoided claiming that other animals have language. Now, using the power of AI, they are on the verge of deciphering one

www.newscientist.com/article/2492...

How do visionaries design experiments when they need to convince skeptical resource providers?

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Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover was the best thing to happen to social apps on open protocols.

On Frontiers of Commoning with @davidbollier.bsky.social, @rabble.nz explains why network protocols matter for privacy, free speech, open markets, & community control.

Listen now on Apple or Spotify.

Researchers uncover surprising limit on human imagination Human beings can juggle up to 10 balls at once. But how many can they move through the air with their imaginations? The answer, published last month in Nature Communications,…

fun write up about our recent work on the limits of mental simulation:

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(original paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...)

YouTube video by The Dissenter #1132 Kevin Mitchell: Free Will, Robert Sapolsky, the Genomic Code, and Human Embryo Editing

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Barclays quits global banking climate alliance Leading European lender to fossil fuel industry follows HSBC and US banks in exiting ‘net zero’ group

“With the departure of most of the global banks, the organisation no longer has the membership to support our transition,” Barclays said in a statement on Friday.

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Tipping cascades between conflict and cooperation in climate change Abstract. Following empirical research on the dynamics of conflict and cooperation under climate change, conditions, pathways, and societal responses in the climate–security nexus are analysed. Comple...

Is the path from climate stress to conflict a gradual slope, or is it a sudden cliff?

🆕📰New paper in Earth Systems Dynamics ⏩ esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/... #ClimateSecurity

YouTube video by myrtillis Allah-Las - Catamaran

Copenhagen conference summer travel vibes #aom
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Does catastrophe affect how we think about climate change? Research suggests that personal experience and prior beliefs interact in complex ways

God, Cass Sunstein is so dull. Every single time there's basically no punchline, and the little punchline that there is, is dead-obvious.

Personal experiences kind of influence your view of climate change, but kind of don't. OK, thanks.

Catastrophe bond sales hit record as insurers offload climate risks Investors attracted by high yields, while recent natural disasters have failed to trigger losses for bondholders

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Trump Is Gutting Weather Science and Reducing Disaster Response

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/c...

Evolution has made humans both Machiavellian and born socialists Humanity’s innate treachery is behind social ills ranging from inequality to abuse of power. Lessons from our ancestors can help defeat the enemy within

www.newscientist.com/article/2486...

The halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running, or continue to run forever. The halting problem is undecidable.

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‘Next-Level’ Chaos Traces the True Limit of Predictability | Quanta Magazine In math and computer science, researchers have long understood that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are exploring how even ordinary physical systems put hard limits on wh...

Physicists are drawing a firmer boundary than ever before between what is knowable and unknowable about our universe. @walkingthedot.bsky.social reports: www.quantamagazine.org/next-level-c...

YouTube video by Denis Mijatovic Carlo Rovelli: Relational Quantum Mechanics and Scientific Realism

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YouTube video by Fashion Neurosis Alessandro Michele on the couch | Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud

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EU’s shift to a US savings model risks dismantling its social contract Political choices should be debated democratically, not hidden in technocratic agendas of ‘financing gaps’

Ive written about @ecb.europa.eu and @ec.europa.eu push for a Savings and Investment Union:

SIU, the new answer to 'how do we pay for' , is a Trojan horse for the American welfare model, increasingly in the hands of (private equity) financiers

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I wrote this paper recently with several of the issues I believe deserve being tackled. From a more technical perspective but not mathematically formalized.

How the next financial crisis starts The climate shocks that could trigger wider market turmoil

“If insurance is no longer available, other financial services become unavailable too."

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Bart/Homer Simpson meme THIS IS THE HOTTEST SUMMER OF MY LIFE THIS IS THE COLDEST SUMMER OF THE REST OF YOUR LIFE