Duncan Meisel

Videos show Waymo vehicles illegally passing Austin school buses 19 times this year On Nov. 5, email records show Waymo sent Austin ISD’s legal team a letter indicating it had made “certain software updates” to improve performance around school buses.

All Cars Are Bad

The ad and PR industry is full of wildly talented, caring people, and they've been so supportive of me, and this project. I know they'll keep pushing for change, backed by the incredible @cleancreatives.bsky.social team.

Clean Creatives started with me cold emailing strangers, and has grown to a network of 1500 agencies who have pledged not to work with fossil fuels in 60+ countries. As our Head of Organizing, Laura has been a huge part of that growth and I'm excited to elevate her leadership.

Amid Sociopolitical Headwinds, Activist Group Clean Creatives Appoints New Executive Director Laura Ranzato shared how the campaign has evolved—and what's next.

Life update: @cleancreatives.bsky.social has a new Executive Director! Laura Ranzato will be taking over my role on December 12, and I'll be doing some time off followed by new projects in 2026. www.adweek.com/brand-market...

I am very closely related to someone whose entire job is to assess and track students for IEPs. It's a job that requires a decade of work experience and advanced degrees, and done by people who care deeply for vulnerable students. Throwing out their work based vibes is offensively stupid.

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I have never once intentionally clicked on a button with that stupid sparkles emoji that big tech uses to indicate 'make it with AI' and every time I've done it by accident I've been incredibly annoyed.

I often have to make ads on LinkedIn for work and today I had to click 'no' on exactly 8 prompts to make my ad with AI. If it's that good, or good for me, something tells me they wouldn't need to sell it so hard.

Revealed: how top PR firm uses ‘trust barometer’ to promote world’s autocrats Edelman, world’s largest public relations company, paid millions by Saudi Arabia, UAE and other repressive regimes

After Khashoggi was killed, Edelman started listing Saudi Arabia as one of the most trusted governments in the world in their in-house propaganda report, The Trust Barometer.

Richard Edelman personally hosts meet and greets for Saudi government leaders www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...

Everything about the Saudi government's global image strategy has been led by Edelman, from golf to 'sustainable tourism' to weird cities in the desert.

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Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent Hey Copilot, are you useful yet?

When you try to do the things Microsoft advertises you can do with their AI assistant, the AI assistant simply cannot do those things. We're burning down the planet for... this. www.theverge.com/report/82244...

API thinks it wasn't nice enough to them, interestingly.

What's insane is that according to the American Petroleum Institute, Landman isn't pro-oil ENOUGH. They bought ads specifically against the program to promote their own message. www.mrt.com/business/oil...

We still have so much work to do, but that fact that progress is still being made in the midst of shocking violence and the rise of brutal reactionaries is astonishing and encouraging.

I feel like that mix of hope and fear is still front and center in many ways in my life, but I'm trying to approach it with more softness and kindness than I did in the years following 2015.

I took me a few years to work through the feelings I had about being that close to so much violence.

Paradoxically, those weeks were the first time I realized Donald Trump's brand of xenophobia and hate could win, and the first time I thought we had a chance to win on climate change.

We went to a movie instead, and shortly after I left my neighborhood, a group of terrorists ran through it, killing dozens of people up and down the street I was staying on, and then at the Bataclan itself.

10 years ago I was in Paris awaiting the start of the UN Climate Talks when I convinced my friend that we shouldn't go to a concert at the Bataclan.

This is the news I was hoping for. Thank you for running a great site.

For years, advertising has been how Stereogum made money to pay its writers. While we made progress moving away from that model, Google AI search has decimated the business almost overnight. Today we relaunch with a greater focus on subscription. We’d love your support: stereogum.com/2478838/ster...

He literally said women only 'mate socioeconomically' and do so ‘horizontally and up’ and pointed out the watch he had bought specifically to make women want to sleep with him. It was weird as hell.

Last year when I was in Cannes, I saw Scott Galloway say some of the most sexist things I've heard a man say in public in a long, long time and it's very weird that anyone would take his advice on gender politics.

The Sierra Club Embraced Social Justice. Then It Tore Itself Apart.

I was at the Sierra Club during the period described in this article and although I have my criticisms, it gets the issues in the Club fundamentally wrong. A 🧵

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Please share the whole post. I am driven by madness to stare into the sun of posts like this.

Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

In the US power bills are going up by 300+% because of AI, slow permitting for residential solar, and fossil fuel dead-enders cutting off renewables.

Meanwhile, in Australia where rooftop solar permitting takes 72 hours or less, utilities are giving power away for free electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Good riddance to Andrew Cuomo, the embodiment of everything the public hates about the Democratic party: entitlement, corruption, and hypocrisy. A truly terrible person both in office and in his heart of hearts.

It's amazing that Democrats really thought this man and his wife were a vital part of winning the election for Harris. One of the most unlikable, destructive men to have public office in our lifetimes.

This is the kind of thing you write only if you had nothing to do with fighting or winning any of these campaigns. If you did know anything about them, you'd know Cuomo aggressively resisted every single one of these until absolutely forced to concede by relentless public opinion.

AI slop by one monopoly business used to funnel people into another monopoly business. The future is bright, and full of water shortages, and $100 face value tickets with $250 in processing fees bsky.app/profile/jaso...