Emma Strubell

Canceling transmission lines will raise electricity prices and raise emissions. Canceling transmission lines enhances corporate monopoly power and profit. Canceling transmission lines is climate denial.

A project that would make energy more affordable and reliable for more than 40% of Americans is cancelled, just days before a new EO is released calling for accelerated funding and permitting for data center energy projects (including reducing and removing environmental review wherever possible).

If I were in charge of PBS or NPR I would be doing 24-7 programming right now about the end of PBS and NPR

Platforming this kind of junk in 2025 is itself anti-science

As a public service, people will find the original pdf files of all the U.S. National Climate Assessments, 2001-2023, publicly available at: www.patrickgonzalez.net#us_national_...

In all fairness, Trump uses IQ in the most historically accurate way possible, as a way to do a racism in service of eugenics.

Another thing this chart shows is that one of these groups is much more in touch with empirical reality than the other. Believing that whites face more discrimination than immigrants or Black people is like being a flat-earther.

Propaganda works.

AI 'Nudify' Websites Are Raking in Millions of Dollars Millions of people are accessing harmful AI “nudify” websites. New analysis says the sites are making millions and rely on tech from US companies.

Websites that use AI to transform photos into nonconsensual explicit imagery have become a lucrative business, and “Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to generative AI” has allowed them to persist. www.wired.com/story/ai-nud...

looks like Anthropic will be getting ~$200M in DoD funding for AI along with Google, OpenAI and xAI. I doubt there will be any pushback from any of those companies or others hoping to benefit from the massive cuts to academic/nonproft R&D. I think the big bet is that AI will solve all our problems 🙄

if you took a dementia test and thought it was an IQ test you failed both the dementia test and the IQ test

CMU community pushes back on AI summit with paint, petitions, and protests Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against the National AI and Energy Summit planned at CMU on July 15.

Students and community members at Carnegie Mellon University are pushing back against an AI and energy summit planned at CMU on July 15. Leaders in AI and related fields and President Donald Trump are expected to attend the invitation-only event, convened by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.

I did an interview w/ Pittsburgh's NPR station to share some of my views on the topic of the McCormick/Trump AI & Energy summit at CMU tomorrow. Despite being hosted at the university, there will not be opportunities for our university experts to contribute viewpoints at the event.

Reporting AI’s Impacts to Build Public Trust and Advance AI As AI becomes more capable and integrated throughout the United States economy, its growing demand for energy is driving higher environmental costs.

In a policy memo published by @scientistsorg.bsky.social‬, D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social‬, and Emma Strubell, recommend that approaches to measuring AI’s environmental impacts consider the use cases that are driving energy consumption, and how data centers impact communities. fas.org/publication/...

HEY NYC TRANS PEOPLE:

Brooklyn Brewery is taking the $25k it would have spent on Pride ads and giving $1k each to 25 NYC trans folk. You can nominate yourself here: brooklynbrewery.com/brooklynbrew...

🚨 Call for Papers: LM4Sci @COLM_conf 2025 🚨

Excited to announce the Large Language Modeling for Scientific Discovery (LM4Sci) workshop at COLM 2025 in Montreal, Canada!

Submission Deadline: June 23
Notification: July 24
Workshop: October 10, 2025

What Covid “Lab Leak” and “Rushing Kids into Transition” Have in Common and more general thoughts about conspiracy theories and negativity bias

NEW ESSAY: rather than reading the legalese SCOTUS used to justify Skrmetti, learn about how conspiracy theorists hijacked mainstream discourse on gender-affirming care:
on Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/what-covid...
& Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/what-covid-l...

Protect transgender scientists Transgender and gender nonconforming (TGnC) people are a primary target of the Trump administration. Multiple executive orders seek to erase TGnC protections; mandate denial of gender identity; and ba...

Protect transgender scientist! 🏳️‍⚧️

This looks like the cover of their third album

there's an interesting detail in this, which is that *technically* he did not have his visa cancelled for his speech, they used his speech as a pretext to single him out for search and concoct allegations that he'd lied about illegal drug use, and that became the pretext for the deportation.

Harming children: the effects of the UK puberty blocker ban This paper presents an analysis of data from trans children and young people and their parents following the imposition of a UK-wide ban on puberty blockers for this group. The consequences of this...

TW: harm to children.

My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review.

It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban.

Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved the Darden Clean Energy Project (DCEP), the first to be permitted under the state’s Opt-In Certification program. Once constructed, the DCEP will boast the world’s biggest battery energy storage system (BESS), which, by default, makes it the largest solar-plus-storage project on the planet. Proposed by IP Darden I, LLC, a subsidiary of Intersect Power, the project will be built on 9,500 acres of land in western Fresno County that is no longer suitable for agricultural production. Authorized under Assembly Bill 205, California’s Opt-In Certification program provides a consolidated state permitting option for eligible clean energy undertakings, aiming to streamline the process for bringing large power projects online. Under statute, the environmental review for a project must be completed within 270 days from the point the project application is deemed complete, unless significant project changes arise.

Details on the Darden Clean Energy Project (DCEP): The DCEP includes a 1,150 megawatt (MW) solar facility comprised of approximately 3.1 million panels alongside up to 1,150 MW/4,600 megawatt-hours (MWh) of battery storage, enough to power 850,000 homes for four hours. Projects seeking approval through the Opt-In Certification program are required to provide community and economic benefits. The DCEP includes: $2 million in community investments over the next decade starting with a $320,000 commitment to Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, a nonprofit supporting crime victims, family wellness, and civic engagement in rural communities. More than 2,000 prevailing-wage construction jobs to support the local workforce throughout the construction period, which will last from 1.5 to 3 years. An estimated $169 million in economic benefits to the local area over the project’s lifetime, estimated at 35 years.

Utilizing new streamlined permitting process, California approves world’s largest solar-plus-storage project www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-stora...

Giant 1.15 GW / 4.6 GWh battery + 1.15 GW solar project in Fresno County is first permitted under California expedited process.

#Upshift 🔌💡

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

🎉 Big update!
The #InternetArchive has launched a new version of GifCities, our search engine for vintage GeoCities GIFs. Search better. Blink more!

Check it out ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/06/09/k...
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As usual with these dust-ups she is retreating to the ‘compromise’ position that sporting bodies should make standards about transition.

The problem is that THIS HAS ALREADY HAPPENED. Standards have been in place for years. Lia Thomas met them! The bigots don’t care.

A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

I get tired of people who take themselves too seriously. We are all little dumb dumbs doing the best we can, just get a grip

We made this episode public so everyone could hear us live-react to the White House's berserk conspiracy website
www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...