Scientist Rebellion NYC

Please someone do a story interviewing the influencers who said “they are the same” last fall.

I'm increasingly convinced that the entity pulling the strings behind the Trump admin is just a sentient lump of coal.

This would appear to be an incentive for normal people to continue their work to bring g down Tesla.

They know climate change is real. They know what causes it.

Destroying our ability to mitigate and minimize climate disaster is an intentional choice.

This administration is filled with climate criminals.

It was Svante Arrhenius

NYC:
In case you're wondering what's up with the intense downpours we now get, it's climate change.

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Building renewable is incredibly important. Writing an email is incredibly easy.

Seriously, the effort:reward ratio is ridiculous. Just do it.

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That AI will do something great does not make it likely. Nor does it give people doing terrible things to promote AI a get out of jail free card.

Right now? AI does not appear to be on track to solve climate change.

Mostly, people seem to want to use it to make slop.

It reminds me of when adults say things like, "Children are our future! Who knows who will grow up to do great things and solve [problem of the moment]."

Yes, sure, kids grow up and sometimes do great things. But that doesn't let current adults off the hook.

The theoretical possibility...

And it's presumably even more true for AI, which is expensive and seems to work well only when it's big.

That's not to say AI won't do anything to solve the big problems of our day. No one can see the future!

But there's no reason I'm aware of to expect this...

tech companies are highly incentivised to do whatever they can to get products to be used A LOT.

Selective, targeted use is a recipe for economic failure (from their perspective). This is true for any commercial software-ish product I can think of...

most AI consumption is going towards things that aren't very useful.

One of the main ways tech companies make money is through 'consumption'.

In this context, consumption is use of whatever product or cloud service they sell.

As a result...

Good question. In my opinion (not official opinion of Scientist Rebellion) AI *could* be a tool that is used to help solve real problems, such as climate change. HOWEVER, in practice, that is not how it is being used today. And the incentives are such that... 1/x

Yes?

Does this only work for cyber trucks, or is cleaning any Tesla vehicle with saltwater and lemon juice safe and effective?

They really are evil

Scotland

Why a tech start-up wants to pump your faeces deep underground Start-up Vaulted Deep, which just signed a deal with Microsoft, says storing human waste deep underground can keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and pollutants like forever chemicals out of sur...

Anyone have evidence-based insight into the idea of pumping human and animal waste into old salt mines as a carbon removal strategy?

www.newscientist.com/article/2489...

Super action yesterday at Wells Fargo HQ, SF.
#stopbillionaires, #stopbillionairessummer #oilandgasaction

There was a lot of “you’re doomed” talk when the real estate lobby sued to overturn local law 97 & the gas lobby sued over the city & state bans on gas in new buildings. Headlines + stories implying they’d win. But these were bs cases without legal merit.

Now, we’ve won all 3 cases.😀

It's great how we can't organize a substantive answer to this, and no one talks about it -- a lesson from Covid, I guess.
Here's what's coming east, 48 hours out. Also a heat wave.

‘Wells Fargo is complicit’: seven arrested at climate protests outside bank’s offices Activists launch civil disobedience campaign in New York and San Francisco after company dropped climate vows

There is no excuse for financially enabling new fossil fuel infrastructure or extraction. Companies that do so must, and will, be targeted with disruption.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This happened today:

Protestors in San Francisco shut down EVERY SINGLE ENTRANCE to Wells Fargo’s global headquarters this morning.

DYK? Wells Fargo is one of the biggest fossil fuel financiers in the WORLD, contributing over $39 BILLION in 2024 alone. SHAME!

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#DefundFossilFuels

New Yorkers don't want climate-wrecking fossil fuel pipelines

No Trump Pipelines in NY! As Donald Trump tries to shove fracked gas pipelines through New York, we’re standing up to tell Governor Kathy Hochul that New Yorkers won’t accept new or expanded fracked gas pipelines through our s...

Needless to say, we have to get her to act, not lick Trump’s boots.

That means getting into the streets and pushing her!

Join us August 9th for a march across the Brooklyn bridge on one of the key battles:

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DMV legal battle against Tesla begins in Oakland court A legal battle between California’s Department of Motor Vehicles and Tesla began in a Bay Area courtroom Monday. Ginger Conejero Saab reports.

Also, the cars don't perform as they should. www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/v...

Protest, including members of Scientist Rebellion, featuring headstones representing people who have died as a result of Tesla self-driving cars.

Elon Musk is a climate criminal. He has helped destroy the infrastructure of the United States that was dedicated to mitigating climate change.

That's why Scientist Rebellion members join protests against Tesla. @srti.bsky.social #TeslaTakedown