Aarón Cantú

AI is the economy and incels are the culture. bsky.app/profile/lbyo...

Fossil-fuel billionaires bought up millions of shares after meeting with top Trump officials Co-founders’ acquisition of Venture Global shares before key permit granted draws scrutiny as pair deny wrongdoing

By @ninalakhani.bsky.social and me:

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Orphans and Zombies — Reporting on Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Across the Country For more than a century, oil and gas companies have been drilling — and abandoning — wells across the country, leaving hundreds of thousands to potentially leak pollutants into the air, water and soil...

I wrote up some tips for reporting on orphaned, abandoned and inactive wells for @sejorg.bsky.social. Honestly a very fun beat if you like mysteries!

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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge "Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

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US navy accused of cover-up over dangerous plutonium in San Francisco Advocates allege navy knew levels of airborne plutonium at Hunters Point shipyard were high before it alerted officials

“Can you trust them to report this honestly?” Steve Castleman, supervising attorney of Berkeley Law’s Environmental Law Clinic, spoke to @theguardian.com about potentially dangerous levels of airborne plutonium in San Francisco https://bit.ly/48skgCO #BerkeleyLaw

My younger cousin has started a business that converts your old VHS tapes (like family home videos) into digital format. Really cool idea! www.thirdcoastvcr.com

FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements, claiming child covid shot deaths Vinay Prasad, the nation’s top vaccine regulator, said his team concluded that coronavirus shots were linked to children’s deaths, necessitating a new approach.

Big change: FDA to impose strict new vaccine requirements under RFK Jr ally

Vinay Prasad signaled changes to annual flu shots, concurrent vaccines + more

Prasad said his team found link between covid-19 shots and kids' deaths, necessitating a new approach overall

with @rachelroubein.bsky.social

Line graph time series of 2025's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to each year from 1979 to 2024 as shown with thin lines in colors from purple to white. There is large daily variability, but a long-term decreasing trend during all months of the year. A seasonal cycle is also visible in this region.

Astonishingly, sea ice still hasn't started to reform over the Barents Sea area yet of the #Arctic. This includes record low conditions around Svalbard as well. It's been a very bad few months across the region.

Check out more graphics here: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

AI is death. Fight for a life in this world before it’s too late.

I want my writing to provoke, engage, and spark curiosity.

Each published piece should be an intervention aiding in the progression of the human experience.

This is why I would never use AI for my writing.

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YouTube video by The Atlantic America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins

I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
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The Quick and Shameful Death of Biden’s Biggest Policy It was far too easy for Republicans to kill the Inflation Reduction Act. Where did those who crafted it go wrong?

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California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump

NEW: When LA communities scarred by fires received evacuation warnings amid heavy rain, it was a reminder of dangerous compound climate disasters.

But federal support to rebuild and prepare is collapsing because of politics. capitalandmain.com/california-e...

#PrivateEquity is powering the #AI boom — w/gas.

New research links the world’s biggest PE firms to a global fleet of gas-fired power plants spanning 27 countries and 82 million tonnes CO₂ a year.

The digital gold rush runs on fossil fuel. #ClimateFinance

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'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.

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Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.

“Freelance journalism in 2025 is an incredibly difficult place to build a career. But, it turns out, it’s a decent enough arena for a scam.”

This whole story. Holy cow. thelocal.to/investigatin...

writing advice*

Some journalism writing is infantilizing. Don’t use too many numbers, don’t be so negative. We write for adults not children.

California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump

As scientists draw clearer links between climate extremes like landslides, and sound the alarm over rising greenhouse gas emissions, the government under Trump is increasingly unable and often unwilling to help residents prepare for and survive such events.
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Congrats Alex.

California Endures Whipsaw Climate Extremes as Federal Support Withers Data and aid to fight landslides fueled by bigger fires and intense storms are imperiled under Trump

NEW: When LA communities scarred by fires received evacuation warnings amid heavy rain, it was a reminder of dangerous compound climate disasters.

But federal support to rebuild and prepare is collapsing because of politics. capitalandmain.com/california-e...

Opinion | How the Elite Behave When No One Is Watching: Inside the Epstein Emails

Anand Giridharadas' discussion of the Epstein emails as a record of the thought and conduct of white mail elites is the best writing on this subject I have seen in the last several weeks. Read it.

Front page of Sunday L.A. Times

Very pleased with the layout of my investigation in today’s print edition
Read the story here

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U.N. climate talks fizzle out 10 years after Paris accord Major oil and gas producers at the U.N. climate summit blocked a road map to curtail the use of fossil fuels, the main drivers of climate change.

Nearly 200 countries reached an agreement at the United Nations climate talks about how to advance efforts to address global warming.

Major oil and gas producers blocked a road map to curtail the use of fossil fuels, the main drivers of climate change.

Trump in a room with a very charismatic person results in like half a day of Trump agreeing with everything that person said, so this has the potential to be very, very funny.

Intuitive explanation of greenhouse gas emissions in an environmental justice group's presentation from 2007

California’s child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

Be sure to read this major investigation by Robert Lopez. capitalandmain.com/californias-...

Congratulations to Capital & Main reporter Aaron Cantú for this well-deserved recognition of his work in environmental journalism. 👏🎉

I love this bcuz as the years go on I realize how much of an annoying nerdy joke Nietzsche was.