Julian Barg

Just noticed that using unicode characters as the shape for ```geom_point``` is pretty stable now. Game changer, now I can finally make parrot plots 🦜🦜🦜

I wonder whether any work on 4.0.0 went into this.

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

I keep forgetting that we categorically cannot have nice things.

Now that Tesla has officially given up on building an affordable electric car, could someone else maybe full that void? Anyone? No? Too bad.

Looks like someone accidentally said the quiet part out loud. To reduce fossil fuel issue, you stay by curtailing production.

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Please enjoy this executive at one of America's biggest gas companies openly admitting that expanding supply leads to increased demand for fossil fuels

He is not wrong: frantic expansion of fossil fuel supply worsens climate change. Tax it, cut subsidies, wind it down

www.ft.com/content/5ba8...

Meanwhile, the economics are looking much better in China doing the same with renewables. But it's never really about what's more economic, is it?

Finally something new to aspire to!

YouTube video by More Perfect Union The Hidden Reason So Many Restaurants Taste the Same

Always wondered why restaurant food often seemed so disappointing across North America. I had suspected Sysco had something to do with it. Spot on!

It's so funny because the economics are clear as day. Collectively investing in the well-being and education of the next generation offers a great return on investment. But everyone is too busy investing into the latest pyramid scheme or bubble I suppose.

Labor economics of public transit

Today we were talking about busses, and my daughter worried that if less people buy cars, car factory workers will lose their jobs. I gave her a handwavy explanation that public transit generates jobs, but I don't actually know the labor economics of that. Anyone care to weigh in?

What we do | ExxonMobil Creating sustainable energy and product solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs.

ExxonMobil's "What we do section" opens like this:

> Creating energy and sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs

Now that's a sentence I would love to see cited in a greenwashing lawsuit in Canada...

> edge closer to the 1.5 limit

Quite the understatement

> No more beards, long hair, superficial individual expression. We don’t have a military full of Nordic pagans.

Hegseth... Always impressed by their range. Managing to insult such a broad variety of people. Too bad I can't grow a good beard.

UK government will underwrite £1.5bn loan guarantee to Jaguar Land Rover after cyber-attack Britain’s largest automotive employer plans to restart engine manufacturing in early October, report says

Just for the record, here is another subsidy for combustion engines.

The amazon turning from carbon sink to carbon source is terrifying. Really driving home the climate feedback/tipping points thing.

> a growing fire-climate feedback, demonstrating how regional extremes increasingly shape the global carbon budget and complicate pathways to climate stabilization.

That's great news!

The U.S. Energy Secretary just said on stage at @nytimes.com Climate Forward event that “there are not oil and gas subsidies" in response to a good question from David Gelles. “It’s not a subsidized industry.” Uh. @oilchange.bsky.social @oilchangeus.bsky.social

ggplot2 4.0.0 A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

Just saw my profile among the list of contributors to ggplot2 4.0.0 - that is a project I want to be affiliated with for sure. Pretty sure it's just for a ticket I opened. It was resolved within a record two days or something, too. The beauty of a well-running free and open-source software project.

Utilities really are not rising to the occasion, maybe energy demand from new data centers (AI anyone?) is to blame? Tons of new commitments to build gas power plants - 118 GW capacity planned by 2035. Only 29% of coal capacity poised to be retired by 2030.

I live in one of the red areas, hope that narrows it down!

I live in one of the red areas, hope that narrows it down!

CapitalOne has almost $19B invested in fossil fuel companies, and only about $100M in renewables. Maybe I should rethink who I bank with...

Home Insurance as You Know It Is Doomed. You’re Not Ready. The remedies for homeowners so far aren’t preparing them for a financially stable existence as the risk of disaster increases.

I'm hearing lots about insurance companies absorbing meteorologists/recent grads. This industry is in a math war, and the math says things are getting much worse by the year. That's the real economics of climate catastrophy/adaptation were facing.

Unrelated, but my favorite German word is "vorauseilender Gehorsam" or anticipatory compliance. When you take action in expectation of orders that haven't even been given to you or even if you're not in the line of command, to avoid trouble or even opportunistically. For examples see German history.

We/many countries could have easily adopted renewable energy 2/3/x times as fast, it's really sad. In many ways it feels like a half-assed attempt by a high school student who is mostly just whining. Drop in the bucket compared to the cost of new submarines, jet fighters, and other vanity projects.

Vaccine tourism (to Canada) was already a a thing during COVID, but this is on an other level. I'm having to wait two weeks for things to get sorted, and that's with a big asterisks, others will not be able to get the shot at all in Florida.

This is what we refer to as futurewashing in our green washing paper. Guess what you can claim anything you want about the future, how could anyone know. Without specific plans it has to be considered an empty promise. I didn't anticipate fossil fuel to fill that rhetorical void but makes sense.

The language police at it again...

I did not have "America going full cultural revolution" on my bingo card.

Seems like car companies have normalized lying about your gas mileage so much that most consumers just take it for granted... That and plug-in hybrid SUVs are somehow a thing now...