Julian Barg

Equinor Steps Back From CCS Expansion As Market Signals Weaken Equinor is scaling back its near-term investment plans for CCS as project economics and customer demand fail to mature at the pace expected.

Add it to the pile of broken carbon capture promises... Another case of what we refer to as futurewashing. Make big announcements and then back out when the attention is somewhere else. Three decades of empty promises. Don't ever trust a "by the end of the decade" statement.

How many staff lawyers would an office like that have?

How malicious AI swarms can threaten democracy The fusion of agentic AI and LLMs marks a new frontier in information warfare

What happens to a regular user when they log onto a website, see an opinion, and then hundreds of supposedly real comments agreeing with the poster? I'm pessimistic about the future of public discourse.

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.

This is why the global community has not bent the global emissions curve (Stoddard et al. 2021). So-called "lower emission fuel" gas is not displacing other fuels. We are extracting more fossil fuels and building more power plants and not retiring old capacity fast enough relative to new capacity.

Court Orders the Netherlands to Protect a Caribbean Island From Climate Change

> The court said the Netherlands was not complying with international accords, such as the 2015 Paris Agreement, in which most countries in the world vowed to cut emissions.

So far in Europe, too, the agreement has not been worth the papers it's been written on. Curious to see where this is going.

Imagine if Equifax's employees spent all that time on auditing corporations' and high value individuals' taxes instead...

How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart We found the effects of tariffs and extreme weather, relief (finally!) in the egg cooler, plus one case of shrinkflation.

I've been waiting way to long for a journalist to frame this correctly:

> Climate chaos roiled many industries

Extreme weather has affected harvests around the globe. It's not (only) domestic policy; warming, floods, and droughts also impact harvests of goos such as coffee and chocolate beans.

UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’ Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights

Just wild...

Well I know you (from Bluesky)

Adolescents’ short-form video addiction and sleep quality: the mediating role of social anxiety - BMC Psychology Background Adolescence is a critical period for individual growth and development. Insufficient sleep adversely affects adolescents’ physical development, blood pressure, vision, and cognitive functio...

> Short‐form video addiction, sleep quality, and social anxiety are significantly correlated (r = 0.439, 0.404, 0.457, P < 0.001).

Noooooo way!!! I'm shocked!

Taxpayer-funded Purdue University discussed it is hiring a foreigner on an H-1B visa to teach marketing. Does anyone seriously belief no American in the Chicago area can teach marketing for $127,500 a year? The same university even has a PHD program for marketing students

Politician trying to involve himself with micro-level decision making at a public university. This does not bode well for the future competitiveness of American academia.

You should name the compiler "YB", pronounced "vibe"...

Nothing will ever convince me that the Ford F150 was ever a good faith attempt. In my brain version of the events, executives sat thought "what is the project that would sink the fastest" so they could say they had tried EVs but costumers didn't want them. Or maybe they really are that incompetent.

Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks Un-redacted text from released documents began circulating on social media on Monday evening

Why the DOJ find it important to protect Indyke. He was Epstein's lawyer, and now we learn that he was personally involved. He is not a Washington person. We expected there to be politically motivated protection of certain people, but is the DOJ just going to blanket protect anybody in the docs?

That market of less than 3 million households ought to be saturated at some point though, too.

Please elaborate...

And that's just the first name, would love to see what spelling they've got to offer on your family name. Most can't even get mine right...

0.1% is a crazy large number for what it is actually!

'It's a small percentage of global' was the same line run by the Bitcoin mining folks when trying to dimiss the impacts of their activities. You can put any highly-polluting activity atop a massive denominator to get a teeny percentage and happily dismiss it

Wrong for them and wrong for this

According to S&P 500, Dow Jones, and Nasdaq, we've had a great year...

If only there was a way for us to break out of our bubble without coming up against all the bots and trolls though.

Low-key on brand though...

The most difficult thing about moving to the US is learning how to spell Massachussets

What do you think it means?

It will all trickle down to us. A slow, warm trickle.

What a fun year we've had... 🤔

Irony is dead. It's a plastic version of Charlie Brown's flimsy Christmas tree. The symbol of the rejection of consumerism. He would rather have the flimsiest, tiny, real tree than to buy something shiny made from aluminum. And now you can buy that, too.

The Canadian Liberals are still a party of resource-extractive capitalists. People just got confused when did not approve the Northern Gateway pipeline. But then he went ahead and approved Trans Mountain and Line 3 anyways. 10 years of Liberal rule in Canada have not moved the needle in the least.

Be the scourge of all bibliographic research!

I've always considered signing up for as many of those email lists as possible with an alt address just as a source of data, would be interesting, no?