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Alex Borger

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My fresh Bluesky account. Building Dashgrid.io and ClimateChangeTracker.org sustainability enthusiast, software dev, data junkie, tech-entrepreneur.

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 6

climatechangetracker.org

Climate Change Tracker

Up-to-date crucial climate change indicators. Global warming, temperature, rate of change, greenhouse gas emissions, sea level rise, energy imbalance, radiative forcing.

climatechangetracker.org

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 2h

Not through revolution or institution-building, but through shipping code that makes the old systems irrelevant.

That's genuinely without historical precedent.

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 2h

The current situation with LLMs could be massively understated: a small group of people with a specific cognitive style potentially reshaping reality faster than society can adapt.

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 2h

While others debate what's possible, those with implementation skills just... build it. And in software, deployment can happen instantly, globally.

The scary and exciting part isn't just the power, but the speed and irreversibility.

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 2h

The Code That Governs: When Shipping Software Means Shipping Society

Software developers + LLMs are an unprecedented concentration of causality in the hands of people selected not for wisdom or ethics, but for their ability to think in systems and abstractions.

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 2d

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 18d

Sorry, but disagree with @hausfath.bsky.social here. You open Pandora's box, you ain't closing it again. We've already seen with Paris that well intentioned international agreements do not translate into physical reality and SRM governance is a much harder problem. Zero is the only safe level. /1

Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · 18d

I have a new @nytimes.com guest essay w/ @davidkeith.bsky.social about sunlight reflection. We note its not a solution for climate change and at best a band aid to treat systems, and suggest if its ever done it should only be to replace the cooling from air pollution today:

Opinion | A Responsible Way to Cool the Planet

A small, carefully scaled geoengineering program could compensate for the loss of cooling as we eliminate sulfur pollution.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 18d

Exactly

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 22d

Real chart previews in shared links 🍭

🙌 No one needs to make crappy screenshots anymore on
@cct.earth

climatechangetracker.org/co2/yearly-a...

Yearly Absorption of Human-Induced CO2 Emissions: Insights, Data, Charts: ClimateChangeTracker.org

Discover the yearly absorption (sink, uptake) of human-induced CO2 emissions by atmosphere, land, oceans, and human activities. Gain insights in achieving net-zero emissions.

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 22d

iOS 26 has amazing features

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · 22d

This is the main reason why I often just don't post

@bsky.app

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Climate Change Tracker @cct.earth · 24d

Real people built Climate Change Tracker for real change. We're pouring our hearts into providing free, up-to-date climate insights because together, we can make a difference.

Your donation keeps our team fighting for our planet's future.

❤️ climatechangetracker.org/donate

Climate Change Tracker

Stay informed with relevant and up-to-date climate change indicators

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Robbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 29d

Holy cow.

www.transportenvironment.org/articles/plu...

Graph showing the gap between PHEVs' real-world and official WLTP emissions

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Sep 8

Climate skeptics have long been obsessed with corrections to temperature records for changes in measurement techniques and instruments over time.

But it turns out that if we just used the raw data we'd see more warming. My latest at The Climate Brink: www.theclimatebrink....

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 6

climatechangetracker.org

Climate Change Tracker

Up-to-date crucial climate change indicators. Global warming, temperature, rate of change, greenhouse gas emissions, sea level rise, energy imbalance, radiative forcing.

climatechangetracker.org

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 5

Sorry I removed, data has many problems. Should not be used or published. I wonder they keep it in public archives.

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 5

Unfortunately, The World Bank discontinued the Doing Business report in September 2021 due to data manipulation scandals. They have a newer "Business Ready (B-READY) 2024", more recent, but only ~50 countries, expanding by 2026

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 5

An experiment, version 0.1

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 5

Is this helpful?

alexborger.com/economic-gro...

Ease of Doing Business vs GDP Growth Explorer

Interactive scatter plot exploring the relationship between World Bank Ease of Doing Business scores and GDP growth rates across 190 economies.

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 4

Adding information ad infinitum doesn’t solve problems. It traps us in a loop: more information -> more computation -> more information -> rising complexity. Break the loop: review, prioritize, and reduce.

Prefer critical review and reduction over accumulation.

Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 4

🏴‍☠️Why doomers are on the wrong side of the game: The argument that humanity is doomed is very tempting. Many use this as a justification to ignore any existing problems and enjoy our final countdown.

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Joeri Rogelj @joerirogelj.bsky.social · Sep 3

NEW STUDY: How much CO2 can we safely store in geological formations?

In a new @nature.com study, we cross-check established academic and industry estimates with various risk factors.

We find a prudent geological CO2 storage limit that is about 10x smaller. /1

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 2

C: "I'll examine your authentication system to evaluate its open source potential. Let me create a todo list to systematically review the" implementation.
✻ Thinking… (see screenshots)

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 2

Claude next steps assessment:
me: "this app features a custom authentication and authorization implementation. check it out! do you think it would be valuable to open source it?"

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 2

<< This is not my first auth implementation. I did a few similar also in Python/Flask/FastAPI but newer published/shared code, though those got battle tested in some projects over more than a decade. So I ended up doing the same thing recently for my NextJS based projects. >>

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Alex Borger @alexborger.com · Sep 2

After running circles between {too_much} or {too_little} or {cloud_lock_in_and_customers_data_sharing} I've implemented a custom authentication+authorization for NextJS for my projects/products based on IronSession and MongoDB.

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