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First, I am a vegan. I obviously don't think vegan diets are unhealthy. Second, paleolithic people also had horrible teeth. Everyone had horrible teeth until flouride was discovered in the late 19th Century. If you made it to 35 with a full set of teeth you basically won the lottery.
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Alright, whatever your view about the research, geo-engineering will never be a meaningful climate solutions because the only plausible case for geo-engineering is if we rapidly decrease our carbon emissions which we are not currently doing.
The risks of geoengineering have been pretty constant, as I felt deeply when I reported this last year. How to restate them again in a novel way for the gazillionth time? Moral hazard, rising geopolitical tensions, doesn't address ocean acid., termination shock!
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The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?
The University of Chicago is attempting to position itself as the place for serious scientific consideration of the logistics and implications of Earth system interventions aimed at reversing or count...
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March 28, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Alright, whatever your view about the research, geo-engineering will never be a meaningful climate solutions because the only plausible case for geo-engineering is if we rapidly decrease our carbon emissions which we are not currently doing.
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Earlier this month @michaelemann.bsky.social & Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social) wrote about the UK's $58 million plans for geoengineering R&D, including "field trials that risk developing dangerous technology and paving the way for deployment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The UK’s gamble on solar geoengineering is like using aspirin for cancer | Raymond Pierrehumbert and Michael Mann
Injecting pollutants into the atmosphere to reflect the sun would be extremely dangerous, but the UK is funding field trials
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March 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Earlier this month @michaelemann.bsky.social & Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social) wrote about the UK's $58 million plans for geoengineering R&D, including "field trials that risk developing dangerous technology and paving the way for deployment" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The risks of geoengineering have been pretty constant, as I felt deeply when I reported this last year. How to restate them again in a novel way for the gazillionth time? Moral hazard, rising geopolitical tensions, doesn't address ocean acid., termination shock!
thebulletin.org/2024/06/the-...
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The University of Chicago’s new climate initiative: brave research program or potentially dangerous foray into solar geoengineering?
The University of Chicago is attempting to position itself as the place for serious scientific consideration of the logistics and implications of Earth system interventions aimed at reversing or count...
thebulletin.org
March 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The risks of geoengineering have been pretty constant, as I felt deeply when I reported this last year. How to restate them again in a novel way for the gazillionth time? Moral hazard, rising geopolitical tensions, doesn't address ocean acid., termination shock!
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I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I share this with respect for the many excellent journalists at the BBC.
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
And with the hope that transparency helps strengthen, not weaken, our democratic culture. /5
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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This is soooooooo funny. They could have done an even funnier thing...
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is soooooooo funny. They could have done an even funnier thing...
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So funny that the white supremacist Hanania runs to Yglesias... "this is concerning..." These white men are so funny.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
So funny that the white supremacist Hanania runs to Yglesias... "this is concerning..." These white men are so funny.
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posts like this can’t be understood without the knowledge that virtually every founder of New Age thinking was a white supremacist and a eugenicist who used spiritual/philosophical lexicon to launder their white supremacist eugenicist agenda
November 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
posts like this can’t be understood without the knowledge that virtually every founder of New Age thinking was a white supremacist and a eugenicist who used spiritual/philosophical lexicon to launder their white supremacist eugenicist agenda
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Have to admit I have been really enjoying taking some time completely off-line as best I can over the last few days. It feels very good to not be inundated with the worst news possible and every moment cannot recommend touching grass enough y’all.
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Have to admit I have been really enjoying taking some time completely off-line as best I can over the last few days. It feels very good to not be inundated with the worst news possible and every moment cannot recommend touching grass enough y’all.
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Pakistani MAGA troll accounts, which I do not support, are very different from Brazilian MAGA troll accounts, which I also do not support.
by Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
November 25, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Pakistani MAGA troll accounts, which I do not support, are very different from Brazilian MAGA troll accounts, which I also do not support.
by Glenn Greenwald
by Glenn Greenwald
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i have a story coming today that explains how this tweet is… unacceptable levels of weirdly inaccurate
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
i have a story coming today that explains how this tweet is… unacceptable levels of weirdly inaccurate
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Why shouldn't police abolitionists be included if pro-police people are?
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Why shouldn't police abolitionists be included if pro-police people are?
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This is also how I judge the History Channel. If it’s about a topic I know, I spot at least one lie per minute watching the History Channel, so it’s horrifying to think how many lies I’d be swallowing without knowing it if I watched about a topic I don’t know.
LLM search results are even worse.
LLM search results are even worse.
Saw an interesting piece of advice recently: ask the AI search engines for an answer in a field in which you are very knowledgeable.
The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.
Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.
Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
Looked up “what mobile parking app do I need for <this town>” - AI summary on Google confidently gave me the wrong answer, which I ignored because **it is wrong a third of the time, about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING** (according to the last study I read.)
The shit just doesn’t work.
The shit just doesn’t work.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is also how I judge the History Channel. If it’s about a topic I know, I spot at least one lie per minute watching the History Channel, so it’s horrifying to think how many lies I’d be swallowing without knowing it if I watched about a topic I don’t know.
LLM search results are even worse.
LLM search results are even worse.
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I once worked in a zoo where my boss asked ai to generate a post about red necked wallabys for socials.
5 facts. Every single one of them wrong.
Boss didn't even proof read them, I don't think. That or he knew less about common zoo species than I realised.
5 facts. Every single one of them wrong.
Boss didn't even proof read them, I don't think. That or he knew less about common zoo species than I realised.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I once worked in a zoo where my boss asked ai to generate a post about red necked wallabys for socials.
5 facts. Every single one of them wrong.
Boss didn't even proof read them, I don't think. That or he knew less about common zoo species than I realised.
5 facts. Every single one of them wrong.
Boss didn't even proof read them, I don't think. That or he knew less about common zoo species than I realised.
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I’ve said before, someone once tried to wow me with AI. Asked about me.
Reply came back I was a writer (okay), some correct projects (okay) based in Chicago (what) and created Young Sheldon. (CBS better pay up, I guess)
It was kinda worth it to see their look of embarrassment.
Reply came back I was a writer (okay), some correct projects (okay) based in Chicago (what) and created Young Sheldon. (CBS better pay up, I guess)
It was kinda worth it to see their look of embarrassment.
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I’ve said before, someone once tried to wow me with AI. Asked about me.
Reply came back I was a writer (okay), some correct projects (okay) based in Chicago (what) and created Young Sheldon. (CBS better pay up, I guess)
It was kinda worth it to see their look of embarrassment.
Reply came back I was a writer (okay), some correct projects (okay) based in Chicago (what) and created Young Sheldon. (CBS better pay up, I guess)
It was kinda worth it to see their look of embarrassment.
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One of my favorite things to do to show how wrong they are is ask it a questions and then follow up by asking what about the previous answer was wrong and it will list a bunch of of things it was wrong about (and sometimes it will be wrong about what it says it was wrong about).
November 25, 2025 at 2:38 PM
One of my favorite things to do to show how wrong they are is ask it a questions and then follow up by asking what about the previous answer was wrong and it will list a bunch of of things it was wrong about (and sometimes it will be wrong about what it says it was wrong about).
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Saw an interesting piece of advice recently: ask the AI search engines for an answer in a field in which you are very knowledgeable.
The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.
Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.
Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
Looked up “what mobile parking app do I need for <this town>” - AI summary on Google confidently gave me the wrong answer, which I ignored because **it is wrong a third of the time, about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING** (according to the last study I read.)
The shit just doesn’t work.
The shit just doesn’t work.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Saw an interesting piece of advice recently: ask the AI search engines for an answer in a field in which you are very knowledgeable.
The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.
Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
The results will make it clear just how much they get wrong, and how brazen they are about it.
Now, apply that to every subject in which you are NOT an expert.
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On an exam, getting a third wrong would give you a 66%, which is a D, and the teacher would write “please try harder” and your work would probably NOT BE PUT INTO EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD AND YOU WOULD NOT BE PAID BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR IT
November 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
On an exam, getting a third wrong would give you a 66%, which is a D, and the teacher would write “please try harder” and your work would probably NOT BE PUT INTO EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD AND YOU WOULD NOT BE PAID BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR IT
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Looked up “what mobile parking app do I need for <this town>” - AI summary on Google confidently gave me the wrong answer, which I ignored because **it is wrong a third of the time, about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING** (according to the last study I read.)
The shit just doesn’t work.
The shit just doesn’t work.
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looked up “what mobile parking app do I need for <this town>” - AI summary on Google confidently gave me the wrong answer, which I ignored because **it is wrong a third of the time, about ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING** (according to the last study I read.)
The shit just doesn’t work.
The shit just doesn’t work.
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Do I think Satan has some good ideas? Yes. But do I “worship” him? Yes
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Do I think Satan has some good ideas? Yes. But do I “worship” him? Yes