emily thai
@ethai.bsky.social
they/she, climate, philanthropy, systems, tech. making high-impact climate giving easier @givinggreen.earth. opinions mine, strong, weakly held, not my employer's. follow 4 more cat pix
men will literally pledge 10% of their lifetime income to highly effective charities before going to therapy
November 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
men will literally pledge 10% of their lifetime income to highly effective charities before going to therapy
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Up early to drive to my hometown of Lexington MA (where the first No Kings day was arguably held in 1775). If you don't know where it's happening near you, here's the guide.
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
No Kings
As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...
www.nokings.org
October 18, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Up early to drive to my hometown of Lexington MA (where the first No Kings day was arguably held in 1775). If you don't know where it's happening near you, here's the guide.
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
Please turn out--this is one of those days that matter in American history
www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=t...
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The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.
My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."
October 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The literal reading of this statement is Pam Bondi is planning extrajudicial executions of random protesters.
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bluesky, i want to know: how much is your electricity bill? have you been shutoff recently? are you worried getting shutoff? tell me what’s going on. and then, i want to ask for your help with a donation to help us close a movement fundraising goal that frankly i didn’t think we’d reach. 1
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October 3, 2025 at 7:55 PM
bluesky, i want to know: how much is your electricity bill? have you been shutoff recently? are you worried getting shutoff? tell me what’s going on. and then, i want to ask for your help with a donation to help us close a movement fundraising goal that frankly i didn’t think we’d reach. 1
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We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.
had lunch yesterday with a friend and found out that she loves zohran and saikat, donates to palestine, regularly listens to candace owens, and is super active on crypto twitter. i love her, she's an infinite well of mysteries
“average voter is centrist” is a statistical error, average voter holds dozens of contradictory and sometimes insane policy views that more or less counterbalance because theyre all conflicting
Just some thoughts on doing politics with real people, whose views are idiosyncratic but no less real. I know a guy whose worldview is “gay married couples should be allowed to open carry while smoking weed in public” and another who is skeptical of vaccines but supports universal healthcare.
September 30, 2025 at 5:34 AM
had lunch yesterday with a friend and found out that she loves zohran and saikat, donates to palestine, regularly listens to candace owens, and is super active on crypto twitter. i love her, she's an infinite well of mysteries
how tf did ezra klein take "we are all safe, or none of us are" and think the "we all" meant "myself and other white guys with podcasts"
I read this part of the Klein article and asked myself, “hm, I wonder what CK said about the 2020 election? Did he ever acknowledge that Biden won?” The answer, unsurprisingly, is no.
September 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
how tf did ezra klein take "we are all safe, or none of us are" and think the "we all" meant "myself and other white guys with podcasts"
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ok not to post, ok not to look at the video
it is ok not to post folks
September 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
ok not to post, ok not to look at the video
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Many of the people still active on Twitter and bashing Bluesky were declaring "Twitter is not real life" daily in 2019-2020. Text-based social media has always been distinct and in many ways unrepresentative. But the actual frustration they have is with forums that empower progressives/leftists.
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Many of the people still active on Twitter and bashing Bluesky were declaring "Twitter is not real life" daily in 2019-2020. Text-based social media has always been distinct and in many ways unrepresentative. But the actual frustration they have is with forums that empower progressives/leftists.
Gavin may have some funny tweets but JB is my president 🫡🫡🫡
Pritzker: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal ... I refuse to fall into the pundit trap that demands we sacrifice vital constitutional rights if it's being done in the fake guise of fighting crime."
September 3, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Gavin may have some funny tweets but JB is my president 🫡🫡🫡
when you realize well, we are all going to retire,
BREAKING: Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say.
Joni Ernst won't seek reelection to Senate in 2026, sources say
GOP Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is expected to announce next week she's not running for reelection in 2026.
cbsn.ws
August 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
when you realize well, we are all going to retire,
@givinggreen.earth on one of my favorite pods!!
Today on Volts: Giving Green seeks to apply the principles of effective altruism to climate philanthropy. But what do these fine-grained quantitative comparisons even mean when fossil fuel autocracy is triumphant? I debate the merits of technocracy in this moment with founder Dan Stein.
Climate philanthropy in a time of Trump
I get frustrated at liberals' refusal to fight, and take it out on Giving Green's Dan Stein of all people.
www.volts.wtf
August 29, 2025 at 3:25 AM
@givinggreen.earth on one of my favorite pods!!
i am having the most difficult time trying to literally buy an asana subscription and i think dustin moskovitz should be personally held accountable for the counterfactual donations i am not raising
August 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
i am having the most difficult time trying to literally buy an asana subscription and i think dustin moskovitz should be personally held accountable for the counterfactual donations i am not raising
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Just a reminder, since many people don't know about it: the "Popular with Friends" feed is pretty damn good at giving you a quick overview of what's happening. I know there are lots of complaints about "Discover" and PwF is often better for me...
It’s pretty striking to me that by scrolling Bluesky’s “Popular With Friends” tab for a few minutes I can get up to speed quickly with the breaking news of the day but if I were to just scroll X’s “For You” page for the same amount of time (or more) I wouldn’t even know there was a school shooting
August 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Just a reminder, since many people don't know about it: the "Popular with Friends" feed is pretty damn good at giving you a quick overview of what's happening. I know there are lots of complaints about "Discover" and PwF is often better for me...
lol i am a ✨high-information✨ voter, my partner has canvassed about the upcoming special election, and i am embarrassed to admit that i didn't realize we have to register for vote by mail THIS WEEK until i saw an INSTAGRAM AD
August 25, 2025 at 4:12 PM
lol i am a ✨high-information✨ voter, my partner has canvassed about the upcoming special election, and i am embarrassed to admit that i didn't realize we have to register for vote by mail THIS WEEK until i saw an INSTAGRAM AD
who is thinking about what a just transition looks like for workers/industries affected by AI?
August 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
who is thinking about what a just transition looks like for workers/industries affected by AI?
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Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.
August 21, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Gavin Newsom is a genuinely bad person and any admiration you have for him needs to be directed toward actually good people like JB Pritzker or Andy Beshear.
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Maybe my most cancellable take is that discussions of AI data centers’ water use (up to 6.6 billion m3 by 2027 cee.illinois.edu/news/AIs-Cha...) should also acknowledge water use of livestock production (4,387 billion m3 around 2000 & likely growing agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) 🙈
August 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Maybe my most cancellable take is that discussions of AI data centers’ water use (up to 6.6 billion m3 by 2027 cee.illinois.edu/news/AIs-Cha...) should also acknowledge water use of livestock production (4,387 billion m3 around 2000 & likely growing agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) 🙈
the university of chicago strikes again
An automated AI program, written by an undergrad recruited into DOGE, that will review federal regulations & suggest regs to be eliminated.
Wrap your mind around the fact that the country is being run by people who think this is a good idea.
Wrap your mind around the fact that the country is being run by people who think this is a good idea.
A DOGE AI Tool Called SweetREX Is Coming to Slash US Government Regulation
Named for its developer, an undergrad who took leave from UChicago to become a DOGE affiliate, a new AI tool automates the review of federal regulations and flags rules it thinks can be eliminated.
www.wired.com
August 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the university of chicago strikes again
things people text me during zoom meetings
August 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
things people text me during zoom meetings
new @givinggreen.bsky.social slogan: "shoot for the moon or we're all going to fry"
Federal climate policy is gone. Strategic philanthropy just became our lifeline.
Listen to our new episode with Giving Green founder, Dan Stein to learn how to make your climate donations count.
👉 lnk.to/tmiq_ep199
Listen to our new episode with Giving Green founder, Dan Stein to learn how to make your climate donations count.
👉 lnk.to/tmiq_ep199
Making Your Climate Dollars Count When Government Won't
Congress just jammed the brakes on America's clean energy boom, however short-lived it may have been.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act was signed into law after a lot of debate in the House and the Sen...
lnk.to
July 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
new @givinggreen.bsky.social slogan: "shoot for the moon or we're all going to fry"
[butterfly meme] is this permitting reform?
politico reports the trump admin is telling regulators to just “rubber stamp” new nuclear reactors
this new process, which apparently was relayed to regulators via doge, will specifically speed up *nuclear safety* assessments
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
this new process, which apparently was relayed to regulators via doge, will specifically speed up *nuclear safety* assessments
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
DOGE told regulator to ‘rubber stamp’ nuclear
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's historic role of assuring safety is changing as the White House shifts some responsibility to the Department of Energy.
www.politico.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:08 AM
[butterfly meme] is this permitting reform?
sometimes i think about how the climate movement made so much progress in the last decade in undoing the individual culpability framework for climate action, only to be thwarted by terminally online leftists who need someone even more terminally online to dunk on
Seeing this go around again, so:
A botec implies an AC dropping a room from 90 to 70 degrees for 24 hours would take ~8kwh.
MIT Tech Review finds AI images take 1.2 Wh.
So running your AC for 24h uses about 6500 AI images. One every 13 seconds
A botec implies an AC dropping a room from 90 to 70 degrees for 24 hours would take ~8kwh.
MIT Tech Review finds AI images take 1.2 Wh.
So running your AC for 24h uses about 6500 AI images. One every 13 seconds
July 10, 2025 at 9:43 PM
sometimes i think about how the climate movement made so much progress in the last decade in undoing the individual culpability framework for climate action, only to be thwarted by terminally online leftists who need someone even more terminally online to dunk on
medicaid $5
solar energy $3
science $2
concentration camps $400000
tax cuts for the rich $9000000000
npr $5
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying
solar energy $3
science $2
concentration camps $400000
tax cuts for the rich $9000000000
npr $5
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying
July 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
medicaid $5
solar energy $3
science $2
concentration camps $400000
tax cuts for the rich $9000000000
npr $5
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying
solar energy $3
science $2
concentration camps $400000
tax cuts for the rich $9000000000
npr $5
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying