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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · 4d

That's a really interesting comparison; I hadn't thought about that!

holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · 7d

How can the #IPCC navigate generative AI?

What does it mean for scientific assessment more broadly?

New working paper looks at scenarios for AI adoption & resistance, w/ @dralaaclimate.bsky.social @shinasayama.bsky.social and Oliver Geden

Reflections welcome!

www.swp-berlin.org/publications...

www.swp-berlin.org

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 8d

New biochar climatetech startup just dropped

Skeleton Capture Utilization and Storage

Sara Hastings-Simon 🇨🇦 @shastingssimon.bsky.social · 8d

First thought seeing the new version of the giant skeleton:

"They are under grounding the skeleton transmission infrastructure!"

I have reached officially way to much terminal online stage, and I blame @costasamaras.com

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · 16d

thanks to you both - very grateful for this conversation!! 💚

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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you're interested in realities (&...un-realities) of cloud seeding & the conflation of facts, assertions, & kernels of truth surrounding extreme rainfall in warming climate--check out this BBC podcast! Perspectives from me & @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social.

BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Floods hit Texas, then came the cloud talk

Did cloud seeding trigger the Texas floods? No, but that didn’t stop the online rumours

www.bbc.co.uk

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Sep 5

frankly, it has been an extremely normal gathering with a lot of conversations with local officials interested in mass transit and zoning reform. some talk about sewer socialism. i think the version of this in the internet's mind might be pretty divergent from the reality of it.

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Sep 5

that's true about the publication. I just feel like a lot of the reporting focuses on "abundance bros".
my observations are too banal to merit a writeup. the Build American caucus wants government to work better for people. we need more transmission. the governor of Utah is building starter homes.

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Sep 5

i get it, but if we give tweets by fascists more attention and gravity than carefully thought-out remarks by intellectuals (and give the fascists power to define what concepts are), it seems like it's going to be hard to create new movements or narratives

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Sep 5

the actual programming at the conference today about immigration was a keynote from Jerusalem Demsas talking about how critical immigration is, including her own experience of migrating. the social media discourse on this site about abundance tends to erase the women who are positing abundance ideas

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 6

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like

In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

www.theatlantic.com

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

well it's more like reality remixed

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

this happened to me this week too, with a fake article titled "Solar geoengineering gold rush sparks outcry as elites muscle into climate policy." “This isn’t science—it’s a play to monopolize control of the skies,” said Professor Holly Buck of the University of Buffalo." dramatic!

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

People prefer that research be done by university scientists. These findings make it all the more critical to improve transparency in research, as we wrote about here www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

How to address solar geoengineering’s transparency problem | PNAS

How to address solar geoengineering’s transparency problem

www.pnas.org

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

People are worried about the degradation of the environment, loss of biodiversity, etc., as well as about corporate control and lack of transparency, and there are many ways this gets expressed

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

In a survey, there is more opposition than support, and a lot of uncertainty about what is actually happening up in the sky

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

Reading over 3000 initial impressions about SRM was an interesting exercise; more research is needed to understand how sticky these initial impressions are

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

new paper about US attitudes on solar geoengineering, para-environmentalism, and this idea that airborne atmospheric modification is already happening

rdcu.be/eyJX5

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jul 29

icymi: part 2: why we should treat AI like a public utility. jacobin.com/2025/07/arti...

Part 1 also available in Spanish: jacobinlat.com/2025/07/el-d...

Treat AI Like a Public Utility

It seems increasingly likely that artificial intelligence will mean major changes to the economy and daily life. We need a public jobs program for displaced workers, and we should regulate AI as a pub...

jacobin.com

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jul 23

would love to see this, too! haven't had a chance to watch the full version yet

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jul 15

Is massive unemployment from AI just hype, or a real threat?

AI companies are going to overhype their products - but the risk is real.

Why progressives can't miss the opportunity to lead on policy solutions -> new from me & the excellent @matthuber.bsky.social

jacobin.com/2025/07/arti...

AI-Driven Worker Displacement Is a Serious Threat

By many estimates, the increasing use of artificial intelligence is set to produce significant job losses. The prospect of serious disruption demands that we start formulating egalitarian policy solut...

jacobin.com

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jul 10

actually there is a lack of transparency when it comes to these topics.my colleagues and I wrote about it in PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...)

broadly speaking, this is actually a good move from the admin. They are some of the best-poised messengers to address related conspiracies.

How to address solar geoengineering’s transparency problem | PNAS

How to address solar geoengineering’s transparency problem

www.pnas.org

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jul 5

doesn't look like we are building out CO2 transport systems anytime soon, but this lack of uniform adoption and training on wireless alerts would be one critical thing to tackle if we were - the whole thing is something i always hoped someone would cover :)

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jul 5

after the Buffalo blizzard that killed 47, i started doing light research into why more districts don't adopt IPAWS / wireless emergency alerts. there's a recent CRS report and one dissertation on this question (www.proquest.com/docview/2583...) - seems like lack of training / perceived cost issues.

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jun 25

thank you for reading!

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holly jean buck @hollyjeanbuck.bsky.social · Jun 20

thanks for the reference, will check it out!