Jacob Suh
@jacobsuh.bsky.social
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Taxing commercial flight to reflect its true environmental costs presents genuine policy & economic tradeoffs, but taxing private air travel does not, and the latter should be taxed at ludicrously punitive rates to address the deficit created by the former.
Impact of flights on global warming severely underestimated by many carbon calculators & offset schemes that don’t properly account for taxiing, sub-optimal routing or non-CO2 climate effects which are larger component:
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
www.newscientist.com/article/2502...
Research paper:
doi.org/10.1038/s432...
Your flight emissions are way higher than carbon calculators suggest
Existing tools that work out the carbon footprint of flights greatly underestimate their warming impact, say the makers of a new calculator
www.newscientist.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Taxing commercial flight to reflect its true environmental costs presents genuine policy & economic tradeoffs, but taxing private air travel does not, and the latter should be taxed at ludicrously punitive rates to address the deficit created by the former.
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Black smoke -- no rate hike
May 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Black smoke -- no rate hike
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
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Ah, but plenty of things are "off limits." Can't expand Medicaid, definitely can't get Medicare for All.
Improved SNAP benefits? Funding for healthy breakfasts and lunches at school? Nope, sorry, eat DOGE.
No, all he'll do is take away proven prophylactics & treatments and replace them with scams.
Improved SNAP benefits? Funding for healthy breakfasts and lunches at school? Nope, sorry, eat DOGE.
No, all he'll do is take away proven prophylactics & treatments and replace them with scams.
"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. implored federal health agency workers on Tuesday to “let go” of preconceived notions of him and start from “square one,” but he also promised that “nothing is going to be off limits” in his pursuit to reduce chronic disease."
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
‘Nothing … off limits’: Kennedy lays out plan for HHS
His first remarks to the department since being confirmed comes as Washington reels from mass firings and funding cuts.
www.politico.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Ah, but plenty of things are "off limits." Can't expand Medicaid, definitely can't get Medicare for All.
Improved SNAP benefits? Funding for healthy breakfasts and lunches at school? Nope, sorry, eat DOGE.
No, all he'll do is take away proven prophylactics & treatments and replace them with scams.
Improved SNAP benefits? Funding for healthy breakfasts and lunches at school? Nope, sorry, eat DOGE.
No, all he'll do is take away proven prophylactics & treatments and replace them with scams.
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A lot of well-intentioned people say "we don't need them to admit they're wrong"... but we do.
We ended up with Trump *again* because millions of people happily rode their cognitive dissonance into absurd beliefs like "he'll only deport the bad people."
They need to be brought back to reality.
We ended up with Trump *again* because millions of people happily rode their cognitive dissonance into absurd beliefs like "he'll only deport the bad people."
They need to be brought back to reality.
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
February 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A lot of well-intentioned people say "we don't need them to admit they're wrong"... but we do.
We ended up with Trump *again* because millions of people happily rode their cognitive dissonance into absurd beliefs like "he'll only deport the bad people."
They need to be brought back to reality.
We ended up with Trump *again* because millions of people happily rode their cognitive dissonance into absurd beliefs like "he'll only deport the bad people."
They need to be brought back to reality.
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Love the idea of "doxxed" meaning a journalist reported that a 'special government employee' with no vetting and readily apparent conflicts of interest who was given unprecedented access into the federal government payment systems also had a long history of promoting racism and eugenics.
February 7, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Love the idea of "doxxed" meaning a journalist reported that a 'special government employee' with no vetting and readily apparent conflicts of interest who was given unprecedented access into the federal government payment systems also had a long history of promoting racism and eugenics.
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I think I'm going to have to log off of the internet for a bit before the news cycle breaks my brain entirely. Hundreds of millennia of human evolution have not provided us the cognitive tools required to process this level of administrative chaos.
January 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I think I'm going to have to log off of the internet for a bit before the news cycle breaks my brain entirely. Hundreds of millennia of human evolution have not provided us the cognitive tools required to process this level of administrative chaos.
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It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times
January 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times
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so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh
January 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
so these homeschool clonetank claremont institute guys thought "grants" was just shit that went to the Woke University Basketweaving College For Dyed Hair Bisexuals Who Won't Fuck Me and not the way that, like, 90% of government programs worked, huh
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when you are not allowed to criticize fascism, that's a good indication you are living in a fascist state.
A Milwaukee TV weather forecaster was dropped by her station a day after she criticized Elon Musk for his Nazi salute
CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture
Meteorologist Sam Kuffel criticized Elon Musk on social media for his straight-arm gesture some likened to a Nazi salute at the Trump inauguration.
www.jsonline.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
when you are not allowed to criticize fascism, that's a good indication you are living in a fascist state.
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Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
January 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Seriously. I sue drug companies, you don't have to tell me they suck, nor explain to me the risks of pharmaceuticals.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
But vaccines are different, they're like stealing fire from the Gods and burning plagues with it. Their benefit/risk ratio is downright magical.
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LA Times interview with Casey Storm, costume designer for the film Her. This interview was published in Dec 2013. Funny to read it now bc high-rise pants are definitely back.
![Screenshot from the 2013 LA Times interview with costume designer Casey Storm. The excerpt reads:
MN: OK, so I gotta get to the elephant in the room—the high-waisted pants. How did you come up with it? And are you tired of talking about it?
CS [laughs]: I’m so sick of the high-waisted pants. I really didn’t intend for it to be such a topic of discussion. When [Theodore friend] Charles walks in with his high-waisted pants it gets a laugh at every screening. The first time I watched it with an audience I felt like I screwed up so badly. I had to watch it with an audience a few more times to place the laugh. And I think what it’s about is that early on the in film you’re trying to grasp and ingest new information,. And when Charles walk in with an outfit that’s so obviously not our world, he looks nerdy and you can laugh, like “OK, I can accept the world that’s been created.”
MN: It’s funny that people always seem to come out of the movie making some crack to the effect of “I like the future but I sure hope we don’t have high-waisted pants.”
CS: It is funny. Everybody wants to know what year the movie takes place in it, and in the grand scheme of things, you can say any number you want. People will say, “this style, or that style, how far in the future?” And I always think: “How can I answer what year this fashion happened in? We invented it!” But you know, we’re doing a fashion line with [L.A. boutique] Opening Ceremony in conjunction with the film. And they’re a big trendsetter in the fashion world. So we may be seeing high-waisted pants in the future.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreihyqzto3txeq6tkrht27pm53dzx5ak2rr33h4ztct6azaggbr2f2y@jpeg)
January 3, 2025 at 3:48 AM
LA Times interview with Casey Storm, costume designer for the film Her. This interview was published in Dec 2013. Funny to read it now bc high-rise pants are definitely back.
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huh, the film Her accurately predicted the return of high-rise trousers
January 3, 2025 at 3:22 AM
huh, the film Her accurately predicted the return of high-rise trousers
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Treat yourself by watching this loop for a while.
A close-up of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS camera in 2016 and processed by @landru79.bsky.social.
The "snow" is actually dust particles... in front of a moving ocean of stars.
A close-up of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS camera in 2016 and processed by @landru79.bsky.social.
The "snow" is actually dust particles... in front of a moving ocean of stars.
December 15, 2024 at 11:05 PM
Treat yourself by watching this loop for a while.
A close-up of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS camera in 2016 and processed by @landru79.bsky.social.
The "snow" is actually dust particles... in front of a moving ocean of stars.
A close-up of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, seen by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS camera in 2016 and processed by @landru79.bsky.social.
The "snow" is actually dust particles... in front of a moving ocean of stars.
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Me and Neil and Ellie
December 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Me and Neil and Ellie
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I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 PM
I'm not on twitter anymore, but this tweet from 2 years ago is sadly more accurate than ever
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Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question"
They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.
Which is very, very, very different
They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.
Which is very, very, very different
I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that
Unfortunately, it repeatedly offers incorrect answers for straightforward math questions. 🧪
March 18, 2024 at 12:45 PM
Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question"
They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.
Which is very, very, very different
They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like.
Which is very, very, very different
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Rocks imaged by the Mars Perseverance Rover on Sol 1336.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
November 22, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Rocks imaged by the Mars Perseverance Rover on Sol 1336.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Kevin M. Gill
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This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
November 21, 2024 at 11:16 PM
This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America.
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
— Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%)
— Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%)
— Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
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Every time i see a headline asking "will ozempic kill the junk food industry?" i feel slightly insane.
will electric scooters kill the auto industry? will millennials kill the diamond industry? will 13% of americans taking a difficult-to-obtain drug kill Doritos???
will electric scooters kill the auto industry? will millennials kill the diamond industry? will 13% of americans taking a difficult-to-obtain drug kill Doritos???
November 19, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Every time i see a headline asking "will ozempic kill the junk food industry?" i feel slightly insane.
will electric scooters kill the auto industry? will millennials kill the diamond industry? will 13% of americans taking a difficult-to-obtain drug kill Doritos???
will electric scooters kill the auto industry? will millennials kill the diamond industry? will 13% of americans taking a difficult-to-obtain drug kill Doritos???
Well I'm now about to go buy like 30 lbs
Here are some of the ways sweet potatoes benefit your body, along with ideas for how to prepare them on Thanksgiving Day, and every day.
How Healthy Are Sweet Potatoes?
Their moment in the spotlight has arrived. Let’s take a look at their best qualities.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:22 AM
Well I'm now about to go buy like 30 lbs
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"Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it." -- Ian Brossat, a senator who served for a decade as Paris City Hall’s head of housing.
"How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing"
One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.
Gift link!
One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.
Gift link!
How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housing
One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.
www.nytimes.com
March 17, 2024 at 7:23 PM
"Our guiding philosophy is that those who produce the riches of the city must have the right to live in it." -- Ian Brossat, a senator who served for a decade as Paris City Hall’s head of housing.
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"The ancients had over fifteen thousand gods, which they referred to as Funko Pops," said the archaeologist. He advanced the slide, and the crowd laughed. "No, they weren't very good at art," he added.
August 29, 2023 at 10:13 PM
"The ancients had over fifteen thousand gods, which they referred to as Funko Pops," said the archaeologist. He advanced the slide, and the crowd laughed. "No, they weren't very good at art," he added.