Peter Cattaneo
@pacattaneo.bsky.social
Turning technology into products.
Mostly working on energy systems and CBDC.
Mostly working on energy systems and CBDC.
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Appreciation post for Dr G, who seems to be carrying most of the weight of "yo, maybe we should still try to reduce fossil fuels" and "yo, maybe it's urgent to do that" on her back
Just a few things I'd like to say about this @hausfath.bsky.social piece.
The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C.
That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random.
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The first is that every 10th of a degree of heating over 2C raises risks for multiple irreversible catastrophes MORE than every 10th of a degree of heating under 2C.
That's why the 2C target exists. It's not random.
🧵
January 5, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Appreciation post for Dr G, who seems to be carrying most of the weight of "yo, maybe we should still try to reduce fossil fuels" and "yo, maybe it's urgent to do that" on her back
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Imagine if scientists could figure out how Earth's climate has varied for hundreds of millions of years, build sophisticated computers to project how humans are now radically altering it, and warn the public, only to have greedy corporations & venal politicians ignore them. Criminal. Immoral. Evil.
January 1, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Imagine if scientists could figure out how Earth's climate has varied for hundreds of millions of years, build sophisticated computers to project how humans are now radically altering it, and warn the public, only to have greedy corporations & venal politicians ignore them. Criminal. Immoral. Evil.
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EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
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December 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
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For those of us who can’t get through the WSJ pay wall, here’s the nuts and bolts of what in any other era would be the greatest presidential scandal in history.
boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...
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Trump pardons "start at $1m," reports WSJ
A simple process: you give a lobbyist the money, they talk to someone in Trump's inner circle such as his son, then Trump pardons you.
boingboing.net
December 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
For those of us who can’t get through the WSJ pay wall, here’s the nuts and bolts of what in any other era would be the greatest presidential scandal in history.
boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...
boingboing.net/2025/12/27/t...
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California Records One of Its Single Largest Drops in Climate Pollution on Record
cleantechnica.com/2025/12/23/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/12/23/c...
California Records One of Its Single Largest Drops in Climate Pollution on Record - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Renewables peak as fossil fuel power generation reaches historic low, while transportation emissions also plummet While not o...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
California Records One of Its Single Largest Drops in Climate Pollution on Record
cleantechnica.com/2025/12/23/c...
cleantechnica.com/2025/12/23/c...
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I. Warned. You.
www.thenation.com/article/arch... (I also won the Mirror Award for best media commentary for this piece. Laura Bush had to hand it to me, literally and Arthur Sulzberger, who was getting a lifetime achievement award,had to listen. The Fox News peoplethere booed my remarks.
www.thenation.com/article/arch... (I also won the Mirror Award for best media commentary for this piece. Laura Bush had to hand it to me, literally and Arthur Sulzberger, who was getting a lifetime achievement award,had to listen. The Fox News peoplethere booed my remarks.
December 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
I. Warned. You.
www.thenation.com/article/arch... (I also won the Mirror Award for best media commentary for this piece. Laura Bush had to hand it to me, literally and Arthur Sulzberger, who was getting a lifetime achievement award,had to listen. The Fox News peoplethere booed my remarks.
www.thenation.com/article/arch... (I also won the Mirror Award for best media commentary for this piece. Laura Bush had to hand it to me, literally and Arthur Sulzberger, who was getting a lifetime achievement award,had to listen. The Fox News peoplethere booed my remarks.
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Using CO2 to push more oil out of old oilfields (enhanced oil recovery[EOR]) is a bad idea for many reasons but one of the biggest is that much of the CO2 doesn't stay in the ground and even worse, some can be converted to methane.
Issue could use much more attention.
Issue could use much more attention.
I'm a broken record on this but we absolutely do not talk enough about the fact that ~20% of injected CO2 for EOR-CCUS can be microbially converted to methane. coupled with lax MVA regimes, EOR "storage" could easily produce a net increase in GHG emissions!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Using CO2 to push more oil out of old oilfields (enhanced oil recovery[EOR]) is a bad idea for many reasons but one of the biggest is that much of the CO2 doesn't stay in the ground and even worse, some can be converted to methane.
Issue could use much more attention.
Issue could use much more attention.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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To express his disdain for balancing both sides of a one-sided issue, Edward R. Murrow often quoted something Winston Churchill said to him, about how that would be like giving “equal time to Jesus and to Judas Iscariot.”
The greatest examples of investigative journalism don't adhere to balance.
They center ethically upon accuracy and veracity.
There's a difference.
Ida Tarbell never interviewed John D. Rockefeller for "The History of the Standard Oil Company."
www.wsj.com/business/med...
They center ethically upon accuracy and veracity.
There's a difference.
Ida Tarbell never interviewed John D. Rockefeller for "The History of the Standard Oil Company."
www.wsj.com/business/med...
CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
The news organization said the segment about the El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sent deportees needed additional reporting.
www.wsj.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
To express his disdain for balancing both sides of a one-sided issue, Edward R. Murrow often quoted something Winston Churchill said to him, about how that would be like giving “equal time to Jesus and to Judas Iscariot.”
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There is such a profound misunderstanding of what the outputs of language models really are: they take in a sequence, a prompt, and output a probabilistically-generated sequence that is the model saying “given the input sequence, here’s the most likely output sequence.”
This isn’t summarization.
This isn’t summarization.
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
There is such a profound misunderstanding of what the outputs of language models really are: they take in a sequence, a prompt, and output a probabilistically-generated sequence that is the model saying “given the input sequence, here’s the most likely output sequence.”
This isn’t summarization.
This isn’t summarization.
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Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
December 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why decline all these chances to defend feminism? Because to participate would be accepting the premise that our rights and humanity are up for debate in the first place.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
Once you’ve conceded that it’s reasonable to ask whether women’s equality was a mistake, you’ve already lost.
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The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
"54 days on average" for approval of big solar projects in California.
How long does it take to permit and approve big solar projects on abandoned farmland in California? 0.15 years or about 54 days on average, after a master planning process. Learn more in our report, Planning to Build Faster: rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...
December 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
"54 days on average" for approval of big solar projects in California.
Tesla FSD: "it would crash about 4,000 times a week and require about 57,000 human interventions"
December 20, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Tesla FSD: "it would crash about 4,000 times a week and require about 57,000 human interventions"
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Next time someone tells you California can’t build things fast, or “planning only slows things down,” Show them this.
This week the Westlands Water District board approved the Valley Clean Infrastructure Plan to develop 21 GW of solar + 21 GW of batteries on 136,000 acres of the west Central Valley into solar farms, with over 400 miles of new transmission lines and substations. ☀️🔌💡 ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2024020124/3
December 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Next time someone tells you California can’t build things fast, or “planning only slows things down,” Show them this.
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Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ...
... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.
... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.
Science’s 2025 Breakthrough of the Year: The unstoppable rise of renewable energy
Clean energy infrastructure is being deployed with unmatched scale and speed—and China is leading the way
www.science.org
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Hell yeah: @science.org's official Breakthrough of the Year for 2025 is ... [drumroll] ...
... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.
... the unstoppable rise & spread of renewable energy.
It's just gambling.
"... in July, Coinbase said it would start offering an investment tool that let traders borrow 10 times the amount of their holdings to bet on the future prices of Bitcoin and Ether. ... federal regulators withdrew advisories that had restricted that type of borrowing..."
"... in July, Coinbase said it would start offering an investment tool that let traders borrow 10 times the amount of their holdings to bet on the future prices of Bitcoin and Ether. ... federal regulators withdrew advisories that had restricted that type of borrowing..."
Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump.
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
What Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Has Unleashed
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
It's just gambling.
"... in July, Coinbase said it would start offering an investment tool that let traders borrow 10 times the amount of their holdings to bet on the future prices of Bitcoin and Ether. ... federal regulators withdrew advisories that had restricted that type of borrowing..."
"... in July, Coinbase said it would start offering an investment tool that let traders borrow 10 times the amount of their holdings to bet on the future prices of Bitcoin and Ether. ... federal regulators withdrew advisories that had restricted that type of borrowing..."
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Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump.
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
What Trump’s Embrace of Crypto Has Unleashed
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Today, my colleague David Yaffe-Bellany and I published an investigation into the frenzied world of crypto unleased by Trump.
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
Risk taking, profiteering & yes, innovation, as crypto bros sense that this is the moment crypto will go mainstream in the U.S.
Free link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/t...
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Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
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Kaum ein Tag in der EU war schwärzer als der heutige. Menschenrechte begraben, Autoindustrie den Todesstoß gegeben.
Gratuliere, Konservative von Vorgestern und Rechtsextremisten.
Gratuliere, Konservative von Vorgestern und Rechtsextremisten.
December 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Kaum ein Tag in der EU war schwärzer als der heutige. Menschenrechte begraben, Autoindustrie den Todesstoß gegeben.
Gratuliere, Konservative von Vorgestern und Rechtsextremisten.
Gratuliere, Konservative von Vorgestern und Rechtsextremisten.
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Our full report on how to clean up manufacturing through electrification is available at: www.2035initiative.com/clean-manufa...
You can also explore data on facilities in your state and community using our webtool: www.2035initiative.com/clean-manufa...
You can also explore data on facilities in your state and community using our webtool: www.2035initiative.com/clean-manufa...
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Our full report on how to clean up manufacturing through electrification is available at: www.2035initiative.com/clean-manufa...
You can also explore data on facilities in your state and community using our webtool: www.2035initiative.com/clean-manufa...
You can also explore data on facilities in your state and community using our webtool: www.2035initiative.com/clean-manufa...
Ford still sells through dealers.
When the F-150 EV was introduced, someone I know with plenty of money really wanted one. His dealer experience, walking in with cash, ready to buy, was so bad, his response was "I'll never buy a Ford again for the rest of my life."
apnews.com/article/ford...
When the F-150 EV was introduced, someone I know with plenty of money really wanted one. His dealer experience, walking in with cash, ready to buy, was so bad, his response was "I'll never buy a Ford again for the rest of my life."
apnews.com/article/ford...
Ford scraps fully-electric F-150 Lightning as mounting losses and falling demand hits EV plans
Ford Motor Co. is pivoting away from its once-ambitious electric vehicle plans amid financial losses and waning consumer demand for the vehicles.
apnews.com
December 16, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Ford still sells through dealers.
When the F-150 EV was introduced, someone I know with plenty of money really wanted one. His dealer experience, walking in with cash, ready to buy, was so bad, his response was "I'll never buy a Ford again for the rest of my life."
apnews.com/article/ford...
When the F-150 EV was introduced, someone I know with plenty of money really wanted one. His dealer experience, walking in with cash, ready to buy, was so bad, his response was "I'll never buy a Ford again for the rest of my life."
apnews.com/article/ford...
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Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
December 15, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.