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Richard Delevan

@richard.wickedproblems.earth

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wickedproblems.earth Climate tech in the streets, crime fiction in the sheets. Around since 327 ppm. Writer, podcaster, strategist. GreenSky, EnergySky. MAGA delenda est.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 4d

Sounds trite or for kids when you read it in ordinary times. It's something to remember, share and practice in times like these.

TH White might usefully, given Merlin's age, have set up a moment or two where he needed to RE-learn things. It's not a failure to have to remind yourself of what's true.

“THE BEST THING FOR BEING SAD,” REPLIED MERLIN, BEGINNING TO PUFF AND BLOW, “IS TO LEARN SOMETHING. THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT NEVER FAILS. YOU MAY GROW OLD AND TREMBLING IN YOUR ANATOMIES, YOU MAY LIE AWAKE AT NIGHT LISTENING TO THE DISORDER OF YOUR VEINS, YOU MAY MISS YOUR ONLY LOVE, YOU MAY SEE THE WORLD ABOUT YOU DEVASTATED BY EVIL LUNATICS, OR KNOW YOUR HONOUR TRAMPLED IN THE SEWERS OF BASER MINDS. THERE IS ONLY ONE THING FOR IT THEN — TO LEARN. LEARN WHY THE WORLD WAGS AND WHAT WAGS IT. THAT IS THE ONLY THING WHICH THE MIND CAN NEVER EXHAUST, NEVER ALIENATE, NEVER BE TORTURED BY, NEVER FEAR OR DISTRUST, AND NEVER DREAM OF REGRETTING. LEARNING IS THE ONLY THING FOR YOU. LOOK WHAT A LOT OF THINGS THERE ARE TO LEARN.” - THE ONCE AND FUTURE KING BY T.H. WHITE

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1h

We all are. It's just 2025. You're right to be suspicious and even good technologies can be misused either for bad ends or to distract from doing things.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h

I think people seriously underestimate what it means to say that the Supreme Court is “illegitimate”, and what the consequences of saying it (and meaning it) are.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 2h

His name is “Miranda”.

Any decent literary agent would tell you that fiction would never get published. It’s too stupid and unbelievable.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 4h

As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps

Dane 🔜 NYCC AA L-34 @monkeyminion.com · 7h

I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.

wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 3h

Oh. A “peace deal”? On Nobel Eve? ARE YOU NOT GRATEFUL, WORLD?

SpongeBob characters celebrating war criminal Henry Kissinger winning the Nobel Peave Prize.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 13h

"We took the freedom of speech away," says the president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 12h

They won for Metal Organic Frameworks, which are a pretty major advance in materials science. Maybe take a beat to read in. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Advances and Applications of Metal‐Organic Frameworks (MOFs) in Emerging Technologies: A Comprehensive Review

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), hailed as the wonder material of the 21st century, exhibit unprecedented tunability, thermal stability, porosity, and surface area. This work highlights advancements ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 16h

UK intelligence chiefs warn that the climate & nature crisis poses a severe threat to UK national security.

Food shortages and economic turmoil around the corner.

That’s why national security is central to the National Emergency Briefing, 27 Nov.
👉 nebriefing.org
Forewarned is forearmed

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan V. Last @jvl.bsky.social · 14h

This is capitulation. It is not the "Department of War." If CNN concedes on this point, they'll concede on any point.

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 15h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 14h

He doesn't say no. This sounds more like, not yet.

The real question is to Cook County State's Attorney re if she's going to seek to indict feds who zip-tie naked children forced from bed after busting down the door & toss flashbangs w no prob cause/warrant. Step forward, Eileen O'Neill Burke.

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 17h

I have some crow to eat, absolutely did not think the Dems' strategy would work here

Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 1d

“It’s true, all of it… it’s all true.”

Daily Beast: lol Republicans’ polls suck

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Hahrie Han @hahrie.bsky.social · 15h

Totally, completely flabbergasted. #MacFellow

hub.jhu.edu/2025/10/08/h...

Johns Hopkins political scientist Hahrie Han receives MacArthur genius grant

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

hub.jhu.edu

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 15h

The fact that this is news to a lot of people is why we keep losing.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 15h

Pritzker: “This is a convicted felon…who is threatening to jail me. This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump: If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me.”

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 19h

Nobel Prize for Climate Tech. Should actually be a category going forward. But this'll do for today (gift link) - www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Chemistry Nobel Given for Molecules That Aid Carbon Capture

Scientists from Japan, the UK and Jordan were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for creating molecular constructions with potential to help combat climate change.

www.bloomberg.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

we charge our hyundai ioniq 5 around once every two to three weeks at a muncipal charger and i’d say it runs about $9 for 250 miles of range.

How Much It Costs to Drive an E.V. and a Gas Car in Every State

www.nytimes.com

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 20h

At some point we start calling them “irregular regime forces”, no?

Graham Sinclair @esgarchitect.bsky.social · 20h

Thugs with badges shoot unarmed religious leader.

Consequences?

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 19d

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball

Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.

Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 20h

One can hope.

Minister pepper sprayed in face by jack-sneakered irregular American regime forces

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 21h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d

They just should come out and say they'd prefer to replace the human electorate with AI drones ruled over by an elite and be done with it.

Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d

It's almost as if parties need a population ignorant of history and culture and values so no one can argue with whatever version of history or culture or values The Party needs in the moment to justify their actions.

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d

That's why the 'plenary authority' Freudian slip by Miller on CNN is so telling. That's the Schmittian version of "because I said so [and I've got the guns]".

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Andrew S(poooky) 👻🎃 @shoutingboy.bsky.social · 1d

the thing is I’m a Third Amendment extremist and it feels like my moment is finally coming

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d

Never mess with Third Amendment extremists.

Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 1d

Seriously hoping the 7th Circuit cites Engblom and declares everyone from 2am Blackhawk-apseiling masked child zip-tying CBP mooks to Kristi Noem subject to 3A and Chicagoans including those running a restaurant can tell them to fuck all the way off and keep fucking when they need a toilet.