Vivek Srikrishnan
vsrikrish.bsky.social
Vivek Srikrishnan
@vsrikrish.bsky.social
Climate uncertainty and risk. Decision-making under deep uncertainty. Assistant Professor, Cornell Biological & Environmental Engineering. Tottenham and the Knicks until they kill me. https://viveks.me
All of a sudden the right-wing Catholic-legal nexus makes sense to me.
December 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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the president is not an elected sovereign. he does not speak for the people or embody their will, he merely represents them. if he wants to change the constitution, let him make his case.
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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blood-and-soil nativism repels me on a cellular level
October 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
And collecting bribes.
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
That’s clearly what Hegseth thinks it is, too.
December 3, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Agreed, switching to Qobuz went very smoothly and I’m enjoying it. Only downside so far is the CarPlay app is very limited, but it sounds other they’ll have a new beta out this winter.
December 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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most famously fat is a store of resources built up in rich times and drawn down in lean times. but it's also a protective layer against external shock, an anti-wear substance distributed throughout the system, it both retains and generates heat for homeostasis—and these uses do not consume it!
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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if people are going to exhaust me with how "politics is like pro wrestling" they should learn that good bookers find the result they want and then book backwards
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Hi, in case you're curious, we looked at the performance of different models last year:
🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The Risky Business of Predicting Where Climate Disaster Will Hit
Climate tech companies can calculate the chances that a flood or wildfire will ravage your home. But what if their odds are all different?
www.bloomberg.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The "who should pay" problem is real and something we're going to need to contend with: see this from @climateofgavin.bsky.social. Improving climate attribution could help with lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, or we use fiscal policy to redistribute wealth to compensate existing homeowners.
RealClimate: Who should pay?
RealClimate: Climate risk scores on real estate listings are having an impact on prices and realtors are complaining. But who should pay for these losses? If you have been browsing Zillow or Redfin in...
www.realclimate.org
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
But we simply don't have the skill or transparency for this set of information, communicated in this way, to be useful at the moment, and that has real implications for many people whose assets are tied up in properties whose value might be affected.
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM