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I’m convinced by Scott Galloway that coordinated economic activity is the best and most direct way to communicate frustration with the current political and business regimes.

This is legitimately chilling. tldr: US financial accounts are guarded like nuclear codes.

This episode of the Ezra Klein Show podcast is the most reasonable and intelligent political conversation I’ve heard in a long time.

This is a really nice profile of Tommie Burton, the anthem singer at the Kraken hockey games.

A perfect fall evening on the University of Washington campus, looking south from Red Square at Mt.

This is sad: the Living Computer Museum is closing for good.

or: I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords This is the fourth in a four-part series of posts on IA and AI, mainly inspired by talks at IAC24.

The Onion, natch: Biden Signs Executive Order To Deport All 340 Million Americans And Start From Scratch

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(Image by DALL-E) I’m not sure where I am in the race to be the last person to write about IAC24, but I have to be pretty close to leading the pack of procrastinators.

I wonder if Generative AIs are like Ouija boards.

Just bought my first carbon removal offsets on nori.com/.

Well, I’ve done it: I finished my Sustainability Certificate from UCLA Extension.

Ecological tipping points could occur much sooner than expected, study finds “More than a fifth of ecosystems worldwide, including the Amazon rainforest, are at risk of a catastrophic breakdown within a human lifetime.”

♻️ A promising development in plastic recycling: Scientists convert everyday plastics into fully recyclable and potentially biodegradable materials If it’s scalable, plastic waste could become raw material for plastic with the same qualities as that creat…

Just getting the word out there: A lot of us support climate change policies… “Research published in 2022 in Nature Communications showed that although 66 to 80 percent of Americans support climate change policies, they think only 37 to 43 percent of the…

Boy… losing Mrs.

A factoid I read tonight and can’t get out of my head: In 1978, there were 4 billion people on earth.

Congratulations to the Toronto Maple Leafs for getting their first Round One playoff win in nearly 20 years.

And that’s it for the climate quiz.

Microscopic fossil shells can reveal climatic conditions by the amount and type of calcium carbonate in their shells.

You’re familiar with paleoproxies if you’ve ever heard of studying tree rings to understand historic periods of drought, pests, or fire.

Today’s answer: By studying “paleoproxies” such as ocean sediments and sedimentary rocks, we can study ocean and atmospheric temperature from as many as tens of millions of years ago. 1/4

Sooo… How far back can we measure ocean and atmospheric temperatures?