John Mashey

John Mashey

@johnmashey.bsky.social

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Semi-retired computer scientist, ancient UNIXer, "Big Data"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mashey
Last 20 years: chasing anti-science & disinformation, especially around climate or tobacco, helping defend scientists.
Supporter of CSLDF, NCSE, CSI.

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I can't stop thinking about how Trump would eliminate our free, public weather service, NOAA. It's an institution that goes back 53 years and protects Americans everyday with warnings for tornados, thunderstorms and more. That's the Project 2025 plan. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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A couple of us have been passing this around:

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The mass deportation scheme is probably the most immediately scary part of Trump 2025. It’s not just the just the forcible deportation of millions of people and accompanying family disruption That’s bad enough. Nor is the let’s-see-what-pulling-this-lever-does-hurr economic recklessness./1

Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.

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“Despite my disagreements with him on particular issues, he has been the most effective president in the modern history of our country and is the strongest candidate to defeat Donald Trump — a demagogue and pathological liar.” www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | Bernie Sanders: Joe Biden for Presidentwww.nytimes.com Enough! It’s time for Democrats to stop the bickering and nit-picking.

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Some of the issues the article mentions are real and are important conversations in the field (how do we define misinfo, how do we measure success, the Sisyphean nature of continuing to combat new disinformation, etc). But we clearly know more than nothing and more than we did a few years ago. /End

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It would also overrule scientists and force the delisting of grizzly bears, wolves, sage grouse regardless of evidence. And would take “species specialists” out of the loop. (The IQA plays a central role as an anti-science tool in Mooney’s The Republican War on Science.)

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"Only 4% of national TV news segments about Hurricane Beryl mentioned climate change. By failing to consistently make these connections, they are leaving their audiences uninformed about the full scope of the climate crisis and its immediate impacts on their lives.” - Evlondo Cooper

Only 4% of national TV news segments about Hurricane Beryl mentioned climate changewww.mediamatters.org Hurricane Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm by July 2, becoming the earliest recorded Category 5 hurricane in an Atlantic hurricane seas...

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Amazing headline. Disavowing the project has actually made this worse for Trump by making it easier to do accountability stories. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/07/...

Trump claims not to know who is behind Project 2025. A CNN review found at least 140 people who worked for him are involved | CNN Politicsamp.cnn.com Donald Trump has lately made clear he wants little to do with Project 2025, the conservative blueprint for the next Republican president that has attracted considerable blowback in his race for the Wh...

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and there it is

This pretty much sums it up.

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The New York Times today: "In Dallas, Ms. Harris tried to attach Mr. Trump to Project 2025, a policy and staffing blueprint assembled by dozens of conservative groups for the next Republican administration," as if this is some kind of stretch rather than a basic truth.

This pretty much sums it up.

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"Only 4% of national TV news segments about Hurricane Beryl mentioned climate change" by Evlondo Cooper for @mmfa.bsky.social: www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

Only 4% of national TV news segments about Hurricane Beryl mentioned climate changewww.mediamatters.org Hurricane Beryl, the first hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, rapidly intensified to a Category 5 storm by July 2, becoming the earliest recorded Category 5 hurricane in an Atlantic hurricane seas...

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It took 50 years for the Dept of Labor to update its federal standard to better protect coal miners from the deadly silica dust that’s driving an epidemic of black lung across Appalachia. Now, the Republicans are trying to kill it: t.co/lTtAzS5Vq4

House committee advances reckless bill that blocks life-saving silica standardt.co Today, the House Appropriations Committee approved a dangerous appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Among other disastrous provisions, the bill w...

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The "official" GOP platform runs 16 pages, but if we take out the title page, the dedication page, a three-page rambling "preamble" and the page with a table of contents printed in 72-point font, it's only *ten* pages long. Project 2025, the actual platform, is 900+ pages long. Focus on that.

Just dropped: Forthcoming remarks from VP Kamala Harris on Project 2025 and Trump in Vegas

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Just to be clear, the current NYT home page is 4 stories about Biden's age, plus another editorial board urging him to withdraw, plus about how Trump is moderating the GOP on abortion.

Meanwhile, Trump, the person who has boasted about ending Roe, and whose appointees will seek to use executive authority to make abortion pills illegal to distribute, is a moderate on abortion per the NYT.

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the federal govt took over the DMVs and no one noticed 👀

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This is going to get expensive: If climate change has increased the outside temperature from 96F to 100F, the energy your air conditioner consumes increases by 42%, since the power consumed varies by the square of the temperature difference between the outside and inside.

Can we air condition our way out of extreme heat? A primer on air conditioning from The Climate Brink www.theclimatebrink....

Can we air condition our way out of extreme heat?www.theclimatebrink.com part 1: a primer on air conditioning

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Here’s a message: the next four years sets the landscape for the rest of the century for America. Democracy, a livable climate, & justice for all is a path we can choose. Because of the hard work and accomplishments of the 1st term, a better future for all is within sight. Let’s go get it, together.

Which is obviously not future-oriented! But it's a kind of alternate reality future. I do think whatever happens with this period and whether it's Biden or someone else, a vision of what's over the horizon is pretty important and has been a bit absent in this campaign.

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My interview with Katie Phang earlier today on how human-caused climate change is supercharging hurricanes like #Beryl, and what we can still do to stem the tide (hint: vote in climate champions & vote out fossil fuel apologists) via The #MSNBC #KatiePhangShow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsp3... :

Michael Mann on MSNBC with Katie Phang Discussing Climate Change & Hurricane Beryl (JULY 6 2024)www.youtube.com

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On the occasions when I have asked anyone anywhere about their air quality and filtration, I have received blank looks or non-answers. It’s easy enough for me to wear a mask, and to monitor the air myself.

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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

American academic freedom is in perilwww.science.org Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress—to undermi...

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The 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law included funds to elevate 19 single-family homes in the Florida Keys. I love the Keys, but the cruel math says that our limited adaptation dollars are better spent elsewhere.

Honky tonk and concentrated physical risk - today's post about the Florida Keys, where the maps are almost 20 years out of date susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/escalation...

Escalation of Commitment: Flood Insurance and the Florida Keyssusanpcrawford.substack.com Why one of the property tipping points may be the Conch Republic

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This one from today exemplifies something I often see, and why I discourage arguing w/ dismissives on social media: it's the dehumanizing anonymity of the internet that allows people to say things like this. They never say this to my face, because then they'd have to acknowledge I'm a fellow human.

Since I had such a large sample (nearly a hundred), I analyzed X comments by category. 47% said climate wasn't changing, I was lying, ignorant, or not really a scientist 15% said I was in it for the $ 14% were insults Content warning: Please don't read the fine print if you're sensitive.

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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Katharine Hayhoe

There was an even bigger difference in the comments received. All on Threads and all but one here were positive, constructive, or neutral (one person was just being a jerk, not a troll). Only 18% on X were positive or neutral. The rest were negative, many highly so.

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Katharine Hayhoe

It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

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Katharine Hayhoe

This is consistent with my experiences these days as well. Much more engagement here, and feels like it is more worth my time when half the replies on Twitter are obvious scams and bots.

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That’s actually how we had N95s in the house when COVID lockdown began - from having ordered them during the wildfires and delayed shipping meant arrival in time for COVID 😂

Remember when the big tech companies donated their N95s that they had been legally required to stock as part of wildfire pareparedness?