James Holland Jones

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Anthropologist in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability studying human adaptation, infectious disease dynamics, and climate fiction.

https://heeh.stanford.edu

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That Vance is a direct line to Thiel and Andreessen is truly important. Trump wants their money. Thiel wants to sell billions in Palantir contracts to power Trump’s mass surveillance/ethnic cleansing infrastructure. Pence was the Christian Nationalists’ guy. Vance is reactionary capital’s.

Are you a fan of all of those guys who are directly responsible for making the internet an unusable dogshit hellhole? Well boy do I have a VP for you.

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GOP is the new working class party!

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Climeworks's Orca facility in Iceland, currently the world's largest direct air capture facility, was designed to remove 4000 tonnes of CO₂ per year. In 2023, it removed just 921 tonnes. That's a time machine that takes us back 0.7 seconds in a year. 🥲 climeworks.com/news/...

The reality of deploying direct air capture in the fieldclimeworks.com This article provides an opportunity to look behind the scenes of Climeworks’ field deployment journey

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If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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The way forward is mutual aid. Feel lost, lonely, scared? There is a free fridge project or pantry near you. Make some sandwiches. I am absolutely not kidding about this. “Not Knowing What Else To Do, Woman Bakes American-Flag Cake” is not terrible advice if you give it away.

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Here is a full transcript of Jack Posobiec's alarmingly fascist speech about the war against "un-humans," which he delivered from the main stage of the National Conservatism Conference this week, immediately before a speech by a US Senator. Read it for yourself www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/jack-posob...

Jack Posobiec's Speech About "Un-Humans" at the National Conservatism Conferencewww.hamiltonnolan.com Read this for yourself, please.

It seems that @washingtonpost.com is trying to keep up with the Joneses. "Thus far, most journalistic AI efforts have been deeply embarrassing, and have left lasting reputational damage for brands." futurism.com/washington-p...

Washington Post Launches AI to Answer Climate Questions, But It Won't Say Whether AI Is Bad for the Climatefuturism.com The Washington Post has a new AI chatbot, designed to answer climate questions. Why won't it answer prompts about AI's climate footprint?

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“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike, even in winter.” grist.org/biking/one-m...

One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 lossgrist.org Copenhagen, the bicycle-friendliest place on the planet, publishes a biannual Bicycle Account, and buried in its pages is a rather astonishing fact.

WTF is wrong with (1) these people, (2) Texas, (3) the world?

This is insane.

Heat too high for Stanford Life Flight to fly. 🫠 wapo.st/4cYftK1

As extreme heat bakes the West, emergency helicopters struggle to flywapo.st Extreme heat, like the intense wave blanketing the West right now, is affecting the way rescue helicopters can carry out their missions.

Hell, yes, Kylian.

"I think more than ever we need to go out and vote. We can't leave our country in the hands of these people [the far right RN party]," Mbappé said at a press conference in Hamburg ahead of France's Euro 2024 quarter-final against Portugal there on Friday." he did it www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

French elections: Mbappé says voting is 'urgent' after 'catastrophic' resultswww.lemonde.fr Star French forward Kylian Mbappé had previously called on young French people to vote at this 'crucial moment,' on Sunday, June 16, joining his team-mate Marcus Thuram in speaking out against the far...

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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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Nature spoke to political scientists from around the world whose work has flung them into both the public and political limelight, sometimes with drastic consequences for their personal and professional lives. 🧪

‘It can feel like there’s no way out’ — political scientists face pushback on their workgo.nature.com In a year in which numerous countries are going to the polls, many election-watching scientists are under pressure. In a year in which numerous countries are going to the polls, many election-watching...

As usual, Rebecca Solnit nails it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

I believe by "cool" they meant "try hard"

Am I cooler than the least cool thing imaginable? Yeah, probably.

Former Florida cop key figure in network of Russia-based websites using AI to masquerade as local American newspapers and crank out right-wing fake news. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A Bugatti, a first lady and the fake stories aimed at Americanswww.bbc.com A former US police officer runs an AI-powered network of misleading news sites turning its sights towards November.

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This but unironically.

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More trains please.

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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

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“Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period.”

Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancywww.statnews.com Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

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these assholes are going to start a resource war

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excellent investigation, beautiful visualisation, and scary findings. tech corps are burning our planet down so people can stop making art www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systemswww.bloomberg.com New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

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Giving a cop the mugshot treatment because he arrested a rich person who was guilty and acting like that’s totally normal should be a moment that open’s people’s eyes to the jig.

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It’s so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you’re actively dying and don’t go below 79 🥺🤘🏻💗” while the AI nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1 image of a girl with 5 tits

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Part of the issue here is that a lack of real enforcement for 30 years turned aggressively anti-competitive business models into the only reliably high-growth strategy rewarded by investors. A whole generation of executives identifies market-cornering “moats”with capitalism per se.

Why are corporate CEOs cozying up to Trump? Yes, the tax cuts — but it's not just that. Biden is reviving anti-trust in a massive way, with lawsuits against Amazon, Apple, Ticketmaster, and many more. Corporate execs are terrified of their monopolies being broken up.

Wall Street’s pathological and ruinous demand that companies show perpetual growth, as opposed to healthy sustainable profits, is only possible in a world where firms are allowed to lock up markets, eliminate competition and collect increasing extractive rents at increasing scale.

Just stumbled upon this nice write-up of our project, Imagining Adaptive Societies casbs.stanford.edu/news/project...

Project Imagines Adaptive Societies Through Fictioncasbs.stanford.edu It brings social scientists in dialogue with speculative fiction writers and their works to help imagine new and better social arrangements in the present.

I feel like this is one of those Kahneman/Tversky categorization errors. Thanks a lot, Linda. (Less tha 2 miles from Amos Tversky’s house)

She seems nice. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over monthswww.theguardian.com Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll

This is a really great encapsulation of academic publishing

After asking the government (or private foundations) to pay for the costs of doing research, we conduct the research and write papers about it that our peers review for free, then we donate those papers to for-profit companies that sell them back to us at high prices. This is considered normal.