As a clinical health psychologist, I notice that many people are using psychological defense mechanisms to downplay the risk of COVID. These are my Top 7 examples: 🧵

An important message from @RickyGervais ~ "Rescue pets wait weeks, months, even years. So visit your local animal shelter and take home your new best friend ~ #Adopt." #AdoptDontShop 🐾

Fossil fuels were given over $7 TRILLION in subsidies last year: buff.ly/3P85KHU That's $19.2 billion per day, $799 million per hour, $13.3 million every minute. The first step in addressing the problem is to stop funding it. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy

I have seen many strange things during my 71 years in this world, but the strangest of all, without question, is seeing nearly everyone around me choose to carelessly dismiss the clear, self-evident danger posed by the uncontrolled spread of Covid-19.

There is growing evidence that fake judge @Alexandre engaged in serious, repeated & deliberate election interference in Brazil’s last presidential election. Under Brazilian law, that would mean up to 20 years in prison. And, I’m sorry to say that it appears that some former

Agri-voltaics, or how to combine the deployment of PV and agriculture- and get synergies between food and electricity production. Great explainer by Ember ember-climate.org/insights/in-br…

Starlink is the lowest cost (which is a good thing) and high performing (also good) solution and the government banned it because… they pre-determined to give the money to other companies with higher cost solutions… and because Elon Musk bad

Latest Data Confirms: Forest Fires Getting Worse Between "2001 to 2023 - area burned by forest fires increased by about 5.4% per year over that time period. - nearly 6 million more hectares tree cover loss per year than in 2001 — area size of Croatia"wri.org/insights/globa…

Lex Fridman They froze Starlink’s bank accounts too, despite Starlink being a separate company with different shareholders and having broken no laws and given no warning.

POW! All new houses built in Tokyo after April 2025 must include solar power panels. Let's speed that up. Who's next? RT if you think more houses should get a solar powered upgrade. We have the solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables

Starlink is the only high-bandwidth Internet system that covers all of Earth. It will probably deliver over 90% of all space-based Internet traffic next year.

This weekend, the @xAI team brought our Colossus 100k H100 training cluster online. From start to finish, it was done in 122 days. Colossus is the most powerful AI training system in the world. Moreover, it will double in size to 200k (50k H200s) in a few months. Excellent

Jared Isaacman Foxtail Coffee Co. Apologies not needed at all! I’m really enjoying our extra time seeing all of the things I usually watch online, in person! Great to spend time with my mum, and we’re super grateful for this opportunity!

In #France, EDF is facing a bill of up to €100bn for mandatory safety upgrades to its #nuclear fleet. #EDF is 100% owned by the French Govt. Poor French taxpayer and electricity customer.

Rise of wind and fall of coal in the UK! Coal collapsed in 10 years and goes to zero in September. Wind skyrocketed from ~5% in 2010 to nearly 30% in 2023, with the UK awarding today contracts for 6.4 GW of land and offshore wind! Beautiful chart! msn.com/en-us/money/ma…

We Can get this done, If we keep up the pressure

The wasted half century after Apollo genuinely pains me. It would have been so easy for America, and others, to push forward with lunar and even Martian exploration and establishing bases. And we would be living in a better world that way. And it’s why I have such disdain for

We must counter the very successful misinformation campaign mounted by opponents of space colonisation. Every thread I get someone confidently asserting that cosmic rays are a showstopper (they aren’t) which we don’t now how to mitigate (we do) and ISS astronauts are fully

Elon Musk: Some people think Mars is going to be an escape hatch for rich people. In reality, it'll be a lot of hard work, and you might not make it back.

Matter as Machine Nathaniel Peter Hague SAD, is light related, as you should know, not boredom. Ps they have a natural environment, supplemental oxygen & warm gear are required. The Armstrong limit is so close that heavy spacesuits aren't required, on the occasions outside vehicles /habs.