There are supposedly serious people who think this chart is absolutely definitely nothing to worry about.

It feels almost pointless reposting this on X these days but, as we predicted, 2024 was the warmest in the instrumental record, and probably since humans evolved. The climate will not stabilise until we reach net zero, and that physics is not susceptible to lobbying or bullying

Not this again. I look forward to the intelligence agencies pointing out which of the laws of physics we're going to ignore in order to make such a weapon possible.

70% accuracy is very bad, but if your existing processes are starting below that level, yeesh

The government’s new AI plan marks a big shift in direction. Sunak saw the importance of AI but he tried to position the UK as the world’s AI safety leaders, emphasising the risks and in an eye-catching but negative way.

If ChatGPT had a way to reliably ingest RSS, this could potentially be useful...but as far as I'm aware, it doesn't

If this doesn't explain how he became an expert in Parisian sewers then there is no reason for it to exist

Congestion pricing coverage is peak economics Every person is like, "I didn't used to bear the external costs of my behavior. But now that I do, I am adjusting along an infinite variety of least-cost adaptive margins that no central planner could have foreseen or designed"

My leader this week is a cheerful one: it is time to accept that we have broken the climate, and for us to look at what comes next newscientist.com/article/mg2653…

Did it though? Or did a noisy statistic continue to oscillate around zero?

It seems insane that this form exists? 972 hours! Is anyone reading it?

I wrote about how strange and wonderful it was that the incredible Twin Peaks briefly dragged David Lynch into the mainstream, and how hard he fought — especially with Twin Peaks: The Return — to do what interested him, and not a potential mass audience: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-m…

"plan" is doing a lot of work here

Hahaha what?!

This ain't gonna happen

And this is why I am yet to find a use for LLMs

The making shit up machine will make up as much shit as you want, and it only costs $200 a month!

Image by Michael Carroll in 2013. We did NOT see the little one coming; it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one & perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

In a monthly reporting call on global climate, researchers from the US government’s climate and weather agency avoided linking recent record temperatures with climate change newscientist.com/article/246944…

We've never seen anything like this recording of a landing on another world. Firefly Aerospace