This is one of the more readable and balanced takes on the dicey topic of geoengineering (despite the headline suggesting it's more opinionated than it is) that I've read. scientificamerican.com/article/its-ti… Appreciated the quotes from Ken Caldeira and others.

I wanted to share some thoughts on what’s happening right now in Israel and Gaza. barackobama.medium.com/my-statement-o…

I think this statement from our former president is best read in its entirety, so I won’t do it a disjustice by trying to summarize or headline. It’s a good read and I highly recommend it

Two things: 1) There are legitimate criticisms of Israel and American policy, and those voices should be heard without being accused of antisemitism. 2) If you or your group are personally angry at American Jews because of Israeli government actions, there’s a name for that.

I just discovered Michael Kiwanuka’s Home Again album from 2012. To all of you who knew, and didn’t tell me, I might forgive, but I’ll never forget. 🤩🤯

The president is rightfully proud of his record. But he is dangerously out-of-touch with the concerns people have about his capacitiies moving forward and his standing in this race. Four years ago at this time, he was 10 points ahead of Trump. Today, he is six points behind.

“A focus group yesterday of voters who chose Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020—and who dread and oppose Trump—was unanimous that Biden could not serve another term. Most of them said any new candidate would beat Trump, and most people they knew would agree.” thebulwark.com/p/the-case-to-…

Boring. Rambling. Liar. We will beat him.

"Cynicism is not a neutral position—and although it asks almost nothing of us, it is highly infectious and destructive... Hopefulness isn't a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism." -- Nick Cave (/v kottke.org)

Theres been a bit of confusion lately around how the climate system response to carbon dioxide removal. While there are complexities, under realistic assumptions a ton of removal is still equal and opposite in its effects to a ton of emissions. A thread: 1/x

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Jon Stewart’s 2-minute history lesson here is worth everyone’s time before we start confidently breaking out our theories of what happened

That was a cataclysm. Electoral map wipeout. Senate D practical ceiling is now 52 seats. R's is 62. Time to rebuild the left. We are out of touch with the crisis of meaning/purpose fueling MAGA. We refuse to pick big fights. Our tent is too small. 1/ Some early thoughts:

A few thoughts from the conversations I’ve been having and hearing over the last week: The hard question isn’t the 2 points that would’ve decided the election. It’s how to build a Democratic Party that isn’t always 2 points away from losing to Donald Trump — or worse. The

“Your entire graduating class gets a shared grade, and if it’s not > 3.5 GPA, nobody can go to college. What do you do?” - The social dilemma of solving climate change as I plan to explain it to a high school class this week. Thoughts?