Vivek Srikrishnan

Roy @im_roy_lee• 1d ng i was sweating for 2 mins = ChatGPT Auto > X •• got a call from some tech crunch reporter asking about revenue. told them 7m arr in reality 6.3m run rate. is this securities fraud Short answer: almost certainly not. What you described does not meet the elements of securities fraud in the U.S. 1. Securities fraud requires a securities context 129 セマ57 2.1K il 415K 企 Elizabeth Holmes • @ElizabethHolmes X.com I wouldn't trust Al with this one.... 6:19 PM • 3/5/26 • 37K Views 40 27 38 956 23 企

A person with a microphone saying “ because I think that something awaits me in the divine for resisting“

Them: why do you keep calling yourself a “statistician” instead of a “data scientist”

Me:

Wars are extremely hard things to justify. It is intrinsic to what they are that they tend to death, destruction, and misery. Given this and some knowledge of history, one's default attitude towards powerful people purporting to do the world some great benefit by war should be extreme scepticism.

Top tech companies sign Trump's pledge to provide their own power for AI data centers The pledge signed by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, xAI, Oracle and OpenAI does not include requirements for how companies will source the energy.

I talked with the @latimes.com @hayleysmith.bsky.social about the Administration promising to lower electricity bills while also blocking new sources of clean energy supply. When demand is spiking because of AI and the government is blocking supplies, prices go up. www.latimes.com/environment/...

It’s so insane that this is something praiseworthy.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

Scientists! Avoid entangling yourself in a global child trafficking ring using this one weird trick (talking to literally any woman)
www.science.org/content/arti...

Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.

Whew.

All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.

Based Rates | Mike Bloomberg | Substack Commentary on Utility Regulation from The Future of Heat Initiative. Click to read Based Rates, a Substack publication.

Want to know what the Future of Heat Initiative is thinking? Read our blog.
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The war in Iran shows us another cost of our fossil-fuel economy our reliance on fossil fuels makes us less safe

On The Climate Brink, my latest post is on what the war in Iran tells us about the hidden costs of fossil fuels

Nino3.4 region sea surface temperature forecast.

Wow, that's a monster signal for El Niño in today's new ECMWF seasonal forecast.

Imagine saying this right after talking about how steadfast Israel is as our ally

And frankly, even when you've done all the reading, summarizing what other people have already said is a key part of getting your own thoughts in order. Outsourcing it to the autocomplete machine will still negatively affect the rest of your piece.

Because you can't contribute to a literature if you don't know the literature.

Here's the thing about using AI for lit reviews ... If you've actually read the scholarship, writing the lit review yourself isn't that taxing. But what's gonna happen is folks will use AI to save themselves having to *read* the scholarship, which will then make the rest of their article trash.

I won't say that LLMs have no uses. What I will say is I've found those uses to much more marginal than I'm constantly being told (at least they shift my labor to other parts of tasks rather than net reducing it) while creating all of the negatives in the post here.

Why is there no moral panic about pickleball

Despite promoting the benefits of CCS in public-facing communications and campaigns, the oil and gas industry is more sceptical about its effectiveness in private communications with governments globally. Oil and gas companies tend to question the feasibility of CCS when facing binding regulations to deploy the technology, a trend evident in the UK in the 2010s and in North America and the EU more recently. ExxonMobil, for example, claimed in the US in 2023 that long-term CO2 storage is “simply unproven” and in 2024 noted the “speculative nature of CCS and hydrogen.” Similarly, CCSA claimed that the EU’s carbon storage target was “unrealistic” in an April 2025 consultation, while Shell stated that the EU’s timelines for carbon storage are “highly challenging.” Such scepticism suggests a wider oil and gas strategy to lock in a policy model based primarily on incentives and subsidies without regulatory accountability or science-based emission reductions.

Something I've found fascinating is how fossil fuel companies comically overstate the possibilities of CCS when they're trying to kill regulation and they flip to DEADASS HATING CCS when they might be held to those promises. V funny but also very meaningful!!!

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Chokehold: The Trump administration’s stealth plan to unleash poisonous air The EPA stopped valuing the lives it could save​​, setting up a deregulatory disaster that will be hazardous to your health.

Op-ed: For the past year, the EPA has bowed to the demands of fossil fuel lobbyists, abandoning its core mission to protect Americans from deadly pollution in our air, water, and land.

Read the full column by Dr. Vijay Limaye of @nrdc.org:
www.thenewlede.org/2026/03/chok...

This is a good response.

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

It's been fascinating to see how quickly a number of academics have concluded that using a program to generate a lit review is good enough, as if writing the lit review is merely a chore and not part of the process of building expertise in the subject.

If I wanted to compromise for the sake of increasing productivity, I’d get a private sector job where they’d pay me more and I’d probably have a better work life balance.

Agree 100%. I don’t want to give up writing and thinking, and I include coding as part of that. I’m in this job because I enjoy doing those things, and doing them carefully, not because I care about prestige or minmaxing productivity.

"I had to punch that guy because I could tell he was going to hit me back once we jumped him" is just a description of jumping a guy

New term: Badhart's Law

For Goodhart's law, the metric starts out moderately correlated with quality/performance. Then, when people work only for the metric, that correlation degrades.

For Badhart's law, the metric is shit from the start.

Anyway, this is the climate crisis.

Same. It’s become an impossible task. And that’s assuming reviewers actually complete the review…

this is so ghoulish and disgusting

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

a good thing is when someone posts a picture of a cat, and then people reply with "great cat, here also is a picture of my cat." unsolicited cat pics aplenty. this could be the world we build