"Artificial intelligence depends on human intelligence," says the World Meteorological Society. So don't defund the humans!
The data backbone for huge decisions around the world requires humans to capture: Humans that take years to train but one signature to defund. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_402...
I don’t, personally.
I’ve been thinking lately: the assessments are clear, the alternatives are compelling, it seems to be a structural problem of decision making process & power. I prefer to think of it on global & local levels, the nation state seems a captured loss cause & poor idea. So…
Cost to whom? Isn’t that the question?
This is how we got here. The lack of judgement is just staggering. Dated: June 21, 2025
Did you hear that our friend @marshallk.bsky.social is building new and awesome things that provide more context for what we're reading on the Web…? Yep. Typical Marshall. Meet "What's Up With That?" siliconflorist.com/2026/02/26/m...
Oh man, you and I bud, we got a lot in common. That podcast sounds awesome.
Getting ready to launch something awesome! And I built it myself. haha!
Grok spews more and more pollutants, including greenhouse gasses, from turbines on mobile trailers for a project called Collosus, into an area with 10 schools within 2 miles, and officials just say "if the generators are on wheels, they don't count." floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
Agreed in as much as disaster mitigation will require the speed and scale that profit motive drives. But a two speed strategy that also advances deeper slower post-capitalist connections to nature seems essential as well
Putin's government has arrested and is holding a widely-supported Indigenous climate leader www.daria-egereva.org
*surely* Trump will say “sorry, I stopped short of watching the last 3 seconds of that video I shared. They were beside the point, but I’ve taken it down.” lol no. Probably a one-man honeypot by Russian intel though, right?
A Customs and Border Patrol agent has been arrested on average once every 24-36 hours every day FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS?! www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Don’t forget feeling good about yourself for the first time because you feel wealthy! That’s a real winner
This comes up because yesterday he was caught uploading sensitive government documents to ChatGPT, against the rules. techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/t...
The acting head of US cybersecurity failed a polygraph test required to view sensitive information? And his response was to fire 6 people he said tricked him into doing it? Bonkers story just before Christmas last year www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
AI & energy? Nuanced take from climate expert Katherine Hayhoe. Largely: how does the energy get produced?" There is of course water too. I heard someone recently say the question isn’t whether AI uses energy; it’s whether AI *pays the full cost* of the energy system it demands. (or externalizes it)
DHS in Sept: "ICE does not raid schools" www.dhs.gov/news/2025/09...
We are like a mollusk heart, you and I! :)
And if you can’t say that about damn near everything over the last 50 years…well, you can. Imagine if we started living that way! In truth I think we are. Just with authoritarian backlash. Reasserting rule of law is not the only solution. Open distributed systems are widespread in nature.
I just walked into a science library, grabbed a Journal of Mollusk Studies volume from 1976, took a photo of 1st page, asked Claude what’s changed since then & what it means: better instruments & humility taught us that open “primitive” systems were just differently optimized & have much to teach.
/r/Conservative is really interesting right now. Really seems like a lot of people in good faith incapable of comprehending anti-ICE protests. Just sure it’s a conspiracy of illegitimate complaints. Remarkable bifurcation of perspectives in this country.
If you're looking for a good "oh shit" number visualized well, I present the number of billion dollar "natural disasters" in the US since 1980. Trump canceled the government's counting of these, but they are maintained now here www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...
This might be a silly thing to be striking me as notable, given that one of my primary collaborations is with regenintel.earth but the fact is that mental model needed explicit updating! So there you go. Thanks for reading.
Small mental adjustment, sharing out loud: we all say there’s climate change mitigation & there’s adaptation (to climate change) - both are needed.
But within mitigation, there are both emissions reductions and enhancement of GHG absorbing sinks. Both are important! Morning thought after reading.
22 years ago tonight, my partner and I went on our first date! Happy to report we’re doing better than ever these days.
Possibly the most wonderfulest thing I have read in a long time!! theconversation.com/why-so-many-...
On the power of writing down what you're sensing: Mary Greer says “the important thing is to express and objectify your intuitive awareness so that by becoming aware of your behavior patterns you will be free to change them.”
People older than me I don't want to email saying "I hope you're well." Because no shame if and when they're not. You're 70, 80 years old? I'll just say "it's nice to be thinking of you" as my sign off. Cheers, Marshall
