Luke Stark

Good. I know @sharonk.bsky.social is thinking primarily in terms of LNG, but we have a lot more to offer.

Solar. Wind. Lithium. All the stuff needed for the green energy revolution, we have it.

So let's stop pussyfooting around and fucking go for it.

Where the hell did the Gen Z bros find out about sauna hats?

yeah but

it seems to work tho

This has nothing to do with the specific content here, but Polymarket adopting the language of news, here with BREAKING, and with Texas election results earlier this week, is BAD. Polymarket is not and will never be a news org or break news. It's a betting app. It's Draft Kings for sociopaths.

But because of their suffocating conviction that everything is always Fundamentally Normal, that America is a place where nothing ever really happens or changes, those same people are incapable of recognizing the enormity of what we’re doing, when we’re the ones doing it.

Having faced no consequences for anything, Trump has noticed that he has the world’s largest military at his command, and believes he has found a brilliant solution for solving problems that no one before him was smart enough to discover: just kill everyone in your way, until they obey you.

Indiana’s Anti-Trans Attorney General is Preparing to Revoke Trans People’s Documents Indiana AG Todd Rokita has been compiling a list of his state’s trans people. Following in Kansas’ footsteps, he’s quietly laying the groundwork to declare their IDs “falsified records.”

Will Indiana be the next state to invalidate drivers licenses and IDs for trans residents?

@transitics.substack.com spoke with government employees from various states about the capabilities of their bureaucracy. She identified Indiana as the most likely state to follow Kansas. Worth a read.

Evidence piling up that the Trump regime thought Iran is Venezuela, and the Maduro operation—which needed some luck to go as smoothly as it did, and didn’t actually advance US national interest or improve anything for Venezuelans—was easily repeatable in the Middle East.

This was not very smart.

🧵Feels like shouting into the void, but it is essential to note that the Trump/Rubio gutting of the State Department and blowtorching of US diplomatic capacity and credibility is an accelerant to this spiraling war and will seriously undercut US/allied efforts to pick up the pieces after. 1/

Trump has fully shattered the world we all grew up in. It’s a dramatic break from how things worked before, even compared to the Iraq War and other misadventures - the United States abruptly tumbling over a cliff and becoming literally more reckless and domineering than Putin’s Russia.

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

Huh!

These plots shows the highest-leverage policies that win back defectors on both the left and right:

- Increase pay for public sector
- Decrease cost of bus and train tickets
- Wealth tax on billionaires

and the winnable left bloc is bigger than the right

This is so obvious. I call it a form of postpartum depression

Americas First War in Age of LLMs Exposes Myth of AI Alignment The military is turning to tools that relieve the burden of conscience and function like a moral sedative, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

The Trump administration’s escalating campaign in Iran marks the beginning of America’s first war in the age of large language models. These events make clear that those who work on AI safety must confront the limits of so-called “alignment to human values,” writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Text from OpenAI article on its educational programs: "Agency does not emerge from basic AI use alone. Students must progress from simple tasks to deeper applications such as studying, building, creating, coding, and managing agents. But among college-age users, we see a widening global “capability overhang,” defined as the gap between what AI tools can do and how people actually use them. Even advanced student users still operate roughly 90% to 99% below how power users of ChatGPT are engaging with our tools. Educational institutions play a central role in closing that gap. Faculty and educators can help students harness AI’s full potential by embedding authentic AI use cases into coursework—assignments that use AI and mirror real professional work, such as analyzing a market, designing a product concept, evaluating a policy trade-off, or building a simple agent"

Shouldn't let OpenAI puff about education get to me, but its claim students need AI skills for future jobs and "agency", then letting slip it really means making students into GPT "power users", and making that an educational imperative, *and* planning to measure it ... 😦 openai.com/index/ai-edu...

This passage of Cosmos came to mind while I was watching Pete Hegseth strut across the stage at the Pentagon yesterday.

I think, following the brilliant @cyn-k.bsky.social, that there's a very big risk the federal government will claim to be "regulating" genAI companies by simply integrating them more tightly into the digital surveillance-and-capture state. Side deals and lack of transparency are not a good sign.

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

And if you think AI will solve this, I’d like to introduce you to the current “30% vacancy rate for digital roles” in the federal public service, “threatening delivery and leading to costly dependence on external
contractors.”

www.canada.ca/en/governmen...

People who previously complained about the size of the public service, and who subsequently complain about the speed of government or delayed services after the current round of cuts, will earn my best shrug.

Yooooo I wrote a blog post about this magaro.net/tles/2025/03...

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Honestly, nowadays we see the Firefly cast more than we do actual real life fireflies and that in and of itself feels like a crime against nature.

I have a feeling that if you never get a chance to explore big ideas at school or in media you are uniquely susceptible to falling for the first idea of any size that looks 'big'. And I have a feeling that a lot of people know this

Tory’s $100,000 Rogers post, the quiet undoing of ActiveTO — here’s some city hall items you may have missed Has the goalposts for what should be an issue or scandal shifted under COVID-19?

The Canadian establishment is fascinating.

Was it wrong for his critics to talk about Tory being on the Rogers payroll while he was mayor? Or was it tawdry to do so?

Not something the Canadian establishment would do?