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Paul N. Edwards

@avastmachine.bsky.social
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History and politics of climate science, climate change, knowledge infrastructures. Prof. Emeritus of Information and History, University of Michigan and Director Emeritus, Stanford University STS Program. Now expat based in Marseille, fleeing US fascism.

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Marty Lederman @martylederman.bsky.social · 21h
Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice
Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23h
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks to our fossil fuel overlords, the weather we’re used to no longer exists.
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Showers and storms across Spain this weekend, floods kill 102-year-old woman
A 102-year-old woman has died and about 90 people were rescued in Madrigueras, Albacete, after floods dumped 142 l/m². Rain will persist, with a new storm possible in the west on Sunday. #EuropeNews
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 04/10/2026
The electric mobility shift is already happening in Africa. ⚡ 🚌 From buses to motorbikes and bicycles, e-mobility is taking to the streets across the continent, helping #BeatAirPollution and cut emissions. Read on: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
As climate scientists, it sucks to be defunded. But it adds insult to injury to be defunded by this moron who has access to the best climate science and data in the world and still says asinine things like this.
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
read the article to find out about the horrifying effects that led to a ban on this insane practice. Not to mention the influencer’s antisemitism.
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Peter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 04/10/2026
ICYMI from Foster “[Trump] can continue to bluster, but foreign leaders are now notified: if you want stability in your nation’s energy supply, invest (big-time) in solar and wind. Replace your infrastructure that relies on oil and gas. As for Trump and his supporters — they know not what they do.”
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They know not what they do
When I use measurements of something (like atmospheric CO2) to estimate its growth rate (how fast it’s increasing or decreasing), I have to choose a “time scale” on which to do so…
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Jan Murphy @packrat74.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
How hot was the SF Bay Area today? During the San Jose Sharks game tonight, the announcers translated the temps for their Canadian fans. 40C.
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/10/2026
I checked again today. I have been purged in Alabama before. Everyone check!
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The Liberty Pear @thelibertypear.com · 04/10/2026
NEW: James Talarico sets the record straight. Ken Paxton and his henchmen have been using AI to make up lies about Talarico. Enough is enough. Dump Ken Paxton, Vote Talarico.
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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New just now in The Atlantic: David Robinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches. He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.” You can read his essay here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
theatlantic.com
I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety guarantees more failures.
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
WOW - the Attorney General of effing *Florida* blasts AI companies who “offer a service without fully knowing how it works” and say it could destroy humanity.
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/10/2026
Trump said he’s more “physically fit than Obama”. ☠️ 😭
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
High school senior Elder Chavez Carranza is an immigrant living in the US legally under a program for abused or neglected children One day he went to buy food when a cop asked for his papers-which he didn’t have that day. So ICE put him in detention He has been incarcerated for more than 200 days
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Marjan Geotraveler @marjangeotraveler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is said in humor. But it isn’t funny because it’s true.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/10/2026
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the Enblightenment
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Linda D @lindad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And I foolishly thought all those years ago, the internet was gonna make knowledge available to all of us who didnt get to go to college. We had access to all the knowledge and somehow we as a society just got more dumb. So mind numbingly dumb.
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Tony Stark's Frustration: Again with the Idiots
ALT: Tony Stark's Frustration: Again with the Idiots
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L'Œil de la Justice 🪬⚖️ @oeildejustice.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Petite info que vous ne verrez pas à la télé : Une retraitée vraisemblablement radicalisée a CNews a sorti une arme depuis son balcon pour essayer de tirer sur les lycéens rassemblés.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Count on it 👇
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/10/2026
Katie Phang: "Get the fuck out of here. Are you kidding me? You think it's a good use of taxpayers time and money to be able to do illegal redactions and withholds that are now forcing me to have to go and sue? Are you joking? But this is how Todd Blanche thinks."
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The House and Senate needs to submit STAND ALONE BILLS. None of this bullshit that sneaks in other bills that they KNOW would never pass if it was a STAND ALONE BILL.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Last call….🥃 Check your voter registration! Last day to register TO VOTE — SUNDAY in AK, RI, SC, U.S. Virgin Islands MONDAY in AZ, AR, FL, GA, IN, KY, MS, OH, TN, TX. WEDNESDAY in MO 🗳️🗳️🗳️💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🗳️🗳️🗳️
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Semisonic - Closing Time Music Video Clip
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ugh. The amount of people losing their jobs right now is not okay.
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Mad Dr. Jimbosaur, Espooky. @jimbosaur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The core problem w/ EA today is that most of the *money* in the ecosystem has pivoted from "mosquito nets are an efficient way to fight malaria and sleeping sickness" to "quadrillions of future lives depend on me becoming a trillionaire," even if most of the people are still doing the former.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Article intéressant sur une situation tragique, avec une coquille en or: le « coup de la vie. »
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Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
There's only one Fickling "Nowadays, LNG is failing on all three. It’s never been clean,these days it’s not cheap, either: Just buying gas for an existing plant can cost more than building a brand-new solar-plus-storage system from scratch" Bloomberg's very best🌞🔋 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 03/10/2026
I often see people claim that because clean energy sources like solar, wind, or nuclear are manufactured using fossil fuels their emissions are high. But thats absolutely not the case: even accounting for full lifecycle emissions they are vastly better than burning coal or gas:
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
interesting thread, and a genuine issue – but it assumes that AGI would have consciousness, emotions, and pain. Intelligence may or may not require those elements. there is no reason to assume that LLMs have them, even if they say they do – since they simply reformat what humans have written.
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SarahBCalif @sarahbca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It wasn’t rape, pedophilia, healthcare, groceries or war… It was diesel prices. That was MAGA’s red line.
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The Calitaliano Kid 😎🇺🇦🗽 @moved2italy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m not sure exactly WHY🤨 this Republican dark money group wanted to give almost $40,000 smackers to Xavier Becerra (a setup?), but he demonstrated both smarts and ethics by not getting his hands dirty! The first name on my ballot that I’m marking is #XavierBecerra! www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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A mysterious dark money group gave Xavier Becerra $39k. He’s sending it back
The group had generally backed conservative candidates and is backed by an election law firm that’s worked closely with Elon Musk.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
January-September 2026 was the warmest Jan-Sep on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. Seems red. 🔥🔥🔥
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Guy Walton..."The Climate Guy" @climateguyw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
For your perusal @zacklabe.com @zekehausfather.com @rahmstorf.bsky.social @leahstokes.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
« think » 🤡
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Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Predict he will announce retirement for January 2027 the day after the election. Between the election and the seating of the new DemocraticCongress they will ram through some even more obnoxious and legally illiterate asshole.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@adamtooze.bsky.social: Avoid easy comparisons of the AI boom to the Manhattan Project. Back then, the central actors were scientists, soldiers and civil servants. "Today’s world-threatening technologies are fuelled by trillionaire greed, junk bonds and jerry-rigged financial engineering."
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No, AI is not similar to the Manhattan Project
What is singular and novel about the current threat is that it was born out of the private sector
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ken Paxton has taken over 275 out-of-state trips since taking office. Texans have spent $1.9 million in taxpayer funds on his luxury vacations.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is anyone going to discuss the software being advertised on social media explicitly encouraging college students to use AI for thier assignments because their product goes the “extra step” to avoid AI detection? www.facebook.com/share/v/18Kj...
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The White House plans to continue undermining SBE next year, analysis as part of our July 2026 Insight on #SCIMaP "Cuts to NSF’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Directorate will have significant economic impacts nationwide" scienceimpacts.org/insights/SBE...
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Roberts let a 6–3 Court call official acts untouchable. That’s the cover every deal since July 2024 has used. Articles are filed. Ask your representative why they still haven’t signed on. The letter is already written.
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Tell Congress: Impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts
Contact Congress today!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The GOP has put $2 million to this campaign, and the billionaires have put $23 million in. Their contribution is 92% of the money Tiffany raised.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/10/2026
“Just 7 percent of Brits think social media is a force for good and around one in three suspect that life would get better if all these sites were erased from the internet tomorrow.” Hard to disagree. Social media is a cancer and its social harms need to be taken seriously.
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Erase social media tomorrow? Brits say yes
So why are more and more people snorting their daily fix of cat videos, men fighting and political propaganda
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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