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Jeff Seale

@docstymie.bsky.social
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dad; biophysics | mol biol | climate science; work at intersection of ag | climate change | poverty; tikkun olam; #RedSox; #WreckEm; OG 806; thoughts are mine

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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 32m
When I think about 2 big environmental problems of my lifetime - the ozone hole and acid rain - those problems were mostly solved because it was mandated to do so. More and more I believe that we're going to have to do the same with GHGs. Voluntary markets be damned.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4h
Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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ONE Campaign @onecampaign.bsky.social · 5h
ONE's President & CEO, Amb. Mark Green (ret.) has been named a Commissioner of Germany’s new South-North Commission on Development. The Commission brings together global leaders to strengthen cooperation and shape the development agenda beyond 2030. Read more here: bit.ly/4hCPGe3
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ONE CEO Mark Green Named Commissioner of the South-North Commission on Development
ONE CEO Mark Green joins the South-North Commission on Development, uniting Global South and North to shape development beyond 2030.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump wants to put his name on everything except his shitty economy. (D campaigns feel free to use this)
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Le désobéissant 🏴Ministre fantôme @sybilchaos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Compost the Rich!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/09/2026
I think if you're concerned about planetary boundaries you might consider not doing partnerships with the tech companies that are helping to breach those boundaries - partnerships that very explicitly and directly serve to distract and greenwash from the harms being caused by those companies
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Abolish ICE
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My hot take on AI and climate change is that I would not like to be killed by either of them
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just saw a post for a session at NY Climate Week on the role of soil carbon removals in the AI data center economy and I am about to lose my fucking mind.
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Tamar Haspel @tamarhaspel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the nail in organic's coffin. Yes, it has benefits! I support it as a agricultural niche for those beneftis. But the yield penalty is generally 20-50%, which means you need 25-100% more land to produce the same amount of food. Organic cannot feed the world.
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Eddie S. Glaude @esglaude.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.anativeson.org/p/an-epidemi...
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An Epidemic of Selfishness
There is a moment in James Baldwin’s interview with Dr.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Payton Tolle should be the AL Rookie of the Year. Fight me.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Help us remind Congress that it's past time to step up and fund the foreign aid programs that have been proven to save lives. @onecampaign.bsky.social act.one.org/letter/email...
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Congress, support programs that save lives
Congress is back in DC and deciding budget priorities this week. Will they protect the programs that save lives around the world?
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Sept. 11 reminded us of the terrible power of hate,” Mr. Trump said, not going on to say that he learned that lesson and has tried to wield the terrible power of hate ever since. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...
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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Shortly thereafter when Decisions started being Made I had a feeling which was to become a recurring theme throughout the rest of my adult American life: “we had the opportunity and the power to do something better, but decided to do something worse.”
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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AI can be a powerful and useful tool, but the point of science, math, arts, and humanities is to drive greater human creativity and understanding, not just to spit out an answer. Important letter from the world of mathematics.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This story should be more widely known - the largest maritime evacuation in history. youtu.be/MDOrzF7B2Kg?...
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BOATLIFT, An Untold Tale of 9/11 Resilience
YouTube video by RoadtoResilience
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Imagine if we got as riled up about a real crisis happening now (climate change) as we did when a researcher said yesterday that AI would destroy civilization in 10 years. (HINT: the two are actually connected)
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Florida St must have a data center on campus stealing all the power to their stadium.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
More of that socialism, please.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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Molly Ringwald in Pretty In Pink (1986)
Alt: Molly Ringwald in Pretty In Pink (1986)
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MLB @mlbbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Payton Tolle is an absolute gem 😭
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Ebola is devastating women and girls in Africa. Tell Congress to step up and help stop this. @onecampaign.bsky.social act.one.org/letter/email...
act.one.org
Tell Congress to help women and girls fight Ebola
The next Ebola outbreak won't wait, and neither will the women and girls who face the brunt of it. Email Congress now.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
At maximum. 11:12 pm cdt. Near St Louis.
Moon at full eclipse 08.27.26 11:12 pm cdt. Appears as orange circle in a dark sky.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Parton's legacy is proof that you can be a wealthy, powerful, genius who is kind and loved. The jerks at the top are like that by choice.
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Aisha Sultan @aishas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We all wanted Dolly Parton to live forever to remind us of the goodness still in this world. RIP, legend.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026
This is why the 'AI works vs doesn't work' debate is a nonsensical false dichotomy. AI delivers a superficially passable 'successful' output - but the *real* problem is that output is corrosive, worse and the general overuse spreads this corrosion EVERYWHERE www.instagram.com/reel/DcJ6eQW...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
There are going to be Democrats who say we shouldn’t rip it all out — it’s already built, we have other priorities — but removing the visible signs of Trumpism is absolutely necessary.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Which would have a bigger negative impact on the economy, the collapse of the AI bubble or the continued AI growth competing with treasury bonds? Excuse my economics naivety.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The tragedy of Texas Tech www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...
nytimes.com
A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul (Gift Article)
Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Tell Congress to keep funding global health programs! @onecampaign.bsky.social act.one.org/letter/email...
act.one.org
Tell Congress: Don’t cut programs that work
Global health programs have saved millions of lives from AIDS, TB and malaria. They can save millions more, but only if Congress keeps funding them.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yet another threat from the use of AI.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"The sign said, long-haired freaky people need not apply."
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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 18/08/2026
When AI writes the words, AI IS the author and more importantly, the "thought leader" has no legal ownership or control of that work. Machines are not allowed to copyright work. Use it (AI composition tools), you lose it, (ownership of your own ideas.) This should be very obvious. and yet...
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
My new guilty pleasure is going on LinkedIn and marking every post with an AI-generated graphic as “seems like AI slop.” Resistance often comes in small acts.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The Police were 45 years ahead of the times... AI is a tool to dehumanize us. We have to resist. I work all day at the factory I'm building a machine that's not for me There must be a reason that I can't see You've got to humanize yourself youtu.be/RTXt93-jD4o?...
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Re-Humanise Yourself
YouTube video by The Police - Topic
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 12/08/2026
All of this just because not enough people were willing to vote for a Black woman. I think about it every day.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
My personal AI policy - I refuse to use it at all. And I will judge you if you do.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 12/08/2026
I think what we're seeing around the internet right now, vis a vis AOC & her ex-boyfriend & her eggs, is just a tiny, tiny, tiny sliver of the absolute madness that will break out if she runs for president. No matter how f'ing weird you think people will be about it, they will be much, much weirder.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I use Kiva exclusively to support women in smallholder agriculture. . Will you join me in helping Gladys in Kericho to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/je...
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A loan of $250.00 made a difference for Gladys
Kiva is a loan, not a donation. With Kiva you can lend as little as $25 and make a big change in someone's life.
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Jason Dove Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Worried about shifting baseline syndrome and the dangers of ecological amnesia? There's an antidote for that! Read all about it in The Earth Said Remember Me wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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The Earth Said Remember Me
A rallying cry and resistance manual from one of the leaders breathing new life into the environmental movement., The Earth Said Remember Me, How to Revive Our Memories and Restore the Planet, Jason D...
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Today is primary day in Kansas Michigan Missouri Virginia Washington State If you haven't already, show up and #vote today Help others get it done Please don't sit this out Turnout is crucial at every stage of these midterms Get out there and raise your beautiful voice!
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hey @redsox.com it's past time to remove the interim tag from Chad Tracy.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Hersheiser talking about the great LA home field advantage when the park is half empty is some next level commentary.
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Jeff Seale @docstymie.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
100% this. 🖕🏻all this AI slop.
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