Reposted by Max PolettoCallum 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @myshka689908.bsky.social · 05/09/2026If you put Sweden and Denmark's abbreviations together, they spell SWEDEN. The letters left over spell DENMARK. 460665
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 26/08/2026The best analysis and proposal that I've read regarding adoption of AI in higher education. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/aiandeducation.mit.eduReport – AI and Education 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 16/08/2026Good talk by Kevin Anderson (professor of energy and climate at Manchester and Uppsala) on the dire place we are in and what it will take to avoid catastrophic climate change. Worth 15 minutes of your time. www.nebriefing.org/expert-brief...nebriefing.orgNational Emergency BriefingClimate Science and Carbon Budgets | Prof Kevin Anderson briefs MPs on emissions, targets and the climate emergency 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 14/08/2026Pepperidge Farms remembers when Crusoe was a "clean tech" company. www.wired.com/story/real-r...wired.comThe Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So DirtyA massive new gas plant in Texas will be built with much less efficient technology than regular gas plants. It’s far from the only data center power project to rely on dirty turbines. 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 13/08/2026We live in a Mad Max world. x.com/RALee85/stat... x.com/clashreport/...x.comRob Lee (@RALee85) on XPhoto of a Ukrainian humvee with a CUAS cage and sticks. https://t.co/nif5MYT6fT 000
Reposted by Max Polettorob pike @robpike.io · 03/08/2026Even by Astronomy Picture of the Day standards, this photo of "fire rainbow" is a stunner. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26080...apod.nasa.gov APOD: 2026 August 2 – A Fire Rainbow over West Virginia A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. 1529
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 11/07/2026We lose a legend. I loved his quote that bicycles are the “perfect means for ‘right living.’” 011
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 01/06/2026If OMB's proposed "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance" goes into effect, it will be the end of US science in its world-leading post-WW2 form. This is a very good explainer. Contact your senator/rep. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...elizabethginexi.substack.comSummary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance RuleRussell Vought is going to destroy American Science 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 30/05/2026I'm pretty pessimistic but didn't foresee that it would only take 16 months for the US to fall into Lysenkoism. 000
Reposted by Max PolettoStephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Funny things still happen over at the bad place This guy put a prompt in his LinkedIn and now AI recruiters are writing him in Old English and calling him "my lord" 2235531048
Reposted by Max PolettoAmanda Walker @aw90.bsky.social · 12/11/2025This is amazing: byte.tsundoku.io The first issue I recognize is October 1978. Zooming around in this is like a time machine.byte.tsundoku.ioByte - a visual archive 071
Reposted by Max Polettohalvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social · 25/03/2026I wrote a few lines about my development setup (which - by accident, not by design - mitigates a good number of risks associated with vibecoding. Not all of them, but many.) addxorrol.blogspot.com/2026/03/slig...addxorrol.blogspot.comSlightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habitsI have seen a lot of public discussion around supply-chain attacks on the Python ecosystem, prompt injection risks when using coding agents,... 2163
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 24/03/2026NASA now serves climate disinformation to elementary school kids. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...nasa.govWhat Is Climate Change? (Grades K-4) - NASAClimate change is a change in the usual weather found in a place. This could be a change in how much rain a place usually gets in a year. 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 04/03/2026I'm probably a dinosaur but this resonates with my experience and current practice. newsletter.humanwhocodes.com/posts/single...newsletter.humanwhocodes.comSingle-tasking in the age of AI 000
Reposted by Max PolettoLiz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/02/2026MY GOD even the Project Maven DoD sponsor is against the US deploying autonomous LLMs to kill people. I... cannot even 2847
Reposted by Max Polettorob pike @robpike.io · 23/02/2026STOP LAUNCHING CRAP WE DON'T NEED OR WANT It's staggeringly depressing how blithely they plan to ruin everything. Everything. I went to a dark site last week so I could say goodbye to the sky. Took a little hand-held photo and guess what? A satellite trail appeared. Just stop! 417326
Reposted by Max PolettoNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides. 5662711374
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 28/01/2026Really making America great again. www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took officeA Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 25/01/2026I suppose par for the course for a woman who once shot her dog. She makes me nauseous. 010
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 24/01/2026Very clear (and distressing) video of what happened this morning in Minneapolis. ICE attacked and then murdered the victim after he tried to help someone else whom they were knocking down. Maybe now we can stop wondering what American fascism would look like. 164
Reposted by Max PolettoVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026The GOP is consistent. When they said state’s rights they meant “white supremacy“ and when they said “tyranny” they were mad about federal interference with white supremacy. ICE is white supremacist, so they support it. They aren’t hypocritical on this. 019061
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 13/01/2026A really good post about the politics and policies of decarbonization, by @hausfath.bsky.social. Also check out the rest of the @theclimatebrink.skystack.xyz blog. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/keep-it-in...theclimatebrink.comKeep it in the ground?When the politics of affordability meet the needs of climate mitigation 010
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 10/01/2026Must be tough to be a parody account, @nytpitchbot.bsky.social . www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/o...nytimes.comOpinion | The ICE Shooting Displays the Need for Equilibrium. But How? 010
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 08/01/2026Good video analysis by the NYT of the Minneapolis murder. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...nytimes.comVideo: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in MinneapolisAn analysis of footage from three camera angles show that the vehicle appears to be turning away from a federal officer as he opened fire. 010
Reposted by Max PolettoFieryHeart @thefieryheart.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Today my pastor of several years was detained by ICE at the lawful demonstration where ICE officers murdered Renee Good. Three times they taunted and asked him if he's afraid yet. They let him go because he's white, saying, "Well you're white and it wouldn't be any fun." This is his story: 14462296
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 05/01/2026Hannah Ritchie cuts through some noise.hannahritchie.substack.comFive(ish) charts that give some context to Venezuelan oilIt has the world's largest reserves, produces comparatively little, and has a type of oil that the US needs. 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 18/12/2025This is so good: www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu... It's like a capsule form of Edward Tufte's books, really well done. h/t @scientificdiscovery.devscientificdiscovery.devSaloni's guide to data visualizationWhy data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. 110
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 18/12/2025TIL that it wasn't until the mid 1990s that more than 50% of Americans approved of interracial marriage. Apparently ~5% still don't. news.gallup.com/poll/354638/...news.gallup.comU.S. Approval of Interracial Marriage at New High of 94%Ninety-four percent of U.S. adults now approve of marriages between Black people and White people. Just 4% approved when Gallup first asked the question in 1958. 000
Reposted by Max Polettoniraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 13/12/2025I don’t often choose a specific day on which I think American democracy broke, but when I do, it’s this one 0143
Reposted by Max PolettoDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted 31762091287
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 30/11/2025People like to bury their heads in the sand. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...nytimes.comZillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings 110
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 19/11/2025Incredible piece of writing on what it's like to live in Chicago under ICE occupation. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...aphyr.comI Want You to Understand Chicago 000
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 17/11/2025"Operation Charlotte's Web": fuck these people all the way to hell. www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...lawdork.comGregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us aboutDHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom. 010
Reposted by Max PolettoKen Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 13/11/2025In an absurd waste of time, I wrote a blog post about voting and the 19th Chopin Competition. There has been controversy about who should have won. Different voting systems would yield different winners. Differences in top rankings are statistically insignificant. kencaldeira.com/2025/11/chop... 4113
Reposted by Max PolettoDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/11/2025"Far from a peak, China's gasoline demand is estimated to have fallen 9% in October on the year to 12.5 million tons, with average daily use roughly flat with September..." China's oil demand is entering structural decline.reuters.comEVs put an end to China's usual holiday surge in gasoline useTianyu Jiang took a 2,000-km (1,200-mile) road trip this month during China's national holiday week, driving in his electric vehicle from the southwestern Sichuan basin to Beijing for the first time. 12654184
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 30/10/2025Every time I read about incarceration in the United States I have to go for a walk to cool off. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...nytimes.comF.C.C. Changes Course on the Price of Prisoners’ Phone Calls 162
Max Poletto @maxp.net · 30/10/2025This from the "Head of Mission Alignment" at OpenAI. Huge uncertainties, indeed. 🤡 020
Reposted by Max PolettoNext door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger 8234821064