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Steven Brumby

@stevenpbrumby.bsky.social
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AI+space scientist/entrepreneur teaching computers to help us understand our changing world. Co-Founder/CEO @impactobservatory.bsky.social Prev: Los Alamos National Lab, National Geographic Society, Descartes Labs. 🤖🚀🌎🌍🌏

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Discontinued Foods! @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
McDonald's Tripple Ripple (1971-1974): A blend of real, premium, chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice creams, packed into a sugar cone--"the ice cream goes all the way to the bottom!", per a press release--that came frozen and pre-packed. But the story (and lawsuit) behind it is a wild ride! A 🧵
A pink, white, and brown swirl of ice cream in a sugar cone next to the McDonald's logo and the words "Tripple Ripple Ice Cream Cone"
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 17h
This is pretty hilarious and a sign of our brave new world ... meatproxy.me
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Don't be a Meat Proxy.
You have a brain. Use it. Someone thinks you might be forwarding AI answers and calling it work.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 19h
Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg call on the EU to set a 2040 renewable-energy target.
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Spain, Portugal, Luxembourg Urge EU to Set 2040 Renewables Goal
Spain, Portugal and Luxembourg are calling on the European Union to set a 2040 renewable-energy target, as the bloc seeks to reduce its dependence on imported fuel.
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Ruth Watson @ruthwatson.eurosky.social · 20h
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The whistleblowers at the leading AI labs plus the little we know about the hacking events suggest we’re in the early stages of a “Don’t Look Up” moment. The scientists want to slow down - will their investors and the Government let them? Sad to see that Don’t Look Up was barely a satire.
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Peter Isherwell Says 'Everything Is Fine'
Alt: Tech billionaire Peter Isherwell falsely says 'Everything Is Fine' in the satire "Don't Look Up".
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 14/09/2026
Another addition to the list of the Trump admin's collection of planet destroying policies. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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E.P.A. Will Erase Limits on Climate Pollution From Power Plants (Gift Article)
Generation of electricity is the second largest source of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases in the United States.
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/monit... "The present situation is a bit like if instead of having a Manhattan Project we just subcontracted it out to a few private companies and set up a prize of a trillion dollars for who could build a nuke first without any safety rules …"
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Monitoring the AI Apocalypse
We’re now flooded with articles about the threat of AI. Here’s another...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 09/09/2026
Tanzania has designated its first official wildlife corridor, allowing elephants to migrate from open savannas to mountain rainforests. Co-managed by local landowners and government, the 14-km route gives hundreds of elephants safe passage across the Kilombero Valley. Ryan Truscott reports.
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Tanzania’s first official wildlife corridor links savanna elephants to rainforest
African savanna elephants in southern Tanzania have an unusual habit: They climb mountains. Up to 1,000 of the pachyderms spend part of their time in the Udzungwa Mountains, clambering up and down…
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I think the political left should be the loudest voice calling for an AI model development pause, frontier pacing, and mandatory third party audits right now. Put aside the doomer stuff (though I think it’s plausible), we just found out that OpenAI’s agents committed a pretty major felony!
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Brett Nicholson @aggiebrett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What's an example of perfect casting?
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This flash flood in Nepal-Tibet is horrific and here’s hoping the international community will offer every assistance to the local community and all the visitors impacted. The trigger appears to be glacier collapse - which scientists have been warning about for years … www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say
Preliminary investigations by scientists have pointed to a collapsed glacier as the cause, highlighting the issue of rapidly melting Himalayan ice.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border
Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?
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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Give me an image from a film that immediately makes you hear the song from the soundtrack in your head
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Singing Umbrella in the Rain
ALT: Singing Umbrella in the Rain
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
🔥NEW from me: I wrote about @caadcoalition.bsky.social's report showing how climate disinformation is spreading in parallel with wildfires, endangering lives - with @doctorvive.bsky.social, plus @edmo-eu.bsky.social
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As Wildfires Intensify, Climate Lies Endanger Lives, Report Warns
A new report warns climate disinformation about wildfires and heatwaves is spreading faster than ever, undermining public safety and emergency response.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Maybe this will finally get politicians to care about climate change: “The brutally hot summer is set to cost the EU economy €180 billion this year — that’s equivalent to roughly 1 percent of GDP, which is all the growth the bloc was expected to generate in 2026, according to new analysis.”
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Europe’s scorching summer is erasing its economic growth, says report
Dutch growth is set to be almost entirely wiped out, and France could be pushed into a contraction.
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Elon Musk’s embarrassing Economist interview and subsequent racist tantrum ought to present the media, government, investors and index funds with a simple yes-or-no question: Should huge chunks of the economy and millions of Americans’ retirement funds be tied to this man’s fortunes? (new @ms.now)
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Opinion | Stop treating Elon Musk’s racist meltdowns like they’re normal
Anthony L. Fisher: The economy and millions of retirement accounts are tied to the fortunes of an unstable, race-baiting conspiracy theorist.
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Casablanca Humphrey Bogart
ALT: Casablanca Humphrey Bogart
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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Waaaaay beyond time for astronomers to file suit against this test (and the #spacex plan too) This "would probably mean the end of ground-based astronomy, or optical astronomy, at least,” says the American Astronomical Society Effects on nocturnal animals, migrating birds seems worth a suit, too:
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Can giant space mirrors boost green energy on Earth? A start-up aims to find out
Astronomers are deeply worried that a planned array of 50,000 mirror-bearing satellites in orbit will severely compromise telescopes.
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Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
ICYMI yesterday: @lesleyclark.bsky.social and I unpacked Trump's threat to open a suspension and debarment investigation into the National Academies over its involvement in a project aimed at educating federal judges about the climate science. Here's what it all means: www.eenews.net/articles/tru...
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Trump threatens National Academies with debarment. Here's what it is.
The president invoked an obscure process to review the institution's federal grants over what he says is "climate fraud."
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
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Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC sting
He admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.
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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Here's what we know about the building in Midtown Manhattan that is at risk of collapse.
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Why are the steel beams inside a Manhattan skyscraper buckling? Experts explain
Steel support columns in the Midtown building, which is being converted from offices into apartments, may have been overloaded, experts say
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Iain Soutar @isoutar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Open letter in support of the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science at the University of Exeter, in which all 20 staff (including myself) have been put at risk of redundancy. Additional voices welcome, and please share widely docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Letter of Support for the Centre for Geography and Environmental Science, Cornwall.
YOU CANNOT EDIT THIS LETTER! To add your signature to this letter, please fill out the signatory form From there, names will be added manually, so you will not see your name appear here immediately....
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’ve seen worse first hand and also heard the same from colleagues. The number of students admitted to PhD programs this fall dropped 15% from the previous year. What Trump has done to US science will impact us for at least a generation.
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Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This Day in Labor History: July 5, 1935. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. This created real labor law and allowed unions to survive. Let's talk about the most important labor law in American history!
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
America’s Independence Day Parade in downtown DC (July 4, 10:30AM) has been CANCELED by organizers due to Extreme Heat Warning. Heat index 110-115F. #Climate
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Emily Norton @emnorton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Their event is shut down due to climate change but they still won’t believe in it www.mediaite.com/media/news/j...
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JUST IN: Trump’s Great American State Fair Closes Due to Extreme Heat
CNN's Derek Van Dam reported live from the National Mall State Fair on Friday where temperatures hovered around 99 degrees and felt more like 111.
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Elizabeth Tasker @elizabethtasker.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
On Sunday at 18:30 JST, Hayabusa2 will attempt flyby observations of asteroid Torifune on an Extended Mission after delivering the samples from asteroid Ryugu to Earth 🛰️. Hayabusa2 was designed for rendezvous observations, so must get pretty close to the asteroid for good data 🔭. Cross everything 🤞
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JAXA | The timing of the flyby of asteroid Torifune by asteroid explorer Hayabusa2
Get information on the The timing of the flyby of asteroid Torifune by asteroid explorer Hayabusa2. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) performs various activities related to aerospace as an...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
🧵 How Meta boosts climate disinformation: on Instagram, the Daily Mirror posted a story about a new platform from the IKEA foundation that supports the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Let's look at the comments. @caadcoalition.bsky.social
An Instagram story by the Daily Mirror that reads "The Shift, a new platform from the IKEA Foundation, spotlights the action already being taken across the world to address the challenges of climate change and improve lives". Three women are pictured holding a sign that says "it's time for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty."
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I got sick of reading arguments for and against "climate hushing" that quoted pundits and politicians — but no climate scientists. So I called nine leading scientists and asked what they think. Read today’s CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES for their thoughts: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-hu...
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Enough climate hushing, more listening to scientists
As we celebrate July 4, let's resolve to start learning from the folks who make America great.
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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 02/07/2026
We've hit triple digits. Per National Weather Service, as of 3pm the temperature has reached at least: 101 at Reagan National 100 at BWI 99 at Dulles Heat indexes are about 105 to 110
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Greetings Lord British @richardgarriott.bsky.social ... thank you for creating this wonderful game and series, which I've played for countless hours over the decades. You do so much world-building and storytelling with so few MB of code and assets!
"game complete" screen from ULTIMA IV, 1985 running in DOSBOX on Mac in 2026.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I just learned that the term "carbon footprint" was developed by BP to offload responsibility for climate change onto individuals. Something like that's happening in higher ed with AI. Institutions capitulate or dodge; students are submitting; & they believe it's their individual failing. 7/
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Nobody used the term "arms race," but that's what they're describing: enormous pressure, including from some professors, to use AI or fall behind those who are. Many say they hate it, don't want to use it, but they feel like now it's submit or fail. 5/
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Living through the Trump II presidency is an exercise in repeated loss and extended mourning for what is gone — while being daily confronted with the farcical and the absurd. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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The Mounting Toll and Absurdity of Trumpism
Mourning All We Have Lost Laying awake last night processing the Supreme...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Damn! Is there no video of this?
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Rich Burlew @rich-burlew.giantitp.com · 23/12/2025
The Order of the Stick: Dim Sun is an all-new 24-page story set in a parody of a certain classic campaign setting. Available now as a PDF download from Gumroad: richburlew.gumroad.com/l/ootsdimsun
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The Order of the Stick: Dim Sun
A loving tribute to one of the game’s classic campaign settings, Dim Sun is an original parody story that sees our favorite band of heroes, the Order of the Stick, reimagined for this grim setting tha...
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Conrad Knauer @conrad.knauer.ca · 21/11/2025
You enter the castle of the mad orange king. He looks at you with disdain. You approach to speak. Roll for charisma. Mamdani:
Natural 20
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
IUCN World Conservation Congress - starting this week - comes at a critical time where new AI tools leveraging Earth observations from ground to space have the potential to democratize and revolutionize monitoring, planning, and acting to conserve and restore nature.
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Xander O’Connor @xanderoconnor.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
scientists like me! you love to see it, truly.
Ars technica headline “more scientists choose Bluesky over twitter”

Dead twitter bird image for bonus lolz
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The US satire cartoon show South Park secured a five-year deal worth $1.5 billion with Paramount Global. They began their season with this clip, challenging Trump to sue them.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/06/2025
The Trump administration is taking unprecedented actions to steer the power grid away from clean energy and toward more fossil fuels, like reversing Michigan’s plan to retire an aging power plant, forcing it to remain open and continue burning coal.
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Trump is forcing this dirty, costly coal plant to stay open
The White House is taking unprecedented actions to steer the power grid away from clean energy and toward more fossil fuels.
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Happy Dr King day to all who celebrate.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
We just hit 300,000 subscribers... after 1 wk. THANK YOU all. Invite your friends. As @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social said in her interview (later today) we now are united in opposition. Join for pre-and post-inauguration chat with @normeisen.bsky.social and @gtconway.bsky.social contrarian.substack.com
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The Contrarian | Jen Rubin and Norm Eisen | Substack
Unflinching journalism in defense of democracy. Click to read The Contrarian, a Substack publication with hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Blue Monday doesn’t exist when you own Ancient Woodland, unless it’s the colour of your fingers 🥶
Ancient English Woodland Winter scene, with a blue sky and low sun
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Steven Brumby @stevenpbrumby.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Tomorrow we begin to learn how deep a hole the country is in 😬. We’ll know a lot more once we see the Day 1 Executive Orders, and if the mass roundup of immigrants kicks off this week. One good bet - price of eggs is not going down. Good luck to us all.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Clearly, *something* has changed. In reality, many things have changed. Far more people today live in high fire risk zones than ever before. We removed beneficial fires (both natural ignitions & cultural burning) from the landscape. The climate has warmed, and the West has dried.
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