Calvin Jones

@calvjones.bsky.social

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Regional Economist and sometime troublemaker.

Energy, climate, post-growth, guitars, Sci-Fi, bikes, world-systems.

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 8h

Best thing Johnny Ive has done since the G3 iMac 😀

arstechnica.com/cars/2026/02...

Ive and Newson bring old-school charm to Ferrari's first EV interior

Analogue dials, aluminum switches, and plenty of buttons for the Ferrari Luce.

arstechnica.com

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 8h

the absolute state of things, in one image

A Cybertruck crashed into the front of a McMansion. Social media tag suggests this took place in Frisco, Texas.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 9h

I really hate it when discussants pivot to politics because they don't like the physics 😘.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 9h

Sorry, that's a straw man. Degrowth is not aimed at the audiences you suggest and an hour's reading would demonstrate that.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 9h

I simply don't know how you jump to this unfounded conclusion.

The entire point of degrowth is that rich nations stop growing to allow the poorest the climate and resource headroom to grow and secure their own futures.

I don't know why this is so hard to digest tbh.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, every single one of those countries is adding to accumulated CO2e - which is what drives climate change, not the annual marginal changes which are decreasing *in proportion to growth*

All this would be much easier to sort without damaging investments in AI, sorry, growth.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 9h

Now present them by total MT of CO2e and add China 🤢

I'm not suggesting there's been zero progress but it's nowhere near enough - but people like Noah Effing Smith are out there pretending it is.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 9h

Have you read the Guardian piece? It's not very in depth but makes clear that all that matters is aggregate emissions so by-country assessments just confuse things. My graph is better than your graphs 😀 (for this).

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 10h

Brown would do it.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 10h

Best piece of merch ever this.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 10h

Oh yes, it's all bonkers. Everyone seems to have drunk the Kool Aid.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 11h

I would have thought Google is more insulated than most from the potential/inevitable crash. Long term at least.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 11h

On roughly the same subject www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson

Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson

www.theguardian.com

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 11h

This is the same tech that all the software engineering influencers on X are telling you to use to open PRs to your codebase without reviewing the diffs.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 13h

This is a great primer on climate-growth #decoupling and why, even if it's starting to happen, it's too little too late #degrowth

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Economic growth is still heating the planet. Is there any way out?

Rising GDP continues to mean more carbon emissions and wider damage to the planet. Can the two be decoupled?

www.theguardian.com

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 13h

The next time you hear some GDP-climate emissions #decoupling bullshit, just quote this graph.

If we had another century... maybe?

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13h

‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma

#climatecrisis
Story by Bethan McKernan
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma

Forty-odd residents of Clydach Terrace in Ynysybwl, south Wales, relieved by council buyout after years in fear of fast flooding

www.theguardian.com

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 2d

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The Icicle Works - Hollow Horse HD

YouTube video by Beggars Banquet Records

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Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 2d

Radio 2 now. That's all.

Calvin Jones @calvjones.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking as someone who used to follow City through the Kinkladze, Dickov-Goater and Keegan years (and who had to sit v quietly in the home end when Cardiff beat us 3-2), CV but can no longer stand to look at them, this is very on point.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...