Trevor🗽🌱
@climatepunk.bsky.social
Awarded in climate tech and racial justice, work in EVs, honorable mention in number of dumplings eaten. Mostly lurking.
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Trevor🗽🌱
@climatepunk.bsky.social
· May 6
As climate-beneficial technologies proliferate, a substantial privacy threat is beginning to emerge, writes Trevor Gamble-Borsh. How should we best mitigate the threats of eco-surveillance?
“Eco-Surveillance” Risks Personal Privacy and Climate Action | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
www.techpolicy.press
My latest climate piece!
Lazarus, Ep. 6 "Heaven is a Place on Earth" (2025)
A new digital awakening is unfolding in churches, where pastors and prayer apps are turning to artificial intelligence to reach worshippers, personalize sermons, and power chatbots that resemble God.
Meet chatbot Jesus: Churches tap AI to save souls and time as pews get more empty
Chatbots answer prayers and algorithms write sermons.
www.axios.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Lazarus, Ep. 6 "Heaven is a Place on Earth" (2025)
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history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
history will ultimately decide this but i think joyce carol oates might have just landed the most devastating burn in human history. like the death star trench run of posting
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
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Important takeaway -- the young men vote is still up for grabs as solid majorities of young men voted blue last night. Equally important, though, are the HUGE margins Dems won among Gen Z women. 8 in 10 young women voted for Spanberger & Sherill. That part of the story is still often undertold.
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Important takeaway -- the young men vote is still up for grabs as solid majorities of young men voted blue last night. Equally important, though, are the HUGE margins Dems won among Gen Z women. 8 in 10 young women voted for Spanberger & Sherill. That part of the story is still often undertold.
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Six U.S. states have fewer than a million people total
November 5, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Six U.S. states have fewer than a million people total
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New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 AM
New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.
An actual text sent earlier this week
October 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
An actual text sent earlier this week
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I worked on the Torment Nexus for five years. Here’s why the project has lost its way. | New York Times (Gift Link)
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I worked on the Torment Nexus for five years. Here’s why the project has lost its way. | New York Times (Gift Link)
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Just realized what the ballroom reminds me of the most
October 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Just realized what the ballroom reminds me of the most
If I save someone's life I should get way mo' than that
The bar for earning a free Waymo ride just keeps getting higher
October 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If I save someone's life I should get way mo' than that
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i like that bluesky is the unc twitter cuz it means i'm extremely unlikely to ever fall victim to reading a teenager's opinon
October 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
i like that bluesky is the unc twitter cuz it means i'm extremely unlikely to ever fall victim to reading a teenager's opinon
Only game that I've sat down for an all at once playthrough in a *while* and was even more delighted by the end than I anticipated
Easy Delivery Co. is a cozy, Lynchian dream
Easy Delivery Co. is a cozy, Lynchian dream
Cozy and spooky.
buff.ly
October 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Only game that I've sat down for an all at once playthrough in a *while* and was even more delighted by the end than I anticipated
Uh oh we're metaversing
Why would a company that claims to be on the verge of basically unlimited profit mess around with gross-out videos and porn?
Spicy ChatGPT Is One Way to Make More Money
OpenAI’s move resembles an earlier decision by Facebook. Plus: Robinhood bets on Gen Z.
bloom.bg
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Uh oh we're metaversing
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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.
October 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself
The "market forces will transition energy" claims continue to leave me waiting
China has exported $120 billion in green technology for the year-to-date. The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, has only sold $80 billion in oil and gas abroad.
China Is Beating the US in the Battle for Energy Export Dominance
China’s exports of clean energy technology hit a record in August, with $20 billion shipped globally.
bloom.bg
October 6, 2025 at 2:13 AM
The "market forces will transition energy" claims continue to leave me waiting
Love when they organically return to my feed
October 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Love when they organically return to my feed
Geothermal is NOT my area of energy expertise, so genuinely asking what does the efficacy look like of additional tunneling vs just capturing the existing over-heat for removal that also delivers surplus thermal generation? #climate #NYC #geothermal #energy
Could geothermal technology cool steamy subway platforms as temperatures rise? The MTA is trying to find out.
MTA Searches Underground for Ways to Cool Sweltering Stations
The transit agency may use geothermal technology to combat high temperatures as the number of yearly heat waves is projected to more than triple by the 2050s.
www.thecity.nyc
September 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Geothermal is NOT my area of energy expertise, so genuinely asking what does the efficacy look like of additional tunneling vs just capturing the existing over-heat for removal that also delivers surplus thermal generation? #climate #NYC #geothermal #energy
Do we know what the cyber goths are up to? How many of them still frequent under the bridge?
September 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Do we know what the cyber goths are up to? How many of them still frequent under the bridge?
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the new skate. is so fucking good you have no idea
September 16, 2025 at 9:14 PM
the new skate. is so fucking good you have no idea
Me, a climate expert:
stop being hot out. it shouldn’t be this hot
September 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Me, a climate expert:
Not a dig, but I've been thinking about Oregon more in the last month than my whole life before. My latest with @techpolicypress.bsky.social! ⬇️
Though AI’s seemingly insatiable hunger for electricity is only exacerbating energy demands, relatively simple applications of AI with internet of things tools can play a key role in curbing this disruption, as well as social and ecological damage, Trevor Gamble-Borsh writes.
Smarter Grids Emerge as a Solution for AI and Green Energy Needs | TechPolicy.Press
As increased demand leads to skyrocketing energy bills, government officials are looking to improve grid efficiencies, Trevor Gamble-Borsh writes.
www.techpolicy.press
August 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Not a dig, but I've been thinking about Oregon more in the last month than my whole life before. My latest with @techpolicypress.bsky.social! ⬇️
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More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.
This seems kinda significant.
This seems kinda significant.
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.
This seems kinda significant.
This seems kinda significant.
@starjunk95.bsky.social x Yung Bae collab making my week two of my actual faves that video was so good
July 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@starjunk95.bsky.social x Yung Bae collab making my week two of my actual faves that video was so good
Plant shop (not bodega) cat
July 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Plant shop (not bodega) cat
Also flagging that the next Bandcamp Friday is August 1st where your money will go directly to the artist(s) thanks to waived revenue share from Bandcamp so if you want to transfer your library in a way that most benefits the artists you love💸
I talked to Deerhoof's Greg Saunier about Daniel Ek's investment in AI companies: "We felt in our gut that having our success be funding global annihilation was maybe one step too far." www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Deerhoof did not want its music ‘funding AI battle tech’ — so it ditched Spotify
Drummer Greg Saunier explains the moral calculus behind leaving the biggest streaming platform
www.theverge.com
July 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Also flagging that the next Bandcamp Friday is August 1st where your money will go directly to the artist(s) thanks to waived revenue share from Bandcamp so if you want to transfer your library in a way that most benefits the artists you love💸