Emanuel Ubert
@emanuelubert.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @rsmerasmus.bsky.social | Org Learning & Adaptation • (Goalless) Search • Industry Evolution vs. Design • Climate Crisis & Insurance • Cognition, Collective Sensemaking & Social Imagination • Reluctant Utopian • Failing Boddhisatva.
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This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
This, from Adorno‘s Minima Moralia, is one of my favourite paragraphs of all time
Reposted by Emanuel Ubert
Reposted by Emanuel Ubert
This is what deindustrialization in a carbon shock therapy setting looks like. If the state doesn’t do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses downward, private equity will do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses upward (and out of country).
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November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is what deindustrialization in a carbon shock therapy setting looks like. If the state doesn’t do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses downward, private equity will do the planning and redistribute any remaining surpluses upward (and out of country).
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Why aliens might not “speak physics” the same way we do
If an alien species achieved interstellar communication or even interstellar travel, can we assume they've developed the same laws of physics as us?
Maybe not, and here's why.
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#physics #aliens #space #nature
If an alien species achieved interstellar communication or even interstellar travel, can we assume they've developed the same laws of physics as us?
Maybe not, and here's why.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #aliens #space #nature
Why aliens might not "speak physics" the same way we do
Physicist Daniel Whiteson challenges the notion that all intelligent species would eventually uncover the same laws of nature. Do you agree?
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October 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Why aliens might not “speak physics” the same way we do
If an alien species achieved interstellar communication or even interstellar travel, can we assume they've developed the same laws of physics as us?
Maybe not, and here's why.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #aliens #space #nature
If an alien species achieved interstellar communication or even interstellar travel, can we assume they've developed the same laws of physics as us?
Maybe not, and here's why.
bigthink.com/starts-with-...
#physics #aliens #space #nature
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Babies born today may well live to see more than 6 feet of additional sea level rise in their lifetimes.
Walk any beach or port and imagine the normal water level being six feet higher.
Then imagine how much higher the storm surges will be.
Walk any beach or port and imagine the normal water level being six feet higher.
Then imagine how much higher the storm surges will be.
In summary, the outlook is grim. It is highly likely that Thwaites Glacier will eventually be lost, which will destabilise adjoining parts of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, increasing the committed long-term rise in global mean sea level by more than 3 m.
October 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Babies born today may well live to see more than 6 feet of additional sea level rise in their lifetimes.
Walk any beach or port and imagine the normal water level being six feet higher.
Then imagine how much higher the storm surges will be.
Walk any beach or port and imagine the normal water level being six feet higher.
Then imagine how much higher the storm surges will be.
Reposted by Emanuel Ubert
Absolutely fantastic study comparing anonymized outputs of climate analytics models.
Everyone loves to bag on flood (rightly so), but can we talk about how the spread here is "30mph breeze to Cat 5 hurricane" www.fca.org.uk/publication/... HT @ruarirhodes.bsky.social
Everyone loves to bag on flood (rightly so), but can we talk about how the spread here is "30mph breeze to Cat 5 hurricane" www.fca.org.uk/publication/... HT @ruarirhodes.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Absolutely fantastic study comparing anonymized outputs of climate analytics models.
Everyone loves to bag on flood (rightly so), but can we talk about how the spread here is "30mph breeze to Cat 5 hurricane" www.fca.org.uk/publication/... HT @ruarirhodes.bsky.social
Everyone loves to bag on flood (rightly so), but can we talk about how the spread here is "30mph breeze to Cat 5 hurricane" www.fca.org.uk/publication/... HT @ruarirhodes.bsky.social
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As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system.
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports
inthesetimes.com/article/clim...
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports
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Climate Change Puts A Generation’s Retirement On The Line
Early retirement withdrawals for hardship have tripled since 2020, as disasters strike and insurance fails–leaving workers on their own in old age.
inthesetimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
As climate change increasingly becomes a threat not just to homes, but to the very foundations of retirement, even the most careful savers are finding personal effort can’t outpace the risks woven deeply into the financial system.
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports
inthesetimes.com/article/clim...
@adamlmahoney.bsky.social reports
inthesetimes.com/article/clim...
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Once upon a time, there lived a brilliant scholar known as Ibn Sina, he inspired many thinkers, including Thomas Aquinas. He was not only a great physician but also a philosopher who understood the deep connection between the mind and the body.
October 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Once upon a time, there lived a brilliant scholar known as Ibn Sina, he inspired many thinkers, including Thomas Aquinas. He was not only a great physician but also a philosopher who understood the deep connection between the mind and the body.
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From Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" damn I wish I had written that line
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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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September 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
From Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations" damn I wish I had written that line
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
The 2025 assessment of Planetary Boundaries
Report: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org#reports-sect...
Report: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org#reports-sect...
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The 2025 assessment of Planetary Boundaries
Report: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org#reports-sect...
Report: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org#reports-sect...
on.ft.com/48cyQzV The warped economics of insuring climate destruction
The warped economics of insuring climate destruction
Industry is exposing itself to steepening losses on natural catastrophe cover
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September 22, 2025 at 7:16 AM
on.ft.com/48cyQzV The warped economics of insuring climate destruction
Privatization of natural disaster/ crisis management already well on its way. Stand by for much more militarization. Erosion of bureaucracy makes disasters convenient lever to deepen executive control.
How the Trump administration gutted America’s disaster relief agency
Since the US president retook office, Fema has undergone radical change. Amid hurricane season, some question its ability to respond to calamities
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September 1, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Privatization of natural disaster/ crisis management already well on its way. Stand by for much more militarization. Erosion of bureaucracy makes disasters convenient lever to deepen executive control.
on.ft.com/4p0zbvj The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders
The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders
As Donald Trump has launched a series of blunt interventions in the corporate and financial worlds, he has received little pushback from industry or investors
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August 30, 2025 at 5:57 AM
on.ft.com/4p0zbvj The calculated silence of America’s business and finance leaders
