Sara Goudarzi
@saragoud.bsky.social
Writer: nytimes, NatGeo, sciam, etc., Disruptive tech editor @bulletinatomic. Author of THE ALMOND IN THE APRICOT | saragoudarzi.com
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Sara Goudarzi
@saragoud.bsky.social
· Mar 18
And if your field isn't climate/the environment, you might be interested in reaching out to my colleagues: @saragoud.bsky.social covers disruptive technologies; @mattyfield.bsky.social covers biosecurity and health; and @francoisdm.bsky.social covers nuclear energy and weapons
For tips and pitches related to disruptive tech, I can be reached via email: sgoudarzi@thebulletin.org or Signal: saragoudarzi.19
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🚨 JUST IN: In a region already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing, writes Sharon Squassoni in @thebulletin.org.
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
How nuclear submarines could pave the way for nuclear weapons in South Korea
In a region that is already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing.
thebulletin.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🚨 JUST IN: In a region already bristling with all types of nuclear weapons, bestowing latent nuclear-weapon-state status upon South Korea is needlessly destabilizing, writes Sharon Squassoni in @thebulletin.org.
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
#SouthKorea #TrumpAdministration #submarines #nuclearweapons #nukesky
Looking back at the stories the Bulletin covered in Disruptive Tech in 2025, the pattern of how large tech companies with enormous power have permeated nearly every bit of contemporary life can be seen in clear ink. Here are five pieces that explore this phenomenon.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-ye...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-ye...
A year in review: How Big Tech redefined governance and the economy in 2025
Disruptive technology stories that explore the artificial intelligence revolution and the influence of powerful technology companies.
thebulletin.org
December 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Looking back at the stories the Bulletin covered in Disruptive Tech in 2025, the pattern of how large tech companies with enormous power have permeated nearly every bit of contemporary life can be seen in clear ink. Here are five pieces that explore this phenomenon.
thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-ye...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/a-ye...
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wow. Nvidia to acquire Groq per investor www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/n...
Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion in its largest acquisition on record
Nvidia is making its largest purchase ever, acquiring nine-year-old chip startup Groq for about $20 billion.
www.cnbc.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:01 PM
wow. Nvidia to acquire Groq per investor www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/n...
In November, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee adopted a resolution examining the risks of integrating AI into nuclear weapons. In this piece for @thebulletin.org, Alice Saltini looks at some key takeaways:
thebulletin.org/2025/12/less...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/less...
Lessons from the UN’s first resolution on AI in nuclear command and control
In November, the General Assembly’s First Committee, adopted a resolution that looks at the risks of integrating AI into nuclear weapons.
thebulletin.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
In November, the UN General Assembly’s First Committee adopted a resolution examining the risks of integrating AI into nuclear weapons. In this piece for @thebulletin.org, Alice Saltini looks at some key takeaways:
thebulletin.org/2025/12/less...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/less...
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For Popular Mechanics, I went behind the scenes to meet the people behind the @thebulletin.org’s Doomsday Clock. I asked—what does it mean to anticipate apocalypse as your job? www.popularmechanics.com/science/a695...
Humanity Is on a Fast Track to Destruction, Scientists Say. I Met the Experts Counting Down to the Apocalypse.
“We’re driving at the edge of a cliff with dim headlights.”
www.popularmechanics.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
For Popular Mechanics, I went behind the scenes to meet the people behind the @thebulletin.org’s Doomsday Clock. I asked—what does it mean to anticipate apocalypse as your job? www.popularmechanics.com/science/a695...
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are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
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NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
www.wired.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
NEW: Four sources tell @mzeff.bsky.social that OpenAI has become reluctant to publish research on the negative economic impacts of AI, including job displacement.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
At least two members of OpenAI's economic research team have recently quit over that perceived pullback.
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The world has a chance to deal with Syria's perhaps substantial store of leftover chemical weapons. @gregkoblentz.bsky.social @thebulletin.org
thebulletin.org/2025/12/curi...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/curi...
Curing a chemical hangover
Many tons of chemical warfare agents and precursors are still unaccounted for in Syria. The longer suspected weapons sites remain unexamined and insecure, the higher the risk that whatever chemical we...
thebulletin.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The world has a chance to deal with Syria's perhaps substantial store of leftover chemical weapons. @gregkoblentz.bsky.social @thebulletin.org
thebulletin.org/2025/12/curi...
thebulletin.org/2025/12/curi...
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“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”
Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom
AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy but warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
thebulletin.org
December 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”
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Violence over water has reached record levels, continuing the increase in such events over the past 20 yrs. The number of incidents reported in 2024 was nearly 20% higher than 2023 & nearly 80% higher than 2022.
@petergleick.bsky.social on the updated Water Conflict Chronology in @thebulletin.org:
@petergleick.bsky.social on the updated Water Conflict Chronology in @thebulletin.org:
Violence over water resources reaches record levels
The number of violent events over water resources reported in 2024 was nearly 20 percent higher than 2023 and nearly 80 percent higher than 2022.
thebulletin.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Violence over water has reached record levels, continuing the increase in such events over the past 20 yrs. The number of incidents reported in 2024 was nearly 20% higher than 2023 & nearly 80% higher than 2022.
@petergleick.bsky.social on the updated Water Conflict Chronology in @thebulletin.org:
@petergleick.bsky.social on the updated Water Conflict Chronology in @thebulletin.org:
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Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom
AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy but warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
thebulletin.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
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AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy. However, warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
Read the new piece by @jeremyhsu.bsky.social below. ⬇️
Read the new piece by @jeremyhsu.bsky.social below. ⬇️
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom
"Like financial crises of the past, an abrupt end to the AI bubble could inflict considerable economic pain on millions of people worldwide."
thebulletin.org
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy. However, warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
Read the new piece by @jeremyhsu.bsky.social below. ⬇️
Read the new piece by @jeremyhsu.bsky.social below. ⬇️
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Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
A federal panel voted on Friday to recommend halting the at-birth shots for all infants, in a step toward Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s goal of upending the nation’s vaccine policy.
nyti.ms
December 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
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🚨 JUST IN: If the United States deploys advanced short-range ballistic missile systems to Norway’s Finnmark or Finland’s Lapland regions, and Russia detects them, a crisis similar to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis will ensue, writes Vladimir Marakhonov in @thebulletin.org.
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
The looming missile crisis in the Arctic
Defense cooperation agreements between the United States and Northern European countries pose a direct threat to Russia’s Northern strategic forces. If the United States deploys advanced short-range b...
thebulletin.org
December 4, 2025 at 10:31 AM
🚨 JUST IN: If the United States deploys advanced short-range ballistic missile systems to Norway’s Finnmark or Finland’s Lapland regions, and Russia detects them, a crisis similar to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis will ensue, writes Vladimir Marakhonov in @thebulletin.org.
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
#nuclearweapons #nukesky
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My latest @thebulletin.org piece tries to reckon with the economic costs that would accompany the bursting of the AI bubble - and also highlights some of the societal costs we are already paying.
Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom
AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy but warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
thebulletin.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
My latest @thebulletin.org piece tries to reckon with the economic costs that would accompany the bursting of the AI bubble - and also highlights some of the societal costs we are already paying.
Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom
AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy but warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.
thebulletin.org
December 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.
"A ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity as an internet search without AI. And because supercomputers run hot, they typically need intensive water-cooling systems."
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
The AI boom is heralding a new gold rush in the American west
Once home to gold and prospectors, the Nevada desert is now the site of a new kind of expansion: tech datacenters
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"A ChatGPT query needs nearly 10 times as much electricity as an internet search without AI. And because supercomputers run hot, they typically need intensive water-cooling systems."
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"In maps of global projections of climate change impacts on precipitation, the region over and around the Mediterranean basin stands out because of the magnitude and significance of its precipitation decline."
Detailed explanation of the climate changes behind Tehran's water crisis @thebulletin.org
Detailed explanation of the climate changes behind Tehran's water crisis @thebulletin.org
Shifting storms, sweltering summers: Tehran faces future ‘Day Zero’ when the taps run dry
The water crisis in Tehran reflects not only this summer’s extreme heat but also several consecutive years of reduced precipitation and ongoing drought conditions across Iran.
thebulletin.org
December 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"In maps of global projections of climate change impacts on precipitation, the region over and around the Mediterranean basin stands out because of the magnitude and significance of its precipitation decline."
Detailed explanation of the climate changes behind Tehran's water crisis @thebulletin.org
Detailed explanation of the climate changes behind Tehran's water crisis @thebulletin.org
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Round out your end-of-the-year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025.
Lit Hub’s 43 Favorite Books of 2025
It’s been another hard year for so many people, and in so many ways, but best-of lists are for remembering the good times, and reading is always good (at least the way we do it). Here are the…
buff.ly
December 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Round out your end-of-the-year book recommendations with 43 new books our staff loved in 2025.
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30 years ago, the IPCC stated—for the first time—that: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.”
Honored to have edited this essay by Benjamin Santer, the lead author of the chapter that made that crucial determination, for @thebulletin.org:
Honored to have edited this essay by Benjamin Santer, the lead author of the chapter that made that crucial determination, for @thebulletin.org:
A climate scientist reflects on 30 years fighting the 'forces of unreason'
Thirty years ago, the IPCC agreed on a historic finding: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.”
thebulletin.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
30 years ago, the IPCC stated—for the first time—that: “The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.”
Honored to have edited this essay by Benjamin Santer, the lead author of the chapter that made that crucial determination, for @thebulletin.org:
Honored to have edited this essay by Benjamin Santer, the lead author of the chapter that made that crucial determination, for @thebulletin.org:
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November 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
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"The decision by the United States not to send high-level representatives to COP30 illustrates the uneven global commitment to climate diplomacy and the persistent challenges in mobilizing support for developing nations." #COP30
Can Latin America find common ground at COP30?
Although Latin America contributes only about 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, many of its territories rank among the most climate-vulnerable on the planet.
thebulletin.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"The decision by the United States not to send high-level representatives to COP30 illustrates the uneven global commitment to climate diplomacy and the persistent challenges in mobilizing support for developing nations." #COP30
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Two of the world’s biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia's hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.
We called the developers and utility in question to find out why: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
We called the developers and utility in question to find out why: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Data Centers in Nvidia’s Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power
The fate of two facilities in Santa Clara, California, highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy.
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Two of the world’s biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia's hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.
We called the developers and utility in question to find out why: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
We called the developers and utility in question to find out why: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...