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it's all gavagaï to me

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MatthewK, perhaps the less problematic figure, might be a fan of GRRRRROWTH, e.g.

"there is a limit to adaptation, but"

dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories...

4/n
Is there a limit to our ability to adapt to climate change? Back in the early 1980s, Julian Simon, an economist, and Paul Ehrlich, a biologist, debated whether there are “limits to growth.” Simon, the optimist, argued that on a planet featuring almost 8 billion people with rising human capital and access to venture finance, human ingenuity will play a central role in devising solutions to any emerging challenge that materializes. The rise of the COVID-19 vaccine is just one example. Of course, there are limits to adaptation, and this is why I strongly support the introduction of a carbon tax that rises over time. While I support this prudent public policy, the global collective action problem is so severe that I do not believe that a credible binding treaty will be signed. Global GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions will continue to rise, and thus we must adapt. My work explores the microeconomics of the adaptation challenge. The anticipation of mass misery caused by climate change creates new opportunities for entrepreneurs and leaders who devise private sector and public sector solutions that improve our quality of life.
January 27, 2026 at 4:18 PM
climateball.bsky.social
PatrickB has started his contrarian career around 2023, where he basically admitted having lied (to the world, to your co-authors, to reviewers, to your Substack audience) while harping about INTEGRITY ™, because reasons.

andthentheresphysics.wordpress.com/2023/09/07/t...

3/n
Patrick Brown, who some may recall had an excellent response to some of Pat Frank’s nonsense, has written an article claiming that he left out the full truth to get his climate change paper published. The suggestion is that there are only certain narratives that are acceptable and that he had to present results that suited this narrative in order to get his paper published in this high-impact journal.
January 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
climateball.bsky.social
wtf
NFL Playoffs new icon that just appeared
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 AM
climateball.bsky.social
seems illegal

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Trump signed an executive order on Friday that provided some details on how the US plans to block courts or creditors from tapping any revenue from those oil sales. Venezuela owes international bondholders, oil companies and others as much as $170 billion — one reason why US firms have been reluctant to help rebuild the country’s infrastructure. Trump told ConocoPhillips CEO Ryan Lance last week that the US is “not going to look at what people lost in the past, because that was their fault.” The administration official told Semafor that the interim leadership in Venezuela, led by former Maduro No. 2 Delcy Rodríguez, has “fully cooperated” since the US-Venezuelan energy deal was announced last week, adding that the US has “leverage” through sanctions and oil sales.
January 24, 2026 at 6:06 AM
climateball.bsky.social
Meynard's famous infographic of Napoleon's wars
January 23, 2026 at 10:33 PM
climateball.bsky.social
"In politics, coalitions are *everything*." [Cory Doctorow]

pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
A post-American Internet that is possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to join the fight on our side. In politics, coalitions are everything. Any time you see a group of people suddenly succeeding at a goal they have been failing to achieve, it's a sure bet that they've found some coalition partners, new allies who don't want all the same thing as the original forces, but want enough of the same things to fight on their side. That's where Trump came from: a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists, and self-described "libertarians" who've got such a scorching case of low-tax brain worms that they'd vote for Mussolini if he'd promise to lower their taxes by a nickel.
January 21, 2026 at 1:56 AM
climateball.bsky.social
with alt text
HISTORY In an old photograph, you can find me picketing outside Breslin's Plumbing & Plating. Spring, April 12, 1951, lilacs are in bloom on the divider strip of the Outer Drive. After dark I'll cut a small branch to give my mother. She loves both the color and the bouquet. She still lives in the only house she ever owned. The house, the lical bushes, the perfume of the blooms, her joy and sadness as she places them in a cut-glass vase my father gave her the year before he died, none of this is in the photograph taken from the *Detroit Free Press* and pasted in her lost scrapbook. That photograph is part of history. It's filed on microfilm in the archives of Labor & Urban Affairs at Wayne State and eve now must be turned into dust, giving up its facts & its faces.
January 15, 2026 at 6:15 AM
climateball.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07222
screenshot of the abstract, with an emphasis on "The proof of this result was obtained in conjunction with Google Gemini and related tools."
January 14, 2026 at 9:41 PM
climateball.bsky.social
A list of Elizabeth Warren donors.
January 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
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We are in a loser epidemic. The streets are being terrorized by men too afraid to reveal their faces. The government is run by pedophiles. Technology is run by friendless loners who create algorithms to divide us. The simplest activism you can do today is to smile at a stranger, chat up someone you don't know. Remind each other of our shared humanity and that we're not as divded as they want us to be. Because we have each other and they have no one. -- nikitadumptruck
January 13, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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North America's Top 20 Cleanest energy grid
January 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
climateball.bsky.social
the thrill is definitely gone

Rob's lack of cooperation was completely voluntary
receipt showing that Rob the Blue Mage has blocked me
January 12, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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the thrill is gone
new list where i am missing
January 11, 2026 at 2:53 AM
climateball.bsky.social
What is your opinion on communication closure?
Your participation remains voluntary. I have no interest in "communication closure".
January 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
climateball.bsky.social
that explains it
List of best friends, with User A, User B, A to B, B to A, and Score. The score is just the number of posts in one direction multiplied by the number of posts in the other direction.
January 10, 2026 at 9:17 PM
climateball.bsky.social
from your best buddy

next you're gonna switch to "but you misapply it"
In linguistics and organizational psychology, communication closure refers to the moment a communicative cycle is successfully completed, leaving no ambiguity about whether the message was received, understood, and (if necessary) acted upon. It is the linguistic equivalent of "closing a loop." Without closure, communication remains an "open loop," which creates anxiety, cognitive load, and errors.
January 9, 2026 at 6:16 AM
climateball.bsky.social
something something inference
January 8, 2026 at 11:29 PM
climateball.bsky.social
"How things are" may not refer to the current moment alone.

Have another load of statistically-probably generated text.
. The Linguistic View (Speech Acts) In Speech Act Theory, these two belong to different categories: Descriptions are "Assertives": They commit the speaker to the truth of a proposition. You are simply stating a fact about the world (e.g., "The car is red"). Assessments are "Verdictives" (or Evaluatives): These are acts of giving a verdict or judgment. When you assess, you aren't just describing a state of affairs; you are applying a standard to it.
January 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
climateball.bsky.social
Perhaps you could help Gemini, Rob:
n short, no. While assessments and descriptions are closely related, they are distinct categories of language and action. The best way to think of it is: a description tells you what something is, while an assessment tells you what that something is worth or how it compares to a goal. Key Differences Feature Description Assessment (Evaluation) Primary Goal To create a mental picture or record of facts. To judge quality, value, or performance. Stance Objective / Neutral. Subjective / Normative (based on standards). Example "The student wrote 500 words and used three sources." "The student's essay was proficient and well-researched." Outcome Information/Data. A grade, a rank, or a recommendation.
January 8, 2026 at 10:30 PM
climateball.bsky.social
Here's one assessment.

Where's the description?

www.ipcc.ch/sr15/
Warming from anthropogenic emissions from the pre-industrial period to the present will persist for centuries to millennia and will continue to cause further long-term changes in the climate system, such as sea level rise, with associated impacts (high confidence), but these emissions alone are unlikely to cause global warming of 1.5°C (medium confidence).
January 8, 2026 at 6:34 PM
climateball.bsky.social
don't be sorry, Alvaro

be relevant
January 8, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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please don't tell me that CB is a coward, Alvaro

that would make me sad
January 8, 2026 at 4:32 AM
climateball.bsky.social
web.archive.org/web/20141125...
" Hall said the evidence on climate change is irrefutable and maybe if one can get past the debate over it, the debate for a solution can move forward. LaMalfa countered that climate change has been an issue since the beginning of time. “The climate of the globe has been fluctuating since God created it,” he said."
January 6, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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the two genders
an ankle biter who says "if you block me, i shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine" an ankle biter who says "if i block you, it's because i care so little about your bs that i deem it not worthy of seeing
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 PM
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Über Sinn und Bedeutung, von G. Frege
January 5, 2026 at 7:03 PM