Jeffrey Winters
@jeffreywinters.bsky.social
Essayist.
Former science/technology journalist, including as editor in chief, Mechanical Engineering magazine.
Don’t blame anyone for these posts but me.
Former science/technology journalist, including as editor in chief, Mechanical Engineering magazine.
Don’t blame anyone for these posts but me.
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El Niño and La Niña are little children of our former calm climate.
What is coming next is
El hombre and La mujer
The big grownup weather is about to hit.
What is coming next is
El hombre and La mujer
The big grownup weather is about to hit.
November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
El Niño and La Niña are little children of our former calm climate.
What is coming next is
El hombre and La mujer
The big grownup weather is about to hit.
What is coming next is
El hombre and La mujer
The big grownup weather is about to hit.
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"Excavate and enforce": the motto for Mamdani's transition reminds us that much of his program is a return to things New Yorkers have known and liked for decades
November 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Excavate and enforce": the motto for Mamdani's transition reminds us that much of his program is a return to things New Yorkers have known and liked for decades
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It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 AM
It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.
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Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
Not just left vs right: Most voters think about affordability and material wellbeing, not in ideological terms
Most voters want a party that emphasizes cost of living issues and makes the world a better place. Few Americans think in solidly ideologically terms. "Moderates" are mostly non-ideological.
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Good morning. I've got a banger new post out today that develops a new method for placing voters on the left-right ideological spectrum, and adds a new, "non-ideological"/affordability axis to usual way we chart & think about US voters (esp swing voters). www.gelliottmorris.com/p/not-just-l...
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I think I probably have ADHD, I've been encouraged by professionals to do all the research I can, and now I've learned all sorts of things that are really interesting and none of them are about ADHD
November 19, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I think I probably have ADHD, I've been encouraged by professionals to do all the research I can, and now I've learned all sorts of things that are really interesting and none of them are about ADHD
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Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
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The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship cartographers have most clout
How Influential People Map Their Social World
The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship cartographers have most clout
www.scientificamerican.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship cartographers have most clout
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amazing q&a with paul krugman
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
amazing q&a with paul krugman
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15 years ago @jevinwest.bsky.social and I talked about how we needed a data scientists’ code of ethics like the Hippocratic oath.
We still do.
We still do.
November 15, 2025 at 7:41 PM
15 years ago @jevinwest.bsky.social and I talked about how we needed a data scientists’ code of ethics like the Hippocratic oath.
We still do.
We still do.
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i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
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i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again
i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
i think online gambling is a cancer that is spreading throughout our society, it was a horrible mistake to de-regulate it, and we desperately need to crack down on it again
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Of course, one of the reasons the UK has got to this position is precisely because of several decades of an economy based on making police procedurals. Each time a scriptwriter has a good idea for a plot, Home Office civil servants watching the show think about stopping it.
November 15, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Of course, one of the reasons the UK has got to this position is precisely because of several decades of an economy based on making police procedurals. Each time a scriptwriter has a good idea for a plot, Home Office civil servants watching the show think about stopping it.
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Oreoboros
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oreoboros
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The other thing with the "crisis of young men" stuff is that there's like a segment of young men who really suck, but in a lot of ways the men who don't, suck less than men did in previous generations
November 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
The other thing with the "crisis of young men" stuff is that there's like a segment of young men who really suck, but in a lot of ways the men who don't, suck less than men did in previous generations
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jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 AM
jeffrey epstein spent thanksgiving *2017* with President Donald Trump at Mar a Lago and we only know this now i'm going to go insane
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Renewables outpace fossil fuels despite US policy shift: IEA
f24.my/BYUA
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Renewables outpace fossil fuels despite US policy shift: IEA
Renewable energy is still expanding faster than fossil fuels around the world despite policy changes in the United States, with oil demand possibly peaking "around 2030", the International Energy Agen...
f24.my
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Renewables outpace fossil fuels despite US policy shift: IEA
f24.my/BYUA
f24.my/BYUA
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“Pioneers of “enhanced geothermal” techniques believe they can apply innovations from the shale industry, such as fracking and multilateral drilling, to enable geothermal almost anywhere. At the forefront is Fervo.”
economist.com/the-world-ah...
economist.com/the-world-ah...
Geothermal energy looks set to go from niche to necessary
Competition between startups including Fervo Energy, Eavo and XGS Energy is hotting up. 2026 looks set to mark the start of the great geothermal renaissance
economist.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“Pioneers of “enhanced geothermal” techniques believe they can apply innovations from the shale industry, such as fracking and multilateral drilling, to enable geothermal almost anywhere. At the forefront is Fervo.”
economist.com/the-world-ah...
economist.com/the-world-ah...
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Sizable Energy may have found the key to quickly deploying pumped-hydro storage — with the help of what looks like a giant donut floating in the sea.
This startup wants to build pumped hydro storage in the ocean
Sizable Energy raised $8M to build a demonstration plant that stores energy for long durations by pumping brine between inflatable reservoirs in the sea.
www.canarymedia.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Sizable Energy may have found the key to quickly deploying pumped-hydro storage — with the help of what looks like a giant donut floating in the sea.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Yes it feels very 1960s and 70s Catholic family style. Biden was good at it because he actually experienced it. But he is in his 80s now.
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Yes it feels very 1960s and 70s Catholic family style. Biden was good at it because he actually experienced it. But he is in his 80s now.
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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
August 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This helped me today. Small Kindnesses, by Danusha Laméris
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Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Maybe dumping poop on voters from an airplane is not a surefire electoral strategy
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As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.
November 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
As a NYer, ”real” “small town” America now looks like a sexual freak zoo run by genital-obsessive xenophobes who make women into living dolls and shoot each other. Mamdani’s NYC (and mine) is a safe, wholesome place where neighbors help each other, do scavenger hunts, ride bikes, and birdwatch.
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I would also urge everyone to skim through the Wikipedia page on the IDC. This was entirely a creature of Cuomo's design so that he had maximal power on the agenda out of Albany for 7+ years until it became obvious the ploy wouldn't hold. It's disqualifying on its own & rarely mentioned now.
Independent Democratic Conference - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I would also urge everyone to skim through the Wikipedia page on the IDC. This was entirely a creature of Cuomo's design so that he had maximal power on the agenda out of Albany for 7+ years until it became obvious the ploy wouldn't hold. It's disqualifying on its own & rarely mentioned now.