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Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.
What I like about Claude Code skills is that their creation requires the author to be explicit and actually write their mental models down. This is a great way to share the wisdom and craft of experienced professionals. They will make great teaching resources too.
Reposted by John Lyle
you can read @kevinbaker.bsky.social’s new piece if you promise to think seriously about this: “You do not have to use a language model to let it organize your attention or distort your thinking.” artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain...
Kill Chain
On the automated bureaucratic machinery that killed 175 children
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Not a surprise given the very troubled life post Buffy I suppose. Still a sad tale. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Nicholas Brendon dies aged 54
Brendon died of
This world happiness report may be correct, but this framing is frustratingly evidence-free. > “The cost of incorrectly concluding that social media is unsafe is not very large” Given that this may be false, it casts a shadow on the rest of the findings. www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/soci...
Social media is harming adolescents at a scale large enough to cause changes at the population level
The World Happiness Report is published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford, in partnership with Gallup, the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network and an independent ed...
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