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A year ago, I thought cooling interventions were sci-fi. Something for 2050 if things got really bad. Today my piece on @SRM360_org explains why I was wrong. Thread on what changed my mind 🧵

While modern science has many flaws, it is one of those few things we can point to as a society and say that this, *this*, is what already makes us great. scientificamerican.com/article/scienc…

The Senate is getting real creative finding ways to wreck Americans’ jobs, health, atmosphere and power bills with “the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country” nabtu.org/press_releases…

owocki, tell me about the coolest new experiment in gitcoin grants 23. GG23 will feature an experiment (by @dwddao ) in configurable AI politicians - basically different AI politicians which represent different constituencies that battle out how to distribute a $25k matching pool. each AI politician is completely configurable via github (and we can debate configurations via github issues/pull requests) the tooling for the round will make it super easy to explore different valuesets. as the round progresses, well be able to see how each AI agent gains/loses support over time. in gg23, there is scheduled to be a $25k funding pool distributed to open source projects via this mechanism. we'll be able to see how the votes change over time. i think this is a great practical example of @VitalikButerin 's vision of "AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel". cant wait to see what we learn!

Super excited to talk about #DeSci and #ReFi at Funding the Commons next month!

@richcollins @HermanPontzer If you want to build a parallel system to fund science, do it and scale it up. (Again, lots of great effort on this already!) But we shouldn’t dismantle the thing we know works as a first step

@richcollins @HermanPontzer Just letting wealthy people fund science is a recipe for massive underinvestment and backsliding. Essentially every tech breakthrough in the last 75 years has relied on taxpayer funded research.

Asinine & misleading as expected. I checked projects for my univ: this is excellent science. Proposals note potential societal benefits (as required!) but aren't 'woke'. Cruz knows this and doesn't care. We will all lose if this science is chopped. commerce.senate.gov/2025/2/cruz-le…

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Super excited to announce what @caitmoor and I have been working on at Devonian Systems! A Global Operating System for Science: Distributed Tools for a Distributed World open.substack.com/pub/cherty/p/a…

Had a fantastic conversation live at #ethdenver2024 on #refi with @RRansil & @0xWhiteLotus #podcast

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The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week: July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F

I really wish you could see CO₂

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