



Melanie Brusseler
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@BrusselerMel
Mermaid | US Programme Director @Cmmonwealth | a girl can dream | also @brusselermel.bsky.social






The origin of Zohran Mamdani’s ideology



I'm surprised this didn't get more attention. The US Department of Commerce is investing $2 billion in quantum, including a $1 billion investment in IBM to set up the first quantum chip fab. These will be equity stakes, and funds will come from CHIPS Act. wsj.com/tech/quantum-c…






By artist Benoit Tardif

Jeff Bezos: "If we ran Amazon the way New York City runs their school system, packages would take 6 weeks to arrive, we would charge you a $100 delivery fee and when the package did finally arrive, it would have the wrong item in it."

It's a big problem that tons of climate journalism/ discourse has consistently used the worst case outlier model and presented it as a prediction of what was most likely to happen. But as it stands, even the worst-case scenario is being radically adjusted down. Hopefully climate journalists/ advocates don't just adopt the next worst-case model and instead discuss the most likely scenarios modelers have painted. There's lots of work on this: it doesn't help motivate action to do doomsaying. It feed fatalism on the one hand, and mistrust of models/ climate science on the other (when we remain far from our goals but nothing like the "predicted" outcomes manifests).