My investigation for @nature.com finds a surge of open records requests from groups with ties to the energy industry targeting climate attribution researchers. They come as the field plays a growing role in lawsuits suing big emitters for climate-related damages. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Airlines are required to list their "all-in" prices, instead of tricking you with a $49 bait price and piling on fees, taxes etc at the final point of sale. Seems to me that's a pretty good model for most if not all of the economy.

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In @superwuster.bsky.social's *Age of Extraction*, Wu lays out a thesis about how intermediaries - middlemen who perform a useful function connecting different groups, firms and individuals - are prone to developing "main character syndrome."

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The brains of living beings are not just meat computers. I find the proposal by tech bros that AI could be conscious repugnant. Those who believe this have clearly fallen for their creation too hard. This is a great scientific explainer. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I've mentioned before I've updated my contracts to make sure everything in the production of my books is done by humans and not "AI"; if you're wondering what such a thing looks like, here's a clause covering that from a recent contract.

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