Twitter is dead, long live Twitter. Happily setting up shop at BlueSky.

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It was a pleasure working on this story for @onlinehyphen with @denisethewriter. Take a break from poll anxiety and give it a read.

ICYMI, it's a good time to re-read her NYT opinion piece on the same:

It includes a pretty damning quote from ex-DOJ lawyer Erica Newland: “I feel confident that anti-Muslim bias is part of what enabled the supreme court to feel it could get away with claiming that the Muslim ban was a rational policy response to an allegedly real problem.”

Media and political leaders have been eerily quiet about Trump's vow to bring back EO 13769 aka the Muslim ban. In his first piece for @onlinehyphen, @KZiabari asks why. Proud to have worked on this piece.

If you're curious about #Cuba, the nationwide blackout, and wtf has happened there over the past six days (or six decades!) follow @norges14

Silicon Valley firms have been pitching the defense community hard on AI uses for military contexts. This needs much closer scrutiny from policymakers, @HeidyKhlaaf, @mer__edith and I argue in a new paper released today:

The assault on socio-technical researchers studying online misinformation is a clear and present threat to democratic norms. Excited about this, my first piece w/ @Compilerdotnews and tremendously grateful to everyone who lent their time and thoughts to it.

Erasure alert: efforts to level Hong Kong's once-badass independent media landscape continue: https://t.co/8MVNkdcSeo nice reporting as always by @hkfp

Buscando periodista hispanohablante en Houston, TX! Delighted to be commissioning a package of stories on the US election for pals @BWazir1 & @journoramzy at @onlinehyphen. Drop me a note if you're interested: ellery[dot]biddle[at]hyphenonline[dot]com

Really didn't wanna see the sequel to this one.

Proud to have edited this story https://t.co/l25u1E4IJK Deeply appreciative of the terrific work of all the (now former) Coda staff, the depths of experience that sources shared, and the razor-sharp insights from experts like @Bomu @AuthorPMBarrett @ubiquity75

Can only imagine what fresh nonsense this roll out might bring. Hold on to your butts...

So: resist the hype. Take the long view. And read @isocockerell's story on “green colonialism” and techno-solutionism in the Swedish Arctic, which I had the privilege of editing last fall. It has forever changed the way I think about tech & the climate.

One especially risky geoengineering idea is to literally dim the light from the sun. The technique is being tested in the western US. This @nytimes story makes it sound exciting, cutting-edge, disruptive...reminds me of starry-eyed AI coverage. Yikes.

ICYMI, geoengineering is a kind of science that seeks to “tweak” the natural environment so that we can have our carbon emitting-cake and eat it too. Some of its loudest purveyors are sipping that same potent cocktail of hubris and megalomania that dominates Silicon Valley.

Listen to @SashaMTL on this: "This is so symptomatic of the broken relationship between AI and the environment. We can't magically generate more energy, nor is geoengineering a viable climate solution."

If we want to keep living on Earth, we must reduce emissions and use less energy. But @sama says we shouldn’t worry. At Davos, he suggested using geoengineering as a “stopgap” measure to offset the destruction that AI will cause to the climate.

Tech industry leaders get pretty slippery when asked how their businesses affect the planet. The fact is, they are using enormous amounts of energy. The evidence is plain to see. @SashaMTL is all over it. So is @_KarenHao