Philip Loring
Human ecologist and storyteller. Regeneration and Social Justice. Global Director @nature_org. Author: FINDING OUR NICHE. Stubbornly optimistic that radical change is closer than we think. Opinions mine (but science-based). 🏳️🌈
- This is the first Supeman trailer that has me actually excited. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox8Z...
- With people being disappeared and children left alone on a street corner after ICE abducts their guardians and science being dismantled, I have absolutely zero fucks to give about this and think its truly shocking that anyone would give it oxygen right now.
- "Original Sin" has zoomed to #1 on Amazon's new releases list — a real rarity for a book about politics — as Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson share the first scoops from their reporting. Details in today's Reliable Sources: cnn.it/4jVzftx
- I so appreciate this post because it names a discomfort I’ve had reading all the recent stories about student GenAI use: that the students are uninterested slackers. I’ve worked with thousands of undergrads and the vast majority legitimately wanted to learn.
- I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it
- I’m with Dell 👇
- Another reason I think is that lots of people suggesting this actually want Dems to lose.
- Exciting news: I am now officially under contract with Oxford University Press for a book on food security. Really excited to distill 20 years of work in this space and my oft heterodox analyses into something super accessible and different than what is out there.
- Kind of fun that the actual celestial body that protects our planet with its gravity is named after a mythological celestial being who protected Rome with his thunderbolts.
- Now this is something new--an academic book that was never actually published by the authors and publishing house has somehow nevertheless been for sale at Amazon. People have real copies of who knows what.
- I initially had a strongly negative knee jerk reaction to this, but I think Eric is right. Yes, geoengineering is a terrible and risky idea but we need to put our energy into good ideas and let things like this wither on the vine. We waste too much time fighting against things rather than for.
- Dangerous, but there are no safe paths forward. Those low-risk paths are lost in the past. I'm not going to expend energy opposing public sector geoengineering experiments like this. www.theguardian.com/environment/... #climatesky
- Is everyone else as freaked out about this as me? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
