Interesting and accessible counterpoint to the latest concern hype about AI by @leninology.bsky.social (And it has a good explanation of the functioning and limits of LLMs, for those curious.)

It’ll be posted online! We just need to schedule it.

I checked with the editors and you are correct: that is the font and that is the reason it was chosen. You win the golden ticket.

A very nice recommendation from @adamtooze.bsky.social for the recent PTO episode with @leninology.bsky.social (on wildfires and the pyrocene) in his always excellent Chartbook series:

Incidentally I once shared a cab with Ball and, a few pints the worse, proceeded to enlighten him as to the flaws in his otherwise fine book. I suspect this is fanboy behaviour.

We put a fox’s arse on the cover of the latest Salvage. The issue leads with my essay on biology versus bourgeois materialism (which draws on, and criticises, Philip Ball’s eye-opening book, How Life Works).

Thanks to @the-syllabus.bsky.social for making the recent episode with @leninology.bsky.social - on wildfires and the pyrocene - one of their podcasts of the week. Link in the 🧵

ICYMI - @leninology.bsky.social on this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years, and the threat of the "weather whiplash" effect - with heatwaves and wildfires being followed by severe flooding:

📣 NEW EPISODE 📣 - @leninology.bsky.social on this year's wildfires. We talked about the scale and extent of the wildfires, how they compare to recent years, and the threat of the "weather whiplash" effect - with heatwaves and wildfires being followed by severe flooding:

From the latest episode - @leninology.bsky.social on the threat of severe flooding this autumn, as El Niño amplifies the power of catastrophic DANA floods: