Notices by David Ho (davidho@mastodon.world), page 2

If you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason.

If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half.

📊: @neilrkaye

Does anyone remember when the Marines were deployed to Los Angeles during the 1992 riots? In response to a domestic violence call, they fired more than 200 bullets into a house…

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/policy-solutions/limiting-militarys-role-law-enforcement

The media needs to stop referring to RFK Jr. as a "vaccine skeptic." He is a conspiracy theorist and a vaccine denier.

It's everywhere! No, I just want to have a video call. Why does it need AI?

How many steps is it from sending the military into an American city to cancelling elections? Asking for a democracy.

F that

AI doesn’t help you work less or get paid more, but does destroy the environment and climate.

https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/

No words.

"…U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students…"

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/new-visa-policies-put-america-first-not-china/

So…about AI’s energy use…

“…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

https://mashable.com/article/energy-ai-worse-than-we-thought

Microsoft has blocked emails with the words “Palestine,” “Gaza,” and “Genocide” in the subject line or in the body of the message from being sent to recipients both inside and outside the company. 🫠

https://www.theverge.com/tech/672312/microsoft-block-palestine-gaza-email

It’s grifters all the way down.

https://www.propublica.org/article/us-officials-stock-sales-trump-tariffs

Just starting Doppelgänger from @naomiaklein and already this gem about why things feel so weird: “It's because our world has changed, but, like a collective case of jet lag, most of us are still attuned to the rhythms and habits of the place left behind.”

A handful of US scientists will continue their research in foreign countries. Most of them will simply stop doing research altogether.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/business/economy/trump-research-brain-drain.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.dQxp.pFp5QC0jS-bk&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/opinion/yale-canada-fascism.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HE8.9YG9.urnpUEc47S6O&smid=bs-share

Still, scientists should engage more publicly. And it would be great if the public realizes that science isn't just something nerds do, but the foundation of modern society. 2/2

I've heard colleagues say that the solution to what's happening to American science is for scientists to communicate the value of science better. That's false. Trump is doing a lot of unpopular things, including destroying the science enterprise. What's happening is not our fault.

Most people believe in the values of democracy, but those values are being assaulted by this administration every day. 1/2

The European Commission is trying to woo American researchers with a new €500 million program (with France contributing another €100 million) called “Choose Europe for Science.”

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ursula-von-der-leyen-emmanuel-macron-choose-europe-against-us-donald-trump-war-university-gigantic-miscalculation/

No one else in the world wants what’s happening to the US.

“Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia has won a second term, completing a stunning turnaround for his governing center-left Labor Party that trailed in the polls for months as a festering cost-of-living crisis weighed on voters.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/asia/australia-prime-minister-election.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EU8.n4qe.K_NStEoK9Q23&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Because they felt that air pollution isn't killing enough Americans, the Senate voted to overturn an EPA rule that limits toxic air pollutants emitted by industrial facilities, marking the first time Congress has weakened protections under the Clean Air Act.

https://wapo.st/4d7QXar

What are the 39% of adult Americans who approve of the way Trump is handling his job smoking?

https://wapo.st/3ScK2D2