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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

It's tough to explain exactly how nutty this new report from fossil fuel industry consultant Wood Mackenzie is, but I'm going to try in a short thread.

As you can guess: 1 trillion barrels of oil is...............................A LOT

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How AI can unlock an extra trillion barrels of oil
And deliver the volumes needed to meet resilient demand
15 October 2025 3 minute read
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Simon Flowers
Chairman, Chief Analyst and author of The Edge

Andrew Latham
Senior Vice President, Energy Research

Orla Marnell
Principal Data Scientist, Upstream

Josh Dixon
Senior Research Analyst, Upstream
Stronger-for-longer oil demand will heap pressure on the upstream industry to deliver new supply. I asked our subsurface experts, Dr Andrew Latham, Orla Marnell and Josh Dixon how artificial intelligence can identify opportunities to meet the challenge.
Why do we need to unlock new supply?
The slow pace of the energy transition means that oil demand is likely to be far more resilient than some thought just a few years ago. Wood Mackenzie forecasts annual consumption won’t peak until the early to mid-2030s, and cumulative demand will be almost 1,000 billion barrels through 2050.
Firm demand throws the spotlight onto where new supply can be sourced. Production from assets already onstream or justified for development will gradually decline under current investment plans from just over 100 million b/d today to 50 million b/d 2050, cumulatively 650 billion barrels. That leaves a huge supply gap of 300 million barrels.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 5h

As someone who never took a journalism class in my life and was good at it, I agree. To be fair, I was raised in a newspaper household and I don't think the apprentice type jobs still exist.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 5h

I wish @elienyc.bsky.social wasn't right about this, but I fear he's even right about the fix (expanding the court in 2021). www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act

The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.

www.thenation.com

Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 6h

I bet you did.

Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 6h

The real news is bad enough. Shutting down I5 will cause havoc. Playing with missles is stupid. No need to make it look worse. (I just looked up the real news to find out why they'd shut down an interstate. Very annoying.)
As you said, we don't need click bait. Just facts.

Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 6h

Earthquake at the Berkeley Botanical Garden. Not large, but still a reminder. And no, I'm not at the gardens but definitely felt it in Temescal.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 6h

The first persimmon
of the season gives the taste
of more joy to come.
#zentao

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 8h

A lovely thread on why you should not listen to Eliezer Yudkowsky. Dave Karpf reads these people so we don't have to.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

Next up on my reading list.

…I am already regretting this choice.

IF ANYONE BUILDSIT, EVERYONE DIES
WHY
SUPERHUMAN AI
WOULD
KILLUS ALL
ELIEZER
YUDKOWSKY &
NATE SOARES

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 1d

I’ll share a lot more on this topic once the book comes out. Short version: practically all futurism is *conditional futurism.*

People tell stories about the future in order to influence behavior in the present, and make their prediction more/less likely.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 19h

Pretty sure Scotch is a necessity these days.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine thinking domestic violence isn’t “really serious”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 13d

This Oct, as a breast cancer survivor in treatment since 2021, I'm doing a thread on stuff I wish I'd been told.

I'll update as I go, but the first thing I'll share is every person's body & treatment is different. Some fear symptoms or side effects they might never get. Don't be afraid to fight 1/3

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits.
I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

Trump Has Just Condemned More Americans to Hunger

The administration’s decision to fast-track a bunch of changes to food stamps—including new work requirements—is as stupid as it is cruel.

www.thenation.com

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

Night of the Living Dead (scared the bejesus out of me when I'd gone to the late-night drive-in horror flicks to laugh)
Get Out
Alien (which I only saw because a friend convinced me if was really SF, which it is, but also scary as hell)
Can't come up with a fourth.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 1d

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

Not reposting the nonsense from the right about how Saturday's march is ANTI-AMERICAN! SOROS-FUNDED!

What they're saying is so nonsensical that it reeks of desperation.

They're scared of a simple display of mass opposition.

Bring your American flags, folks.
It's a pro-America, pro-democracy march

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1d

Dear media,
1/ ICE consistently lies about its violence toward people in Chicago, with its initial accounts later disproven.
2/ When protesters shout at ICE agents to get out of their neighborhood and ICE tear-gasses them and throws them to the ground, that's not a "clash" – that's ICE violence.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not for money,
but for the knowing. Oh, to
understand it all!
#zentao

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 2d

Wanna to go to a virtual No Kings rally that focuses on healthcare (with a side of "vaccines are good, actually" and "eugenics is bad, actually")?

Organized by disabled folks who can't go to an in-person event.

Join Saturday at 2:30pm Pacific time, zoom link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8467741742...

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise cloud communications.

us06web.zoom.us

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 1d

And assuming they were the right words.

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Kij Johnson @kijjohnson.bsky.social · 1d

the pheasant breaking cover
just in front of the car
did I hear its wings?
#haiku #senryu

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 2d

You know, I tend to think that I stopped writing much short fiction once I started doing novels partly because I find it hard to do both at the same time (and I'm slow at novels to boot). But maybe it was just becoming more annoying to submit.

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Story Hour @storyhour.bsky.social · 2d

Spookymonth continues apace! This week, two favorites return: M.L. Krishnan and Gemma Files. Yes, really. Join us Wednesday, 7:00 p.m. PDT! @emelkrishnan.bsky.social @gemmafiles.bsky.social www.storyhour2020.com

Head-and-shoulders red-tinged color photo of writer M.L Krishnan, a woman with light brown skin and straight, glossy hair pulled back. Her hair may be black or may be purple; the red light makes this a mystery. She wears large plastic-framed glasses, a red silk tank, gold earrings with ornate hearts hanging from sunburst decorated with red hearts, a gold ring in her septum and several gold rings on her fingers, red lipstick, and black cat-eye eyeliner. She rests her chin on one beringed hand, her face in three-quarter view, and regards the camera with a serious expression.

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Nancy Jane Moore @nancyjane.bsky.social · 2d

"the AI bubble isn’t predominantly giving off Pets.com or Global Crossing vibes anymore. It’s giving Enron vibes."

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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