Zane Selvans
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Data Liberation Engineer @catalyst.coop. Climate, energy, bikes, cities, co-ops, and the strangeness of Our Modern Age. A former space explorer, now lost in the misty highlands of Mexico.
https://amateurearthling.org
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December 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Reposted by Zane Selvans
The same thing happened in Oregon, along with a massive amount of mis- and dis-information. www.propublica.org/article/oreg...
How the Rapid Spread of Misinformation Pushed Oregon Lawmakers to Kill the State’s Wildfire Risk Map
After Oregon’s record-breaking fire season in 2020, lawmakers wanted to map out which properties were most at risk. But anger from homeowners escalated quickly.
www.propublica.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The same thing happened in Oregon, along with a massive amount of mis- and dis-information. www.propublica.org/article/oreg...
Yeah! A common mining business model. Just a new industry to apply it in, and for a new reason. But I think it's an interesting reason to be skeptical that these extraction companies will convert to being something else, even if the technological pathway exists.
December 1, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Yeah! A common mining business model. Just a new industry to apply it in, and for a new reason. But I think it's an interesting reason to be skeptical that these extraction companies will convert to being something else, even if the technological pathway exists.
It's possible but how do we make it systematic?
December 1, 2025 at 6:10 AM
It's possible but how do we make it systematic?
Also, like, Peter Thiel was one of DeepMind's main owners and that guy loves tech for war!
December 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Also, like, Peter Thiel was one of DeepMind's main owners and that guy loves tech for war!
I didn't realize Hassabis made Google pinky-swear that they would never use his AI for war before selling them Deep Mind. This seems like either delusion or PR. Google was lying, and even if they weren't, technology is expropriated by governments for war. It's not even a promise they *could* make.
December 1, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I didn't realize Hassabis made Google pinky-swear that they would never use his AI for war before selling them Deep Mind. This seems like either delusion or PR. Google was lying, and even if they weren't, technology is expropriated by governments for war. It's not even a promise they *could* make.
This kind of climate risk rating & disclosure is hated for the same reason that it works. It forces the material, re-valuation of assets. Carbon taxes are similar -- they (could) work because people notice them and change behavior. But current holders of the affected assets will always resist.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 AM
This kind of climate risk rating & disclosure is hated for the same reason that it works. It forces the material, re-valuation of assets. Carbon taxes are similar -- they (could) work because people notice them and change behavior. But current holders of the affected assets will always resist.
Real estate interests also shut down a wildfire property risk rating & disclosure system that was proposed by an independent panel in Colorado in 2014.
amateurearthling.org/2014/01/27/c...
amateurearthling.org/2014/01/27/c...
Colorado Wildfires: a Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Failure
Fanned by climate change wildfire risks are worsening in Colorado, and we are failing to either adapt or mitigate.
amateurearthling.org
December 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Real estate interests also shut down a wildfire property risk rating & disclosure system that was proposed by an independent panel in Colorado in 2014.
amateurearthling.org/2014/01/27/c...
amateurearthling.org/2014/01/27/c...
This is a great microcosm of many things broken in climate policy. Why we can't trust utilities to build transmission that reduces energy costs, or oil & gas companies to evaluate CCS, or emissions offset platforms to certify their wares. The referees can't have any skin in the game.
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is a great microcosm of many things broken in climate policy. Why we can't trust utilities to build transmission that reduces energy costs, or oil & gas companies to evaluate CCS, or emissions offset platforms to certify their wares. The referees can't have any skin in the game.
Sorry I meant "brain plasticity therapy" will be covered by Medicare.
November 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Sorry I meant "brain plasticity therapy" will be covered by Medicare.
I mean maybe you just gotta send all the old heads to psychedelic reeducation summer camp every year.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I mean maybe you just gotta send all the old heads to psychedelic reeducation summer camp every year.
If this is true why is the Datasette v1.0 release taking so long ;-)
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
If this is true why is the Datasette v1.0 release taking so long ;-)