Interesting stuff

1. Interesting: Check out Dutch party platforms (there are many parties) as interpreted by an AI.
2. Read: Our climate goals are completely at odds with our rising fossil fuel consumption.
3. Act! “Watershed moment”: new EU rules on Airbnb-style rentals agreed. Good, now tax those revenues and sue the money to help neighborhoods damaged by outsiders displacing locals — as I suggested in 2017.
4. Listen to the story of a Black community that finally — after 80 years — was able to get a police shooting range moved out of earshot gunshot #EnvironmentalJustice.
5. Read: Some companies are releasing “unfiltered” AIs, which will help with innovation but also with spreading lies and enabling bad actors. A classic dilemma.
6. Listen: Why Is It So Hard (and Expensive) to Build Anything in America?
7. Read: Warming climate is spreading plant diseases (bacteria, molds, etc.), which will weaken food security.
8. It’s getting hot in here… the Earth had its first +2C day on 17 Nov; the entire year of 2024 may average +1.5C over the 1850-1900 baseline. US states — and cities in particular — are moving towards unliveable (note year in the picture):

H/T to CD