Vivek Srikrishnan

Absolutely incredible: Tuesday morning's high tide in #Miami exceeded the major flood threshold... that is the 1st time it has ever happened in the city's history without a hurricane storm surge. It tied (within 0.1 inches) the storm tides produced by Irene on Oct 15, 1999 and Wilma on Oct 24, 2005.

It’s not that interesting. Why these folks go after extreme weather event attribution is no mystery. And almost all of the critiques focus on process not substance (a classic stealth advocacy move ironically). There are subtleties in how the calculations are done & inevitable uncertainties…

Why is New England not facing a wave of hyperscale data centers? Key reasons: strong local zoning / democracy and no spare gas pipeline capacity. Also (not mentioned here): it's not sitting above a shale gas basin.

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

AOC: "What the Trump administration is doing in targeting trans people is to get everyone on board with supporting defunding their own civil rights ... understand that when they attack trans girls in sports, they're also attacking all women's ability to stand up against their abusers"

US carbon emissions exploded last year, rivaling the rest of the world combined. What a disgrace. www.unep.org/en/publicati...

I keep getting announcements from various universities about how they have some new initiative focused on how to have what they all are calling “difficult conversations”. Initially I was like hey sign me up, I am famous for my awkward conversations, but it turns out that’s not what they have in mind

“For years, economists dismissed corporate collusion as crankery and blamed bird flu for high prices. Then the feds found evidence that could prove the cranks right, and almost nobody noticed.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

At the same time as the Chi Phi incident, another frat was calling in favors to get the Cornell police department to look the other way on various allegations. Incredible details here from a Cornell Sun alum, including some damning allegations of favoritism from Cornell VP of Student Life Lombardi.

I love Nabokov, not his books but his bitchy little lists of which authors are NOT a genius

how does ohio boy vance keep walking right into the buzzsaw of one of the midwest's most Ancient Tribal Hatreds. dog no one in michigan cares what your OSU ass has to say

most brown people in this country will have heard some version of this before. 'Be grateful we let you be here and stay here in our place.' Yeah ok Care Bear David Duke

A New Jersey family recreated OG Anunoby's iconic NBA Finals tip-in with their Halloween decorations

Said a day after a white supremacist sought to kill people at a Hindu temple. Not a word about the anti-Indian rhetoric within his own party that has put South Asians and his own family members in danger. Instead continues to play footsie with people who see non-white citizens as guests, at best.

3) this is yet another instance of Vance treating a native-born but nonwhite American as if they are foreign born. 4) it is vance who should be greatful that anyone ever bothered to treat him like he might do some good in the world (they were wrong of course)

Turns out Usha, Vivek, Kash, Dinesh, Nikki, and the 32% of Indian Americans who support MAGA will not, in fact, be considered white for the purposes of white supremacy

Clanker is not a slur because a slur is a word that points to a group of people and machines are not people

The way JD Vance says this, he is acting as if Abdul El-Sayed is an immigrant who should "show a little gratitude to the country that gave him everything." Once again, it should be pointed out that El-Sayed was born and raised in Michigan.

An attempted attack on a Hindu temple came amid a weeks-long right-wing frenzy over "The Indian Question"; police found a manifesto from the alleged shooter "containing statements expressing white supremacist and extremist ideologies."

No such thing as a threshold level of warming where "we're doomed" - every ton matters

I was wondering what the latest numbers would look like, as I think a lot of us have seen interconnection queue results from the last decade or so that are dominated by renewables — but Kevin shows that MISO's queue is now dominated by gas.

the other thing is that these people — who are, again, racists — have this image of modern africa as hopelessly backwards. but the entire continent is a pressure cooker of technological innovation! its economies and populations are growing incredibly fast!

Y’all, I hate to rain on the dead bot parade, but the Yandex data center destruction doesn’t seem to have significantly impacted social media bots. I made temporal graphs of X posts about AfD around the time of the attack and there’s no sign of a sudden dip or residual impact on that conversation.

Ok it is obvious that people fake engagement with bots, and that this is often done for political reasons, but the reality is that there are tens of millions of republicans in america, the number of people who would vote for Trump is even larger, and as elections show, these people really exist

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At least 7,000 people in New Delhi were detained on Saturday alone.

A must read op-ed by @johnvaillant.bsky.social detailing how modern fires are burning faster and hotter, changing the future of firefighting. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/o...

four years ago I posted this image of paleontologist Jan Smit looking at rocks and his son-in-law replied with something even better

Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.

Ossoff's superpower is that he correctly thinks his opponent is a contemptible piece of shit and he is willing to explain why in clear and direct language. bsky.app/profile/atru...

apropos of nothing in particular (total lie btw), i often think abt how people worry so much about error control without ever worrying abt model specification. whole lits in social sciences impose unwarranted model misspecification as a means to not to inflate your type 1 error. makes you wonder...

Welcome to #TransTuesday! Don't know the trouble with JK Rowling? Think she's just said some insensitive things? Or do you just pretend to not know? Well! Now you'll know. You'll KNOW. Send this to every cis person in your life who doesn't get it Here's all the receipts: JK ROWLING, QUEEN TERF

Big Oil remains the most significant obstacle to reducing emissions and limiting climate harms. It’s important to understand the long history of that.

LLM chatbot surveillance advertising is going to be next-level disastrous, on every level.

Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.

Researchers are increasingly able to pinpoint the influence of global warming on a particular heat wave or storm. Attribution science - cited in lawsuits against Big Oil and attacked by conservatives - is now part of a major Supreme Court case [gift link] www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

If you live along the East Coast, you may have seen it firsthand: streets underwater, flooded homes and battered beaches. Why was this nor’easter so bad so early, and could more be coming this winter? A professor of atmospheric science explains:

Hey, I’m just asking questions. Ignorant questions, bigoted questions, questions that have been repeatedly answered for many years. Sorry, but I’m not listening to answers right now; I’m far too busy asking questions. It’s called being intellectually curious.

- A serious effort to expedite review of permit applications would fund hiring of a large number of expert civil servants to carefully review documents in parallel. This bill does almost none of that, pushing instead to build AI tools for generating and reviewing permit applications.

But fossil capital's ability to slow energy transition and maintain a measure of political control is a problem with a rising body count, and the sooner we usher them out of relevance the better

Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."