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New comment by burkaman in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

burkaman — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:58:26 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721560

New comment by burkaman in "Instagram is incorporating users' photos in ads for Meta Glasses"

burkaman — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:20:38 +0000

https://imginn.com/ or https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram

Beyond Denial: How Oil Execs Shaped a Landmark Climate Study

burkaman — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:29:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/wedges-climate-research-bp-fossil-fuel-princeton

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674000

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by burkaman in "F3"

burkaman — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:19:17 +0000

There is a linked paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3749163

New comment by burkaman in "DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships"

burkaman — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:34:42 +0000

I love this idea, but do these ships exist yet? I can only find renderings, and the company's "roadmap" page is not a roadmap (https://vela-transport.com/feuille-de-route/).

The only real footage I can find is a construction video from a year ago: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DL9CSLdtkaP/

New comment by burkaman in "Trump administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring"

burkaman — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:45:59 +0000

Yes, this post is an update to what was being discussed there

New comment by burkaman in "Trump administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring"

burkaman — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:53:07 +0000

Update to a recent discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48560847

Trump administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring

burkaman — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:51:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/climate/trump-ocean-observatories-initiative.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587276

Points: 13

# Comments: 3

New comment by burkaman in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

burkaman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:06:18 +0000

It's a natural extension of "stop the count" and "if we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases".

New comment by burkaman in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

burkaman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:59:04 +0000

Nobody outside the administration knows what the US has greenlit, and a detailed peace agreement likely doesn't exist yet.

New comment by burkaman in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

burkaman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:46:48 +0000

This is not true, most people care about climate change, even in the US (https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yc...). Maybe you think "if they care then why are they still driving/flying/eating meat/whatever" and I sympathize, but climate change is not an issue that will be solved by individuals taking responsibility, in the same way that wars still happen even when the vast majority of the population oppose them.

If you're wondering why they don't at least vote for someone who cares about climate change, I don't know. But claiming people don't care at all is not true and is self-defeating, because it makes people who do care think "I guess I'm in the minority, there's no point in trying".

New comment by burkaman in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

burkaman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:37:27 +0000

There is no way to know what Jesus would or wouldn't like. Most religious people interpret their chosen text in whatever way best fits their preferences and lifestyle. In this case, they like war, so that means Jesus also likes war: https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-ir.... It is trivial to find Bible verses supporting war if that's what you're looking for: https://www.biblestudytools.com/topical-verses/bible-verses-....

New comment by burkaman in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

burkaman — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:59:06 +0000

I've never read it but I think Atlas Shrugged might qualify. I don't think I've ever heard anyone praise the plot or talk about it as a novel, instead people who liked it say it changed their life, changed how they view themselves, etc.

New comment by burkaman in "DNI Gabbard Reveals Evidence of U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Global Biolab Program"

burkaman — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:11:53 +0000

I don't understand what we're supposed to be seeing here. The "new evidence" is four slides, one of which is titled "Ukraine Labs: Web of Connections to U.S. BW Defense Industry" but just has a list of logos that have nothing to do with the defense industry. The rest of the slides are related to the US funding research into dangerous diseases, which is not a secret and seems like a good thing to be doing. It also notes that Ukrainian labs are vulnerable to attacks from Russia, which seems pretty obvious.

The text of the press release also seems to have very little to do with the linked evidence.

New comment by burkaman in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

burkaman — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:06:22 +0000

Their portfolio is beautiful https://adazshen.com/

New comment by burkaman in "Removing 'um' from a recording is harder than it sounds"

burkaman — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:07:09 +0000

I listen to podcasts and videos at 2x speed or faster, I can still understand everything and it brings listening time about equal to what my reading time would be if I were reading an article or transcript. Average reading speed is generally about twice as fast as average speaking speed, and in produced media people tend to speak even slower. I realize it sounds insane to hear 2x speed audio if you aren't used to it, but I promise if you were to ramp up the speed over a couple weeks or so, you would have absolutely no trouble with it. There's no need to if you don't want to, I'm just saying that your first impression is not giving you an accurate experience of what it's actually like.

For audiobooks I usually want to have time to hear and process every word, so I still speed it up but usually more like 1.5x, it depends on the narrator and the book. For podcasts I'm not there to appreciate the prose, so I go as fast as I can while still understanding them. I don't think it's about dopamine, I just find I don't gain anything by getting the same amount of information slower.

New comment by burkaman in "Italy's Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files for Nasdaq IPO"

burkaman — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:48:28 +0000

True, I think they were early to the trend though, it's looked like that basically since they launched: https://web.archive.org/web/20210821023119/https://lu.ma/

New comment by burkaman in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

burkaman — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:27:44 +0000

I think it depends where you are. SF is all tech stuff but https://luma.com/chicago for example is mostly non-tech.

New comment by burkaman in "Italy's Bending Spoons, owner of AOL and Vimeo, files for Nasdaq IPO"

burkaman — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:15:59 +0000

I see a lot of people using https://luma.com/. I'm sure it's not as big as Meetup but it does have a decent community of users, and you can set up pretty much anything with their free plan.

New comment by burkaman in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

burkaman — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:39:08 +0000

I just meant recreationally to mean "not out of necessity for survival". And I don't think conscious thought is relevant for this specific thread, I was just responding to the question of whether other animals besides humans can be needlessly violent.