A Climate Success Story🎉 without a Happy End🙁?
This chart📉 shows something we would like to see more often: emissions are going down rapidly. Those are emissions of N₂O from the production of a chemical🧪—Caprolactam—used to make certain plastics&synthetic fibers.
N₂O is 273x as damaging as CO₂. However, N₂O emissions from chemical plants🏭 can be avoided with cheap🪙 technology. The curve is declining rapidly because Envalior(BE) and Fibrant(NL) have implemented N₂O abatement i…
Commanders avoid contract woes, re-sign Tunsil https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48154001/commanders-re-sign-tunsil-new-deal-avoiding-potential-showdown
How Aviation Emissions Could Be Halved Without Cutting Journeys - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/07/1728220/how-aviation-emissions-could-be-halved-without-cutting-journeys
Gun-shy Gambler: Cowboys CB misses may result in investment avoidance https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/12/31/gun-shy-gambler-cowboys-cb-misses-jerry-jones-investment-a…
Blaming "user error" seems not a healthy precedent. Are we moving away from the age of blameless postmortems?
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/aws-service-outage-ai-bot-kiro
Patriots receiver Hollins (abdomen) placed on IR https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47428455/wr-mack-hollins-abdomen-placed-injured-reserve
Jerry Jones returns to argument, avoiding $186 million in risk https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/03/jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-dodged-186-million-micah-parsons-risk/87…
Just finished "Far Sector" written by N. K. Jemisin and illustrated by Jamal Campbell. I don't normally go for Marvel/DC comics stuff and this was a good reminder why. Jemisin's authorship was the draw for me here, as well as some curiosity about what I might be missing out on by avoiding the classic comics lineage. I won't go into too much detail about particulars, but suffice to say it ends up feeling to me line a very neoliberal story dressed up in a veneer of radicalism, which is not what I'd expected of Jemisin. Particularly in light of current events, the "good cops" aspects of the storyline ring truly hollow. There's still a lot of neat parts, but I guess I also wound up disappointed by the sci-fi aspects in a lot off ways. I truly think Jemisin is capable of better than this, based on her other (excellent) work.
#AmReading #ReadingNow