Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.
Sir Ian McKellen.
this is a complete societal failure, and something has to be done about this very soon
‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | New op-ed in @theguardian.com by Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social), Julia Slingo, @valmasdel.bsky.social & yours truly: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Regulated monopoly utilities tend to behave better when they face a credible threat of some other model visibly outperforming them. The credible threat from public city-run utilities was the main reason the robber barons who ran electricity monopolies agreed to regulation in the first place.
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
In 2012, the world started to install more clean electricity capacity than they did fossil fueled dirty power plant capacity.
In 2025, only 75 GW of coal and 50 GW of methane capacity was added whereas 160 GW of wind and 510 GW of solar capacity was added to our electricity grids.
A new type of solar panel is catching on in Europe. We should embrace it in America. I’m in the NYT today with the case for plug-in solar: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/o...