Why the for-profit race into solar geoengineering is bad for science and public trust

Many people already distrust the idea of engineering the atmosphere—at whichever scale—to address climate change, fearing negative side effects, inequitable impacts on different parts of the world, or the prospect that a world expecting such solutions will feel less pressure to address the root causes of climate change. Adding business interests, profit motives, and rich […]

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Regular savings accounts for fun and profit

New contributor Frugalist is back to explain how he gamifies chasing the best regular saving accounts to make his cash work harder. There’s something deeply satisfying to me about maximising my return on cash. Not as an alternative to investing, of course. I’ve got bigger ambitions than simply fighting a slugging match against inflation with […]

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Introducing Agent HQ: Any agent, any way you work

The current AI landscape presents a challenge we’re all too familiar with: incredible power fragmented across different tools and interfaces. At GitHub, we’ve always worked to solve these kinds of systemic challenges—by making Git accessible, code review systematic with pull requests, and automating deployment with Actions.  With 180 million developers, GitHub is growing at its […]

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Never Pay Off Your Mortgage

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It’s Only a Bubble If You Panic

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Elon Musk Discovers What Hierarchy Actually Means

from the these-things-never-end-well dept Elon Musk is having a very bad week. The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance better than he does. Trump just stripped SpaceX of a government contract and handed it to […]

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