The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) is a group that formed during the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, and describes itself as "a global coalition of leading financial institutions committed to accelerating the decarbonization of the economy." The Alliance also comprises existing and new net zero finance initiatives like the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative, the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance and the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFANZ (more)

Global net-zero emissions describe the state where emissions of greenhouse gases due to human activities and removals of these gases are in balance over a given period. It is often called simply net zero.[1] In some cases, emissions refers to emissions of all greenhouse gases, and in others it refers only to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2).[1] To reach net zero targets requires actions to reduce emissions. One example would be by shifting from fossil fuel energy to sustainable energy sources. Organizations often offset their residual emissions by buying carbon credits. People often use the terms net-zero emissions, carbon neutrality, and climate neutrality with the same meaning.[2][3][4][5]: 22–24  However, in some cases, these terms have different meanings from each other.[2] For example, some standards for carbon neutral certification allow a lot of carbon offsetting. But net zero standards require reducing emissions to more than 90% and then only offsetting the remaining 10% or less to fall in line with 1.5 °C targets.[6] In the last few years, net zero has become the main framework for climate action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net-zero_emissions see climate change

An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving.[1] The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media, literature and film, encompassing a wide variety of literary genres. Many adventure games (text and graphic) are designed for a single player, since this emphasis on story and character makes multiplayer design difficult.[2] Colossal Cave Adventure (source of the phrase maze of twisty little passages) is identified[3] as the first such adventure game, first released in 1976, while other notable adventure game series include Zork, King's Quest, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Myst. Adventure games were initially developed in the 1970s and early 1980s as text-based interactive stories, using text parsers to translate the player's commands into actions. As personal computers became more powerful with better graphics, the graphic adventure-game format became popular, initially by augmenting player's text commands with graphics, but soon moving towards point-and-click interfaces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_game

Scott Alexander: Only About 40% Of The Ted Cruz "Woke Science" Database Is Woke Science. U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a database identifying over 3,400 grants, totaling more than $2.05 billion in federal funding awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) during the Biden-Harris administration. This funding was diverted toward questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda. (more)

Lawrence Krauss: Now Even Science Grants Must Bow to Equity and Inclusion (DEI). America’s largest research funder in physical sciences isn’t the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or the National Science Foundation. It’s the Energy Department’s Office of Science, which gives money to university programs throughout the country and oversees the 10 major national laboratories, from Livermore to Los Alamos. (more)

I'm pondering Threading Across Twitter And Digital Gardens.... (2025 update: need to swap in Mastodon for twitter.) (more)

Liam O'Connor: The beauty of the Forester idea is that it's a wiki, but not of articles. You create a graph of definitions, remarks, notes, thoughts, theorems, results or anything really, and then you can construct a narrative (or multiple!) by transcluding (transclusion) a subgraph of these. Hierarchy and content can be entirely separate, or partly merged. It's super flexible. One thing I've noticed in my ~10 years of lecturing courses is that I often re-use little bits of material from one course to another. If all my lecture notes are from Forester, this process is made effortless. It's almost addictive to make lecture notes in it.

A diagram is a symbolic representation of information using visualization techniques. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagram Thinking Tool (more)

Charity Majors: Corporate “DEI” is an imperfect vehicle for deeply meaningful ideals. I have not thought or said much about DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) over the years. Not because I don’t care about the espoused ideals — I suppose I do, rather a lot — but because corporate DEI efforts have always struck me as ineffective and bland; bolted on at best, if not actively compensating for evil behavior. (more)

Joel Spolsky: How Trello is different. Just a few months ago, we launched Trello, a super simple, web-based team coordination system. (more)

multi-level list-making app (more)

little brother of BaseCamp (more)

more-powerful spreadsheet than lotus 1-2-3 https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2005/10/looking-back-at-lotus-improv/ (more)

Unilever PLC (/ˈjuːniˌliːvə/[3][4]) is a British multinational consumer packaged goods company headquartered in London, England. It was founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie with British soap maker Lever Brothers. The company's products include baby food, beauty products, bottled water, breakfast cereals, cleaning agents, condiments, dairy products, energy drinks, healthcare and hygiene products, ice cream, instant coffee, instant noodles, pet food, pharmaceuticals, soft drinks, tea, and toothpaste. It is the largest producer of soap in the world,[5] and its products are available in over 190 countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever (more)

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Holdings Inc., trading and commonly known as Ben & Jerry's, is an American company that manufactures ice cream, frozen yogurt, and sorbet. Founded in 1978 in Burlington, Vermont, the company went from a single ice cream parlor to a multinational brand over the course of a few decades. The company was sold in 2000 to the British multinational conglomerate Unilever but operates as an independent subsidiary. Its present-day headquarters is in South Burlington, Vermont, with its factory in Waterbury, Vermont. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s

Joel Spolsky: Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry’s vs. Amazon. Building a company? You’ve got one very important decision to make, because it affects everything else you do. No matter what else you do, you absolutely must figure out which camp you’re in, and gear everything you do accordingly, or you’re going to have a disaster on your hands. (more)

Michel Bauwens: MyBO details about Barack Obama campaign's network strategy. Larry Lessig warns that if Obama wins but doesn’t govern according to principles of openness and change, as promised, supporters may not be so interested in serving as MyBO foot soldiers in 2012. (more)

Tulsi Gabbard (/ˈtʌlsi ˈɡæbərd/; born April 12, 1981) is an American politician and military officer serving since 2025 as the 8th director of national intelligence (DNI). She has held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve since 2021, and previously served as U.S. representative for Hawaii's 2nd congressional district from 2013 to 2021. A former Democrat, she joined the Republican Party in 2024. Gabbard was the youngest state legislator in Hawaii from 2002 to 2004. Gabbard launched her 2020 presidential campaign running on an anti-interventionist and populist platform but dropped out and endorsed Joe Biden in March 2020. Previously, she also served as vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from 2013 to 2016 but resigned to endorse Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. After her departure from Congress in 2021, Gabbard took stances on issues such as abortion, foreign policy, border security and transgender rights that differed significantly from her former Democrat colleagues. She left the Democratic Party in 2022. In 2024, Gabbard endorsed Donald Trump for the presidential election and joined the Republican Party later that year. After Trump nominated Gabbard for DNI, her past statements on Syria and the Russian invasion of Ukraine drew scrutiny and concern. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsi_Gabbard

Joseph Paul Trippi (born June 10, 1956) is an American political strategist. A member of the Democratic Party, Trippi most notably served as campaign manager of Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid,[1][2] and has served as a political commentator for CNN since 2018.[3] He has worked on a number of prominent gubernatorial and United States Senate campaigns, including the successful bids of Jerry Brown for Governor of California and Doug Jones for U.S. Senate in Alabama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Trippi (more)

On his main website, barackobama.com, on February 11, 2007 Presidential candidate Barack Obama launched my.barackobama.com. This social networking site built an online community of over a million members before the presidential election. See esp (2008-08-19) How Obama Really Did It (more)