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Climate change. Flawed algorithms. Deadly diseases. Tech monopolies. Humanity is facing thorny problems on all fronts. Fortunately, there are lots of people who are racing to save us from ourselves. Meet just a few of them: 1/ bit.ly/2ClC9EE
Eva Galperin (@evacide)
Head of Thread Lab / Electronic Frontier Foundation
Galperin’s initiative, the Threat Lab, is like a small, nonprofit cybersecurity consulting firm—a sort of CrowdStrike or FireEye for the little guy. 2/ bit.ly/2ClC9EE
.@lisapjackson, VP of Environment, Policy, Social Initiatives / Apple
She came up with new methods of recycling aluminum and recovering tin, engineering faster circuits that use less silicon, and building robots that can strip down 200 iPhones an hour 3/ bit.ly/2ClC9EE
The youth plaintiffs in Juliana v. United States
Their case has survived legal challenges from the fossil-fuel industry and the Obama and Trump admins. It demands a sweeping court order that will affirm the right to a stable climate system for all. 4/ bit.ly/2ClC9EE
.@jackconte
Cofounder & CEO/ Patreon
Patreon aims to rescue the creative class from economic oblivion. Conte's proposition: Turn your most passionate fans into subscribers, or members of a club, and let ­Patreon facilitate that relationship 5/
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Moriba Jah (@moribajah)
Director / Astria
~500,000 human-made objects are hurtling around our planet right now and 99% of what’s there is plain junk. Jah, a beachcomber for the space age, uses big-data analysis to locate and identify larger debris. 6/ bit.ly/2ClC9EE
Dominic Williams (@dominic_w)
President & Chief Scientist / Dfinity
The cloud is as crucial as the internet itself, but it’s dominated by tech giants. Williams believes there should be a public option. 7/ bit.ly/2ClC9EE
Dawn Song (@dawnsongtweets)
Cofounder & CEO / Oasis Labs
Guard your data jealously and it’s worthless - nobody can do anything with it. “I think most people don’t even know that their data can be valuable,” says Dawn Song. She wants to change that. 8/ bit.ly/2ClC9EE
Meet all 25 of the people who are racing to save us from ourselves. bit.ly/2ClC9EE

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California is on fire. Several big blazes are turning the state into a surreal underworld, threatening hundreds of thousands of lives. While much of the problem comes down to climate change, there are plenty of other reasons the state is in flames 1/ trib.al/PSX2SM2
It starts with forest mismanagement—California isn’t doing nearly as many controlled burns as it should. In 2017, the southeastern US burned 100x the amount of land as California, even though the region is only five times bigger 2/ trib.al/PSX2SM2
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By ignoring socio-economic realities facing the people that the tech is supposed to benefit, GM Golden Rice could make things much, much worse for them.

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With brand new epilogue: Dear Greta.

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@cszhu Me in #tech 1990s:
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Here's a brief summary of some of the our Australian #climate extremes research since 2013, a year that has nothing to do with any particular events, government or ideology
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Finally had a minute to read this. Lots of thoughts. First, I agree with most of it, and have been saying the same thing for years - that big splashy design firms exaggerate the value of their work re #climate, a lot. Thread.
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I said the same thing about Waldheim's version of landscape urbanism. This is turning into a theme. Are you a white guy who wants to criticize landscape architecture for not being more relevant? Try looking at the work of women in this field! HELLOOOOOOOO out there! 3/n
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