just took another sip of my grapefruit spindrift and it’s too much juice, it’s too bitter, as per my memo on the subject. “Not enough old bay, too much juice” - my album name
Climate, energy, emerging tech, resilience, & policy professor. Carnegie Mellon Univ. Institute for Energy Innovation Director. Former Biden-Harris White House OSTP Chief Advisor for the Clean Energy Transition. Personal account. He/Him. costasamaras.com
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just took another sip of my grapefruit spindrift and it’s too much juice, it’s too bitter, as per my memo on the subject. “Not enough old bay, too much juice” - my album name
old bay goldfish >>> fisher’s old bay
we had this today and honestly it wasn’t enough old bay. Just a breeze of old bay. It was like an old bay lacroix of a Fisher’s popcorn.
They laughed at Galileo! I said as I tried to bite into a tree (veggie burrito)
lol
Yeah, with all four chipotle salsas
let’s elevate it: I have a theory of matter that everything in the universe is canonically a burrito: - earth’s atmosphere is like a burrito tortilla w/ great things inside, not necessarily all edible but contained in a wrapper that are greater than sum of its parts. Same w/ flora/fauna/atoms ⚛️
Lake Shore Drive is ours @thewaroncars.bsky.social
this “haha you think laws matter anymore” is the mirror image of the Facebook-like blue brigade replies “the cavalry is coming, you’ll see!”. Loser stuff. If you want laws to matter, stop conceding they don’t.
"everyone does it" you are still effectively taking out a gun and firing random shots off when you do this, if you don't treat your car like a lethal weapon you are a bad person
He (if I may) and I very clear eyed about the situation and the stakes.
"oh nothing matters because mr. trump won't let it matter" shut up
as a DC resident I cannot overemphasize how much less safe I feel
here's another true banger bsky.app/profile/jame...
Washington, D.C. being under occupation for no reason by our own servicemembers is bad for DC residents, bad for our servicemembers, and bad for our freedom as Americans.
Jamelle is talking about replies like yours and he is right bsky.app/profile/jame...
I’m listening
Executive Orders are not laws and do not rule Here’s what would rule: an affordable small plates bar near Lafayette Park in downtown DC serving a taste of the French countryside called: Executive Hors d'Oeuvres
August 31 / September 2
“But how will we pay for a nationwide high speed rail network?”
EOs aren't laws, get lost
Man on Wire was v Good youtu.be/MhPSl00UDVE
if you only share one of my posts today, let it be this one
We have a decades of scholarship on how pro-democracy forces win in competitive authoritarian systems: they form a united opposition that brings together people with otherwise profound political disagreements.
Old and busted: Everyone on Bluesky is 38 The new hawtness: Everyone on Bluesky is Windows 98
shameful and editors involved should find another line of work
Remember when Biden was working on National Plan to End Parkinson's bill, and was consulting with experts, and NYT ran this hit piece?
University of California should not settle with Trump. Our democracy is at stake as Trump attacks the courts, lawyers, the media, the civil service, science, and universities. UC should sue, not settle. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
For your Econ 101 lessons …
rumor is the McRib is back
it’s weird and not the good kind of weird
AI is driving demand up. Solar & wind power have been the majority of power plants built this year & the past several years, but the Administration is layering on red tape. Here’s a thread of some podcasts I was on & some pieces I wrote talking about this. It’s a crisis! 🔌💡 bsky.app/profile/cost...
Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.
New study by @brendannyhan.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social & colleagues demonstrates that prebunking election fraud rumors — by warning about anticipated false claims & filling conceptual gaps that those claims exploit — helps to reduce belief in falsehoods: www.science.org/content/arti...
Holiday weekend Friday afternoon, post your cancelable takes: I sincerely like Jerry's posts.
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
This is not an overstatement The drug that has like saved my life in my 40s was only approved for medical use the year I started college. It’s heartbreaking to think about how many people like me won’t get to have a story like this with a new drug because of cuts to funding
loser stuff
When you think about it, a seasteader and marssteader are the same: what if we live somewhere with no rules/water/air/taco bells wouldn't that be cool bro
amazing!
weekend before 9/11, showed up to pay with Clarence. Was insane.
-Bruce Springsteen at the Stone Pony -Backstage w/ Run DMC in my college gym -Backstage w/ Phish at Red Rocks
what a night, I bet
dang
club cafe? jealous
holy moly
"we've got five years, my brain hurts a lot"
The documents still exist online (thankfully), but I still had to waste my time fixing everything, for something that is Congressionally-mandated to be produced and available.
am familiar- a great resource, ty
I had to do this with our USAID reports (and others') that I use as examples in my Program Evaluation course. Since the Administration took the USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse down because they don't like helping people, all my links gone. It is a complete waste.
yeah they exist online (thankfully) but now I have to go and fix all the broken links for no reason and put in PDFs in the class documents.
I have used the U.S. National Climate Assessment as a (free) textbook in my climate resilience class since 2014. It belongs to us. It's ours.
under construction dot gif would fix this
I had links to many of the National Climate Assessment chapters and content on my syllabus but since the Administration took the main pages down because they don't like climate change, all my links gone. Now I have to spend time fixing the syllabus, for no reason. For nothing.
A progressive tax on each minute of podcast content would fix this
“[Monarez] had two lines in the sand,” Besser said. “One was anything that was deemed illegal. And the second was anything that she felt flew in the face of science. And she says she was asked to do both of those.” Principled leadership matters. RFK Jr is unfit to serve as Secretary of HHS.
Electricity demand is spiking because of AI and the Trump Administration is trying to make wind power illegal. The cost of electricity is going up, and the Administration only has itself to blame.
loser stuff tbh
need a durable vibe shift
good
just say you and other rich folks don't want to look at wind turbines man www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/o...
RFK Jr. has been wrong on energy & the environment for two decades. He helped block wind power off the east coast in the 2000s. We could've had a thriving offshore wind industry & power a lot homes. But the brain worm couldn't have just one bite. insideclimatenews.org/news/2209202...
McRibosome
i'm listening
why does RFK hate the powerhouse of the cell
It would be great to push RFK out now. Also: If we had pushed RFK out after the CDC shooting, we wouldn't have to worry about four open leadership positions at CDC with whoever steps in next. Every crisis where we wait to make this the objective means the damage will be worse when we regain power
need a vibe shift from grim to Grimace
I'm sorry. Thank you for your work.
honorary sounds cool but it doesn't have rights to residual revenue from likes and reposts
Sorry for all of the turmoil, harassment, and danger your public health colleagues have endured, for all of us.
I dea: R econstruction A ct 2
Our comment on the DOE CWG report is done. It tips the scales at 439 pages, approx. 3x longer than the DOE report. This is related to Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. Example: refuting one sentence.
Idea: Reconstruction
A hero. I got to meet Dr. Daskalakis at the White House when he was the deputy coordinator of the White House Mpox Response. His public service made the country safer. RFK must resign.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
legit lol
or more likely I'm reputational deficit spending until one glorious day when I am vindicated
the scientific consensus is we need to get to net-zero posts as a soon as possible
that and a podcast per minute tax would fix a lot of challenges
posters code (derogatory)
There are negative externalities associated with folks reading my posts, but as such these costs are not priced into my posting decisions. Therefore, I post at a level higher than the social optimum. A policy remedy would be to pay for avoided posts. A posting offset. Keep the posts in the ground.
[on the AMTRAK platform] Me [whispering]: Trains, Trains Other person next to me [softly]: Trains, Trains Group of us [louder]: Trains, Trains Entire platform [thunderous]: TRAINS, TRAINS
Disclosure: the only costs associated with my posts are my dignity and reputation.
Amtrak doesn't belong to them, it belongs to all of us.
Hey @costasamaras.com do you want to lead a march of people chanting "trains. Trains. Trains. TRAINS." w/me?
combo case cut cold
We've finalized our climate/clean tech speakers for this year's EmTech. I'm thrilled to get to chat with: Google's head of advanced energy, Lucia Tian; MIT nuclear prof Jacopo Buongiorno; and Carnegie Mellon's @costasamaras.com (intellectual godfather of the veggie McRib). You can register here 👇
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
NY Post: Grand Jury Orders Hoagie Hero To Go
Find your compassion. If you see someone acting cavalier or nasty about all the cuts to the federal workforce, and the real life impacts to these communities and people (let alone to US federal capacity to deliver crucial services) challenge their cruelty and remind them to be human.
loser stuff
"got any plans this fall?" Me:
the paywall reply is unhinged and anti-worker
Pushed out by Trump, New Jersey ecologist launches bid for Congress | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Demand is up (from AI) Supply is down (Admin blocking wind and solar) Cost to make a Hot Pocket going way up
no?
we built that (laudatory) bsky.app/profile/cost...
Does an AI scream when it's power down??? Are you people even listening to yourselves.
Regret to say we're back bsky.app/profile/cost...
Alas, we're back. On my machine, they replaced the up arrow share button with what looks like a forward arrow. You click that and can get a link to the post.
