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Saul Elbein

Austin

Staff Writer at The Hill

Journalist covering land, energy, and resources. Co-writer on The Hill's Sustainability newsletter. All opinions my own.

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  • 1 week ago | wjbf.com | Saul Elbein

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  • 1 week ago | thehill.com | Saul Elbein

    Trump administration cuts to climate research and federal weather forecasting agencies are blinding the U.S. to oncoming threats to its food supply — and kneecapping efforts to protect it. As Congress debates its own research and forecasting cuts, a study published in Nature on Wednesday suggests that fossil fuel-driven climate change poses an existential threat to key parts of the American food supply.

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  • 1 week ago | qcnews.com | Saul Elbein

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  • 1 week ago | woodtv.com | Saul Elbein

    (The Hill) — The deep oceans have crossed a crucial boundary that threatens their ability to provide the surface with food and oxygen, a new study finds. Nearly two-thirds of the ocean below 200 meters, or 656 feet, as well as nearly half of that above, have breached “safe” levels of acidity, according to findings published on Monday in Global Change Biology.

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Saul Elbein
Saul Elbein @saul_elbein
9 Jun 25

The more interesting point isn't 'Maybe LLMs are conscious' -- seems structurally unlikely -- and more 'We don't know how consciousness evolved in ourselves but it seems to be through the same kind of evolution we're speed running in robotics' https://t.co/Yq32xSCxli

Matthew Zeitlin
Matthew Zeitlin @MattZeitlin

Everytime I read a thing about how LLMs are not “actually” thinking or intelligent I wonder how we know we’re thinking or intelligent? How much human cognition and output is pattern matching and repetition?

Saul Elbein
Saul Elbein @saul_elbein
9 Jun 25

Ability of ocean to produce oxygen, provide food, and absorb heat has crossed a critical boundary. https://t.co/2Ebd4fLOcL

Saul Elbein
Saul Elbein @saul_elbein
6 Jun 25

The new head of FEMA didn't know there was such a thing as hurricane season. NWS is scrambling to rehire after DOGE slashed its staff. That's left Gulf Coast government officials asking an unpleasant question: if there's a hurricane, will FEMA come? https://t.co/JgqFPQIYGE