Guido Núñez-Mujica

Data Scientist in energy, agriculture and climate, TED Fellow, comp biologist, film producer, founder of Salto, very gay. Love science fiction. जिंदगी अजीब है

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

HAPPY PRIDE! From my family to yours. To me being gay and being a nuclear/biotech advocate, an ecomodernist, have a lot in common. On the last day of Pride, let me tell you about the parallelisms, similarities and how being gay is inextricably tied to my activisms. 1/n

[Seaver Wang @wang_seaver]

This nauseating propaganda screed justifying the Tiananmen massacre is disheartening in its reflection of the Party-state apologism that passes for some China commentary these days, and of the worsening deterioration of Twitter’s (dis)information environment. But it is also a helpfully instructive lesson in recognizing the actual emptiness of such pro-CCP rhetoric.

- It represents established history as fresh, previously-obscure facts. The understanding that much of the killing of civilians occurred off the square, for example, is well-known. Consider Robin Munro’s (of Human Rights Watch fame, no less) 1993 book on the demonstrations: “There was no massacre in Tiananmen Square. But on the western approach roads there was a blood bath that claimed hundreds of lives. To insist on this distinction is not splitting hairs.”

- It plays loose with details, implying (with careful plausible deniability and ambiguity) that soldiers opened fire only after demonstrators had killed members of the army. Contrast this with one eyewitness account from a British tourist: “three young girl students knelt down in front of him and begged him to stop firing. And he killed them. An old gentleman put his hand up because he wanted to cross the road, and he shot him. The magazine of his gun was empty so he tried to reload and the crowd came in and hung him from a tree."

- It appeals to the complicatedness of history while actually flattening the narrative. She protests that “peaceful protesters vs brutal regime” is an incomplete picture but then seeks to replace it with a characterization of “violent protestors vs unprepared troops”, in turn omitting the voices of demonstrators clearly captured in so much of the archival footage directing the crowd to stick to their commitments to peacefully protest, asking compatriots to put down sticks and captured weapons, convincing comrades to spare a captured soldier. The famous footage she chose to share is arguably among the most peaceful segments out of hours upon hours of video captured at ground level that would much more honestly capture the complexity and chaos—but in a far less favorable light for the soldiers.

- It is flagrantly non-journalistic in its claims about how Chinese view these events today. Citation: “Most ordinary Chinese people I know”??? It’d be a bad joke if it wasn’t such an infuriatingly obvious attempt to seize the microphone and speak for entire peoples.

- It is notably Panglossian and deterministic in its historical storyline. There was no “more right” thing that the Party-state could possibly have done for China. Brutally suppressing the demonstrators in fact “saved” the country. Who knows what “might” have happened if the government had negotiated with those protesting or taken their perspective seriously? Oh, and all of modern Russia’s ills by the way can clearly be traced back to the country’s political reforms and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

In conclusion, if the Chinese state’s use of live ammunition and lethal force to disperse vast civilian demonstrations in June 1989 can be excused as acceptable, then there is practically no limit to the violence that any government anywhere can inflict upon the people it governs. The ends can justify any means. Any assembly by the people to demand redress can be dismissed as externally-driven destabilization. Perhaps a trickle of bots, little pinks, and useful tankie idiots will soon begin accosting me for this post by exclaiming whatabout the United States’ historical crimes and failings, but my fear—and yours—should precisely be the fear of increasingly legitimized authoritarianism anywhere, be it in Washington, Beijing, Naypyidaw, or Jerusalem. We must fight for institutions that codify the self-restraint of the power-holders, and stand in solidarity with those carrying out similar fights elsewhere.

My hope for the future remains for a better world that is more fair, just, free, and prosperous. In no conceivable version of that better world could there possibly be room for a notion that the Tiananmen massacre was excusable or correct.

[WePlanet DACH @WeplanetDACH]

Der Atomausstieg brachte bis heute 6x Tschernobyl – neuer Bericht enthüllt erschreckende Zahlen

Am kommenden Sonntag jährt sich zum 40. Mal Tschernobyl, die größte Katastrophe in der Geschichte der Kernenergie. Einmal mehr wird die Erinnerung allenthalben zum Anlass genommen, die Angsttrommel gegen die vermeintliche "Hochrisikotechnologie" zu rühren. Wir hingegen nehmen den Jahrestag zum Anlass, eine andere Rechnung aufzumachen. Unser neuer Bericht zeigt: Von 2011 bis heute starben fast 25.000 Menschen an den Folgen zusätzlicher Luftverschmutzung aus Kohlekraftwerken, die nur liefen, um den fehlenden Strom aus Kernkraft zu ersetzen. Laut den Schätzungen der WHO sind das sechsmal mehr Tote als durch Tschernobyl.

👉Die schlimmste Atomkatastrophe der Geschichte forderte weit weniger Todesopfer als Kohleverbrennung im normalen Betrieb!

Hinzu kommen weitere Schäden durch CO₂-Emissionen und Schwermetalle, sowie weitere Kosten von über 74 Milliarden Euro allein für Emissionszertifikate. Und: In den kommenden Jahren werden diese Zahlen weiter steigen. – Es sei denn, wir schaffen einen Kurswechsel in der Energiewende inklusive Kernenergie.

👉Wir setzen uns deshalb für den Neustart der stillgelegten deutschen Reaktoren ein! Nur so können wir auch den Kohleausstieg vorverlegen.

Link zu unserer neuen Webseite und zum Bericht im ersten Kommentar!

[WePlanet Africa @WePlanetAfrica]

Govt urged to fast-track compensation, sensitisation on nuclear energy project
https://t.co/7gh9KIn4PP

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@DelgadoforNY Kashiwazaki-Kariwa in Japan was built in 3.5 years. France decarbonized its energy sector in 15 years. Nuclear can be fast. It's part of the solution. Your continued attacks on nuclear make you seem a partisan more interested in political attacks to opponents than in solutions

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@isabelleboemeke To make such broad statements about something as complex and personal as having children is not helpful and considering how many people are struggling right now, tone deaf.

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@isabelleboemeke I think our role as nuclear advocates should be to fight for energy and resource abundance that would allow people to have whatever number of children they wish while keeping our environmental footprint low.

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@isabelleboemeke Also, all the violent attacks to immigrants, the persecution and vilifying aren't helping. Immigrants have a larger fertility rate most of the time. I am sure you know someone with enough influence to stop this horror...

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@isabelleboemeke If you want to make a difference and help to increase the fertility rate, maybe you can use your privilege and influence to stop the current attack on the safety net of our nation. That'd be more meaningful than a tweet

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@isabelleboemeke Also, there's nothing wrong with fulfilling every little desire we have. Life is hard and people need some joy. Some of your outfits (and mine) are quite out there and might seem frivolous to others. But you shouldn't be judged because of that

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@isabelleboemeke It is extremely well documented that urbanization and increased income are associated with a lower Total Fertility Rate. This happened im Asia and South America and it's happening in Africa.

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@isabelleboemeke You got nuclear right, so you can get demographics right as well, Isabelle. Fertility rates have been going down for decades, long before these attitudes you complain became mainstream.

[Aglagw_Blog @Aglagw_Blog]

'California showcased leadership in climate action at COP30, highlighting achievements and calling for federal commitment to support clean energy needs.' @OSGuido, Director of Data Science at the @anthrop_inst Institute, writes.

https://t.co/Ga8T4G1IwE

#COP30 #California

[Mothers for Nuclear @moms4nuclear]

@ParisOrtizWines Amazing work from @OSGuido! California obviously needs to hear more of this perspective. We don’t want to be the followers in this arena, or more likely, completely left behind. The 5th largest economy in the world should LEAD on clean energy! @CAgovernor

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

Among the most interesting (and encouraging) analyses of climate I've seen in years: Quico Toro on How to Save the Climate https://t.co/ukKrRKxLId

[Nuclear NY @nuclearny]

Nuclear power needs to come out of the closet.

Yes, we need Nuclear Pride.
@OSGuido @Gen_Atomic @anthrop_inst

https://t.co/OR9n3tPfhl

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@Samuel_Gibson_ @nuclearny @Gen_Atomic @anthrop_inst I think it will have when we have visitor centers and tours in every single plant, when we have art on the casks and towers, when we hear more about the possibilities than about safety. We are on the way, for sure, but we are not there yet.

[Seaver Wang @wang_seaver]

God forbid we worry too much about Uyghur forced labor in China and end up making the world a better place by accident, including for low-skilled manufacturing workers in China as a whole? Like many of those mobilized online to counter criticism of China’s policies in Xinjiang, Angelica attacks only one dimension of this extensive new reporting (targeting only their open source social media investigations) and tacitly avoids engaging with other lines of evidence.

@AngelicaOung omits that published government policies explicitly intend for labor transfer programs as a tool to forcibly assimilate Uyghurs culturally.

Angelica omits to mention that NYT and Der Spiegel directly visited factories identified in social media footage and confirmed that Uyghurs frequently live separated from other workers, monitored by government minders, working as much as 12-14 hour days.

Angelica omits to address leaked police documents indicating that refusal to participate in government work programs is tracked as a risk factor warranting added surveillance, or evidence that recruitment is intense and pressuring, with repeated door-to-door visits.

Angelica omits to discuss why the Uyghur region’s policy sets a goal of full employment of all able members of ethnic minority households, as opposed to a houshold being allowed to have only one working member.

Angelica omits to discuss the context of internment camps, with every Uyghur person in the region knowing a friend or relative who had been detained, looming over the administration of these state-run work programs.

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@TheUltimateSean तुम एक चूतिया है. There is fractal stupidity here, for sure.

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@AngelicaOung @4hotchyx @wang_seaver No, they are not right at all. This has been abundantly documented. There is plenty of evidence, Angelica.

[Guido Núñez-Mujica @OSGuido]

@AngelicaOung @louayk924 Angelica, this has been abundantly documented by organizations like International Amnesty, for many years. That it doesn't show up on Tik Tok is a deeply unserious argument.

https://t.co/wJOelrP71t