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The Economics of Climate Adaptation Optimism

The Honest Broker Newsletter • 1884 implied HN points • 10 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. Economic development-driven adaptation has been the main force improving climate-sensitive outcomes like crop yields, reduced deaths, and lower damages, even as the climate changes.
  2. Because adaptation’s costs and benefits are local and immediate, it often delivers larger near-term improvements than distant mitigation, and costly mitigation that slows growth can hurt the poor and weaken adaptation.
  3. Mitigation is still necessary to limit long-term warming, but it should focus on measures and R&D that provide immediate local economic benefits so they don’t undermine development and adaptation.

The Great Climate Reset

The Honest Broker Newsletter • 3680 implied HN points • 20 Jan 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. The public and policy conversation has shifted quickly from apocalyptic climate messaging to a more pragmatic, energy-realism approach.
  2. Single-issue climate advocates will stay vocal and prominent in elite institutions, but their priorities may be out of step with broader public concerns.
  3. Even with a retreat from catastrophism, climate change still poses uncertain long-term risks, so sensible energy, adaptation, and evidence-based policies remain necessary.

Does that use a lot of energy? [Update]

Sustainability by numbers • 575 implied HN points • 03 Mar 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. An interactive tool lets you compare the energy use of different products and activities so you can better judge their relative scale and importance.
  2. The tool was updated after lots of user feedback, with many improvements documented in a changelog, while deliberately leaving out some suggestions to avoid making it too complex.
  3. A major visible change is the addition of rough country-level energy cost comparisons to make results more meaningful, and the tool is available to use and share while remaining open to further (less frequent) feedback.

Revenge of the Climate Realists

Common Sense with Bari Weiss • 2133 implied HN points • 11 Dec 25
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. People who questioned the worst climate catastrophe claims were treated as pariahs even while accepting global warming; they argued the alarmism was overblown.
  2. Roger Pielke Jr. lost speaking invitations and faced a congressional investigation after arguing that rising disaster costs weren't linked to greenhouse gases.
  3. Those climate realists now claim a comeback and feel vindicated as the debate and public opinion shift.

Leader’s with Blind Spots: Climate Change’s Human Toll

Adetokunbo Sees • 104 implied HN points • 21 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. Leaders who downplay climate risks and choose short-term economic gains over mitigation drive higher emissions and worsen environmental damage.
  2. Both historical and recent leadership choices have caused large environmental and human costs, and projections show hotter temperatures, higher seas, longer heatwaves, and economic losses by mid-century.
  3. Grassroots activism, informed voting, and public awareness campaigns are practical ways to push leaders toward stronger climate action and reduce future harm.
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Microsoft Sentinel SOC 101: How to Detect and Mitigate Login Attempts Using Legacy Auth with Microsoft Sentinel

Rod’s Blog • 119 implied HN points • 24 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Mitigation
  1. Legacy authentication poses a significant security risk as it makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts.
  2. Microsoft Entra ID recommends disabling legacy authentication to improve security.
  3. Microsoft Sentinel can help detect and mitigate login attempts using legacy authentication by analyzing sign-in logs, creating alerts, and taking appropriate actions.

Microsoft Sentinel SOC 101: How to Detect and Mitigate Inactive Account Sign-ins with Microsoft Sentinel

Rod’s Blog • 59 implied HN points • 05 Feb 24
🕹 Technology Mitigation
  1. Microsoft Sentinel helps in detecting and mitigating inactive account sign-ins by collecting and analyzing sign-in logs from Microsoft Entra ID using the Kusto Query Language.
  2. To mitigate inactive account sign-ins, actions include investigating the source, blocking or disabling the account, resetting credentials, and educating users on security best practices.
  3. Best practices for managing inactive accounts in Microsoft Entra ID include defining a policy for account lifecycle, implementing provisioning and deprovisioning processes, monitoring account activity, and educating users.

Must Learn AI Security Part 1: Prompt Injection Attacks Against AI

Rod’s Blog • 79 implied HN points • 01 Aug 23
🕹 Technology Mitigation
  1. Prompts are crucial for AI as they shape the output of language models by providing initial context and instructions.
  2. Prompt injection attacks occur when malicious prompts are used to manipulate AI systems, leading to biased outputs, data poisoning, evasion, model exploitation, or adversarial attacks.
  3. To defend against prompt injection attacks, implement measures like input validation, monitoring, regular updates, user education, secure training, and content filtering.

Microsoft Sentinel SOC 101: How to Detect and Mitigate Keylogger Attacks with Microsoft Sentinel

Rod’s Blog • 59 implied HN points • 02 Oct 23
🕹 Technology Mitigation
  1. Keyloggers are commonly used by cybercriminals to steal sensitive data, so it's crucial for organizations to detect and mitigate keylogger attacks to safeguard their information and finances.
  2. Microsoft Sentinel, a cloud-native SIEM system, can help in detecting keylogger attacks by collecting logs from endpoints, analyzing them using advanced analytics, and providing tools to investigate alerts and respond to threats.
  3. To mitigate keylogger attacks, organizations can implement multi-factor authentication, educate users about keylogger risks, and utilize endpoint protection software like Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

Must Learn AI Security Part 11: Denial-of-Service Attacks Against AI

Rod’s Blog • 39 implied HN points • 11 Sep 23
🕹 Technology Mitigation
  1. Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks against AI aim to overwhelm the system with requests, computations, or data, making it slow, crash, or become unresponsive.
  2. Common techniques used in DoS attacks against AI include request flooding, adversarial examples, amplification attacks, and exploiting vulnerabilities in the system.
  3. Effects of a DoS attack on an AI system can lead to unavailability, loss of productivity, financial loss, reputation damage, and increased security costs for the affected organization.

What Is a Sustainable Future on a Planet in Upheaval?

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 05 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. We are already headed toward massive and unprecedented climate, ecological, and societal upheavals. Preventing the worst warming is still vital, but it won't stop all the disruption.
  2. Societies must 'ruggedize' for discontinuity by building climate defenses, reworking supply chains, planning for population movements, restoring ecosystems, and shifting where and how people live. These resilience efforts need to be central to government, business, community, and personal decisions.
  3. Climate action today is primarily harm reduction and about preserving future options rather than restoring old continuity. The most sustainable goal is to pass forward the widest set of good possibilities to future generations.

Drowning in Disaster: The Rising Tide of Flash Floods

Adetokunbo Sees • 0 implied HN points • 10 Jan 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. Flash floods are becoming more frequent and deadly worldwide, causing large loss of life, displacement, and big economic damage.
  2. Climate change is a major driver because warmer air holds more moisture and changes rainfall patterns, and fires and land loss make runoff and flooding worse.
  3. Future projections show more intense short-duration rains and greater flood risk for people and ecosystems, so cutting greenhouse gas emissions is essential to lower that risk.

Where does one begin?

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 06 Feb 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. Begin by asking why you’re doing this and who it matters for, not by diving straight into data or products.
  2. How far ahead your horizon of concern stretches — whether years or decades — should shape the choices you make, especially for the people you care about.
  3. There are no one-size-fits-all solutions, so focus on adaptable, evolving personal strategies and on building better decision-making for uncertain futures.

Test Week: Scale and Speed

Joshua Gans' Newsletter • 0 implied HN points • 19 Aug 20
🏥 Health & Wellness Mitigation
  1. Widespread testing for Covid-19 requires cheap tests and fast results to isolate infected individuals quickly.
  2. Lowering costs and increasing speed of testing are essential for successful mitigation of Covid-19 spread.
  3. Using a strategic testing approach, combining low-cost, rapid tests with high sensitivity tests, can significantly enhance the effectiveness of mitigation strategies.

Things fall apart; the maintenance schedule cannot hold.

The Snap Forward • 0 implied HN points • 29 Jan 26
🌞 Climate & Environment Mitigation
  1. Assuming continuity is dangerous — climate change is creating accelerating discontinuities and tipping points, so the past is a poor guide for the future.
  2. Climate brittleness will raise maintenance needs: everyday infrastructure and systems will face accumulating small stresses that cascade into bigger failures.
  3. Societies must either work harder to keep things running, abandon places that are too costly to sustain, or invest in ruggedizing systems, and limited resources mean these choices and risks will be unevenly distributed.