AI is as likely to take over the world as your toaster

nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.

Sometimes during COP, we forget there is a real world out there. News from Groningen about a 3.4 magnitude earthquake. It's where Exxon and Shell extracted gas irresponsibly for decades and have now filed a case against the Dutch government for closing the gas field www.reuters.com/business/env...

A new global fund meant to reward tropical countries for protecting forests may instead drive deforestation and deepen debt in the developing world, civil society groups warn. The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) aims to pay countries up to $4/hectare ($1.62/acre) of standing forest yearly.

Chancellor of the UK does not understand how inequality operates.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Best poster I've ever seen -- check how the shape reflects the contents! (By Anastasia Vybornova & @trivikrama.bsky.social) #ODISSEI2025

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Love this: Epic Grifter Nigel Farage.

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

There is literally not one person who can exist in modern society without using the big tech platforms daily, at least indirectly. That doesn’t mean it’s futile to try to reduce dependency or investment, but I also am not judging anyone harshly for that, least of all those who are most vulnerable.

Labour repeatedly abuses the electorate and expects them not to turn to other means or bad influence. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is a literal nightmare. As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.

deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming - 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with" - Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare - We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels

I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything

Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales. Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...

This is very cool as a visual and also yes I agree that a whole lot of people have not/do not want to realise this. It will reduce traffic to the busiest area, thereby reducing traffic in the ‘thru’ zones, without reducing access TO the ‘thru’ zones

Privatised water companies awarded themselves £80 billion in dividends while loading themselves up with £70 billion in debt. And now it's your problem, because they've won an appeal to finance all this by hiking YOUR bill even further. Nationalise now.

How can London afford such investment in people but the rest of the country relies on trains from the 1950s? 🧐

«By refusing to account for qualitative breaks [ie tipping points] in the climate, the IAMs protected capital from a burst of destruction and thereby increased the likelihood of such breaks - a loop between ideas and material reality if ever there was one.» The Long Heat, Malm&Carton.

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Buying train tickets shouldn’t be this hard. Price them exactly the same each day all day/ route and people will magically organise themselves to travel when they need to + around rush hour if they can. It is really not that hard unless it is a scheme to make money.

Check this one out @chadbourn.bsky.social .. glorious

"With dismay we witness our university leadership making soulless choices that hollow out our institutions from within and erode the critical and self-reflective fabric of academia". [from Guest et al., 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of "AI" Technologies in Academia']

Politicians who are incompetent at delivering any infrastructure still managed to run a country of over 60 million people using 100% clean energy. Imagine a coordinated effort in the public interest? We don't need no fossil fuels.

There can no longer be any pretence that our 'leaders' - in politics, business, or elsewhere across society - are seriously addressing the climate crisis Where does that leave us? Where does that leave you? Are we going to fight to defend our futures? Giving up is not an option

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

1/ So you’re thinking about applying for an academic job in the UK but don’t know how? This thread will walk you through the essentials.

Sobbing at these Italians being happy to be stuck in traffic during a strike for Palestine

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"Some TBI staff – including a number who left in recent years because of Ellison’s influence – say the cash injection has produced a culture that is dominated by a form of AI boosterism, and which, as they see it, amounts to lobbying for Oracle."

WATCH THIS: The most amazing thing about this remarkable 2002 car commercial is that it didn’t seem to realize at the time, or perhaps didn’t care, how effectively it made the point that cars and car infrastructure are a HUGE waste of space in cities. Award-winning 2002 ad for Saturn car company.

lol this is wild

Excellent approach to podcasting and politics. I think the oil lobby doesn't support queer rights because it illustrates collective action and recognition of their identity by the state, a model that will set a precedent for consumer-led democracy.

Spain has fully implemented an arms embargo on Israel through a royal decree law. All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.

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Watch this. I strive to be this clear and effective. Best line — “A temper tantrum disguised as an ideology.”

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Un exposé de position contre l'adoption de l'IA dans l'educ. sup qui ne mâche pas ses mots "Teaching about AI technologies should be just like how we teach ‘no smoking’ or the causal links between lung cancer and cigarette smoke; yet, we do not teach students how to roll cigarettes and smoke them."

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.

@zdnet.bsky.social thanks for writing this! > The authors urge educational leaders to act "to help us collectively turn back the tide of garbage software, which fuels harmful tropes and false frames to obtain market penetration and increase technological dependency." www.zdnet.com/article/stud...

This is lovely and should have come from the prime minster of the United Kingdom.

When this onesie was created — maybe for the Euros this year — I bet it felt super cute. But Sainsbury’s probably need to have a word with the media agency that pushed it on their socials this week…

The point is that many can live quite normally under the thumb of authoritarianism. Yes: many suffer and suffer now but large swaths of the American public chooses to be clueless and it’s not difficult. This is how the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper. www.vox.com/the-big-idea...

✨ I’m excited to share our new open-access article in @geoopenaccess.bsky.social, led by Juliana Gonçalves and with wonderful arts-based research by Namrata Narendra. The editorial process has been amazing - so thankful to the team for offering both very meaningful feedback and being fair to us.

Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins suggests Israel and states supplying it with weapons be excluded from the United Nations, in light of the genocide conclusions in the UN CoI report. @president.ie #Spéirghorm www.rte.ie/news/2025/09...