Have you ever found yourself quoted online for something you never said? We've seen a few examples of academics having their voice used for quotes they never said in fake news websites and in AI chatbots – but think there's a lot more If that's you shoot me a DM or comment here #journorequest

There's a review of @premeemohamed.com's One Message Remains in today's Sower. Libby, the reviewer, found the fantasy story collection to be a hopeful look into how all of us, no matter whether we're inside or outside the imperial core, have the power to resist colonialism and its lack of empathy.

When people use AI for writing assistance, it can shift their political attitudes by autocompleting sentences in biased ways. Yet people are often unaware of the AI bias & it's influence This is not merely about the facts presented, but how autocomplete worlds www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Tonight in the ai reading group i was reminded of something that happened in 2006 after I dropped out of college, when I was living in a run-down old house next to jb alberto's in rogers park with a bunch of dudes. it was, as you can imagine, not clean.

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

An energy crisis is not a crisis for *everyone* Since the war in Iran started, oil companies in the EU have been getting an EXTRA €81.4 million in profit EVERY DAY as the prices of petrol and diesel go through the roof Governments and the EU must tax these profits to help ordinary people

When I was a student (1990s France), students smoked in classrooms between classes, in halls, in student meetings, etc, and it was seen as impossible to counteract (and I was shouted at for asking people not to).

The more I think about it, the more I hate @lintonbesser.bsky.social's implication here that allowing machine-generated plagiarism and fabrications in media+opinion is somehow "inevitable" Frankly, it seems to go against the entire existence of media watch? www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/e...

Microsoft is the priority target for @nogamesforgenocide.com given the tech corp's ties to the IDF, & small indie developer @allwillrise.bsky.social recently broke contract with Xbox to support the campaign. I spoke to them about their decision & why progressives must take up more space in games.

New interview out! @jackmcgovan.bsky.social asked me all about @allwillrise.bsky.social and our decision to give back money to Microsoft as part of our support for @nogamesforgenocide.com. Good insightful questions, take a look: www.sower.world/all-rise-gen... #indiegames #boycott #freepalestine

Urgent journo request: for @goodlawproject.org I'm looking to speak to friends of #trans ppl in the UK who have died whose #gender was not accurately recorded on their death certificate. I’m particularly interested in cases from the last year. I promise to handle your story with care 🖤

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

NEW - I asked the UK government if they had assessed energy demand/emissions resulting from plans to make the UK an "AI superpower". The analysis they pointed me to seemed... pretty implausible. Just 0.1m tonnes of CO2 a year. My calculations suggest emissions could be 100s of times higher.

Everything we need to do to stop climate breakdown, we also need to do for national security. Energy saving, more renewables, more electricity storage and interconnectors, electrification of transport, heating, cooking and industrial processes, plant-based diets. We win on all fronts.

That climate culture became, in many ways, clean energy culture, and clean energy culture is simply energy culture means that the people most invested in it have absorbed of that group's norms around patriarchy, gender, and race, which skew extremely conservative.

If generative AI had zero resource impact, would it be fine to use? No! This is a really good @jackmcgovan.bsky.social piece about why -->>> www.sower.world/ai-resource-...

I hate this excuse for using AI because there are so many people who would even make a cover for free just to get some experience. Instead of trying to reach out to or build community with other creatives, it's just straight to the plagiarism machine.

The Greens plan to put social media giants like X and Facebook on the same legal footing as all other publishers in order to regulate them using defamation laws. This is an important step forward. Everyone should back the move - even opponents of the Greens My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

What happens when climate advocates offload the head and heart of our work onto morally offensive American tech corps? TY to @newrepublic.com for letting me write about why "does it work" is the wrong debate around GenAI, as it is for fossil fuels. It hurts us and our cause, and that matters most

If you're a junior researcher and you're thinking about the systemic issues facing our world (climate, tech, fascism etc) in a different way, I'd love to speak to you about your work and potentially write about it. You can DM me or reach out via email (in my bio) if you're interested!

Although AI consumes a lot of water and energy, its biggest environmental impact is that it reproduces values that got us into the climate crisis in the first place: extraction, productivity, and efficiency. I spoke to @paulschuetze.bsky.social about his research on this!

We talk a lot about how much resources AI consumes. But this neglects a deeper problem. Even perfectly efficient AI would still reproduce the climate crisis. I spoke to @jackmcgovan.bsky.social about this. 🔗Find the piece here: www.sower.world/ai-resource-...

Does anyone have any recommendations for transcription software that can do English and German? Or, alternatively, just German?

I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing

X is the megaphone of 21st century fascism and authoritariansim. It has poisoned public debate. It is a tool for bullying, abuse, and assault. X needs to disappear from our discourse. When people and institutions post there, it gives X credibility. It keeps it relevant. It's time to stop.

⚡2026 is a turning point. UK #climate & environmental activists face both crisis & opportunity. Fascism rises, the #climate agenda is under attack, & political representation is urgent. 🧵A longish thread on why we must unite behind @zackpolanski.bsky.social & the @greenparty.org.uk 💚

Results from the Basic Income for Artists scheme in Ireland were published in September, and they showed the scheme was a huge success across every metric. I spoke directly with some of the recipients to get their thoughts on the scheme and how it could be improved moving forward.

The fact that so many ostensibly progressive people still use X is so demotivating. If we as a collective can't even stop using a social media website that was launched two decades ago, we have zero chance of dismantling infinitely more complex power structures that have existed for millennia.

This finding of "hidden" public support for green policies strongly echoes our work on pluralistic ignorance when it comes to non-car travel: most people support non-car travel more than car travel, but at the same time they believe this is a minority view

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

How is AI *really* impacting jobs? Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an: -8% drop in all jobs postings -~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs -22% drop in journalism jobs

Climate and energy is not immune to today's discourse. "From what I've seen firsthand, utility policy advocates working on questions of finance, governance, and operations are primarily cisgender, straight (and mostly, white) men. Women, people of color, and queer people work separately..."

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

When environmental educator Mona Shomali submitted this essay about the misuse of "survival of the fittest" to us at @therevelator.org, I couldn't wait to share it with our readers... Capitalism Loves Competition. Nature Has Other Ideas. therevelator.org/social-darwi...

A Scottish charity wants to reintroduce state-subsidised diners for all—a potentially a big ask in the current political climate. #universalbasicservices www.sower.world/public-diner...

A charity is gaining momentum pushing for state-subsidised diners to be reintroduced across the UK to improve access to affordable, healthy, and climate-friendly food. Not everyone is convinced, however, that there's a chance in the current political climate. My latest for Sower ⬇️

This new reconstruction of global whale biomass shows that countries can successfully tackle environmental problems when they come together But it's a story with an under-recognised hero 🧵 1/

Resharing this since Musk has now said civil war is inevitable in the UK. It takes two minutes to email your MP asking them to demand the government leaves X!

I'm Still On X For The Engagement I Signed Up For StormFront Because That's Where The Influencers Are I'm Staying On TruthSocial Because I Can't Let The Right Fill The Space

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation system’s budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!

Ada Lovelace, first AI denigrator

“Now Scientific American has updated and re-released what it calls the “classic graphic” that shows that a human on a bicycle—able to coast, or freewheel, without pedaling—remains the world’s most energy effecient traveler.” @carltonreid.com on the re-release of the iconic graph in @forbes.com.

🔥 The never-ending narrative… This week, I’ve once again heard prominent climate researchers dismiss individual action as either irrelevant or a distraction instigated by the fossil fuel industry. Here’s a 🧵 on why this argument frustrates me to no end and why I think it misses the bigger picture.

"Recent research shows that for every million dollars, public spending on the military-industrial complex buys five jobs, while education spending creates thirteen and health care investment creates nine."

1/6 We are the most terrifying animal in existence, even for wolves They tested whether wolves (Tuchola Forest, Poland) fear the barking of dogs more than the human voice when speaking. The wolves fled sooner and faster when they heard our voices (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pretty freaking wild to hear "actually AI is useful for climate change" constantly and from people who should know better when the people deciding how the massive resources it consumes are used are saying stuff like this

Depressing that the IUCN's confirmation that an endangered species is in fact endangered is the closest thing I can provide to "good news." Latest for @mongabay.com shows how a concerted effort by the biomedical research lobby to downgrade the IUCN listing of long-tailed macaques has failed.

Did you or somebody you know take part in the Basic Income for Artists scheme in Ireland? I’m looking to speak to some participants for a piece, anonymous is also fine! DM or email is in bio, please share 🙏 #journorequest