A new study, based on a survey of 1,150 workers suggests that the injection of AI tools into the workplace has not resulted in a magic productivity boom and instead increased the amount of time that workers say they spend fixing low-quality AI-generated “work.” 🔗 www.404media.co/ai-workslop-...

Meanwhile it's 80 degrees and mosquito-humid in NYC today.

Operating as intended.

I find it very ironic that this thing which began as taking cues from urbanism has now become an everything bagel that includes advocating for SUVs lol

Disney to Sinclair and Nexstar

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔 He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

Data centers are facing increasing scrutiny for guzzling water as AI fuels a boom. California passed a bill that would require facilities to report their projected water use before operating and then certify how much they use annually. @ianjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

🗣️NEW: #ProductionGap report shows that governments’ #FossilFuel production plans & projections would lead to: 🪨 500% more coal 🛢 31% more oil 🔥 92% more gas in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Find out more: https://bit.ly/46AgJBe

Derek Thompson, co-author of the abundance agenda, is doing a big Google AI-washing event By my calculations, Google's greenhouse gas emissions have ballooned 1.6x since 2019, thanks to an abundance of fossil fuels powering their data centre expansion www.climateweeknyc.org/events/where...

I reckon a fossil fuel being heavily promoted at climate week is a bad thing

I hate it when people compare the amount of heat the ocean has absorbed to the power of atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It’s gruesome and not relatable. As my Japanese PhD student said when he heard the comparison, “It’s not a good memory for us.”

Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

I've used the @australiainstitute.org.au's report on Fossil Fuelled Universities to update the Chumps list. Fossil fuel companies influence unis through research grants, scholarships, sponsorship. The info is spread out so the report was very useful. www.chumpslist.org/chumps?searc...

The fun question is why this isn't matched when the Trump admin is being equally or worse in denial of climate science

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

"The FT sought to categorise the expected positive benefits of the technology. Most of the anticipated benefits, such as increased productivity, were vaguely stated and harder to categorise than the risks" www.ft.com/content/e93e... (note: Entergy is the fossil fuel company supplying Meta)

We ran the numbers. Here's what we found: ✔️ 1,217 fossil fuel contracts across 709 ad & PR agencies in 74 countries ✔️ 293 contracts from holding companies ✔️ 924 contracts from independent agencies ✔️ 773 continued contracts from the 2024 F-List

For most agencies, fossil fuel clients create a huge legal and reputational risk for a small paycheck, which means the planet is the one picking up the tab. 🗑️🧾 So who's actually doing the dirty work? It took a lot of digging (and a little dumpster diving), but we have the receipts.

The ad industry has a dirty little secret. Well, actually, it's not little at all. 🌏 💰 Fossil fuels are responsible for 75% of carbon pollution, but less than 1% of global marketing spend.

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

#ClimateWeekNYC scene report: fusion is the new carbon dioxide removal (the "innovation" into which oil and gas are investing so they can help solve climate change) 🙄

Video shows Israeli forces dropping evacuation leaflets over Gaza City, ordering the forced evacuation of Palestinians in the al-Sabra and Rimal neighbourhoods to the south of Gaza.

Tech companies love New York climate week like fossil fuel companies love COP blogs.nvidia.com/blog/ai-ener...

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I keep telling y’all that your voice and wallet are more powerful than you think, so maybe we should stop listening to the doomers and accelerationists who think things are hopeless — because things are only hopeless if we all give up.

Ohhh this is a useful term

This is part of a massive generative slop / plagiarism operation seemingly being run by one dude operating a bunch of similarly designed websites - "Krishna Pathak" (not sure if actual real dude) Also being syndicated on MSN. Registered at 'paper mill' address in Wyoming GenAI is the WORST

there is going to be an unstoppable, ultra-massive tsunami of AI-for-good type stuff, and particularly 'AI for climate' at new york climate week this one has will i am and google aiforgood.itu.int/event/ai-for...

1. AI is currently used to increase oil and gas recovery - i.e. directly CONTRIBUTING to the problem 2. AI energy/water use is exploding and, for what? So LLMs can rephrase the internet 3. Even talking AI in the climate context saps bandwidth from WHAT WE KNOW WORKS (i.e. rapid fossil fuel phaseout)

Danish police said they saw several large drones — most likely piloted by a 'capable actor' — flying over Copenhagen airport on.ft.com/46wc9UG

Uuuugh. You can pitch "AI for nose hair removal" and have a billion dollars dumped on your head overnight, but perhaps the most important civic function in democratic politics is starving to death.

The centre fails us again Another eye-opening powerful essay from @lucyham.bsky.social 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

High levels of blueskyism today

American asset manager Nuveen plans to spend as much as $330 million on a solar and battery project in Australia within the next year, as political uncertainty clouds the outlook for clean energy in the US.

Australian friends, please consider helping Rising Tide stop the coal ships and build momentum at this year’s protestival by signing this petition: risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...

An update on that insane lease term where the landlord owns everything you create during the tenancy:

So grateful that Simon Copland wrote this excellent takedown. I thought I needed to write one, so was slogging my way through its arrogant, narrow-minded and turgid prose. Enough now. Abundant, one might say.

Mark Carney keeps talking about “decarbonized oil.” Today he admitted that’s bullshit. At the Council on Foreign Relations, he started saying BC’s new LNG project was “zero carbon,” before adding a key caveat: “before the Scope 3 obviously.” That’s where the bulk of the emissions come from.

Anyway here's the real article, please share this one and not that one heated.world/p/charlie-ki...

It's one thing to steal content from the New York Times. But I'm a self-employed independent journalist. The success of my content directly determines how much money I make. By going viral off my stolen work with no attribution, this outlet is literally stealing money from my pocket

Me on the left, the article trending on reddit on the right

The degree of plagiarism here is absolutely crazy. Here's me on the left, "Clean Tech Times" on the right.

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

This dude is the Baby Yoda of sci-fi horror

Update of perhaps my favorite global climate policy indicator: The production gap report. In fact, the gap between countries' planned fossil fuel extraction and global climate targets has widened. Turning the tide on these indicators is essential for climate policy success. productiongap.org

sure why not if we're making shit up just make it 10 petawatts, who cares anymore

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

honestly, there have been times when that actually has been how science (or at least science PR) has worked, much to its detriment