"Public power is a way to actually improve the lives of working-class people. Electric bills are absurd. People are racking up debt. This is a chance to show people that socialism can work." Love to wake up and read @leemzee.bsky.social in @truthout.org with @derekseidman.bsky.social

Over the holiday period, I finally set up on newsletter publishing platform Ghost to escape Substack for a variety of reasons, but mainly the ongoing presence of white nationalists on the platform. First post will drop next Tuesday and then every second week, or thereabouts.

Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social (via her critical newsletter) for reminding me of this timely poem from Wendell Berry, entitled Real Work.

Media outlets will probably never stop presenting the deadly impacts of fossil fuels as delightful fun:

I’m telling you, the rise of authoritarianism is directly connected to efforts to keep the fossil-fuel system going. It’s right there for everyone with eyes to see.

Greenland is back in the news so I am compelled to remind folks that while yes, there are rare earth minerals there, the tech weirdos who have infiltrated the government have also been obsessed with Greenland as part of their network state plan for a long time. drilled.media/news/network...

🔥🌍 The biggest barrier to climate solutions isn’t just denial, it’s propaganda that shapes what we believe is possible. Fossil fuel narratives define what counts as ‘practical’ and subtly limit our imagination. 🎧 Listen, share, and help reshape the conversation. 🔄

The fallout from overly high energy demand projections in the 1970s and 1980s is a cautionary tale of how overestimating electricity demand can drive up rates – especially as utilities are forecasting skyrocketing demand from data centers. frontiergroup.org/articles/how...

Oh come on. What an absurd bit of PR. Do first responders and air traffic controllers need to melt several thousand nvidia GPUs to send data and voice??? Just completely shameless!!

Providing cloud services to first responders and air traffic controllers was happening, with no threat to the grid, long before the data center boom. Now we're dealing w GenAI, with an energy footprint exponentially larger than cloud computing. Should ratepayers pay to build a new grid for AI slop?

Big Tech is objecting to proposals that would require data centers to disconnect from the grid during periods of peak demand so ratepayers aren't forced to pay for grid expansion. Note the deceptive PR about how always-on data centers are needed for first responders & air traffic controllers.

Starting to suspect that oil may be somewhat at least partially involved in these events

Eight years ago this stuff was the domain of creeps and losers, too toxic for any company to support. Now the world's richest man is being rewarded for it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

I know there's a lot of bad stuff going on but governments formally declaring they're not going to oppose or resist the production of child abuse material because they're addicted to notifications feels like a moment we can't even begin to comprehend right now

Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there. Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government

Australia’s online safety watchdog is investigating sexualised deepfake images which ‘digitally undress’ women and girls and are being posted on X by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, Grok.

Nobody wants to admit to caring about the climate anymore, and yet clean tech financing is booming, making a mint for investors. Trump is betting the future on a shrinking pot. The smart money is going green. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

In this week’s Talking Climate, I unpack why recent cuts to scientific programs and data don’t only affect climate research in the U.S. They weaken the knowledge infrastructure we rely on to protect public health, manage risk, and make good decisions around the world. www.patreon.com/posts/how-si...

Can't claim my own data are quite as convincing, but when I deleted my Twitter account in August 2022, it took <1 month to get the same "engagement." If anything, it meant more (direct) journalist pings, including from @npr.org: "I miss seeing your posts..., have a minute to talk?"

A warning I constantly make: as climate activists, we must denounce how frames of national sovereignty/interest are used not only to advance fossil fuel operations, but also to persecute and slander climate justice points and advocates.

when NPR dropped twitter in 2023 they saw a drop in traffic of... 1%. niemanreports.org/npr-twitter-...

"Analysts warn that if the price falls further, LNG exporters will lose their incentive to keep exporting so much LNG." Lose their incentive is an interesting way to say they will lose money.

"Per Reuters’ Russell, the European Union bought an average 1.73 million barrels daily of U.S. crude oil in 2025. That was down from 1.91 million barrels daily a year earlier."

A new investigation from @globalwitness.org has found that AI chatbots are sharing climate conspiracies, denial and disinformation, and are most likely to push this content to conspiratorial user personas.

I wrote this in April 2024, about why people were refusing to leave X as it became undeniably a pro-white-supremacist site But holy hell could I not have predicted that by 2026, it would be a child abuse material production site and THAT TOO is not enough to get people to leave the fucking place

If you're reporting on the deepfake porn site because of Grok, please make clear in the headline that governments not acting are allowing the scaled abuse of women and children online. Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.

X is the world's most visited child sexual exploitation site.

Trump says US companies will invest billions in Venezuelan oil production. Experts aren’t so sure Industry insiders say US oil firms want to ‘avoid getting screwed’ and will proceed with extreme caution in region. www.theguardian.com/us-news/202...

Very disturbing news about one of India's climate NGO leaders and a stalwart advocate for adaptation funding for the Global South as well as fossil fuel phase-out and corporate accountability. A long-time @canclimateaction.bsky.social member. 🌎

The silencing of activists continues. India govt is in effect saying opposing fossil fuels going against Indian interests. www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/m...

Despite the fact that the world is clearly oversupplied for oil in the coming years, it hasn't put a single dent in enthusiasm for accelerated expansion of new oil projects The idea that this industry operates on a rational or logical basis is itself irrational... productiongap.org/2025report/#...

First fjord ice commute of the season. -10°C

Norway recorded its hottest year ever in 2025, following a strong summer heatwave and an unusually mild winter that started late in the year, the Norwegian Meteorological Institute said on Wednesday.

If you thought Elon Musk's “Grok” chatbot couldn't get worse, read my latest article: Grok isn't just undressing women, it's now putting swastika bikinis on them. One woman who was targeted is a recently-deceased Holocaust survivor.

Great @olliemilman.bsky.social + @dharna.bsky.social piece feat @patrickgaley.bsky.social and others “So long as governments continue to rely on fossil fuels in energy systems, their constituents will be hostage to the whims of autocrats" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Is this tech speak for “we bullshitted too close to the sun/plain lied”?

Sweet lord, yet another example of a fossil fuel supplier admitting that demand for their fossil fuel product rises when it's cheap and freely available thanks to their increased extraction!!!! Starting to suspect supply impacts demand, folks!!!!!!! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

[WHATEVER THE OPPOSITE OF NATURE IS] IS HEALING

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

If you're angry about the idea of paying for oil company opex in Venezuela to produce petrocaca that the market doesn't need and the climate cannot take, you're going to be furious about the amount you already pay to keep fossil fuel companies even viable www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Regrettably, I have been writing about explicit deepfakes on and off for the last half decade, and public nature, openness and scale of what is happening on X with Grok is off the charts. At the same time, Grok is claiming a surge in app downloads in multiple countries around the world

New with @regret.bsky.social: Grok’s creation of harmful “undress” images is relentless. Even today, after days of scrutiny, Grok was churning out ‘bikini’ and underwear images of women every few seconds. Researchers estimate that Grok has become the biggest creator of sexualized deepfake images

[BTI-guy in 2015]: "2,500 gigawatts of solar in China by 2025? Bullshit, that's a 100 megawatt solar farm every day" High time we basically dropped this centrist rhetorical tool used to make change sound impossible

I genuinely suspected that Xai's permissiveness towards requests for sexualised abuse of women (including children of any age) would have been plugged by now in a sort of break-first-then-get-regulated Uber style approach but I think Xai has discovered that they're simply not going to get regulated?

the gold tick costs a grand per month btw

BREAKING: X’s chatbot Grok isn’t just making AI porn deepfakes, it’s now making Nazi AI porn deepfakes, undressing women and showing them wearing “swastika bikinis”. Many of these women are Jewish, including a recently deceased Holocaust survivor.

sure do