Sharanjit Paddam
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Climate Actuary’s personal opinions on things
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Private Eye Magazine
8 days ago
“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are: From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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Nick Feik
about 16 hours ago
This submission by David Brophy is hilarious and demonstrates how poorly drafted the hate speech bill is
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derek guy
about 16 hours ago
Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee
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See also “integration” and “assimilation”
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Kelly Hereid
1 day ago
DELICIOUS
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Gazetteer SF
2 days ago
"This isn’t even venture capital anymore. Venture capital means you take a risk. High risk, high reward. If there’s no risk, that’s not venture capital." —
@anildash.com
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‘They’ve pickled each others’ brains’
Longtime entrepreneur and critic Anil Dash speaks with Gazetteer on where the tech industry has been and where it may be going.
https://sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickled-each-others-brains
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Nat Bullard
1 day ago
Do you like charts? Oh yes you do. I've just published hundreds of them, as I do every year.
www.nathanielbullard.com/presentations
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Senator David Shoebridge
1 day ago
Labor is rushing a 144-page omnibus mess through parliament with just 48 hours for public submissions. Communities are fearful this is designed to criminalize people calling out genocide in Gaza. You have my word that we won't let Labor silence dissent.
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Steve Morgan
2 days ago
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David Ho
1 day ago
It’s a matter of time before Tesla automatically generates non-consensual images of people in revealing clothing as you drive past them.
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X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t
It’s still easy to get Grok to edit photographs of real people into sexualized poses, despite X’s updated restrictions.
https://www.theverge.com/news/862372/x-grok-ai-policy-update-deepfake-bikini-poses
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Agnes Mack
1 day ago
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Politicising Bondi backfires for Liberals who got what they asked for
Federal Liberals are discovering the price of having been so brazen in their politicisation of the Bondi terror attack and many appear to have buyers' remorse.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-15/coalition-sussan-ley-bondi-terror-attack-nationals-gun-control/106231054
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Eric Olthwaite's Strayan Cousin
1 day ago
I tried to warn people. They even signalled it. Labor is little better than the other mob when it comes to emissions.
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Yung En Chee
1 day ago
Increasing carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels means hotter, drier conditions with reduced cool season rainfall totals BUT it also means increased frequency & intensity of extreme rainfall events Learn more about extreme rainfall events at Victoria's Climate Science Report 2024👇
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Chris O'Regan
1 day ago
It genuinely is good and important. And it still represents one of the best things about the Web.
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25 years of Wikipedia
https://wikipedia25.org/en
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Climate News
1 day ago
Now that the economics are extremely obviously in favour of solar and batteries, it is entirely obvious that any individual still expanding fossil fuel use isn’t doing so for financial gain but because they’re part of a death cult.
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The Starship Entity✨2026
2 days ago
Fires on the Rise in the Far North
science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Satellite-based maps show northern wildland fires becoming more frequent and widespread as temperatures rise and lightning reaches higher latitudes.
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Richard Dixon
1 day ago
Never a good look when authoritarian regimes start lecturing democracies on how to do things.
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Jan Rosenow
1 day ago
This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Coal power generation falls in China and India for first time since 1970s
‘Historic’ moment in biggest coal-consuming countries could bring decline in global emissions, analysis says
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jan/13/coal-power-generation-falls-china-india-since-1970s
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Agnes Mack
1 day ago
Cathy Wilcox SMH
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Richard Waite
11 months ago
I have a joke about carbon offsets but someone else is going to have to tell it to you and a third person is going to have to verify if it is funny while a fourth person argues that the second person was already going to tell the joke anyway
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At the time, no one thought that the laws introduced post September 11 attacks would be used to stop climate protests, but they are. Can we learn that history lesson and seriously question new laws that seek to limit freedoms of speech?
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Nothing beats the horror of a teacher at your child’s school being arrested on charges of child sexual abuse.
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Lauri Myllyvirta
1 day ago
Even by Trump's standards, his comments on the global wind turbine market were incredibly misguided, so was really happy to contribute to this fact-checking piece. To be fair, many smarter people have also gotten the wrong idea due to all the hype about China's dominance of clean tech.
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orange peril
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MEAA
1 day ago
We are calling on the Federal Parliament to reject the Federal Government's new proposed legislation, the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026. Read more:
bit.ly/49kBGTu
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When the green team and the blue team are saying similar (but not the same) things you absolutely know there’s something wrong with the red team’s proposal. Thank your stars I’m not a political commentator.
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Melissa Sweet
1 day ago
Flash flooding hits Victoria’s Great Ocean Road as cars washed out to sea
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Flash flooding hits Victoria’s Great Ocean Road as cars washed out to sea
Emergency warning issued for parts of Victoria’s southwest coast including Wye, Kennett and Cumberland rivers in the Lorne area
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/15/river-wye-flooding-victoria-great-ocean-road-cars-washed-away?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The Sizzle - Australia's favourite tech newsletter
2 days ago
unfortunately the Sizzle was ruled not compliant 😩
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Michael E. Mann
1 day ago
Here's the data:
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Michael E. Mann
1 day ago
Reminder: ocean heat content is a BETTER metric of global heating than surface temperatures (which are far more prone to fluctuations due to El Nino/La Nina), and unlike surface temperatures, it set a NEW RECORD THIS PAST YEAR:
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Tim Stephens
1 day ago
"Australia’s longest waterway is under such dire threat of collapse that the entire lower Murray River ecosystem, which stretches nearly 1000 kilometres from western NSW, through Victoria and to the sea in South Australia has been classified as critically endangered."
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Water wars ahead now Australia’s longest river officially critically endangered
The lower Murray River has been designated critically endangered by the Albanese government as it blasted the environmental management of the former Coalition government.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/water-wars-ahead-now-australia-s-longest-river-officially-critically-endangered-20260115-p5nu6y.html
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Chris Bowen
1 day ago
The Liberals are stuck in past. They say that renewable energy is unreliable and you can't store the energy. Meanwhile battery projects are going up across the country, and hundreds of thousands of Aussies are putting in Cheaper Home Batteries.
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I mean, if they can’t avoid a massive tree, what else would they have done wrong?
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Simon Rosenberg
2 days ago
What Nick said. Rushing through a bill like this comes from the same place as constricting FOI or persecuting and prosecuting whistleblowers or setting up a toothless NACC or keeping all the info about AUKUS secret. It is a perversion of democratic processes.
#auspol
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@alexbhathal.bsky.social
good to see you here.
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David Milner
2 days ago
Imagine a political ideology so evil, so despised, so racist and murderous, so globally unpopular - but also so entrenched in Western establishment depravity - that your government (with the opposition), would seek to make criticism and protest of it illegal. Imagine that.
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Greg Jericho
2 days ago
"Uncertainty is the watchword, given the biggest economy in the world is being run by a somnolent autocrat who is the pettiest grudge holder in world history." My column
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it | Greg Jericho
A decision to sell two-thirds of Australia’s gold reserves in the 1990s is starting to look like a bad one as global uncertainty reigns
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/14/australia-gold-prices-reserve-investors-uncertain-economy
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Justin Mikulka
2 days ago
If Trump isn't intentionally trying to weaken the US, than he and his team are just profoundly dumb. Neither is good. But have you seen his ballroom?!
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Every single day in 2025 was hotter than the same day in 1974 - the year I was born.
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Kelly Hereid
2 days ago
Yep arguing about how much of the last 2-3 years is forced is at the bleeding edge of the science, and certainly not settled enough to use as justification for large scale geoengineering.
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J. Mijin Cha
2 days ago
My favorite t-shirt says, “tech will not save us.” And yeah. After reading those climate tech takes, even more true. Tech, climate or otherwise, is not going to save us.
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I went to the leading property catastrophe and reinsurance conference in Australia last year, and the key note was given by an eminent Australian climate scientist. She spent 45 mins talking about temperature impacts on people. She didn’t realise that that’s not insured. …
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Kelly Hereid
2 days ago
Yep "we should do more research" "let's talk about governance" Noooope this is not a message that should be coming from the financial sector, sorry
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Andrew B. Watkins
2 days ago
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
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Tim Stephens
2 days ago
We are now living on a fundamentally different planet thanks to our failure to curb our fossil fuel addiction.
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Scientific American
2 days ago
Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track to breach the Paris climate agreement by the end of the decade
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2025 Wasn’t the Hottest Year on Record. Earth Is Still Barreling to the Climate Brink
Global warming surpassed 1.5 degrees Celsius for the past three years, meaning Earth is currently on track to breach the Paris climate agreement by the end of the decade
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2025-wasnt-the-hottest-year-on-record-earth-is-still-barreling-to-the/
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isaac
2 days ago
What does it say that the wealthiest people in society don't want us to talk about climate anymore, just like they don't want us talking about race or gender or poverty or inequality. Everything is just something to profit off of before they, too, die.
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Olga Nesterova
2 days ago
Bild reports Germany plans to deploy its first Bundeswehr personnel to Greenland as early as this week, starting with a small advance team ahead of a broader presence.
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Noah Kaufman
2 days ago
Most economists disagree with extreme voices on debates about climate risks, and yet we keep providing fuel to both sides. This article tries to explain why.
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The Climate Question That Economists Cannot Answer
Models can predict catastrophic or modest damages from climate change, but not which of these futures is coming.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/climate-economics/685609/?gift=elBCVG01MYkhPyjWlazze-zK0g2uxrM3GKdY819YyVk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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