Extremely disturbing article, and the scale of this problem is really concerning. I’ve felt for a long time that many have underestimated the deep influence of the mindless rollout of AI-chatbots on peoples’ emotions at scale.

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The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Nvidia ❤️ Big Oil at #COP30, apparently www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...

A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle. heatmap.news/climate-tech...

“Hur mycket ska vi betala egentligen?” Ja, kanske så mycket som behövs för att säkra en bra framtid åt alla? Och för att kompensera för de irreparabla skador som de rika ländernas utsläpp åsamkat fattigare länder? Inte svårare än så 👑 www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...

In some US states data centres consume more than one-third of power supply • Power use from data centres is becoming sensitive issue as some argue AI is driving up electricity prices • Some utility firms now require data centres to pay upfront for electricity, even if they end up using less

Had not thought about this before, but of course... time.com/7328281/disi...

”I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests," Wright said in an interview with Fox News. "These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we call non-critical explosions." I think?!?

Nvidia is helping facilitate ICE investigations, federal procurement records show theintercept.com/2025/11/01/i...

Musikpaus i det vanliga flödet om klimatkris, auktoritära ledare, och atombomber - Mwana 🔥

I gave a campus talk last night on Trump's first 100 days for the WUD Society & Politics group. A student asked me if I thought that, at some point, we might start to describe the US as a competitive authoritarian regime. I said that we were already there, it's just that most folks haven't noticed:

Australian anti-renewables lobby group uses AI for everything, and the results are just as crappy as you would expect. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Timely collection of short expert interviews: do new nuclear weapon tests remain an actual possibility? Do the benefits now outweigh their costs for countries? And what can be done to remove the spectre of nuclear testing from the present international climate? www.apln.network/analysis/the...

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

we need better images of AI, exhibit #1 🤔

Seems like Nature journals need to update their 404 Not Found web page.

Hurricane Melissa leaves trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica - Photos

A poll by Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country youtu.be/yLvO070E_dI?...

Vilken vecka ändå. Vet inte vad som är farligast egentligen. Bill Gates intellektuella komocka om klimatfrågan, eller amerikanska hot om att återuppta kärnvapentester.

Vansinne. www.svd.se/a/4B6kGg/tru...

New: Videos show ICE/CBP agents are scanning peoples' faces on the street to verify citizenship. ICE has tool to instantly look up unprecedented number of databases with just a photo “I’m an American citizen so leave me alone” “Alright, we just got to verify that” www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

Several interesting reports lately about the connection between criminal activities and Amazon deforestation, timing #COP30. Collecting a few of these in this thread: amazonunderworld.org/when-gold-ru...

Not since 1935 has anyone experienced a storm like Melissa. Melissa's record wouldn't have happened without climate change, which made the hurricane's winds about 10 mph stronger, according to a rapid attribution analysis by Climate Central. yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/cata...

Incredible reporting in NYT about the local impacts of the AI-compute boom. We (researchers) often talk about averages and numbers, but this story gets to the everyday realities of people around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/t...

FFS, nothing is stopping lazy people from using LLMs in the wrong way. "Two federal judges admitted in response to an inquiry […] that members of their staff used artificial intelligence to help prepare recent court orders that Grassley called "error-ridden." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Herregud, filmen ”A House of Dynamite” är egentligen lite mer än av mina nerver klarar av ikväll. Dessutom efter att ha jobbat med bokkapitel om minnen från atombomberna över Hiroshima och Marshallöarna hela dagen…

Cuts to social protection for people living in poverty have created “fertile ground” for far-right movements around the world, according to a United Nations report. https://cnn.it/3JlsNyN

"Circularity can be virtuous on the upside, and vicious on the downside. The deals can work fine, until they don’t."

❤️ ❤️ this 🔥 youtu.be/Q674zVep2LI?...

OMFG…”At the Data Center World Power Show in Texas, natural gas provider ProEnergy is showing off the PE6000, a power generator built by repurposing old jet engines from planes like the Boeing 747.”

New BBC-study evaluated AI-responses across 22 public service media organisations, 18 countries and 14 languages. Insights: some improvements, but AI assistants are still not a reliable way to find out about the news. PDF: www.ebu.ch/Report/MIS-B...

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"Achieving the global temperature targets set in the Paris climate agreement requires /.../ the swift phase-out of fossil fuels. Many factors stand in the way. One of the most pernicious is carbon offsets." Not very surprised, but here we are... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

US Fed, FDIC and OCC “do not believe principles for managing climate-related financial risk are necessary” "Rescinding the principles is short-sighted and will make the financial system riskier even as climate-related financial risks grow"-M Barr dissenting Fed board member

Could renewable energy be to blame for huge Spain blackout last spring? New analysis from an expert panel of European grid operators, says 'no'. www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Hmmm, interesting study. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ad...

Karin Petterson träffar mitt i prick här. Vi kan skylla på digitala medier och teknikjättars algoritmer hur mycket vi vill, men problemet med svensk politisk debatt går mycket, mycket djupare än så.

“We find that in November 2024, the quantity of AI-generated articles being published on the web surpassed the quantity of human-written articles.” graphite.io/five-percent...

This is what happens when Big Tech ❤️ Big Oil looks like. Thanks for finding this gem from hell @ketanjoshi.co

Another beautiful essay by Julian Aguon about family, loss, and the deep scars left by militarization in the Pacific. placesjournal.org/article/bles...

”At the CDC, of about 1,300 layoff notices that were sent late Friday, about 740 had been reversed by the end of the day Saturday, […] A federal health official has said those mistakes were the result of coding errors.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

OOO message. "Sorry, watching Gloria Estefan's Tiny Desk concert the rest of the day". www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

Lars Calmfors fångar vad alla klimatforskare känner också.

📰 Your evening read on the IIASA #OvershootConference: @carlschleussner.bsky.social tells @carbonbrief.org that the scientific community is only just “beginning to appreciate” the need to understand & quantify how different overshoot pathways affect adaptation. www.carbonbrief.org/overshoot-ex...

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Thanks for visiting Stockholm @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, great to hear about your work, upcoming book, and more!

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

Sorgligt egentligen, men jag tänker dagligen på vilken tur jag hade som inte fick sitta kvar i Sidas styrelse efter regeringsskiftet. Att det skulle bli mkt svårt att förena Tidö-samarbetets migrationspolitik m bistånd, var tydligt. Resultatet blir det här. www.sverigesradio.se/play/artikel...