The Trump administration’s attacks on national parks continue This time, they’ve removed both physical signs and website mentions describing how climate change is damaging the parks Because if you remove the info, famously, the problem goes away www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

So this is one way to deal with rising food insecurity in the US - just scrap the data collection tracking it. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

20 seconds in, and this is my favorite dj-set of all times. youtu.be/g1rsgYXXX34?...

Love this! 😆

📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...

Browsing through the Washington Post news has become a dystopian experience, a never ending flow of updates on US authoritarianism, science denialism, and evidence of small pockets of resistance.

The ability to gather and report information without authorization from the government is pretty much the definition of a free press

National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours. www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...

There was a lot of disagreement among nuclear war experts when meeting in Chicago in July, but there was clear consensus on one thing - the “Golden Dome for America” is a terrible idea. www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-...

Here’s the lawsuit that Trump filed against the NY Times. While there are allegations of defamation - it is a full frontal attack on free speech. It almost reads like a parody. /1

Get ready for local opposition to data centres. heatmap.news/politics/dat...

This is fine… www.reuters.com/technology/a...

Looks like even synthetic humans turn into polarizing a*holes online. "Can We Fix Social Media? Testing Prosocial Interventions using Generative Social Simulation" arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03385

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

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"Today, we stand together in dissent against the current administration's focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise."

There’s a persistent myth that new solar farms don’t really help tackle climate change because panels are “made with coal” and “never pay back” their carbon debt. This is simply false. - UN: solar ~8x cleaner than gas, ~19x than coal per kWh - panels repay CO2 in 4 months; save 57x over life

Inte bara svenska ministrar tydligen. Myndigheter i Australien betalade Deloitte över $400 000 AUS dollar för en rapport med påhittade referenser. www.afr.com/companies/pr...

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Surprise!

Deforestation kills more than trees.

Reportrar utan gränser lyfter det oacceptabla dödandet av journalister i Gaza genom en global förstasideskampanj. Den 1 september publicerar medier över hela världen svarta förstasidor. Medier som är intresserade av att delta i kampanjen kan mejla maria.linden @reportrarutangranser.se

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

Bra där @erikangner.com "Nu vore det förnämligt om alla som bryr sig om universitetens framtid ställer sig upp som en och protesterar mot varje förskjutning i auktoritär riktning." svenskfilosofi.se/2025/08/25/v...

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

St. Charles data center fight draws St. Louis’ attention | St. Louis Magazine www.stlmag.com/news/st-char...

"Det brådskar att skydda den akademiska friheten." Hans Ellegren, Ständig sekreterare på Kungl Vetenskapsakademien, ang regeringens medborgarskapsprov. sekreterarensblogg.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/m...

Bara så att det är tydligt - transparens är bra, men dessa siffror är friserade (ex. redogör bara för en typ av AI-användning, räknar inte in alla vattenkostnader), och säger inget om företagets sammantagna energi- och vattenavtryck. Spoiler: de ökar på alla fronter.

Grattis till TT som tagit teknikjätten Googles pressmeddelande om AI-modellers klimat- och vatten användning rakt av och skrivit en artikel, utan en enda kritisk fråga. esvd.svd.se/shared/artic...

Conventional numerical models better than AI-supported models at extreme weather forecasts. "forecast errors in AI models are consistently larger for record-breaking heat, cold, and wind" [arXiv working paper]: arxiv.org/abs/2508.15724

US Supreme Court sides with Trump administration on research cuts www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Läckta uppgifter från Israels militära underrättelsetjänst tyder på att över 80 procent av de dödade i Gaza kan ha varit civila. omni.se/a/wg1E5G

”Migrationsminister Johan Forssell (M) håller fast vid regeringens upplägg. – Det är regeringen som styr landet och våra universitet är statliga myndigheter som lyder under oss, […].” Så urholkas akademins självständighet, ett regleringsbrev, ett citat i taget. www.svd.se/a/AvO8yj/uni...

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

Are the “big room” platforms, like Facebook and TikTok, unfixable? A new study tested “six proposed interventions, from chronological feeds to bridging algorithms, finding only modest improvements - and in some cases, worsened outcomes.”

Wildfire season's 'not slowing down': emergency management minister (Canada)

"This strange brew of shock, confusion, and ambivalence, I’ve realized, is the defining emotion of the generative-AI era. " Brilliant by @cwarzel.bsky.social

Fans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!

The economy behind “high dopamine” videos (a k a “AI slop”). Some slop-creators make about 2k-5k USD/month through e.g. TikTok’s creator program. wapo.st/4mFECxC

The tapes were recorded in the living room of Guthrie’s Brooklyn apartment between 1951 and 1952, on a portable tape recorder... @caroleine.bsky.social writes that the Guthrie family hopes to inspire the next generation of protest songwriters. inthesetimes.com/article/new-...

“Copenhagen reported that 62% of its residents are now commuting to work or school by bike — an increase from 52% in 2015 & 36% in 2012, when the City Council launched a 14-year-plan to improve the quality, safety & comfort of cycling.” #Copenhagen chose. They keep choosing even better every year.

”Yet behind the scenes, the agency’s slick AI project has been greeted with a shrug — or outright alarm.” edition.cnn.com/2025/07/23/p...

No Kings Day on June 14 was one of the largest single days of protest in United States history. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/new-...

"If we keep cutting NOAA, there is an increasing risk of an Otis-like scenario, with a Cat 5 hurricane roaring ashore in a heavily populated area with inadequate warning. With global warming steadily increasing the odds of rapid intensification, we’d better stay ahead of this dangerous curve."

Congratulations to the Marshall Islands 🇲🇭, the last country in the world without an official national ⚽️ team, for scoring its first goal ever (vs. Turks & Caicos).

Hey ChatGPT, vilka har varit partiledare i Kd?

⭐️✨Josefin de Gregorio i @svenskadagbladet1.bsky.social Kultur esvd.svd.se/shared/artic...

Detta är klokt, och precis det jag menade i ett samtal om amerikanska klimatpolitik i Studio Ett förra veckan – auktoritära ledare avskyr den fria forskningen och den fria akademien. En lärdom från historien, från det vi ser i USA idag, och något att ta på allvar i Europa och Sverige.