Nvidia Flogged AI for Brazilian Oil and Gas on Eve of COP30 The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon. My reporting today @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2025/11/07/n...

As an alumni of Syracuse University, it's appalling that they are capitulating against a right-wing campaign against Professor Farhana Sultana for exercising her first amendment rights. Do consider signing this letter calling on Syracuse University to reinstate her docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I, for one, welcome the Carnivorous Death Ball from the Deep.

This story comes out the same day the architect of this monstrous policy gets approval for a near-trillion-dollar payout from his government-subsidized company. Utterly despicable.

This is a really hard day and I want to just add as WIRED's politics editor -- WIRED's politics reporting isn't going anywhere. We are very much here and won't stop. Please continue to read and support us - canceling your subscription to WIRED is not standing in solidarity with our journalists.

This @skynewsrss.bsky.social analysis confirms that X's algorithm is blatantly boosting far-right content If you are still posting or engaging there, you are volunteering your time and effort towards actively assisting a racist, white supremacist project STOP ALREADY news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Very proud to call Rei @rtakver.bsky.social a friend. Give her a follow.

"In total, the Gates Foundation (formerly known as the The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) has donated $3,519,491 to Lomborg’s think tank. The most recent tax filing on record includes a 2022 donation to the Copenhagen Consensus Center worth $1.25 million" - @rtakver.bsky.social, @desmog.com

And right on cue, here come all the Media Think Pieces on why actually we are all bad and stupid to even hope for a better, kinder world.

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

BBC Radio 4 this morning joined Trump in describing Zohran Mamdani as a "radical leftist".

Huge wins for the Democrats in state elections across the US last night. Chaotic authoritarianism is not popular.

Very excited to announce that I have been selected to be the man to endow Sir Keir with "Swag"

60 yrs ago today (Nov 5, 1965), the 1st US government report to warn about climate change was published. "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" included warning of C02 build-up and sea-level rise/melting ice-caps. allouryesterdays.info/2025/11/04/6... 1/n

The passing of Dick Cheney has me mourning the wonderful Dickipedia, which recorded an encounter between Cheney and Donald Trump in circa 2004 thusly, though I paraphrase: "To this day, the meeting is regarded as the only time when Cheney wasn't the worst person in the room."

🚨You need to read Rei's feature on UK Labour's love affair with US authoritarian Big Tech, a coterie of firms now openly undermining democracy worldwide.

😢 "Perhaps the most striking findings is that the British public vastly overestimates the cost getting to net zero by almost 14,000%, fueling scepticism & a reluctance to pay. On average, they estimate it will need 28% of GDP by 2050, compared to @thecccuk.bsky.social forecast of just 0.2%"

Valuable work on the right's attacks on climate action. "It is not enough to be right about impending catastrophe. What matters is whether the warning resonates, and who manages to tell a convincing story about the future."

Yesterday Nigel Farage argued that the UK has failed to grasp Brexit opportunities to deregulate, which his 'pro-business' government would deliver. I've got a piece in the Independent arguing why that is a misreading both of Brexit history and economics. www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexi...

Water companies ordered to clean up hundreds of water sources across England found to contain toxic PFAS forever chemicals, with levels rising at some sites, reports Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"I feel good about where we’re going as a nation," said Graham. "We’re killing all the right people, and we’re cutting your taxes."

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped? www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day. Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...

I really am just working from the basic premise of political science that public opinion isn’t just measurable — you can and should CREATE it.

Worth reading this whole thread. The popular narrative of Reform surge being driven by desperation in the face of deprivation is little more than a useful myth. It’s mostly just the same old tories getting nastier and more openly racist

The UAE, which is currently carrying out a genocide in Sudan that can be viewed from space.

If you are posting on or engaging with content on X, you are working as a volunteer laborer helping this specific man earn money and political influence. Any person, group or organisation that is still there and helping keep you there: you have to make them get out, not give them reason to stay

A huge chunk of the public health and justice advances of the last century have been achieved simply via measuring and communicating information. Authoritarian regimes can rapidly reverse these advances.

I heard someone say the other day that the reason white reactionaries get upset when they hear other languages is that they've only barely got a grasp on English, and I think about that a lot.

To be clear, the UK's welfare system is far from generous. What's happened is that Britain's ultra wealthy have used their media outlets to fool the public into believing they deserve nothing under any circumstances.

Here's the shadow home secretary confusing "arrested" and "guilty", and in effect libelling an innocent man who, like all the other passengers, had just been through a terrifying ordeal. Also apparently suggesting that all black people should be searched for weapons before boarding a train.

I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.

Found some autumn

This is by far the most brilliant take down of the Gates memo that I’ve read. It utterly dismantles the false choice between poverty alleviation and climate mitigation that Gates advances — and not even just by saying “climate makes poverty worse.” I won’t spoil it here — you must read it!

In @heatmap.news - a really, REALLY good demonstration of the rhetorical function of promising nuclear power at some point in the future, while engaging in a massive, full-scale unchecked fossil fuel infrastructure explosion today and tomorrow --->>>>

Please take a moment to appreciate this uppercut of authoritative fury from James.

"If you're a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?" Billie Eilish speaking directly to Mark Zuckerberg, as she donates $11.5m to food poverty and climate justice organisations.

“‘This is really important moment to illustrate that [Donald] Trump does not represent the entirety, or even anywhere near a majority, of us,’ said Collin Rees, US program manager at environmental nonprofit @oilchange.bsky.social, who will attend the summit.” By @dharna.bsky.social @theguardian.com

What climate skepticism? Despite a decline in political mobilization, a large majority of people continue to consider global warming a significant threat and are calling for more government action. Many are taking matters into their own hands. #the89percent via @afp.com

Important thread on the Tories and Reform's consistent doubling down on racism, and how they are being rewarded for it.

NEW: Global offshore wind targets will help to propel a tripling of global offshore wind capacity in just 6 years💪 Although many countries may achieve their 2030 target slightly later than planned, the US is the only country that has effectively deserted its target...🧵

Well done, mister @billgates.bsky.social

A reminder to any followers who have the means to donate to RSF, as journalists - and journalism itself - continues to come under attack from Elon Musk.

Private Eye nailing it.

Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.

Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.

Do not expect the London press to ask why at least two of Britain's leading political parties are courting a person who is openly inciting a race war in the UK.

"This house would prioritise the environment over the economy." Watch Aaron & Co demolish the reactionary right in this debate at Durham. I'm proud to have played some tiny part in this.

To sum up: when journalists are allowed to do their jobs, the far-right loses. When billionaires and Tim Davie call the shots, the far-right wins.