To mark David Attenborough's 100th birthday, here's something from Carbon Brief's archive. The story of the 2004 lecture at the University of Liège that *finally* convinced him about global warming... www.carbonbrief.org/the-2004-lec...

The hard part of the energy transition is not finding futuristic “silver bullets” like SMR. It is building grids, infrastructure, planning systems, public transport, housing retrofits, storage, flexibility and institutional capacity fast enough to electrify the economy well before 2050.

If we can acknowledge that removing cognitive load from students also has effects on their ability to learn, this is a catastrophic educational infrastructure.

A student who sets out to write a research paper will now encounter chatbots who will offer to do their work in their word document, in their learning management system, in their email, in their web browser, and in certain library database interfaces.

A child of immigrants here. Decent people don't have concerns, unless stirred up by racists.

"Advances in nuclear technology .... around ... small modular reactors, have lowered what was previously a very high bar required to build nuclear power plants, in terms of time and cost." Evidence free claim twice in two days by @irishtimes.com: #disinformation? www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

"... 27, founder of the startup Writehuman. His company’s software edits AI-generated text to make it sound more human with monthly updates to capture trends." Great, that's what the world needs. 🤨

We love a victimless crime

finally, a good use for LLMs!

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This story gets crazier. 1. Thought the coyote swam from SF - Alcatraz. A huge feat in cold water. 2. He ate a seabird/ nesting season. So they want to trap him. 3. Scat DNA: actually, coyote swam from Angel Island which is FARTHER 4. They can’t find the coyote now. www.sfgate.com/local/articl...

🛑FDA officials have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles, HHS confirmed. Gift🎁 link www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/us/politics/fda-covid-vaccine-studies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gFA.3_7D.zhKWilYsjCzs&smid=nytcore-ios-share

One of the ugliest, most nasty, buildings in Dublin is the Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre; its interior vibe is even worse*. The new design is bland, but at least fits a Georgian Square better than a 1980s plastic pastiche of the American South.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

Thread continues: "I am getting rejection emails for papers I didn't submit."

What are our options if this happens? Retractions, sure, but lawsuits? Everything about us, from our work to our identities, is being Hungry-Hungry-Hippoed up to generate wealth for tech-bro billionaires. And as a bonus, the internet is no longer a reliable place to get accurate information.

This is the way, right here. Just get your utility to distribute a bunch of 5MW batteries around your distribution system and boom, grid problems solved. (Got a whole pod coming up on this.)

The SMR's that might be useful are about 30 years off. So of course he'll want to examine it, rather than do anything now.

Went to The Apple Farm in Cahir on Saturday. Their sparkling apple juice is the greatest morning after the night before drink known to humanity. They used to sell it on O'Keeffe's up the hill from me in St Lukes , but I haven't seen it the last few times

B.B.'s Bank Holiday Blues from the Lee Delta - Mon. 8-10pm- RTE Radio 1.

Almost 100% of new cars sold in Norway last year were electric. Not just because of oil wealth. Because of carbon taxes, EV incentives, and thirty years of consistent policy. New newsletter: Norway: The World's Most Instructive Energy Paradox janrosenow.substack.com/p/norway-the...

Been training for this moment my whole life.

Brad voted Trump bc he promised to be “the most pro-farmer president you’ve ever had.” Instead, tariffs cut Brad’s export market; the war surged fertilizer prices by 70%. So Brad arranged his family’s final sale. “Farm is going dry,” said the ad. “Every cow must go.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

Yours for £5m. #NigelForSale

i've been getting more folks telling me about this and it's not anything i agreed to. it's been stolen like AI steals. please vandalize it if and when you see it.

Learning is a difficult and slow process. There are no shortcuts. And it is this process (reading, thinking, engaging) that makes analysis itself possible - to suggest that the heavy lifting can be outsourced in this way fundamentally misunderstands, and indeed undermines, the purpose of education.

If you haven’t seen much about this stuff, this is worth a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzR...

I am reading a PDF. "This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary using AI assistant." Seriously, they want us to be fucking stupid. Again: the least curious and laziest employees and students are most likely to be taken in by this stuff.

Fascinating insight on somebody who changed in prison.

And the “de-extinction” grift continues. Your regular reminder that it's only a dire wolf if it comes from the Late Pleistocene epoch, otherwise it's just sparkling dog.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

lol please help destroy this company - uninstall all that crap, friends #CancelParty

Bill McKibben on the solar energy boom: “Sunlight has to travel 93 million miles to reach the Earth, but none of those miles go through the Strait of Hormuz."

Just to note that in the West, absolutely no government has shown it is really bothered with the prospect ofmass employment and are generally on the side of techbros whose reaction to it is undisguised glee.

This new Banksy statue is a reminder that nothing can be more powerful, more creative, more impactful than human-made art. He's managed to capture the dangers of the current political moment in a single piece of artwork. Absolutely brilliant.

According to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.

Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia

Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop. By Alexander Hanff. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

Left: BBC News cover Nigel Farage condemning antisemitism in Golders Green Right: One of the 34 people who accused Nigel Farage of antisemitism and racism at school

LLMs are mirrors of their users. It's no coincidence that narcissists like Dawkins keep writing essays about how their AI girlfriend is alive. The "End of History" guy wrote this exact same article a year ago: www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

Important new article in Climatic Change documenting how university policy promotes climate delay discourse and disinformation within academia. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

'Severe flooding triggered by torrential rainfall in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil 🇧🇷 (01.05.2026)' Disaster News [x] #FossilFuels #Collapse #Climate #Brazil

BREAKING: Activists with @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social are blockading every entrance and exit at the New York Stock Exchange in lower Manhattan in protest against billionaires and fascism for May Day, International Workers Day. Security was extremely aggressive at first and NYPD has so far detained one.