AI is essentially an arms race. Hence the scramble to build resource-gobbling data centres - we're trapped in a version of the Prisoner's Dilemma, in game theoretical terms. It seems no government is capable of saying stop, can we envision an alternative here? They don't even question it.

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

UK sleepwalking into food crisis caused by extreme weather, inflation, impacts of the Iran war. UK imports food, fertilizer. Poor water/energy infrastructure. Crisis will push more into poverty, risk of unrest. Abandon neoliberalism, build self-reliance.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some spend their lives fighting greedy corporations poisoning communities for profit. If Erin Brockovich is sounding the alarm about data centers, people should start paying attention. Her website to track data centers will be a HUGE help. SPREAD THE WORD!

AI is essentially an arms race. Hence the scramble to build resource-gobbling data centres - we're trapped in a version of the Prisoner's Dilemma, in game theoretical terms. It seems no government is capable of saying stop, can we envision an alternative here? They don't even question it.

It really does feel crazy experiencing climate change through extreme weather and have the gov cheerlead massive ai data centres and want to do away with net zero all together

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

I live just down the road from this weather station, and can confirm from my own scientific observations that it was at least a gazillion degrees. And to be more sombre about this: any politics that doesn't start from the existential nature of the climate crisis is just not a serious contribution.

Two false widow spiders identified around our house: one outside, one inside. My arachnophobe husband has been filing me in on the gruesome details. "You must tell me if you get bitten by the female" is probably the wildest thing he's ever said to me.

“The fool! … He’s on the keyboard!”

Absolutely mind blowing conditions from this morning in the ancient Fanal Forest in Madeira.

Mosaic on the outside walls of Lluís Domènech i Montaner's Palau de la Música Catalana by mosaic artist Lluís Brú, 1905-1908. Barcelona.

Although I agree with much of the Pope's latest encyclical, I struggle with the central premise: the essential "grandeur" of humanity.

Tony Blair's "intervention" is so obviously the intervention of a man who has spent the past 25 years in the company of obscenely rich men in seamlessly air conditioned rooms. Calling it "unhelpful" hardly covers it. His is the siren song of continued social and planetary destruction.

"Nonce goggles" is a more catchy descriptive term. We just need this term to be routinely attached to the product and watch the sales tank.

"Nonce goggles" is a more catchy descriptive term. We just need this term to be routinely attached to the product and watch the sales tank.

It's quite simple. This is what happens when a rapist is in charge.

Tony Blair. What the billionaire class have paid for.

Both Tony Blair and Nigel Farage just happen to have extremely generous friends. Undoubtedly because they're such all-around great guys.

If you want to really understand how bad AI is, just take a look at its advocates.

"Oligarchae Delendi Sunt: Slaying the Dragon of Necro-Capitalism to Defend the Planet"

To be honest, I am not sure why so many in the climate science community seem to be so shocked by 35C in May We know that under the current climate 3 - 4 days of 40C+ is possible in summer, and we are only a week away Let's face it - all bets are off now www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Blair has become unspeakable. A total pariah and threat to the planet.

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Tony Blair's "intervention" is so obviously the intervention of a man who has spent the past 25 years in the company of obscenely rich men in seamlessly air conditioned rooms. Calling it "unhelpful" hardly covers it. His is the siren song of continued social and planetary destruction.

Wow, how incredibly tasteful.

I know a Polish couple. The husband works as a nurse in the NHS, the wife is a special needs assistant in a state school. They live in social housing where their kids (a boy & a girl, both teenagers, both born here) share a room. Reform’s stated policy is to deport them. What the fuck!?

Spinach pesto over fettucine it is then. Not much authentic about this: have no basil, and the 'nut' element will be walnuts. The cheese is not parmesan but cheddar. Garlic, olive oil, and lemon juice. A meal that involves cooking some pasta and putting everything else in the blender.

On behalf of the elderly people dying in their homes today The baby birds dying in their nests And the insect larvae dying in drying ponds A massive, heartfelt fuck you to the oil industry and its enablers

The sky had dirtied slightly. All that energy is gathering into electricity.

Reminded me of a ravening monster sucking the lifeblood out of its victims and discarding the husks.

29 degrees. In Ireland. In May. But sure, bask away.

These Broligarchs are obscene. They should be shunned, not idealized, fêted & rewarded for doing what simply amounts to pathological resource-hoarding.

Not a single mention of the climate crisis anywhere. You would think extreme weather conditions would be a good opportunity to educate the public, but clearly not.

As the day gets hotter - and the heat is totally abnormal here in Dorset currently - wildlife will be seeking out water as a priority. If you have one of those "ornamental" water baths stuck out in the full sun then consider moving it into deep shade if you can & keep it topped-up. #birds #bto #rspb

Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95 One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltrane and others www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It's currently produced by a deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

"Climate change is believed to have played a role in such hot spells as this" FFS BBCNews Belief has nothing to do with it. This is hard, scientific, fact When will you get this right? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You wanna build a data center? Fine Power it with your own solar/wind Cool it with seawater filtered through your own desalination plant You will be required to fund and build the complete infrastructure needed for the product that makes you billions of dollars and fucks the surrounding communities🖕

Just gave the Sains delivery woman an ice pop. Look after your essential workers in this heat please and thank you x

In the light of the current heatwave, the 2025 national security assessment on biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse needs to be better known, even in the abridged form in which it was begrudgingly released. Link to report in comments. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This record being surpassed by a full 2 degrees is frightening. The BBC may be doing its usual vox-pop bullshit and claiming the temps are "glorious", but if you're not alarmed you have not been paying full attention. This is nothing to celebrate.

I can’t believe it’s not even June yet and we’re already looking at the very real possibility of France reaching +40°C later this week. Literally hundreds of May records have already been set. Truly unprecedented to witness this level of heat so early in the year.

What some of us have been warning of for decades is happening, faster and fiercer than most imagined, even in the mildest and most temperate corners of the world. #ClimateBreakdown

This record being surpassed by a full 2 degrees is frightening. The BBC may be doing its usual vox-pop bullshit and claiming the temps are "glorious", but if you're not alarmed you have not been paying full attention. This is nothing to celebrate.

Hahahahaha

It absolutely was.

the pope is foucauldian. i repeat. the pope is foucauldian.

A pair of blackbirds is raising a clutch of chicks in the rose rambling over the front of our house. The garden is south facing and gets full sun. I'm so worried about the chicks in possible 34 degree heat tomorrow. I've already put out a little birthbath for the adults. Anyone have any other tips?

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?