‘Collapse is coming. Driven by AI, data centers, bitcoin, greed. All the devouring mining, the relentless toxic waste. And ‘great’ men’s fragile egos and insatiable need to dominate. What will we leave those who must come after us?’ gerrymcgovern.com/books/99th-d...

Your infrastructure under climate breakdown– 'An aerial view shows houses perched along the edge of a cliff after a landslide in Niscemi, Sicily, Italy, on January 27, 2026.' by Danilo Arnone / Reuters

Adding fuel to the fires. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social

New word alert. Credit @solarshades.club www.solarshades.club/p/the-kids-a...

handy article on how to season your food in America while democracy and the rule of law disintegrate around you

‼️EXTRAORDINARY 50 DEGREES AGAIN IN AUSTRALIA NOTHING ever happened in Southern Hemisphere history remotely compares to this madness. 50.0C yesterday at Andamooka ,South Australia with another deadly day expected on Friday. More updates later...

These are the anti-AI slop pin-badges I'll be sending out with all the chatGPT Magic 8 Ball pre-orders. Patches and stickers are on the way too. If you'd like a badge by itself I've made a listing for them in my website shop www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/product-page...

'Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection.'

The entire industrial civilisation is planned,built and run on statistics and averages.But statistics and averages do not hold well when the proportion of tail events explodes– 'The nature of discontinuity,though,is that what was true before becomes a poor guide for making decisions in the present'

'None of this is evenly (much less fairly¹) distributed. The risks of huge disasters differ from place to place, but so to does exposure to brittleness. Even in a world tumbling over planetary thresholds, some places and systems will do better than others.' "Better" meaning "less worse"

'Climate chaos is already making us poorer. We're just pretending it's not.'

‘So what, right? Of course, Australian summers can be brutal. We’ve been here many times over. Rinse and repeat. Well, no. We know there is something bigger going on here.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"Our goal should not be to make fascist or Nazi apply to Trump’s movement..." But please read the whole text. A very good argument from @gruber.foo, and as always very well written (I've been a happy Daring Fireball reader since – shameless brag – at least 2004).

The Doomsday Clock is now 85 seconds to midnight. In our response to the @thebulletin.org announcement, we reflect how new forms of global cooperation are essential for navigating today’s risks and how meaningful progress is still possible. Read the full response below ⬇️ bit.ly/49KSNOC

‘The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists … statement cited expiring nuclear treaties, climate change,and AI and disinformation as among the major threats which have worsened in the past year.’ news.uchicago.edu/story/doomsd...

Reminds me of something I painted a few years ago

now hold on just one minute. when I signed on to work for a creepy right-wing surveillance company named after seeing stones used by the dark lord Sauron to manipulate and control others in an attempt to enslave the free people of middle earth I had no idea we might do some evil.

The purpose of a system is what it does.

Good. But never trust pledges.

i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests - nazgul bodycams - morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring - shelob will be the new point of contact

‘It tells us that “ecosystem degradation is occurring across all regions. Every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse (irreversible loss of function beyond repair).” This presents a threat to “UK national security and prosperity”.’

Keep an eye on this. This is a full-blown attack on the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and climate accountability. www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/e...

This photo, passed on by a friend, was taken in Denmark. It prompts me to resurrect the #extremecivilisation hashtag, used to describe the manufacture of things no one needs. What are these? Snowball makers.

Peter Broelman Canberra Times

Ignorance is power. www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes, Rupert www.wsj.com/opinion/than...

Everything is awful but the creativity behind some of these handmade posters gives me a glimmer of hope in humanity.

'A term to know in this world with AI: Cultural stagnation. It’s the slow flattening of creativity into polished sameness. AI … mostly remembers the ones it sees the most. So when it makes new things, it keeps making very similar stuff again and again.' theconversation.com/ai-induced-c...

Never trust pledges 'The Trump administration said it’s canceling almost $30 billion of financing from the Energy Department’s green bank after reviewing transactions approved under former President Biden.' www.latimes.com/environment/...

Board of Peace - Season 1

This is very concerning. techxplore.com/news/2026-01...

More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few of the ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science go.nature.com/4sTPWdp

"Imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead."

"Would you have a moment to discuss Foucault's Boomerang?"

Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.

The concept of blaming the victim is nothing new, but it has been elevated to a work of art by this regime.

Standard Operating Procedure: Privatise profits, socialise losses 'More than 500 people reported being injured–including 17 seriously–in crashes while riding or being hit by a hired e-scooter during Melbourne’s controversial 2.5 year experiment with…Lime & Neuron.' www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

The water will come & The water will run out www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

"Had I suggested a storyline involving a president who becomes obsessed by the thought of owning Greenland, to the extent that he is willing to sacrifice Nato and use mob methods to bully allies into compliance, I'd have been laughed out of any pitching session." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

THL hakee puhelimen @hs.fi

The long tail of the pyrocene

It’s always been more about what we must stop doing, rather than yet more things to start doing

Masterpiece of a headline

Creating a ‘pipeline of future users’ is what drug pushers do

“We can solve our water problems – I don’t argue that we will or that we will do it soon, but we can" says @petergleick.bsky.social share.google/tV9y73aLHfZc... 8/8

We’ve spent years trying to fact-check our way out of this, and it failed. Democratic decay isn’t about bad information versus good information, it’s about the collapse of the systems that turn information into reality. If every bot and Russian troll vanished tomorrow, the rot would still be there.