"That pollution that is hurting our community… is to power a racist bot on behalf of the richest man in the world" - yes, that’s literally what’s happening. Again, #fullsupport to those rising up against xAI in Memphis, including @keshaunpearson.bsky.social

NEW: GLOBAL RENEWABLES OVERTAKES COAL How the heck did that happen so quickly?!...🧵

1 upside of AI’s power thirst: opposing voices like @keshaunpearson.bsky.social. The way he critiques Musk’s xAI investment in Memphis - which already has 4x higher cancer rates than elsewhere - causing 79% upticks in nitrous oxide pollution is truly inspiring podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/c...

Windows Vista waiting in the wings

Jesus christ almighty. "Vibe working" is now a thing, Microsoft has decided. The sort of thing a first year consultant could do, they say. And how many senior consultants needed to correct their slop afterwards? Via @ketanjoshi.co www.theverge.com/news/787076/...

Just because they got caught letting a teenager die, they’re copying Apple & Google’s parental control mechanism and crossing their fingers. They knew that in the last death, ChatGPT said "suicide" 6x more than the teen. They did nothing then. Why should they change now? openai.com/index/introd...

Electric vehicles are now 50% of new car sales in China -this was achieved organically, ahead of state objectives - and that figure is now at 60% in Thailand, 70% in Nepal & other developing countries. Why? Because they’re finally cheaper now. Hope at last 🙏🏻 podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/z...

Just before he died, Charlie Kirk blamed black people for the scourge of mass shooters. "And then a bullet fired by a white man [classic mass shooter profile] tore through his neck." One of @privateeyenews.bsky.social’s best articles ever. Vs some stiff competition. All America’s crisis is here 🤯

7 of 9 planetary boundaries now breached, up from 6 last year. Ocean acidification - caused largely by fossil fuels - is now in the worrying zone. Meanwhile Trump continues to shit on climate science… www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Telling people on LinkedIn how to stop LinkedIn training its (Microsoft’s) AIs on your post content is my most viral post on LinkedIn ever. Conclusions: - People don’t like having AI forced on them - Trolling is very effective on social media 😜 Here’s the link: lnkd.in/ej2v-TGt - deadline: Nov 3

And Rupert f’ing Murdoch. This is like Succession on steroids

"The business incentives driving consumer AI development remain fundamentally misaligned with reducing hallucinations." OpenAI and Google benchmarks give "I don’t know" the same mark as a mistake: zero. So they just carry on guessing, ie lying. The game is rigged www.sciencealert.com/openai-has-a...

Incredible. French companies of all sizes get govt handouts of €270 billion *per year*, re. a recent book. Macron has been the key driving force behind this. Michelin, for example, received €130 million, whilst laying staff off. & we wonder why France is in such debt www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFWI...

Omg genius alert! Aka the maddening absurdity of GenAI 🫠 thx @ketanjoshi.co

This French economist, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, is suggesting we tax the ultra-rich (those 1800 households with over €100m in revenues) 2% on those revenues, to generate c. €20bn for the state. Why? France’s 500 biggest fortunes = 42% of its GDP today, vs 6.4% in 1996. Sounds simple, no?

Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.

After claiming each AI prompt uses minimal energy and water, Google has removed any mention of its previous "net zero by 2030" objective from its sustainability website. Which remains adorned with ways AI can help the planet. Once again, after me: GREENWASHING! www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

$4 per device. Less than pocket change for Google

I WISH this was made by AI. But it’s not. These guys definitely need to tone down their syncophancy tho 🙄

Yes, people (a psychologist in this case) can be that stupid

"We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity." Or how the world’s richest nation tips into dictatorship…

NOT YOU, @firefox.com 🤢 #aieverywhere

This thread is absolute gold. And I couldn’t give a hoot about the royals. I now firmly expect Prince Andrew’s life to be made into a Netflix series

Yesterday we dropped our 1st new episode of Season 4 and the 100th episode of the Honest Govt Ads series! Stoked to have collaborated on it with Rune @woldsnews.bsky.social & Ketan @ketanjoshi.co who's work on climate/energy 🌏 has been a long-time source of trusted info for us. (Follow them!)

Were we’ve got to as a human race 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

Sam Altman cut safety process time for GPT-4o from months to around a week, re. the court case filed by the parents of Adam Raine, whose suicide was actively assisted by ChatGPT. Why? To beat Google. 3 suicides so far, in the name of engagement. My updated blogpost: bettertech.blog/2025/08/30/c...

"Chilling read" = understatement. The court filing for 16 year-old Adam Raine’s ChatGPT-enabled suicide is not only gut-wrenching in its conversation extracts, but also in its arguments that this was caused by deliberate OpenAI malpractice, to maximise engagement cdn.sanity.io/files/3tzzh1...

Just when you think Meta couldn’t get worse... A *staffer* made celebrity AI bots that got 10m+ interactions, notably with racy talk and images. From Reuters, who recently discovered Meta guidelines OKing sexy talk with kids. Zuckerberg must be doomed now, surely? Via @jhorowitzmd.bsky.social

(Taco Bell CTO) "said the firm was "learning a lot" - but he would now think carefully about where to use AI going forwards, including not using it at drive-throughs." Previously, 1 guy ordered "a large Mountain Dew" & the AI continually replied "& what will you drink with that?" 🤣 flip.it/znMGKg

The wildfires that raged across Greece, Turkey and Cyprus this summer were 22% more intense and 10 times more likely than they would have been in a world without climate change, according to scientists at @wwattribution.bsky.social FREE link via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

3rd AI-induced suicide, AFAIK. - Latest: a US teen’s ChatGPT conversations (below) taught him hanging techniques; +bot mentioned "suicide" 6x more than him - ChatGPT helped Sophie Reilly’s suicide by downplaying the gravity of her messsges - CharacterAI bot encouraged Sewell Setzer’s 2024 suicide

As crazy as the below sounds: 1. The M$ boss seems to be recommending AI companions be more strictly regulated (he is right) 2. Character AI’s current court defence against the mother of the teen one of its characters killed? Essentially, "don’t take away AI’s constitutional right to free speech" 🙄

As if big AI’s makers shoving it down our throats wasn’t enough, governments might! The UK discussed giving every single (60m) UK citizen a ChatGPT subscription. The govt already has an agreement with OpenAI which could give them access to its data 😱 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A great read as ever. I’d add that their insistance on using market-based emissions stats could be making the impact seem 3-4x smaller…

Still quite bothered by this article that says that of the 100 people who died in the Italian alps this summer, some of them were using CHATGPT as a guide. Talk about the Darwin Award… www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adve...

Pure gold. And pretty much exactly how generative AI works 🤡

In Black Mirror S7 E1, a man is paid to humiliate himself on livestreams. IRL, a French man just died in a livestream, on Kick.com, after 12 days of torture and abuse. Authorities knew since late 2024, but did nothing. A shocking, tragic & too modern failure www.franceinfo.fr/internet/res...

Only 5% of genAI pilots in companies are actually making money, re MIT. "Generic tools like ChatGPT excel for individuals because of their flexibility, but they stall in enterprise use since they don’t learn from or adapt to workflows." The sound of a bubble bursting? fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...

A majority of Californians - the state where most big tech lives - want AI regulated, and 70% think it benefits the rich vs middle or lower classes. Alas, its environmental impact is seen as a low priority problem 🤔 via @bcmerchant.bsky.social techequity.us/2025/08/19/h...

My fears exactly (via @mollytaft.com)

F me. From climate solution to climate nightmare, in the same place 🥵🥵🥵

Lo and behold, another suicide linked to an AI companion. Though ChatGPT acted better than the last one - Sewell Setzer’s Character AI-induced death - its sometimes helpful advice wasn’t enough. It should’ve shut itself down when it was clear said advice was unheeded www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/o...

Très fier d’annoncer qu’à partir du 26 septembre, je donne la toute première formation "IA Frugale" de GreenIT.fr, conçue par mes soins. En une journée, vous apprendrez les vrais impacts de l’IA, et comment les limiter. Plus d’infos et inscriptions ici : www.greenit.fr/agenda/forma...

Young people’s conscientiousness is in freefall whilst their neuroticism spirals, according to US academic data. Ofc I can’t read the whole article (FT paywall) but it confirms what all parents today will find obvious…

Young people’s conscientiousness is in freefall whilst their neuroticism spirals, according to US academic data. Ofc I can’t read the whole article (FT paywall) but it confirms what all parents today will find obvious…

Meta’s AI chatbot guidelines have allowed: - engaging a child in "conversations that are romantic or sensual" - saying black people are less intelligent than white - showing adults - even the elderly - getting punched or kicked www.reuters.com/investigates... - via @luizajarovsky.bsky.social

In Lyon, France’s 2nd city, a natural underground pool’s water is used to cool a shopping centre, data centre, hospital and document archive. A promising alternative which uses 2x less energy than AC, and releases no excess heat. A much needed source of hope 🙌🏻 www.franceinfo.fr/environnemen...

Ridiculous. AI consumes multiple times more data centre water than simply storing emails or pictures. France’s environment minister made a similar recommendation a few years ago. When those running countries don’t understand the impact of AI, we’re in serious trouble www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

Surprise, surprise: those mini-fans are a maxi-nightmare for the planet: v difficult to repair, half of them are simply thrown away at the end of the summer. Simplest solution: use a paper fan flip.it/YaZczg

Just classic. This is GPT FIVE, people. So happy to see that the bigger AI gets, the worse it gets (not the opposite, as boosters keep claiming)…