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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 4d

DeBriefed | Renewables power past coal; Legacy of UK’s Climate Change Act; Fukushima’s solar future

✍️ Written by @jjgoodman.bsky.social
💻 Edited by @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · 6d

The End of Understanding: How AI is changing the practice and purpose of science

Join @ninedotsprize.org winner @gracehuckins.bsky.social for an online #WIP & discussion seminar on 23 October at 5pm. A draft chapter of their book will be circulated beforehand
https://bit.ly/4q621Lu

The End of Understanding: How AI is changing the practice and purpose of science - CRASSH

Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 1d

Scholars & pundits have focussed a lot on the electoral demise of center left, but in doing so we paid to little attention to the electoral problems of the center right.

Case-in-points here not only British conservatives or center right in France, but increasingly also the center right in Spain.

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · 2d

The training data for generative AI is far from the sum total of human knowledge. As well as oral cultures, many languages are absent, creating significant blindspots in AI’s understanding of human experience

Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · 14d

"Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather than a problem of desire... The deepfakes proliferating across far-right social media... are fascistic dream machines." via @lrb.co.uk .

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...

Claire Wilmot | Fascistic Dream Machines

Part of the misunderstanding of the deepfake threat stems from the idea that it is a problem of bad information, rather...

www.lrb.co.uk

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 17d

“According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot continue indefinitely” said George Saravelos, Global Head of FX Research at Deutsche Bank

www.techspot.com/news/109626-...

The AI bubble is the only thing keeping the US economy together, Deutsche Bank warns

According to a research note recently sent to clients by Deutsche Bank, the AI boom is currently helping the US economy avoid a recession but it cannot...

www.techspot.com

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Paulo Drinot @paulodrinot.bsky.social · 18d

Now available for purchase at a discount

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 20d

www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-villag... Blueskyism and Sewerism as alternatives.

The Village and the Sewer

Behind the "Blueskyism" debate

www.programmablemutter.com

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · 20d

The anxieties that fuel the far-right obsession with IQ metrics and autism gesture to eugenic tropes. These are not good-faith contentions on public health science, but a fixation with narrow and reified versions of what intelligence and normality are.

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · 27d

Ah, aquella época en la que había ministros medianamente decentes que renunciaban por no aguantar compartir gabinete con delincuentes.

Claro, qué honor vas a querer preservar, si no tienes uno.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 28d

In London, hate will never win.

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · 27d

"Our genocide" via @theguardian.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMyy...

'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? | On the Ground

YouTube video by The Guardian

www.youtube.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 14

“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.”

www.adl.org/resources/re...

www.adl.org

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Sep 13

3/ This isn’t a new diagnosis. But it’s gaining frightening currency. I’m not nostalgic for old public spheres—but what has replaced them is fostering a dangerous inability to find healthy ways to live and deal with problems together.

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Sep 13

2/ For false narratives of “ethnic replacement,” IQ taxonomies, or gender inequality to shape thousands of people’s worldviews, you need a medium that enables obfuscation. A medium that corrodes even partially shared practices of factuality and reasoning.

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Sep 13

1/ Seeing the far-right march in London this Saturday, I’m increasingly convinced that social media, in its current forms, is built to amplify reactionary sensibilities. Yes, other social and economic forces are at play—but they’re now inescapably digitally mediated.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 13

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.

Kash Patel’s DOJ Scrubbed Study Showing Right-Wing Violent Attacks Outpace All Other Extremism

As MAGA world rages about left-wing violence, the government appears to have removed a research paper showing contrary evidence.

jpaladino.substack.com

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Sep 12

Sobre la violencia política comparativa. No, US no se está "colombianizando" o "ecuatorizando". Hay una larga historia en US de magnicidios, tiroteos, intentos de asesinato y violencia terrorista (como la del KKK).

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Sep 4

‘One veteran shaman, returning from his first experience performing at a top-dollar eco-lodge, asked the ayahuasca researcher Stephan Beyer why these people had come halfway round the world to see him when they weren’t sick.’

@mikejay.bsky.social on shamanism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Mike Jay · Priest of the Devil: On Shamanism

‘Shamanism’, as a concept, is of course a Western invention, and from the earliest cross-cultural encounters it was...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Aug 30

I just wanted to share that the Peru Support Group page and newsletter are a great source in english of in-depth analysis of news about Peru.

Take a look:

perusupportgroup.org.uk/news-analysis/

News & Analysis | Peru Support Group

perusupportgroup.org.uk

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Aug 29

Via @carbonbrief.org

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · Aug 28

NEW – Factcheck: 16 misleading myths about solar power

✍️ @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @mollylempriere.carbonbrief.org
🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org @jjgoodman.bsky.social Tom Pearson

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Daniel Clery @danclery.bsky.social · Aug 12

New method reveals perhaps the most massive black hole yet spotted | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org 🔭🧪

New method reveals perhaps the most massive black hole yet spotted

Big brute 5 billion light-years from Earth is 36 billion times as massive as the Sun

www.science.org

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Aug 9

"[En] la historia de la isla Santa Rosa... se manifiesta la latente tensión amazónica entre el dinámico registro hidrogeológico hecho de rocas y sedimentos, y el precario registro administrativo compuesto de documentos y mapas".

Por @sunqasapa.bsky.social

caviarism.substack.com/p/como-leer-...

Cómo leer un río

Cómo las danzas del agua y el sedimento pueden terminar creando controversias diplomáticas.

caviarism.substack.com

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Rafael Barrio de Mendoza @barriozevallos.bsky.social · Jul 29

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context.
open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context.

For many months, it has been beyond reasonable doubt that the Israeli government, the Israeli military, sections of Israeli politics and society as well as their aiders and abetters abroad, have been ...

open.substack.com

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