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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 1d

Use it or lose it.
The Age

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@lizglab.bsky.social @lizglab.bsky.social · 6d

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 2d

“Are you gonna ban gambling ads?”
youtube.com/shorts/CODyn...

Don't tell anyone plz #australia

YouTube video by Punter's Politics

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 2d

Not homes.
Not streets.
ENTIRE TOWNS!

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 2d

AI pop up is now bigger and pops up unrequested more often!

(Literally happened to me today)

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Pixels&AlchemyPhotography @pixelsandalchemy.bsky.social · 2d

Fireworks
I JUST got back from a LONG walk because the sun is out! 😎
I believe this is a #Sweetgum #Tree.
#FallColor #PNW #Photography

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 2d

Woodside’s Scarborough gas project likely to:
• push 500,000 people’s local climate beyond the human climate niche
• kill ~500 Europeans
• kill 16 million corals

New research shows individual fossil fuel project -> climate impact attribution
#auspol #ClimateSky

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 2d

Woodside’s Scarborough gas project likely to:
• push 500,000 people’s local climate beyond the human climate niche
• kill ~500 Europeans
• kill 16 million corals

New research shows individual fossil fuel project -> climate impact attribution
#auspol #ClimateSky

Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 3d

BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"

For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project

The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.

theconversation.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 3d

Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.

No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.

But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.

Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 3d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 4d

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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lcamtuf @lcamtuf.coredump.cx · 4d

Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

This Is Fascism

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t have an issue with recommending cyclists be alert. The way you phrased it though makes it sound like cyclists are at fault, and no changes to cars or drivers or roads are needed. People should not need to be afraid while doing a very normal activity because cars exist. We should fix that.

Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 5d

I'd seen the headline on this, but I just learned more about this episode from Dougie than if I'd read a whole new article about it. 🤣
www.youtube.com/shorts/8yXl0...
#auspol

AI Errors Are Being Used To Decide Government Policy #funfact

YouTube video by Doug Sharpe

www.youtube.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 5d

"The plane's AI is hallucinating an airport in the Himalayas.
Is anyone here a prompt engineer?!"

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

It is really, really, really stunning to me how the first part in particular has already become so incredibly noticeable.

In the climate space alone I am spending more of my precious remaining life hours convincing ppl that the output of a word generating program is not the default truth......

onion person @junlper.beer · 5d

i’ve been trying to think of the real actual applications of generative ai in it’s current state and the two things i have so far is it makes everyone more dumb and also every more paranoid

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 5d

Haven’t got my glasses on but I think this says “Rupert Murdoch tells Liberals and their voters to replace Sussan Ley with a more conservative and easier to manipulate old white man”.
#auspol

Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 5d

Lol lmao

Herald Sun
Steve Price
Abbott return is what Libs need

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 5d

Your original comment comes across as "Cars are dangerous to cyclists. Deal with it."

Why should we just accept that?
Why accept an environment where people who choose to use a bicycle for transport should be scared all the time because it's not safe and won't be made safe?
IMO that is unjust.

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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 5d

When Fox News lies, people die | We explain on PBS Newshour how the antiscience disinformation spread by the Murdoch media empire and especially Fox News, likely lead to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the U.S. And that's just COVID-19. Their fossil fuel disinformation is as deadly.

Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 8d

"Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science" | My #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I spoke with @wbrangham.bsky.social of the @pbs.org #Newshour:
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Authors of 'Science Under Siege' warn of concerted effort to discredit science

From its embrace of dubious research about autism, its skepticism over vaccines and its wholesale rejection of the consensus about climate change, the Trump administration has set off alarm bells with...

www.pbs.org

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 5d

Half the global population saw all-time record temperatures over past decade: buff.ly/40xQeaG

There is no time to wait. All the warning lights are blinking and new pipelines aren't the answer. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy @MarkJCarney

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 5d

How do you know it wasn't Lime bikes? 😉

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 5d

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The angry goose meme, with a goose first asking ”Why should we ride scared Tommy?”, then chasing a person demanding “What should riders be scared of?!”

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Graham Lea @evolvable.bsky.social · 5d

Haven’t got my glasses on but I think this says “Rupert Murdoch tells Liberals and their voters to replace Sussan Ley with a more conservative and easier to manipulate old white man”.
#auspol

Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 5d

Lol lmao

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