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Ketan Joshi

@ketanjoshi.co

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Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/ Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - [email protected]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

Inspired by this: please find my official apology regarding the cause of the 2025 LA wildfires.

I will try to do better in the future

#learning

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 5h

Opinion | Why do people believe bullshit about climate change so readily? According to @ketanjoshi.co the issue occurs when people feel they've "been sucked under the wheels of modern climate-solutions capitalism".

Reducing the demand for disinformation starts with working out why people believe bullshit so readily

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404 Media @404media.co · 8h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 8h

Something this book really drilled home (scuse the pun) is that we're not stalled out on climate because scientists didn't model hard enough or campaigners didn't come up with the perfect message, but because the world's most powerful spent gazillions to sabotage action.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 9h

Drilled was asked to promote a new pro-nuclear book. When we found it contained a conspiracy alleging the oil industry funded environmental groups to kill the nuclear industry -- and that it didn't stack up -- it turned into an investigation.

New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social:

Isabella Boemeke Isn’t Trying to Spread Conspiracy Theories in her New Pro-Nuclear Book, But She Is

Pro-nuclear influencer Isabelle Boemeke’s new book, Rad Future, indulges in conspiracy theories, unsourced claims, and personal attacks against the industry’s critics.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11h

Was listening after I dropped my kid off at childcare in Oslo and did a double take.....I saw Ada Nissen a few minutes before she was mentioned in the episode! Had no idea she contributed - looking forward to reading it

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15h

Or watch/listen to @dylangyauchl.bsky.social talk about the politics of data centers on @prospect.org Weekly Roundup with @ddayen.bsky.social here

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CU7p...

The Prospect Weekly Roundup: September 5th, 2025

YouTube video by The American Prospect

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15h

Read our full case for Democrats to embrace a corporate crackdown on AI here

prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry

As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 15h

Reporting from @daveweigel.bsky.social shows the salience of campaigning against data centers. Candidates of both parties are working to harness Virginians' anger.

For @prospect.org, @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social argued that Dems should lean into fighting the AI industry.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

It's so bad

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

ChatGPT ‘upgrade’ giving more harmful answers than previously, tests find

Campaigners ‘deeply concerned’ about response to prompts about suicide, self-harm and eating disorders

www.theguardian.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 12h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Alex Barron @alexrbarron.bsky.social · 5d

This post buries the lede: "Push for what you can't control alone. Vote for leaders who support climate-smart investments; demand action from those already in power; sign petitions; and join collective campaigns that drive change at scale."

WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 5d

🌍 80% of people worldwide want stronger #ClimateAction.

But not all choices are equal. WRI Climate research ranks 19 ways to help the climate, showing which actions make the biggest impact.

Explore the list: bit.ly/4q0pWvC

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

Pretty freaking wild to hear "actually AI is useful for climate change" constantly and from people who should know better when the people deciding how the massive resources it consumes are used are saying stuff like this

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 13h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

it's a thing

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 2

THE FOUR STAGES OF PRO-FOSSIL EXPLOITATION OF MAJOR BLACKOUTS

[a thread with videos]

Stage 1: Guilt By Proximity - "any blackout that happens in a region with renewable energy must have been caused by renewable energy"

[we are in the later end of this stage -see, FT, Bloomberg (Blas), etc]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

Wall Street Journal claims the grid operator is in "denial" about 'imminent power blackout'

This is, in case you're wondering, a self-fulfilling prophecy they can point to whenever the next blackout occurs (and they happen all the time), regardless of what actually caused it

archive.ph/o5rv9

Spain’s Grid Operator Denies Risk of Imminent Power Blackout After Sharp Voltage Swings
Voltage variations are believed to have led to April’s major electrical outage across Spain and Portugal
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Cristina Gallardo
Oct. 14, 2025 6:28 am ET

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12h

"The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions"

Welcome to the Anslopocene

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Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 14h

"a test"? you mean...a violation?

AP: Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza over slow return of dead hostages, a test for the Gaza ceasefire

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 12h

Lmao I wonder what percentage of charGPT users who willingly upload their government ID to openAI for gooning purposes are aware that until 3 days ago openAI was under court order to store all users' chats lmao and at any time could be court ordered to do so again

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13h

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 13h

Choosing Marilyn Monroe as an example for this is a prime -- and dark -- demonstration of how AI slop's core purpose is the erasure of consent for everyone, from the artists whose work has been stolen to the performers the user turns into lifeless puppets

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17h

is it just me or is education about road safety oddly lax in Oslo schools? (with the exception of wearing the pathetic little reflective band in winter)

Like, fire safety education is absolutely amazing, but there seems to be very little about being wary crossing roads etc

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 18h

I need you all to remember this as well...that bluesky actively assisted in ethnically cleansing Palestinians

Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 18h

Just saw 2 Palestinian accounts vanish right after asking me for help--one a mother grieving her baby daughter who just died of starvation, another begging for help to keep her little sick, starving baby daughter alive. I cannot say what I think of Bluesky admin.

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Sirrah Hamann @sirincrisis.bsky.social · 19h

How does prospective mining on the Moon mirror prior forms of extractivism on Earth?

In July, I visited the Blåfjell and Tellnes Mines near #MagmaGeopark in Southwest Norway to collect video materials and talk with local experts about mining heritage.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17h

a medal for @glenpeters.bsky.social, who in 2017 correctly cautioned against pre-emptive celebration about peak emissions in China

www.climatechangenews.com/2017/03/31/c...

Have Chinese CO2 emissions really peaked?

We are really bad at predicting Chinese emissions. Why do we think we know what happens next?

www.climatechangenews.com

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 17h

The data center boom is a real estate story, with developers often using their large war chests to overwhelm local opposition. This tiny Michigan town was forced to cave to Related Digital's demands because it couldn't afford a lengthy legal battle.

Towns are saying no to AI data centers. One got sued over it.

A developer sued a Michigan township after it voted against a data center proposal. Cities in Ohio and Missouri have explored data center bans.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17h

Is that then the long-term situation we're in now? We're stuck with Elon Musk's platform as the core site for short-form social media and there's generally not much point in trying to create pathways and alternatives to leave it?