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by Victor Galaz

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”At the CDC, of about 1,300 layoff notices that were sent late Friday, about 740 had been reversed by the end of the day Saturday, […] A federal health official has said those mistakes were the result of coding errors.”

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Hundreds of CDC layoffs reversed, but biodefense preparedness staff hit
More than half of the roughly 1,300 CDC layoff notices have been rescinded, but workers at health agencies who work on biodefense and mental health still lost their jobs.
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by Victor Galaz

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OOO message.

"Sorry, watching Gloria Estefan's Tiny Desk concert the rest of the day".

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Gloria Estefan: Tiny Desk Concert
As Gloria Estefan embarks on a 50-year retrospective of her career, this Tiny Desk takes on the same tone, heart and air of reflection.
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by Victor Galaz

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Lars Calmfors: Jag klarar inte längre av att följa när politiker debatterar ekonomi
Hur ska man förstå hur ekonomi fungerar? Ja, inte genom att titta på partiledardebatterna i alla fall. Nivån på samtalet har sjunkit drastiskt.
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by Victor Galaz

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Lars Calmfors fångar vad alla klimatforskare känner också.
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📰 Your evening read on the IIASA #OvershootConference: @carlschleussner.bsky.social tells @carbonbrief.org that the scientific community is only just “beginning to appreciate” the need to understand & quantify how different overshoot pathways affect adaptation. www.carbonbrief.org/overshoot-ex...
Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’ - Carbon Brief
The first-ever international conference on the contentious topic of “overshoot” was held last week in...
www.carbonbrief.org
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by Victor Galaz

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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 6d
NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge
Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.
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NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge
Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.
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by Victor Galaz

vgalaz.bsky.social
Thanks for visiting Stockholm @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, great to hear about your work, upcoming book, and more!
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by Victor Galaz

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Med det sagt: forskningen är ganska tydlig med att migration (tillfällig och permanent) under humana och ordnade former, är ett bra sätt att stödja svaga grupper i en tid av klimatförändringar. Synd att detta perspektiv helt kommit bort i klimatdebatten.
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by Victor Galaz

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Det märkliga med detta är att det finns så många kloka sätt att minska migrationsutmaningar genom förebyggande arbete som fattigdomsbekämpning, stärkande av social resiliens, klimatanpassning. Istället väljer regeringar i väst åtgärder som signalerar hårda tag och nationella intressen i centrum.
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by Victor Galaz

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Sorgligt egentligen, men jag tänker dagligen på vilken tur jag hade som inte fick sitta kvar i Sidas styrelse efter regeringsskiftet. Att det skulle bli mkt svårt att förena Tidö-samarbetets migrationspolitik m bistånd, var tydligt. Resultatet blir det här.

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Meddelanden visar: Kris på ambassaden efter uppgörelsen med Somalia - Ekot
Sveriges uppgörelse med Somalia om biståndspengar skapade så stora konflikter på Sveriges ambassad att inspektörer akut fick skickas ner, visar Ekots fortsatta ...
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Reposted by Victor Galaz, Meredith Broussard, Lisa W. Fazio , and 38 more

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Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Reposted by Victor Galaz, Norbert Schwarz, Robert W. Wallace , and 11 more

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Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Reposted by Victor Galaz, Michael D. McDonald, Julia M. Wright , and 4 more

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NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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by Victor Galaz

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"Some say that medical societies must remain apolitical. […] The principle of medical neutrality, grounded in international humanitarian law, does not mean indifference; it obliges us to condemn any erosion of this norm as a threat to both care and ethics."

This week’s cover of The Lancet.

Reposted by Victor Galaz, Catherine Baker, Patrick Stokes

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How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?
Google search for "austria hungary in space" Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.
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by Victor Galaz

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”You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8d
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...
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by Victor Galaz

vgalaz.bsky.social
önskar verkligen att jag hann, men tyvärr!
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Reposted by Victor Galaz, Lyn Robinson

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Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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by Victor Galaz

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Note: a lot of old tweets in there, can’t say anything about online responses in general!

by Victor Galaz

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Similar misinformation about EAT-Lancet on top of the recommendations timeline on X. No surprises there, I guess.
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by Victor Galaz

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Slutligen: Julians bok och andra texter är verkligen att rekommendera. Få fångar vår tid av militarisering, klimatkris och kampen för en bättre värld, bättre än han.

by Victor Galaz

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Och som jag skrev i en essä tidigare i år: ”Det känns trösterikt att veta att vår klimatframtid inte bara formas av teknikutveckling och stormaktspolitik. Även unga poeters röster kommer att ge eko i generationer framöver.”

www.svd.se/a/kwbXy6/oti...
Otippade ljusglimtar i klimatkrismörkret | Victor Galaz
2025 kan bli året då de globala utsläppen till slut vänder nedåt, förutsatt att Kina menar allvar med att ta över ledarrollen i kampen mot klimathotet. Det är över huvud taget mycket som står på spel ...
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by Victor Galaz

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Denna nyhet gör mig oerhört glad, ett fantastiskt välförtjänt pris till unga jurister, aktivister och poeter som gjorde det omöjliga.

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Urfolksjurist och klimataktivist prisas med Right Livelihood 2025
Människorättsjuristen och författaren Julian Aguon tar hem ett av årets Right Livelihood-priser. Detta efter att han i år, tillsammans med Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change, tog klimatk...
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by Victor Galaz — Reposted by Koen Frenken

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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by Victor Galaz

vgalaz.bsky.social
Ohhh, this is good.

open.spotify.com/episode/3dDP...
Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
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Reposted by Victor Galaz, Stacy D. VanDeveer

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“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024
The political killings you don’t hear about
Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.
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by Victor Galaz

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Ohhhh this is good stuff!
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Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 21d
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Reposted by Victor Galaz, Esther Turnhout, Benjamin Braun , and 2 more

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🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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by Victor Galaz

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enjoy @dremmafrans.bsky.social

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