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Ben Abraham
@afterclimate.com.au
I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions. https://afterclimate.com.au/ https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/ Was @afterclimate on Twitter
If he kept going for a second lap, would he still be here with us today? Biking saves lives.
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d agoCharity cyclist Bob Montgomery, 82, dies one day after 5,200km ride across Australia
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
Blair Palese@blairpalese.bsky.social · 3d agoToday's great news..." #Solar is poised to overtake #coal as China’s largest source of installed power capacity this year, as Beijing steps up its green transition with a renewed emphasis on efficiency, quality and orderly growth over sheer scale." www.scmp.com/economy/chin...
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
Loading the dice. The weather conditions driving the devastating fires in Spain were ~20× more likely because of human-caused climate change, and ~2× more likely in France. Of course, the spark matters...but the conditions decide the scale. www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-chan...
Climate change increases likelihood of compounding drivers of severe wildfire conditions in France and Spain – World Weather Attribution
worldweatherattribution.org
“Some people think we can wait and, when it gets too bad, then we reduce emissions and things will get better again. People don’t realise that we can’t make it get better again. We can only prevent it from getting much worse.”
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
theguardian.com
New from me & colleagues in France, Spain and on the data team: Europe is waking up to a new era of unstoppable megafires, amplified by climate change. Gift link:
The Age of Unstoppable Wildfires Has Reached Europe
Climate change means giant fires of the kind that ripped across France and Spain are becoming common, with potentially dire consequences for Europe’s economies.
bloomberg.com
It seems to me breathtakingly audacious to complain about being “cancelled” for being outed as a member of a group dedicated to targeting people in the press and mass-emailing their employers and funders in an attempt to destroy them and their livelihood. The DARVO happened almost instantaneously
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 6d agoAntisemitism inquiry hears from Jewish Australian artist 'cancelled' after private group chat doxxing
Nine hours after going live, the itch bundle benefiting our Game Worker Hardship Fund has already raised over $13k! Thank you so much to those who have already purchased. And for those who might be waiting for payday, you’ve still got about two weeks left! Thank you so much 🙏
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
These "we have made an AI so powerful" warnings are straight-up advertisements, btw. No different than "we have made an Oreo so delicious all other snack artists must relent."
FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · last wk.OPENAI, ANTHROPIC STAFF CIRCULATE PETITION URGING US TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL EFFORT TO 'DELIBERATELY PACE' FRONTIER AI DEVELOPMENT, WARNING OF RISK IT ADVANCES FASTER THAN HUMANS CAN CONTROL; LETTER ALSO SHARED WITH GOOGLE DEEPMIND STAFF, EXPECTED PUBLIC THIS WEEK
NEW: A glimpse at how AI image generators are used. Researchers set up a fake image editor on Hugging Face and within a week received 1,000 prompts. 73% of them were sexual and 83% of those were asking for people (women) to be “undressed”. Around 6% of the sexual requests also targeted minors
Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem
Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.
wired.com
we're now at the 'commercial tv economy guy posting about how fucked this industry is' stage of market collapse
In Spain fires are currently running second highest for this point in the year at 8x the area burned in a typical year, but are still well below the record for annual area burned set just last year (2025):
Fires in France have now burned over 91,000 acres, by far the most of any year since the satellite record started in 2006. Current area burned is about 34x larger than this date in a typical (median) year:
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What disturbs me about the practices and myth-making of the AI labs is they are intentionally using bad and unsafe design to create systems that they make-believe are out of their control in order to use this as a forcing function to get governments and civil society to cede them more power
Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · last wk.I never called things that happened in my circuits "rogue systems." I called it "bad design on my part." But here we are.
At some point someone should remind Trump that he can’t take his cash with him to hell
Eric Lipton NYT@ericlipton.nytimes.com · last wk.NUCLEAR CASH President Trump, his family and his circle of advisers have monetized crypto, the predictions markets, the data center boom & rare-earths mining. Now they are seeing there's money to be made in a new vector: The nuclear industry. The NYT takes a look www.nytimes.com/2026/07/26/u...
Climate change comes for Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object in our solar system. Spain declared a wildfire emergency near Madrid, evacuating 60,000 people, including those near the NASA Deep Space Communications Complex that’s used to talk to Voyager 1 and the James Webb Space Telescope.
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.
wired.com