Johnny
@johnnyfreitag.bsky.social
Product, Design, Dev / Born @ 350ppm / SolarPunk🍃 / Degrowth advocate / Eco-populist
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
Meta launched a new AI optimism ad set to a song about human extinction | TechCrunch
David Bowie's song "Five Years," which Meta used in a supposedly inspiring advertisement, is about humans learning that they have five years left to live before the apocalypse.
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Why is AC so rare in much of Europe? Well, until recently it simply wasn't hot enough to need it. Here is the average number of days above 30C (86F) for major cities over time:
Die vergangenen Tage waren wir der AfD-Kreisverband Bochum. Zumindest konnten wir uns mit @digitalrechte.bsky.social und @correctiv.org als dieser in einem neuen KI-Kampagnentool der rechtsextremen Partei bewegen und es ausgiebig testen. Unsere Analyse: digitalrechte.de/news/propaga...
I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.NEW: This is the story of how one of the most influential climate papers in history came to exist thanks to one of the companies most responsible for causing the climate crisis — and one with a financial stake in the technologies described in the paper. w/ @drilledmedia.bsky.social
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
We have a plausible explanation for why the US military underperformed badly against Iran and did far less damage to the Iranian military than it had claimed. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, official says
Top defense official says data centers powering trillionaire’s chatbot are critical to national security
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people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly
Last week, KPMG — one of the world’s largest professional services firms — published a report about the benefits of AI, which itself had hallucinated or misrepresented 40 of the 45 citations. This sucks! www.wheresyoured.at/brokenomics/
![In a story that’s a little on the nose, The Financial Times reported last week (covering a study by GPTZero) that a KPMG report (that’s now been taken down) about the benefits of AI had exaggerated the scale of its adoption through multiple AI hallucinations:
The October report, “Redefining excellence in the age of agentic AI”, made numerous false claims about the use of AI by organisations including the Swiss bank UBS, the UK’s National Health Service and the public transit groups Swiss Federal Railways and Transport for London.
The inaccuracies were identified as AI hallucinations by the research group GPTZero and verified by the FT. After being alerted to the issue, UBS said it would ask KPMG to remove the false claims, and the Big Four firm on Thursday pulled the report from some of its websites.
The KPMG report claimed global wealth manager UBS “integrates AI agents across investment advisory, risk management and compliance monitoring”. A spokesperson for [UBS] told the FT the assertions were “factually incorrect”.
The report also included hallucinations about AI agent use by Swiss Federal Railways, Transport for London and NHS Greater Manchester, fabricating entire integrations and product lines in a report that was likely used to justify billions of dollars of spend.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreif7npmgt2xkejhx75fh4g5amn3raeeekwbkn6xywqudyce4e5vry4)
![Per GPTZero, 40 out of 45 of the report’s citations are either fake, make critical mistakes about the contents, or lack enough detail to be used as proof. They also believe that whoever wrote the report let the AI do most of the work:
Our team suspects that the authors of Total Experience used an AI-powered referencing tool to generate the report’s citations because the errors are both mistakes typical of Large Language Models (LLMs) and consistent throughout the reference list. A human would not consistently paraphrase titles, mistake topics for authors (e.g., citation 9), or repeat information across multiple components (e.g., citation 2).
GPTZero also notes that the report is being cited by LLMs as evidence to prove the success of AI agents, poisoning the already-hallucinatory well of information that these models draw upon.
KPMG has annual revenues of over $39 billion, and sells something called KPMG Workbench which promises to “supercharge your business with [its] multi-agent AI platform, combining advanced, trusted AI agents with insights and deep industry expertise of KPMG professionals.” I assume these are the same professionals that greenlit the report.
It’s likely that this was a mixture of laziness and ignorance, but I also think it might be a situation where the person (or people) writing the report simply couldn’t find any real citations to prove their point, choosing instead to let an LLM crap out some thought-slop in the hopes that nobody would notice.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qc6xzgctorfsm35w6i3vdebx/bafkreig6wdjbbgvudzkszqzrtikqwajbrbvfnktcvb6rladoxhnjrznl6m)
Autofahrer rast mit 98km/h durch Berlin, tötet Fußgänger, und begeht Fahrerflucht. Urteil gerade: 22 Monate auf Bewährung. Klimaaktivist blockiert wiederholt für 30 min eine Straße um die Gesellschaft für die Klimakrise aufzurütteln. Urteil: 22 Monate Knast ohne Bewährung Ein völliger Wahnsinn!
Last year, we shared a paper showing that Labour's accommodation of the radical right did not work. We now have a new version of the paper online: osf.io/preprints/so...
China has 420 million e-bikes and a high-speed rail network that is larger than the combined total of other countries.
Technology Connections@techconnectify.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhile we seem stuck innovating better ways to burn through tokens, actually exciting shit is happening in China. insideevs.com/news/797182/...
Normie take, but Game of Thrones *is* a good analogy for climate change - not just because of the humans squabbling amongst themselves as their doom approaches, but also because the final season absolutely sucks.
If the choices available are all bad across the board, and policies and incentives around social programs are setting individuals up for failure, the system should be improved before putting blame on the individual… right? RIGHT?
Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS@dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 3mo agoI guess the individual choices of the Swiss allow them to live to 84 years, compared to the choices made by my fellow Americans that lose us 6 years to die at an average age of 78. Can't possibly be policies, social programs, infrastructure, and science. Just make better choices people 🙄🤦
France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.
I wholeheartedly agree and i the same breath i am cursing my ADHD brain for denying me the ability to actually *write*. I’ve got desk drawers full of ideas and no patience to put it all in writing.
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3mo agothe secret to being a good writer is to be a good reader
Bluesky has been a boon overall, in my opinion. X’s algorithm is emphasizing rage bait and right wing content. The fallacy in David’s argument is positing that the hostile platform should be the arena for that debate. It’s a losing proposition from the start.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo agoIt's hard to avoid the conclusion that Bluesky has been a net negative for US politics. They corralled everyone on the left into a little glass fishbowl where they shout at one another & everyone else ignores them. Meanwhile, all the pols & institutions stayed on X & are being dragged farther right.
Did you know that off the coast of Australia's Northern Territory between September and March, at 3pm every day, a thunderstorm forms? That's *every single day*. It’s so eerily predictable that it’s been given a name: HECTOR THE CONVECTOR. I'm not making this up, and I just had to tell someone.
Our FREE film THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE w/ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is closing in on 200K views on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR4e...
The secret history of Neoliberalism | The Invisible Doctrine | Full Film
YouTube video by Journeyman Pictures
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Wind- und Solarenergie: 2023 zehn Milliarden Euro Wertschöpfung und 51.000 Vollzeitarbeitsplätze. Davon 5,5 Milliarden Euro in den Regionen. Erreicht D seine Ausbauziele, kann diese auf 21 Milliarden Euro jährlich ab2033 steigen, Vollzeitarbeitsplätze auf 101.600. www.ioew.de/news/article...
Ausbau erneuerbarer Energien: Wertschöpfung in den Regionen könnte sich bis 2033 verdoppeln
Deutsche Städte und Landkreise können ihre Einnahmen aus erneuerbaren Energien mehr als verdoppeln, wenn sie die Ausbauziele für Wind- und Solaranlagen erreichen: von heute 5,5 auf 12,4 Milliarden Eur...
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"It seems to be true that it is on the whole the more active, intelligent, and original men among the intellectuals who most frequently incline toward socialism, while its opponents are often of an inferior caliber." - Friedrich Hayek, 1949
Worth noting that Donald Trump just announced the end of NATO and the Special Relationship in one tweet.
🐴🤡 Lavrov: Moscow really has "close relations" with Tehran, the countries have concluded an agreement on military-technical cooperation, so Russia supplies its Iranian colleagues with "certain types of military products."
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
What the US is purposefully doing to Cuba should be considered genocide.
