This is great for the climate (and yet another court overturning for the Trump Admin.)
🚨 I'm trying to think of the most trustworthy reliable expert (Mark Carney doesn't qualify as an expert on environment - at least not the part how to save it.. but how to destroy it for profit? He's a pro!) on AI Data Centres Erin Brockovich is your girl! 👇 open.substack.com/pub/erinbroc...
Where's The Water?
California, Virginia, and Colorado. A lawsuit, a cover-up, and a collapse. Here's what these three areas tell us about the future of our water.
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“We have to become living ambassadors to an irresistible future. We can’t just be against.” — Jane Fonda on NorCal Public Media’s “A Fighting Chance.” norcalpublicmedia.org/a-fighting-c...
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As if we didn’t need another reason to pump the brakes on Big Tech’s data center fever dreams… Our research team just took a deep dive into how data centers are turning to toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” for liquid cooling. Read more here: https://fwwat.ch/4xfE0UV
I'm all for "climate adaptation," but honestly I don't know how we can adapt to this level of climate disruption of agriculture. Farmers can't "adapt" to chronic drought and heatwaves. Crops don't "adapt" -- they wither. I don't think we fully understand where we're headed.
Britain could face food shortages as drought continues, farmers warn
Farmers battle to salvage what they can of their crops as heatwave set to continue
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Gro Harlem Brundtland, the Norwegian PM who defined 'sustainable development' in 1987, led the country through its oil boom. In May 2026 Norway 🇳🇴 opened 70 new exploration blocks, 38 in the Arctic Barents Sea. It plans to keep producing for decades, even as the planet burns 🔥
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 3d agoSince 1989, the CO₂ from #Norway 🇳🇴 oil has outweighed everything the country has emitted at home in its entire history. Now at 13.8 Gt from the crude, against 2.8 Gt of national emissions since 1751. Counting gas too, it is 20 Gt.
Daily reminder that we don’t have a president. We have a mob boss masquerading as one.
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.
"The #climate we live in today is the least extreme climate you will experience in your lifetimes because of ongoing fossil fuel emissions."
Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 5d agoThe missing words in the climate conversation are not human-caused climate change, but fossil fuel emissions. By Hayley Fowler and myself: theconversation.com/was-this-hea...
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers #Climate
‘It’s too fast, too big’: speed of climate crisis is devastating crops, say farmers
Drought and extreme heat are killing plants, driving up prices while also making some farms economically unviable
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Not a fraud probe. Scary how we need a reality gloss on just about every headline.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices
Shell's net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...
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What do these companies have in common: -Amazon -Walmart -FedEx -McDonald's -Dollar General -DoorDash -Instacart They're all highly profitable, give their CEOs lucrative salaries, and pay thousands of workers starvation wages — making them reliant on SNAP and Medicaid.
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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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.
CAN'T MAKE IT UP: ICE deported a man to Mexico in violation of a court order in Nov., acknowledged the error and returned him to the U.S. Then they deported him to El Salvador, in violation of court-ordered torture protection. He's currently imprisoned. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain ->Futurism | More on "AI destroying books for training" at BigEarthData.ai | #AI
AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain
Email address Thank you! Traditionally, books have been good for two things: reading, and looking nice on a shelf. But AI companies are interested in neither. To those building large language models, books are nothing more than fodder to be devoured en masse before being spit out like fishbone. Often, they’re happy to use digital books — or even better, pirated digital books, as Meta has been accused of doing, and as Anthropic was forced to pay a $1.5 billion settlement to authors for also doing. But many companies, including Anthropic, have turned to ingesting physical books instead, which they can buy countless used copies of on the cheap. According to the settled lawsuit, Anthropic used a hydraulic powered cutting machine to neatly remove the pages from the books it procured from book resellers and then scanned them using industrial-grade imaging equipment. In other words, it was literally ripping off authors’ books to train its AI. This process took advantage of a legal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder’s say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physical texts into digital ones — rather...
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Yesterday afternoon 14:09 in Lacanau Océan in France. A pale red sun through the smoke tinged everything in Mars style orange. Welcome in the climate emergency! Despite all denial of the fossil fuel lobby, it’s scientific fact: CO2 emissions heat up Earth & make fires worse. 🔥🔥🔥
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health and quietly moved your medical records outside HIPAA ->Startup Fortune | More on "ChatGPT Health HIPAA privacy risks" at BigEarthData.ai | #Health #OpenAI #Chatgpt
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health and quietly moved your medical records outside HIPAA
ChatGPT Health went live for all US users on July 23, 2026, letting anyone connect Apple Health data and hospital records directly to the AI chatbot. The moment they do, those records lose their federal privacy protections. The product is genuinely useful. Connect your Apple Health data, your records from Epic or Oracle Health systems, your One Medical visits, your Function Health labs, and ChatGPT can pull it all into context without you having to paste a thing. Ask about your last blood panel, and it will compare it to the one before. Ask how your sleep is tracking against your workout load, and it has the numbers. OpenAI says none of this is used to train its models or serve you ads. The feature rolled out July 23 to all logged-in US users aged 18 and older, Free through Pro, on web and iOS, after a January pilot that went badly enough to require a full relaunch. But here's what the product page doesn't lead with: the moment you upload those records to ChatGPT, they stop being HIPAA-protected data. Permanently. HIPAA applies to covered entities, meaning hospitals, insurers, and their business associates. OpenAI is none of those things. As...
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"Under the rule, destroying an endangered species’ nest or habitat would no longer be considered illegal." (gift article)
Trump Cuts Habitat Protections for Endangered Species (Gift Article)
The move ends a safeguard that had been in place for 50 years and could open up crucial habitats to drilling and mining.
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Brooke @brookegladstone.bsky.social, How do you know that Daniel Suhr…actually “sees” his pro-Trump campaign as in “the public interest?” Please do an episode about how the media, by mind-reading sincerity into blatantly cynical right-wing power grabs, confers undeserved legitimacy. 💖 you.
On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 5mo agoTo understand the methods that Trump’s FCC is using to put pressure on television networks, we have to go back to the 1920s. A history lesson on how we got here, with @jimrutenberg.bsky.social: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
@jimrutenberg.bsky.social, you’re understating the danger here. The fasc-a-garchs are trying to turn broadcast media into pure propaganda. Why aren’t they worried about a Dem admin doing it in the future? Maybe this is how they ensure there won’t be one.
On the Media@onthemedia.bsky.social · 5mo agoTo understand the methods that Trump’s FCC is using to put pressure on television networks, we have to go back to the 1920s. A history lesson on how we got here, with @jimrutenberg.bsky.social: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
"This is the last time you will see me. They brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end." — Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya Tell Congress: Act NOW to save Dr. Abu Safiya's life: www.imeupolicyproject.org/free-dr-abu-...
Tell Congress: Act NOW to Save Dr. Abu Safiya's Life — IMEU Policy Project
Dr. Abu Safiya should be free. Doctors should not be tortured for saving lives. Tell Congress to act now and secure Dr. Abu Safiya's freedom and save his life.
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