Your 'moment of doom' for June 29, 2026 ~ We have cookies. "This is not simply another climate statistic. It is a direct measure of the planet becoming darker." substack.com/home/post/p-...
We Are Losing Our Earthshine
As our planet loses its natural reflectivity, it absorbs ever more of the Sun's energy.
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Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
How to talk about
Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...
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If you want to help nature and climate in your region, or have science knowledge to contribute, see our draft report at naturerecord.org A bit of background here: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently
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The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds
Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño
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1️⃣ The #climate & #nature crisis isn’t a future issue. It threatens all aspects of British life now and demands urgent action. Ten top experts briefed MPs and other influential people at the National Emergency Briefing in Westminster. Clips from each talk in this thread. 🧵👇 #NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp
What do tipping points mean for climate policy? Climate change won't be smooth. Delay reaching emission targets by a few years, and you might not just get slightly worse climate impacts. You may unwittingly cross a line for unstoppable, massive changes. global-tipping-points.org
Global Tipping Points | understanding risks & their potential impact
Harmful tipping points in the natural world threaten humanity by disrupting life support systems and societal stability.
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Wow. Germany’s foreign secretary Wadephul buys into Rubio’s White Nationalist framing and repeats it as a positive. Shame. Shame.
Für sachliche Politik@sachlichepolitik.eurosky.social · 6mo ago#Wadephul: "Common cultural bonds, common language, common democratic approach". Offener geht's nicht.
The fact that large parts of the German media landscape “reported” on this White nationalist fever dream of a speech by Rubio as merely reaffirming the transatlantic alliance is so far removed from reality that it truly makes me speechless.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 6mo agoSecretary of State Marco Rubio giving a speech that is basically an extended version of the ethnonationalist Proud Boys oath: “I'm a proud Western chauvinist, I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”
“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”
„Das autoritäre Playbook verstehen – Demokratie organisieren“ Victoria Gulde & ich haben uns Ungarn, Polen, Italien sowie die USA angeschaut. Leitend war Frage: Was tut die extreme Rechte, wenn sie in Regierung kommt und was können wir lernen? thinktank-rechtsextremismus.campact.de/wp-content/u...
Shocked to hear the guy dressing up like a Nazi and terrorising minorities with his secret police is also antisemitic
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 6mo agoBovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
It is a lot more complicated to add keyboard shortcuts to your web app than you might initially think, featuring a big honkin' table. #a11ty ericwbailey.website/published/ho...
How an accessibility designer adds keyboard shortcuts to a web app
Keyboard shortcuts occupy a strange area for web design.
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Heute Vormittag kamen Nachrichten aus dem Iran und in den Iran durch, teilweise waren Video-Anrufe möglich. Eine Freundin schrieb mir nur kurz: Sie sei bei den Protesten gewesen, viele ihrer Freund:innen seien getötet worden. Sie sei tagelang blutgeschmiert gewesen. „Überall Blut“. Sie sei okay.
Innerhalb weniger Tage kündigen Sparkasse Göttingen und GLS-Bank alle Konten der Rote Hilfe e.V. Der Grund: US-Druck über SWIFT. Auch DKP, ABC und weitere linke Organisationen sind betroffen. Das ist kein Einzelfall. Das ist politisch. Jetzt ist Solidarität gefragt. rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/ko...
a good question to ask when someone says that ai can do some particular task is, "are the artifacts produced by that task what I desire, or are they just the evidence that the task has been performed?" today, most genai solutions faithfully generate plausible artifacts without the invisible work.
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping? Hear the latest science as I presented it last month at the ATLAS25 event in Helsinki. Let me know if anything is unclear, or if you see good reasons why your government shouldn't immediately act on this. 🌊 youtu.be/ULJXqOZuY-8
Is the Atlantic Ocean circulation close to tipping?
YouTube video by Earth System Analysis - Potsdam Institute
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It's more imperative than ever that you don't rely on platforms to get needed information out. Build websites!!
Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social · 10mo agoFollowing Apple’s removal of ICEBlock, both Google and Apple have removed a similar app for reporting ICE raids called Red Dot. Google states it removed the app for targeting a vulnerable group that is at risk of violence — ICE agents.
Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...
"the American realignment with Russia and against Ukraine and Europe is gathering pace—not merely in rhetoric but in reality" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The U.S. Is Switching Sides
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.
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I’ve spent the last year reading, thinking, and talking with workers about AI and I’ve concluded that AI is not a technology—it’s an *ideology*, and it must be engaged with as such. https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/toolmen
Toolmen
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool.
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I was told that the LLM can't work with a 2MB+ file so I'm quitting performance work and setting off to make every website huge instead
The Weather & Climate Livestream is officially LIVE from now until Sunday, June 1st! Our 💯 hours to #SaveAmericasForecasts starts today: wclivestream.com/watch/
🔥 ⚖️ #ClimateLitigation history happening right now at Higher Court of Hamm🇩🇪: follow with us this precedent-setting ruling in #SaulvsRWE. 🗣️ Today's decision cld be a turning point in efforts to make polluters pay for climate harms. 🧵 thread with context, insights from the Court & legal arguments👇
Big news this evening This EU ruling has been 7 years in the making www.iccl.ie/digital-data...
EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis
EU data protection authorities find that the consent popups that plagued Europeans for years are illegal. All data collected through them must be deleted. This decision impacts Google’s, Amazon’s and ...
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If you wanted to destroy something, having all the content live in the code would be a good way to do it www.wired.com/story/doge-d...
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No Host For Hate
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love to see people arguing that html isn’t a programming language in the year of our lord 2025 Like, buddy magic the gathering is turing complete, we have banner ads that commit crimes, i just saw someone make a quine in a TYPE DEFINITION, human ingenuity laughs at your parochial gatekeeping
