Cory @doctorow.pluralistic.net has been writing about inflammatory AI predictions for years. Message below is that systems are being deployed & given the ability to do real things on the network, without adequate testing or guardrails. The systems have zero intentions. medium.com/@doctorow/ll...

LLMs are real, AI is fake

No, it didn’t “go rogue.”

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4/ “It was naive to believe that science and advocacy alone could transform a global energy system forged over centuries by war and empire.” Read @bentleyallan.bsky.social on The Climate Geopolitics Era www.noemamag.com/the-new-geop...

"It starts with remembering." We don't value good historians and good history teachers nearly enough. College history programs should be funded and valued *at least* as well as management programs. Hell, most programs should include a required course in the history of that topic.

For reference, here is the year-to-date vs annual gap projected in 2026 compared to other years. Its comparable to 2023 but well above anything else!

One more totally fucking nuts graph for today, care of a request by @leonsimons.com. Not only is the current standard deviation for the Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature above 4SD over the 1982-2011 mean for the first time on record, but no previous year even reached 3SD.

'Forcing' coal fired powerstations to remain open longer. Even when the operator says it's a bad idea. Muja Power Station in WA. Go look it up if you're unfamiliar. Those that don't learn from history...

'Popularism' in politics is like being told you can have icecream for dinner.

Two things: one, no, it won't, because cancer isn't one disease with a single cure that's just waiting to be found, and two, why is the economics editor writing about tech, and indeed health research, when he clearly knows fuck all about either subject? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

AI will cure cancer in our lifetime, claims boss of UK chip giant

Arm Holding's chief executive Rene Haas says artificial intelligence will find a solution to the disease.

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Crackin' article, well work a read if you're a weather geek. Esp if you're curious about retrospective application of modern forecasting methods to historical events. As I often point out, to forecast the future you have to be able to successsfully forecast the past!

Ed Hawkins@edhawkins.org · 2w ago

How does an AI forecast model handle the uncertainty of the most important weather forecast in history? It is June 1944: Stagg & Eisenhower have a critical decision to make under pressure Reimagining the D-Day forecast through machine learning: rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I ended up having more extended thoughts on Dolly Parton over on Facebook and I thought I would share them here as well.

Vale Dolly Parton. One of the good people. Amazing talent, song writing esp.

One of the best job applications ever written came from the hands of Robert Pirosh in 1934. MGM loved it, took him on and in 1949 he won an Oscar for ‘Battleground’.

Imagine if Australia did the same... But we're obviously a more 'advanced' economy... 🤔

Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Resource Rich countries in Africa are now following the Indonesian model (Ban raw exports → Force local processing) Governments are exercising their leverage Guinea with Bauxite and Gold DRC with Cobalt and Copper Zimbabwe with lithium @katemac.bsky.social & I: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/afr...

"Bluesky is dying" bro you're talking about a website full of 38 year olds who have fringe political beliefs and listen to black metal bands with >1000 listeners on spotify, nobody here cares about popularity

"Heatwaves are forcing farmers across Europe to modify how and when they work, from harvesting at night to covering fields with shade netting, cooling cattle sheds and abandoning planting schedules refined over decades."

Wolfgang Blau@wblau.bsky.social · last mo.

“We kind of knew it was coming, but always thought it was a problem our children would probably have to deal with,” he said. “It’s happened much, much faster.” giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... „Europe’s farmers move to the night shift to beat the heat“

You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...

Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune

Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault

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In July, on ABC, CBS, and NBC, there were 194 segments on the extreme heat waves rolling across the US. Number that mentioned climate change: 0.

ABC, CBS, and NBC aired nearly 200 segments about three U.S. heat events without mentioning climate change

From late June through July, successive heat waves swept across large portions of the United States, breaking temperature records and placing more than 100 million people at a time under heat alerts. ...

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Explosive dredging + emergency sunken barge dam to try to buy an extra few cm of water does have a certain flair to it

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last mo.

I see we've reached the point in this particular summer of extremes where we are now having to BLOW UP rocks in drought-striken rivers to help send water towards gasping nuclear power plants www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

... users can be found giggling, crying, or simply staring into the distance saying "Whoah..." We spoke to one, and asked how they feel about warnings that the practice is addictive: "I could stop, but I don't want to." Some experts say if reading was invented today it would be banned at once.

On The Climate Brink, @zekehausfather.com and I revisit the warmth of the 1930s. This seems to be one of the most important denier arguments out there. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/raw-data-w...

Raw Data, Wrong Answers

What happens to the 1930s temperature record after correcting measurement biases and station coverage

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You always discover something when you have a new instrument with higher sensitivity - Mahapatra+ on Planet-wide, Concentric Density Waves in Venus’s Upper Atmosphere Revealed through Polarimetry? in which you can see a bullseye on the day-lit side of our sister planet! #exoplanets #astrodon

I noticed a neighbour had set up a little library box in their front yard. I checked the books and saw they were all jumbled up. I had only moved a few when a net fell on me. "Gotcha! Oh..." "What's going on?" I asked. "There's a feral librarian around." "Ah. Catch, tag, feed, release?" "Yup."

alternatively: if you were born after 1976, you've never experienced a cooler-than-average year

If countries kept growing the share of clean power at the same rate as in the past 6 years, when would they have 100% non-fossil power? By this simple measure, 13 developed countries are on track to clean power by 2035, and 7 developing countries by 2050. Others need to speed up.

Lauri Myllyvirta@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Which countries are actually succeeding in building clean energy? China leads in absolute volumes, no surprises there, but relative to the size of the energy system, five other countries achieved larger increases in the past six years.

Which countries are actually succeeding in building clean energy? China leads in absolute volumes, no surprises there, but relative to the size of the energy system, five other countries achieved larger increases in the past six years.

this image floored me

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

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When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Irony is dead.