You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

"Most states have a reckless endangerment offense. These laws criminalize reckless conduct that creates a substantial risk of injuring another person. Recklessness means knowing something is dangerous–eg predicting your pollution would cause “more violent weather”–& engaging in that conduct anyway."

Aaron Regunberg@aaronregunberg.bsky.social · last wk.

My first piece in @us.theguardian.com. Next time you hear a climate disaster described as a crime, remember that this isn’t just rhetoric. These really are crimes -- reckless endangerment, risking catastrophe, manslaughter. It’s time we treated them that way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don't look away Look FOR a way They exist And they need you To insist #Climate

Mark, you’re announcing oil and gas pipelines like you want the parks to burn down. Pick à lane. You’re in the burn the planet lane at the moment.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · last wk.

Every Canadian should be able to see our national parks. That’s why we made them free to visit all summer — with the Canada Strong Pass.

PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that this phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

A rational, credible audience wouldn’t have been “awkwardly silent.” A rational, credible audience would have booed, and walked out. Staying silent as Trump attacks female reporters has been one of the biggest failures of a consistently failing American media.

The Daily Beast@thedailybeast.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump was met with awkward silence as he used a speech that was supposed to celebrate press freedom to attack a female reporter.

#ButTheEconomy they said. Can't act on climate now, they said. Have to be realistic, they said. The people dreaming in colour weren't the climate activists, but the industrialists who convinced the world that this wouldn't happen. Now it's happening. #Carney #Carbon #Pipelines #CdnPoli

Posthaste: Brace yourself, we're about to be hit by what could be the mother of all supply shocks

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Dale Smith@journodale.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just complete horseshit from Carney on his pipeline justification.

Mister Carney? You seeing this? Investing in a dying (and ecocidal) industry is not just immoral, hypocritical and vile: It is short-sighted, economic suicide. Wake up, Canada: Alberta suffers from Dutch disease and is taking us all down with it. #Pipeline #LNG #Canpoli #climate #oil #ev

Julia Simon@juliaradio.bsky.social · 4w ago

In today's story about the ongoing Iran war, oil and gas analysts write: "If China's car industry were handing out a salesman of the year award for 2026 President Trump would be a leading contender." They're talking about Chinese EVs, folks. IEA projects oil demand to fall this year🛢️ More here ⬇️

MAGA: Proof that the education system has a leftist bias. What it has is an objective reality bias—facts don’t change. Climate science, gender studies, epidemiology are not opinion; they are humanity’s search for understanding. The GOP knows: People who don’t know better are the easiest to fool.

Americans’ ideological differences have decreased by race, increased by education

Abstract. Racial differences in partisan vote have been studied extensively, with recent work documenting shifts in longstanding differences. Recently, att

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I give you: The alternative to urban densification. To the reviled 15-minute city. Ladies and gentlemen, behold: The American Dream. @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social #Sprawl

Say Trump is Iosef; The office of POTUS, Viggo; Say anyone who protests, contests, resists is Aurelio… Who might John Wick be? Not one person—not you, not me. No, Baba Yaga is the growing threat of a popular uprising. This entire scene reads like a lesson in revolutionary history:

There's a 6th grade bully going around school punching kindergarteners, teachers, the principal, and everyone just takes it, because the bully's dad is a mobster who owns the school district. Trump isn't the mobster—he's the bitch-ass bully. SCOTUS, Congress & the office of POTUS are the dad.

America's 250th birthday spent talking to a foreign tyrant who has spent his entire career undermining US hegemony. All while America watches and gossips, complacently. How can anyone think this will end well without a general strike? (NO ONE shows up to work until the saboteurs are removed)

Putin and Trump held ‘businesslike’ 90-minute July 4 call, Moscow says | CNN

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Donald Trump in a July 4 call lasting nearly 90 minutes in which the US leader again offered to help end the Ukraine war, according to Russia’s foreign mini...

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

Nothing to see here everyone. Move along. #Propaganda

Nothing to see here everyone. Move along. #Propaganda

White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US

It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

Keep silently watching. Keep making excuses as to why you can't organize a general strike. Keep believing there even will be midterm elections, let alone fair ones.

Everything you need to know about the American owned media in Canada. The senior editor of the National Post whining that we aren't American.

"Wait for it…" But sir, we’re driving into a wall "Waaaaait…" 🤨 "Not yet…" ☹️ "Almost there" 😠 WE KNOW! The wall is UPON US! "Be patient! The econom—" 💥🔥☠️🔥 #Carney #CdnPoli #Pipeline #Climate Not only is this environmental madness—the EU & China are transitioning. Canada WILL be left behind.

Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved

"Things are tough right now. And as the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, quit doing the hard stuff and just cling to what kind of worked in the past.'"

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Keep silently watching. Keep making excuses as to why you can't organize a general strike. Keep believing there even will be midterm elections, let alone fair ones.

Acting DNI Bill Pulte begins firing dozens of intelligence officials

The latest move comes two weeks after Pulte’s arrival at the agency, under orders from President Donald Trump to downsize.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

This is not normal. This should not be treated as gossip. America, WTF are you doing right now?

This is not normal. This should not be treated as gossip. America, WTF are you doing right now?

DOJ refuses to hand over Epstein files after judge’s order

DOJ declines to turn over redacted information after judge’s order to release documents or explain why they’re being withheld

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

Do not normalize this. Do not act as if it does not matter or does not apply "because we know: he's corrupt". People are rotting in jail for less. So much less. And there are actual victims to this crime. He is not only illegally getting rich — he's doing it at the expense of others. SAY IT.

Brexit, MAGA, climate inaction all have this in common: Misinformation masquerading as "fair and balanced" news; Behavioral manipulation as "engagement-promoting" algorithms. Confronting reality starts and ends with what information we are fed. We either end media malpractice or we die. #ElbowsUp

LyndaGood@lyndagood.bsky.social · last mo.

So a poll says Donald Trump is the worst American in history Another group says he’s the greatest. Think about that. Same country. Same guy. Two completely different realities.

“I’ve seen a lot of people complaining that they changed their workflow to maximize AI usage, and now they can run out in 2-3 days, especially when using agents or similar or using the latest Claude model. Lots of angsty messages in Slack like ‘now how do I do my job,’” The other shoe drops.

Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive

Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

"The more important question is whether organisations deploying AI agents understand the risk well enough to build responsibly, rather than discovering, too late, that they have automated beyond their capacity to verify." They do not.

Remember: Always demand "more EVs". Don't demand an end of cars in cities. This paper shows how this never works and why this is a fatal "illusion". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I call it "delusion" because we want to believe in it. We aren't just stupid per se - we want to be blind.

Hugo@nonviolence.bsky.social · last mo.

Clarification. When it comes to symptoms like CO2 of fossil fuels, we can openly demand "less". When it comes to causes and drivers like population, eating animals or cars, we cannot openly demand "less". We can only demand "more EVs", "more solar" or "more lab grown meat". This cannot work.

Land of the free, they (still) call it. People really think this is all just temporary. A blip. In the back of their minds, they're already primed to flaunt American democracy, as soon as they win the midterms. As if their passivity wasn't costing humanity its last hope for a survivable future.

Former Olympic canoeist indicted by a grand jury after arrest at the Reflecting Pool | CNN Politics

David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, has been indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC, Superior Court, after being arrested last month when he reached into the Reflecting Pool.

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#ETTD

Do not normalize this. Do not act as if it does not matter or does not apply "because we know: he's corrupt". People are rotting in jail for less. So much less. And there are actual victims to this crime. He is not only illegally getting rich — he's doing it at the expense of others. SAY IT.

Trump Made 327 Stock Trades 1 Day Before Tariff Pause: Filings

President Donald Trump is back in Washington after his inaugural flight on board the controversial new Air Force One that was gifted by the government of Qatar. It comes as an NBC News review of the p...

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Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

"The more important question is whether organisations deploying AI agents understand the risk well enough to build responsibly, rather than discovering, too late, that they have automated beyond their capacity to verify." They do not.

The ceiling problem

Large language models face a fundamental computational limit that causes undetected errors in complex tasks. Hybrid AI systems combining models with verification tools offer a practical solution.

financialexpress.com

The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

"The industry response has been predictable. Scaling will fix it. Chains of agents checking one another’s work will fix it. Retrieval augmentation will fix it. These interventions are real and often useful. They move the ceiling upward. They do not remove it." Big A.I. is selling us a lie. #LLMs

"The industry response has been predictable. Scaling will fix it. Chains of agents checking one another’s work will fix it. Retrieval augmentation will fix it. These interventions are real and often useful. They move the ceiling upward. They do not remove it." Big A.I. is selling us a lie. #LLMs

The ceiling problem

Large language models face a fundamental computational limit that causes undetected errors in complex tasks. Hybrid AI systems combining models with verification tools offer a practical solution.

financialexpress.com

The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

Make it make sense. "Hallucinations aren't a temporary engineering challenge, but a permanent mathematical reality." Big Tech keeps upscaling and forcing a fundamentally flawed technology down our throats. Not for progress: for profit. And because no one in charge is doing their homework, we get:

Make it make sense. "Hallucinations aren't a temporary engineering challenge, but a permanent mathematical reality." Big Tech keeps upscaling and forcing a fundamentally flawed technology down our throats. Not for progress: for profit. And because no one in charge is doing their homework, we get:

RAM prices are about to rise nearly 50 percent. And it gets worse.

AI continues to make everything more expensive.

mashable.com

The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦@thebullypulpit.bsky.social · last mo.

AI's fundamental problem—reliability—can't be fixed with more servers or better guardrails. "…the longer a chat goes on, the more distant memory system prompts [guardrails] become." "…we’ve been misled about the nature of this technology." #Hallucinations #LLM #AI