Troublemakers
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We're a Seattle-area climate-focused NVDA group dedicated to training, supporting, and activating folks working for climate justice and aligned movements.... Because business as usual is trouble for us all. Troublemakerscommunity.org
“…the researchers found that opening up to chatbots about personal issues made some people feel not better but worse.”
AI companions may worsen loneliness for vulnerable users
Stanford research finds that users with limited social networks who seek emotional support from AI chatbots experience lower well-being.
news.stanford.edu
@cantwell.senate.gov Wishing us "Happy #PrideMonth" isn't enough. Please stand with the community and drop your support for KOSA, legislation that targets LGBTQ+ Americans. Please also oppose the SCREEN Act and other bad internet bills, at the August 5 hearing and (if necessary) on the Senate floor
China scale and China price. First they came for Green Technology. Now they are coming for AI @katemac.bsky.social "At first I thought Bloomberg forgot to add DeepSeek's pricing to the chart." - @AndrewCurran_
Presumably he's not TRYING to destroy the US, but he sure as hell is. Nor is he TRYING to get the rest of the world to race to clean renewables either—but he sure as hell is. Put the two together, and it's geopolitically precarious, but also full of possibility. If we fight like hell, that is.
Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 2d agoAbsolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.
This is ridiculously scary. Yes, we are currently talking about ballrooms and reflecting pools and inflation and Iran and Venezuela and Epstein and crypto grift and the moral rot of the GOP. But all that is going to be forgotten soon. Shit is about to get real, as they say.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'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.
"WE THE FUCKING JUDGE SON" New York, I love you. I love you so fucking much. Via wali_talks on IG
Here's how you do it!
Mayor Katie B. Wilson@mayor.seattle.gov · last wk.Feeding every student in Seattle is a goal the City Council and I share, and I am grateful we were able to work together to find a fiscally responsible path forward. Full release: https://council.seattle.gov/2026/07/28/mayor-councilmembers-agree-on-plan-to-improve-food-access-for-seattle-students/
You know what this ISN'T? An LLM. Once more for the folks in the back: nearly all of the actually useful, genuinely promising things that AI can do for us have nothing to do with LLMs & planet-devouring data centers. Hope, not hype. Serving us, not serving us up to Big Tech. @sciam.bsky.social
AI finds hidden ECG signal that predicts sudden cardiac death risk
A new model uses a routine ECG to flag people at high risk of sudden cardiac death—and reveals a warning sign in the heart’s electrical activity
scientificamerican.com
Submit in the next hour! Side with Habitat for Humanity, and housing for all.
The Urbanist@theurbanist.org · last wk.Support SEPA reform in Seattle by asking the city council to end predatory delay procedures from city law. The big vote is today! Habitat for Humanity has an online letter 📧 campaign here that is easy to fill out and send: habitatforhumanityseattle.quorum.us/campaign/164...
"AI opponents have landed on a strategy that successfully generates collective action & challenges the industry where it is most vulnerable. And this guy thinks what everyone ought to do instead is focus on their own personal decisions & vague social norms." Sound familiar, climate peeps?
The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.
I have a
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"AI opponents have landed on a strategy that successfully generates collective action & challenges the industry where it is most vulnerable. And this guy thinks what everyone ought to do instead is focus on their own personal decisions & vague social norms." Sound familiar, climate peeps?
The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.
I have a
davekarpf.beehiiv.com
Industrial policy sometimes has "Governments picking winners." But it just as often has "Losers picking Governments" US AI companies losing to open-source Chinese AI companies are likely to go to US govt to create themselves a 'moat'
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It does, in fact, lighten our steps a little. But there's still so far to go!
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · last wk.Why aren't we having more fun with this? www.cnbc.com/2026/07/27/s...
"Their 14-month-old daughter, Giovanni, was found crying beside her mother’s body in southern Guatemala."
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last wk.Overland couple shot dead in Guatemala after local ICE stop led to deportations www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
Peat in its natural state is fire resistant. Healthy boglands protect adjacent forests and grasslands from drought and fire. But under a warming climate and mismanagement, peat fires can wreak havoc and burn for months. Important thread by @davidrvetter.bsky.social
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2w agoI join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵
It's not possible to keep track of climate catastrophes anymore—they slide over our awareness (if we see them at all) & disappear. They used to be sporadic & local, now they're constant & often much larger. The network effects on food supply, migration, etc. will be terrifying, within years.
Robin Boardman@robinboardman.com · 3w agoTen days of water. That is what is left in northern Italy. Salt from the Adriatic pushing upstream into soil that fed generations. Emergency meetings next week. Crops already turning. We bear witness to a land dying on a timeline measured in days, not decades. phys.org/news/2026-07...
Every effort towards decency right now, really matters. Find ways to do right by your fellow humans, especially the ones who are suffering most under this regime. Other beings too. Defend the vulnerable everywhere.
KUOW Public Radio@kuow.org · 2w agoWhen ICE agents make a stop and a car is left behind, it’s usually towed and impounded. Then fees accumulate and it’s on the family to pay. When Angel Tepale gets the call, he holds the vehicles at his own small lot and tries to find the rightful owners, all for no charge.
Flip the script so that what's extreme is requiring people to buy a $50,000, dinosaur-juice-burning, 6000-lb machine to take the kids to school or get a gallon of milk... ...while riding a $5,000, 70-lb bike powered by a combo of a trickle of electricity and your own two legs is just normal.
The Boston LOL 💜 🚲 ⚡@thebostonlol.bsky.social · 2w agoThe clownery for clicks. Or maybe starting a new moral panic 😮💨 @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
It's not possible to keep track of climate catastrophes anymore—they slide over our awareness (if we see them at all) & disappear. They used to be sporadic & local, now they're constant & often much larger. The network effects on food supply, migration, etc. will be terrifying, within years.
Robin Boardman@robinboardman.com · 3w agoTen days of water. That is what is left in northern Italy. Salt from the Adriatic pushing upstream into soil that fed generations. Emergency meetings next week. Crops already turning. We bear witness to a land dying on a timeline measured in days, not decades. phys.org/news/2026-07...
Ten days of water. That is what is left in northern Italy. Salt from the Adriatic pushing upstream into soil that fed generations. Emergency meetings next week. Crops already turning. We bear witness to a land dying on a timeline measured in days, not decades. phys.org/news/2026-07...
Drought threatens irrigation in northern Italy
Water reserves are being depleted rapidly in northern Italy, threatening farming as the region's main river dries up, local officials warned Friday.
phys.org
When ICE agents make a stop and a car is left behind, it’s usually towed and impounded. Then fees accumulate and it’s on the family to pay. When Angel Tepale gets the call, he holds the vehicles at his own small lot and tries to find the rightful owners, all for no charge.
This Seattle-area mechanic offers free tows for vehicles left behind after ICE arrests
When ICE agents make a stop and a car is left behind, it’s usually towed and impounded. Then fees accumulate and it’s on the family to pay. When Angel Tepale gets the call, he holds the vehicles at his own small lot and tries to find the rightful owners, all for no charge.
kuow.org
people make fun of Sun Tzu for being not terribly profound stuff like "do not needlessly anger your allies before you need them" but you do kinda gotta hand it to the guy, White House would have been well served with someone who knew those things
Holiday in the climate emergency. No that’s not AI or edited, just a snapshot I just took with my phone on Lacanau beach in France. What future will this boy grow up in? It is in our hands, but time is running out.
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Troublemakers@troublemakers.bsky.social · 3mo agoHoly Toledo! It's been 10 years, to the day, since Break Free PNW, part of a global day of action against fossil fuels. Watch this great video! It was a 3-day 3-ring circus: a campout blockade of the oil train tracks, an indigenous march, a climate justice educational event in Anacortes, & more.