I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Forbes@forbes.com · 2mo ago

Scientists have reached a consensus that human behavior is a big driver of climate change—but Americans aren't buying it.

37/ 🙌 This wide support for the resolution demonstrates that there remains an overwhelming majority of countries in favor of the rule of law & strengthened international cooperation grounded on legal obligations! It also highlights that only a very narrow minority seeks to hold progress hostage.

Congratulations to Vanuatu, and to all Pacific Island students leading this effort. And I’m glad to see 🇸🇪 supporting this resolution. Multilateralism is still alive.

🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck@duycks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

36/ 🥁🥁🥁 Now comes the moment of truth: the 🇺🇳 UNGA vote to adopt the resolution as tabled by Vanuatu! And what a success: ✅ 141 in favour, ❌ 8 against, 🙊 28 abstention... 🎉 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝! 🎉

19/ Amb. Tevi concludes with a powerful statement: "This day will be remembered. It will be remembered as the moment the UN received the considered judgment of its highest Court on the defining challenge of our time...

Two fun stories to view side-by-side: - An Australian psychiatrist is refusing patients that don't agree to the use of an AI scribe - A new Canadian study finding AI scribes have a shockingly high failure rate www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Har skrivit i Forskning & Framsteg om önationers kamp för klimaträttvisa. Nästa vecka ställs frågan på sin spets i FN. En otrolig berättelse om studenter som gjorde det omöjliga, och om livet i klimatkrisens frontlinje. fof.se/artikel/stil...

Stillahavsöarna som kämpar för att överleva | Forskning & Framsteg

Ett vulkanutbrott i norr, återkommande översvämningar, och på det ett hot direkt från Donald Trump. – Hur sover du om nätterna? frågar jag Vanuatus klimatminister …

fof.se

a new investigative journalism audit of the Kenyan SHA system-AI that calculates affordability for access to healthcare-just dropped & its scandalous "The AI income predictor systematically overcharged those who could least afford it while undercharging the well-off" sha.africauncensored.online

Hiding Behind AI

How SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest.

sha.africauncensored.online

👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Microsoft in Talks to Ax Key Energy Pledge Amid Data Center Boom

Microsoft Corp. is in discussions to shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centers, according...

bloomberg.com

South American investigative journalists pioneered the use of satellite data and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon. Now, geospatial foundation models are making those same methods accessible to journalists around the world. www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/geos...

Geospatial AI is reinventing the rainforest beat

Environmental journalists are pairing satellite imagery and machine learning to expose illegal mining across the Amazon.

niemanlab.org

Climate shocks are real (even if our Administration doesn’t believe in science)

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo ago

"Extreme heat is threatening the world’s food systems, with farmers unable to work outside, livestock experiencing stress and crop yields falling, putting the livelihoods of more than a billion people in peril..." Sadly, climate concern is woke, so I guess a billion people just gotta burn/starve.

Fun fact: total global data centre power consumption is about double the power consumption of total global EVs (including two-wheelers, trucks, everything) (about the same, for hyperscalers only)

I don’t want to point any fingers, but we used to be a country of genuine innovation.

Deepfakes, synthetic media, AI slop etc. have often been discussed in terms of a «crisis of truth» or an «erosion of trust». Fair enough. But in my impression, there’s something else that gets lost in waves of AI slop flooding our screens: a «sense of wonder» – surprise, amazement and awe 1/

Skrev några rader om politiska skandaler, ansvarsutkrävande, och politiker som attackerar medierna... www.vk.se/2026-04-16/m...

Sofia Mirjamsdotter: Hur hamnade vi här?

På senare år har politiker i allt större utsträckning kommit att ifrågasätta de fria medierna, enskilda journalister och deras metoder. Det började med väldigt radikala uttalanden från Sverigedemokrat...

vk.se

Bukele will give Google access to the health data of all Salvadorans. elpais.com/america/2026...

Bukele cede a la IA de Google la gestión médica en El Salvador: “Estamos creando el mejor sistema del mundo”

El programa se sustenta en Gemini y podrá crear desde un expediente clínico hasta dar seguimiento al tratamiento de pacientes con enfermedades crónicas. “En algún momento estaremos tratando el cáncer”...

elpais.com

Nations are now waking up to the fact that electrification = national security. Indonesia is the world's fourth most populous country.

This is real

My newsfeed here on Bsk is completely out of control. Threats of imminent WW3, internal academic jokes, chirping AI-news, and fashion tips.

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

“Serendipity doesn’t come from efficiency”. Exactly!

Cameron Blevins@cblevins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is so, so well-articulated.

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

Laura Keating@lorekeating.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Kim Jong-un, North Korea’s leader, ​said American attacks on Iran justified his decision to expand his country’s nuclear arsenal despite international sanctions, state media reported on Tuesday.

How North Korea’s Kim Jong-un Is Using the Iran War to Justify His Nuclear Arsenal

He delivered a lengthy speech at his country’s rubber-stamp Parliament, declaring that his nuclear power will shield his country from American hostility.

nyti.ms

Newsguard | Google’s reverse-image tool is producing inaccurate AI-generated summaries of fabricated and misleading visuals tied to the U.S.-Iran conflict. open.substack.com/pub/newsguar...

Google’s “AI Overviews” Supercharge Iran Hoaxes

Prompted with reverse-image searches, Google’s AI summaries falsely identify fabricated and misleading visuals as authentic, NewsGuard found.

open.substack.com

This is great reporting about local opposition towards data centres in the US. This is likely to become a huge issue in many parts of the world. New York Times | The Daily “When AI Comes to Town” open.spotify.com/episode/1XIh...

When A.I. Comes to Town: The Backlash Over Data Centers

open.spotify.com

The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia – New START – expires today. This is what we need to do: nobelassembly.org/declaration/

I joined my friend Greg and other cartoonists to draw something to welcome Liam Ramos home, but ~3800 children remain in ICE custody, including at least three students from Liam's school (and 25 parents). Join us at #Comics4Liam !

here's my entry!! #Comics4Liam

Comix Action@comixaction.com · 6mo ago

Friends, we're thrilled to announce #Comics4Liam to encourage artists to draw pictures for Liam Conejo Ramos and share links to help Liam's family and other immigrants persecuted by ICE! Check out comics4liam.com and please do feel free to pitch in! Images by the great @trungles.com!