Carlos Rocha 🇪🇺🇵🇹🇨🇮🇺🇦

funnily enough for the journalist, the only thing artificial intelligence is really close to making obsolete is the need for a person to uncritically regurgitate incorrect nonsense

You could have knocked me over with a feather. Been going on for a while and massively accelerated during COVID, with another gear engaged with rampant AI abuse.

Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers Another shocking assault on a non-partisan institution

Numbers can tell inconvenient truths. This is why we should all know a bit of algebra, to be able to understand numbers and scaling, and make our own judgement on everyday news. I die a little inside every time I hear 'you teach that, but no math, no numbers. It's too complicated if you use math'.

Where does complexity come from?

Is the 2nd law of thermodynamics enough to explain what looks like an arrow of increasing of complexity through time?

Mike has some very interesting thoughts about this, and you should listen to him yap about them. 🧪

What is a substantial minority, one wonders.

Enjoy your visit David. Good to see you this side of the pond.

Math and reality have a liberal bias.

Yes. I know the focus today is on Trumpists undermining trustworthy government data sources, as it should be, but I also think we'll look back on contributing to the "destruction of truth" as perhaps the most important (and insidious) impact of the recent advances in generative AI software.

I am so glad that my demonstration of this for an #ESD course for staff (two years ago) was criticized for having 'too much math' (i.e., a demo of exponential growth). Math has an obvious liberal bias nowadays....I should switch to reading tea leaves.

'Devastated' - Road safety advocate's shock over report A leading road safety advocate has expressed his shock and disappointment at the findings of a report on attitudes within An Garda Síochána to roads policing.

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"It's the gardaí, the justice system, the DPP.'
"There doesn't seem to be a will there anymore for road safety."

I am sure a new campaign touting high viz for cyclists and pedestrians and blaming them for 'collisions with cars' is imminent by the RTA. Plus the whole shitload of excuses as usual.

Yep. Good to see this in print.

We have overshot 6 out of 9 planetary boundaries. Doesn't seem urgent thought, does it lads?
It didn't seem urgent to my students. Including staff.
It's going to be an interesting decade.

Record-breaking divers are pushing human limits and reshaping scientists' view of our species Humans have a long history of diving to forage from the seabed and today elite freedivers are reaching greater depths than ever. Some researchers argue humans belong in the sea.

We belong in the ocean, #freedivers

The US has lost all credible tether to reality and all attention to what they spout is now based on fear. Is anything linked to them worth considering now? No.

The death of knowledge has a face, lads. 🤡

"The greatest threat to energy security today is in fossil fuels."

THIS is why Trump and his big oil masters are gutting science and blocking clean energy. Their product SUCKS and can't compete without a lifeline (that is costing you yours.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Often missing' = AI presented as a fait accompli. Tada....

Is anyone surprised?

The media has been choosing cowardice for at least two decades. Everywhere. It has been instrumental in normalizing evil and ignorance.

#AcademicSky

What truly bugs me is that RESEARCH is what so many academics seemingly care about, often neglecting students & teaching.

Yet they're not willing to DO the research & writing themselves?

What is it that they care about? Prestige? Notches on CV?

‘I’ve £90k in student debt – for what?’ Graduates share their job-hunting woes amid the AI fallout AI isn’t just taking away entry-levels jobs, it’s helping thousands apply for the same job with almost the same CV

#AI against #AI. Everyone loses. #AI rapidly evolved into a crutch for students, but Universities are to blame at least as much. You do not sell a dream to your clients and then create an environment where teaching them how to think is impossible. We are letting entire generations down. #Academicsky

It took them a couple more months.

Democrats and climate groups ‘too polite’ in fight against ‘malevolent’ fossil fuel giants, says key senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island gives 300th climate speech on the US Senate floor

Most denouncing the #climate crisis have been 'too polite' for decades. I often wonder how committed all these polite warriors really are, or whether they only thrive in the caviar left Zeitgeist.
How is it working for us?👀
We are going quietly into the night.

Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

Yep.

Yep.

If you had a little bit more science, you wouldn't need all those thoughts and prayers.

To people on this platform saying that those holding "I support Palestine Action" signs deserve to be arrested, because PA has been designated a terrorist group by the government:

Remember that lickspittles and system justifiers have enabled every form of oppression, everywhere.

A new UN data platform is tracking the health of millions of lakes, rivers and wetlands on Earth, revealing pollution hotspots, drought impacts and signs of recovery.

Check out the Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer – a bird’s eye view of our planet’s freshwater ecosystems: www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Rising surface salinity and declining sea ice: A new Southern Ocean state revealed by satellites | PNAS For decades, the surface of the polar Southern Ocean (south of 50°S) has been freshening—an expected response to a warming climate. This freshening...

The circumpolar Southern Ocean circulation seems to have tipped and is in transition to a new state. Not good. 🌊🧪

I emailed a letter to my local TD and Minister of State for Nature and Biodiversity, Christopher O'Sullivan on the government's plans to abandon Marine Protected Areas.

Please write to your local government TDs asking them not to shaft our marine ecosystems and coastal communities like this!!!