Joe Hogan

1. This is a thread on freedom, and how easy it is to lose.

Over the past 2,000 years in Europe, there have been few periods and places of freedom. For much of the time we lived under highly oppressive tyrannies of various kinds, whether small or grand, local or imperial, secular or religious.🧵

Grass-Fed Lies Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi

Grass-fed or not, cow flesh is a climate disaster. The emissions, the deforestation, the water use, the methane - it’s a perfect storm. And we’ve known it for decades.

We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Messy looking breadboard based electronics prototype project with many wires and electronic components visible.

Prototype 4 band EQualiser. It worked!

Saving lives, saving you money, improving the flow of traffic, there’s no downside to switching to 20mph default limit.

Crikey. This is terrible. Hope it all gets straightened out.

This new report on the connection between food and species extinction is astounding.

If we want to stop our fellow Earth creatures from going extinct, we need to change our diets and stop eating so much meat.

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Global Sumud Flotilla

The Israeli Government has made an ad about the Global Sumud Flotilla headed for Gaza, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

26 Police Officers were injured at today's riots but only 9 people were arrested.

Compare that with the peaceful Palestine Action protest where 0 Police Officers were injured but nearly 900 people were arrested.

The Government has got Law Enforcement ridiculously wrong.

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

“I just want people to know that AI is being sold as this tech magic – that’s why there’s a little sparkle symbol next to an AI response,” said Sawyer. “But it’s not. It’s built on the backs of overworked, underpaid human beings.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it Global food production — from meat to grains — accounts for a third of all greenhouse gas emissions, says sustainability scientist Jonathan Foley. He presents a portfolio of data-backed solutions to b...

When I think about climate change, I see a lot of progress — except in one sector.

Food.

The food system is responsible for 22-34% of our greenhouse gas emissions, with no end in sight. And it swims in a sea of greenwashing and disinformation.

Here’s how we can fix it.
Go.ted.com/jonathanfoley24

It's very simple.

The people costing all the money, are the people with all the money.

Not the people with hardly any money.

It really shouldn't need explaining.

Why do we have a Government when they have moved control of everything to billionaires.

We should demand they take back control or fire them.

Dear music fans, here is yet another reminder to please stop using Spotify.

Not content with poisoning music culture, and undermining musicians ability to earn income from their own recorded music, Spotify are also indirectly associated with seriously unethical stuff (including AI weaponry).

Originality is all you need Or: How to survive a world betting on AI So here’s a serious question. If you were presented with a huge road bridge, and the CEO of the company that built it says – publicly – that they don’t know…

I wrote a blog about “surviving AI” gameaudioprogramming.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/o...

For every muppet writing in the guardian about “tree planting is bad” we lose a few donors, but every time I explain how this works as a backstop for projects that otherwise never had a chance we gain a few more.

Ask me anything.

I can explain more about this whole thing than those clowns.

My advice to people, take I'm angry at people not being paid as badly as me.

And turn it into, I'm angry at being paid badly.

Median wage 2008 - £24,769
Median wage 2025 - £29,600

Inflation from 2008-2025 - 70.51%, your wage should be £42,231

We should all be angry.

Asbestos as a metaphor for where I suspect we might be going with LLM tools: rapid push to shove it into everything as a "modern solution," then an eventual "oh shit" walkback.

🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨

Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions.

On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths.

Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

Sizewell C costs could hit £100bn including financing, modelling shows Total for nuclear power station project set to be billions of pounds higher than official government estimates

In the UK, they are going to spend around $100 billion to build the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. It will start producing power in "in the mid- to late-2030s" and it will produce 3.2 gigawatts of power. (1/2)

Motherfucking wind farms…

Dear music fans, here is yet another reminder to please stop using Spotify.

Not content with poisoning music culture, and undermining musicians ability to earn income from their own recorded music, Spotify are also indirectly associated with seriously unethical stuff (including AI weaponry).

My response to those who say it’s “too late” to address climate change and global environmental damage.

It is NOT too late. As long as one tree is still standing, one whale is still swimming, and one child is still breathing it is not too late to protect something precious.

Fuck the warmongers. All of them.

Teachers Are Not OK AI, ChatGPT, and LLMs "have absolutely blown up what I try to accomplish with my teaching."

I generally take a 'tech isn't inherently bad, capitalism just makes it manifest in bad ways' position but..............honestly, I think LLMs are inherently bad.

Their technogical characteristics just fundamentally skew towards harming human information spaces severely and rapidly

Wild piece:

Fuck the warmongers. All of them.

Portal screenshot. "The cake is a lie" scrawled on the wall.

Portal screenshot. The cake logo on the wall.

Portal screenshot. A slide from the Black Mesa vs Aperture Science financial presentation.

Portal screenshot.

"you remained resolute and resourceful in an atmosphere of extreme pessimism". Having a blast replaying Portal 1 (Switch version) with my kid.

A graphic titled "An Unnatural Life Span" compares the typical slaughter age of various farmed animals to their natural life spans. A red bar shows slaughter age, while a grey bar shows natural life expectancy. Examples include: “meat” chickens (slaughtered at 5–7 weeks, could live up to 8 years), pigs (6 months vs. 10–12 years), dairy cows (4 years vs. 15–20 years), and “veal” calves (1–24 weeks vs. 15–20 years). The graphic highlights how animals are killed as babies regardless of farming method, including “humane” or “organic” labels. Source: CompassionateCook.com.

Labels don't change the fact that infant lives are taken.