Barry McMullin

The Guardian view on climate finance: crumbling under a second Trump presidency | Editorial Editorial: Voluntary climate commitments were supposed to be a step towards progress. A change in political climate has revealed their weaknesses

We can continue to find new ways in which voluntary action has limits on scale. Or we can take the lessons and apply it to have real action at scale through good regulations. There is a choice here and we aren't choosing for action. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The UK Labour Party has totally lost the plot that an MP can go on TV and compare a direct action protest group whose worst act was criminal damage with paint to the IRA, who are linked with killing up to or over 1,800 people during The Troubles.

AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests. Benj Edwards – Mar 13, 2025 10:16 PM | 140 A dartboard with only a few darts hitting it, with many misses beside it. Credit: Wong Yu Liang via Getty Images A new study from Columbia Journalism Review's Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The researchers tested eight AI-driven search tools by providing direct excerpts from real news articles and asking the models to identify each article's original headline, publisher, publication date, and URL. They discovered that the AI models incorrectly cited sources in more than 60 percent of these queries, raising significant concerns about their reliability in correctly attributing news content.

Using a random text generation program as a replacement for reading and critical thinking results in errors, finds study

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You have a right to remain silent and an obligation to shout it from the rooftops: Action for Palestine Now!

It's time to stop defending Carney by saying he had to do certain things to brat Poilievre.

He's in power now and responsible for Canada's failure to act on climate.

You see their bikes and gear on the ferry, then perhaps catch a glimpse of them threading their way through Ringaskiddy.

You watch with equal parts admiration and terror.

AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace With time, and IPOs, many of today's private AI fortunes will eventually become more liquid, providing a historic opportunity for wealth management firms

It doesn't make profits, and possibly never will, but it makes billionaires.

But don't you dare call it a bubble.

Paraphrasing Slovenia In the UNSC mtg today: We convene today after the reprehensible announcement by Israeli cabinet to expand. A new low we reject. Directly contradicts ICJ July 2024 decision. Israel must end unlawful presence in OPT. Israel manufactured a famine to pursue political/military gains

Of course, he IS allowed "run" (just like every other qualifying citizen): in the precise sense of *seeking a nomination*. His complaint is that he's not allowed run on *his own conveniently conjured up terms*. That is a terrible, and profoundly undemocratic, idea. Obviously.

"Israel has *no choice* but to ..." complete this genocide? (No choice! The solution must be final. 😱)

EARNED? WTF does that mean? Russia invaded Ukraine. They didn't EARN anything. They brutally captured it. youtu.be/DUiv3Ks1oqg

If Europeans are not awake to the peril of their situation, they have no one to blame but themselves.

Getaway car you say?

I had a weird dream that if Putin visits the U.S. next week, ICE zip ties him and renditions him to Prison Schweveningen in The Hague to face war crimes. Note to self: Paul, wake up and smell the coffee.

My dad told me a story about having a drink with Mr Lovell at some local dive bar when this sequence was being filmed for The Man who Fell to Earth back in the 1970's.
My dad said Mr. Lovell had a lot to say about space and what he saw there...
I'll leave it at that.
Rest in peace, spaceman.

Merci

A government completely controlled by oil companies - even more so than in the past.

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

"We committed the largest copyright violation crime ever and now we're being faced with the largest copyright class action ever?!? WHAT THE HELL?!?"

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

This is correct. Cars kill people and we just accept that as some sort of inevitable price we have to pay for their existence when we really don’t.

Thousands seen sitting with placards that all read “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine action.” Big Ben is seen in the background

NEW: Parliament Square, London right now.

Thousands in a silent, peaceful protest against both the genocide in Gaza and the UK Government prescribing protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist group.

Police now making arrests.

(📸 Saul Staniforth)

Aontú were recruiting on Daunt Square at the opposite end of Grand Parade meanwhile.

Trans rights gathering. Many flags.

Trans Cork taking the sun. #ColourCheersUsAll

Slovenia bans arms shipments to Israel

First mover Slovenia.

Holy crap. This is poetry. I have seen a sarcastic debunkening this melodious in quite some time.

"What we will see emerge from Alaska will almost certainly be a catastrophe for Ukraine and Europe..." [I hope that @phillipspobrien.bsky.social may be mistaken in his reading of our situation: but I very much fear that he will be proven exactly correct.]

The 360-Degree Assault on Climate Action Is Impossibly Grim Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

"Climate change is the signature global challenge today... the most ill-suited people available, rich and coddled and insulated from the impacts they are already unleashing, stand on its figurative beachhead, urging the seas higher and higher."

RIP Jim Lovell
‘When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is a spaceship, just like Apollo & just like Apollo, the crew must learn to live & work together. We must learn to manage the resources of this world with new imagination.’

Astonished he is allowed to do this. Though guessing maybe he isn't, but Congressional Repubs are too pusillanimous to stop him.

Wherever you stand on 'gender', the issue is 100% irrelevant here. If you served years in the military, you *served*. And earned benefits for your service. That's it.

Impressions of Ireland * Beautiful country * Lovely people (really, the best) * Too many cars on narrow lanes going too fast, and not enough of them are EVs * A few drivers slow down to pass; some even give a whole lane (which is 1.5 m and the law) * Too many cows * Could have more vegetarian food * Well signed cycle ways on roads with 100 km/h speed limit and no shoulder 😬 * Windy, yet not many wind turbines. * Challenging to take bikes on trains

My impression of Ireland after cycling around for a few days is that it’s a beautiful country with really lovely people. It’s too bad about the smell of cow poop and car exhaust.

Also, @hannahdaly.ie and her Dad are awesome.