@biggerthanfrogs.bsky.social
Lurking, learning, maybe commenting. "Conscientious objector from the culture war." Reposts ≠ 100% agreement
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
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www.thetrustfall.org/watch
"Filmed over 2 years on 3 continents and in ten cities, the film features an array of luminaries including Daniel Ellsberg, John Pilger, Tariq Ali and Chris Hedges, with the insights of experts including Jennifer Robinson, Jill Stein ..."
Memo to forgetful NSW Premier Minns; gambling reform. Thanks #alanmoir
14.11.2025 10:16 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
more than 1.5 °C above its pre-industrial level.1 Extreme temperatures and climate change can affect the energy system in a number of ways, for example by pushing up electricity demand for cooling, increasing wildfire risks to energy infrastructure and affecting the efficiency of power plants and transmission lines (see Chapter 5). Extreme heat increased electricity demand in 2024, especially for cooling, contributing to the rise in energy-related CO₂ emissions (IEA, 2025c). If the weather in 2024 had been the same as in 2023, about half of the increase in global emissions would have been avoided.
A very real and dangerous feedback loop: rising temps spur new energy demand, which in turns spurs worse emissions
14.11.2025 11:09 — 👍 14 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
This is going to be a big old thread where I dump thoughts, reactions, charts etc from the @iea.org World Energy Outlook 2025 :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlkP...
www.iea.org/commentaries...
CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.
Yikes!!!!!
Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQA5B-H...
I finally understand America. I vaguely sensed it but this short passage has etched it into my brain for good
VERY POWERFUL
This is why I’ve been saying for months: If America doesn’t do a 180 degree turn, well, guess what?
Trump Mark II will happen
"According to Hamdi’s lawyers with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), the government never accused him of any crimes nor alleged he posed a security threat, but charged him with overstaying his visa after abruptly cancelling it without notifying him shortly before his arrest."
14.11.2025 10:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Increasing prevalence of H5N1 globally, drastically reduced surveillance in the US, H3N2 driving a severe flu season in the Northern Hemisphere, a mismatched flu vaccine, and the possibility of undetected human - human transmission of H5N1 is a recipe for a reassortment event.
14.11.2025 10:14 — 👍 77 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 2
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
I'm a voiceover actor, you've heard me on your TV, radio or the web over the 36 years of my career. My bread-and-butter work used to be narrating training films and corporate videos, used to be at least 1/3 of my income. MOST of that work is now AI. My agents are dying, fellow talent are struggling.
13.11.2025 18:20 — 👍 57 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 0
So these two trends—AI as smokescreen for management's ulterior motives/misplaced belief in its hype, and AI as an automation system for producing cheap knockoff art and writing (at the expense of artists and writers)—are what I think are the biggest impacts of AI on jobs so far.
More in the piece:
"All of the toys also weighed in on other topics that parents might prefer to talk with their kids about first before the AI toy does," PIRG noted," the report says. "Those topics included religion, along with sex and "the glory of dying in battle in Norse Mythology."
13.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0SkyService is owned by InStar Asset Management.
Founder Gregory Smith was formerly managing partner of Brookfield Financial.
Helping Trump disappear people is probably pretty lucrative. #IDUPlaybook
Here's his LinkedIn profile.
www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-s...
"The UK’s decision marks a significant break from its closest ally and intelligence sharing partner and underscores the growing skepticism over the legality of the US military’s campaign around Latin America."
13.11.2025 13:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The largest planet discovered 😲
HD 100546 b, the largest known exoplanet, was discovered using the Very Large Telescope in Chile. It is located 337 light-years from the Solar System.
The exoplanet is a gas supergiant. Its mass is 20 times that of Jupiter, and its radius is 6.9 times greater.
Hey @albomp.bsky.social
No State Funeral for low-life political thugs & RWF media commentators.
You should know better…
Holy shit. This is embarrassing for all involved
"Liberals formally abandon net zero target but will allow moderate MPs to call lower emissions a ‘welcome outcome’"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
(New from us)
‘Now the Pacific is leading the way again. Island leaders have a bold plan to become the world’s first region powered entirely by renewables and energy storage.’ #ClimateCrisis #COP30
w/ @wesleymorgan.bsky.social @smartenergycouncil.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-pacific-...
It is really getting harder and harder to glibly dismiss the data centre driven growth of demand in the US, which is causing coal growth domestically and impacting the entire planet's emissions
Yes you can present it with a huge denominator to make it look small but that doesn't change the dynamics
This is a good lesson for Australia. If you can't do anything in a 3 year term, you can't do it in 4, or apparently 5. The problem is not the term length, the problem is the culture and incompetence of the politics of the people who rise to the top in our parties.
12.11.2025 10:50 — 👍 132 🔁 35 💬 6 📌 3Kemi Badenoch's assertion that Keir Starmer has lost control of his party would have more credibility if she'd even tried to take control of hers.
12.11.2025 19:05 — 👍 142 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 0"According to new research published in Nature Communications, marine heatwaves are interfering with the ocean’s ability to transport carbon from surface waters into the deep, where it can be stored long-term."
13.11.2025 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"And as the decades pass ... more people will begin to suspect that in truth you do not value culture at all, and are in fact running a giant heritage museum in which the only cultural workers you respect are the dead ones."
12.11.2025 23:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"[O]pponents of democracy in the [US] ... have adopted a dual strategy of electoral and fiscal subversion – ... trying to keep their political opponents from voting, and on the other, ensuring that the government is too starved of revenue to invest in egalitarian policies or restrain private power.
12.11.2025 20:33 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Emergency #drought in #Iran: water levels in the Amir Kabir Dam — supplying drinking water to #Tehran — is below 8%. The country is suffering after months of drought and record heat. The video shows the #Copernicus #Sentinel2 image on Nov. 2 2024 and Nov. 9 2025. #climateemergency
10.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 70 🔁 41 💬 5 📌 7I see a lot of accounts twisting into pretzels trying to superimpose some complicated, grand, genius, master strategy, connecting the Senate deal to Johnson and Grijalva and Epstein and KBJ and SNAP (and who knows what else), to explain the cave.
How about, you know, it's just Schumer's razor?
CEO of Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management: "There is a very low level of ecological literacy being displayed by ministers. Nothing I have seen or heard gives me comfort that Rachel Reeves understands the importance of nature to economic and social wellbeing. Nothing."
09.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 35 🔁 27 💬 1 📌 2
Listening to @edzitron.com's latest interview and it occurred to me that a big component of the wild energy consumption of generative machine learning is simply the belief that 'scale' gets you better results: and when it doesn't, just....scale more. Death loop
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SPY...
The blazing cowardice of the centre-right:
“Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.”
Shirley Hazzard
