Salman

In amongst the noise & media whatabouttary, something significant happened this week.

The Mayor of London committed to fully implementing HEPA filtration in 200 London schools.

Proper filters, not desk items.

That it has taken so long to do so is a disgrace, but not on Sadiq Khan.

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Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

This is a strong piece. Whenever we talk about immigration, we should emphasise that the economy is heading for broke without it. Rational countries at this point would be rolling out the red carpet for immigrants. Instead, we’re being ridiculous, awful, and self-sabotaging.

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

We have to tackle the part we play in the #ClimateEmergency

Aye, wee things like recycling, turning off lights, cycling not driving...

But, mainly, by demanding change at government and corporate level.

There's no benefit in using a paper straw if a rainforest has been cut down to make it.

Waiting to see the apology written in Apple Notes.

A staggering 96 private jets are expected to fly in for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez's wedding

But they will use paper straws on the planes

How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying A growing body of research attempts to put a number on energy use and AI—even as the companies behind the most popular models keep their carbon emissions a secret.

Useful discussion about AI energy use (tl;dr: hard to evaluate, for reasons), but also I'd love to see a comparison with other tech use: what's the energy cost of doing a Google search, or a Zoom call, or syncing your pics to iPhoto, etc? Numbers in isolation aren't helpful - they need context

For all the blanket coverage it's getting today you wouldn't know that fishing contributes a grand total of 0.03% to the UK's economy, or that it is absolutely dwarfed by many other sectors, like the live music industry, which have been badly hit by Brexit but are rarely even mentioned

Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time)

For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...

The beginning of the end of the hype cycle.

Screenshot of Balaji Srinivasan retweeting Brian Armstrong of Coinbase calling for the creation of 10 new cities in "special economic zones," or Network States.

The mask is coming off of the Network State cult.

Here is Network State evangelist Balaji Srinivasan boosting Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong calling for the creation "10 or so" new tech cities on federal land.

Of course, Trump has already announced plans for 10 new cities...

The Right Understands That All Governance Is Data Governance The tech arm of Trump 2.0 isn't just reshaping government — it's consolidating control over the data infrastructure that makes modern governance possible. By centralizing data flows and gutting public...

This is a terrific and extremely important post by @salome.bsky.social

lpeproject.org/blog/the-rig...

Things that are easy: Attacking trans people
Things that are hard: Stopping male violence against women
Things that are easy: Demonising immigrants
Things that are hard: Fixing life for people who already live here

The far-right won't love you Keir.

Incalculable = when we calculated it, it didn't give us the answer we wanted

My quick take on Labour's anti-immigration policies, and the inevitable harm which they will cause. Starmer is mirroring Reform, but can never go far enough to appease them. #r4today

Vibe policy is hands down the best description of UK politics.

Ever since AI took off, I've been trying to nail down one question: what's the climate impact of this technology? The initial impressions are not good. A new IEA report this week is the gold standard and shows emissions from data centres rising significantly: www.economist.com/science-and-...

severance: a closer look into the mid-century, brutalist, and retro-futuristic universe of lumon    

severance: a closer look into the mid-century, brutalist, and retro-futuristic universe of lumon (10min) if you like interior and office design and that TV show, you’ll love all the references.

Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared” Researchers find that the more people use AI at their job, the less critical thinking they use.

every rich guy on earth currently in a coordinated effort to give each living human a new version of Sick Building Syndrome

40 year Internet veteran - can conform I'm normal

This list misses document sharing between devices tho

London hit by record downturn in affordable housing High inflation, interest rates and building safety costs are driving collapse in construction

Hard not to read this… 1/2

London hit by record downturn in affordable housing on.ft.com/49UNcU6

Sadly the conclusion from US policy makers is that Chinese firms must have "cheated", justifying massive tariffs instead of forming partnerships to learn from them. The "China bad" strategy to spur climate action doesn't really work.

The Discourse Lover @Trillburne SOCIALIST: late capitalism has created a moral rot that pervades our entire society NEOLIBERAL: but imagine if we monetized the rot 1:02 PM • 2016-07-06

Not gonna sugar coat it, this is bleak folks.

"The Great Design Handoff" indeed.

#UXDesign

This.

American economic growth is down to exactly the same reasons as the growth in the value of Premiership sides or the vast overcapacity of luxury apartments in London.

Loot has to go somewhere.

Until one day… it stops.

How climate policies reduce air pollution saving lives and money Early deaths from air pollution in US could be reduced by between 4,000 and 15,000 a year by 2035, study shows

“A decarbonised society means cleaner air. In Europe, the mistaken notion that diesel and wood are relatively climate-friendly fuels has left people living with excessive traffic emissions and in air pollution hotspots from home wood burning.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...