Leo Edwardsson

Climate coverage is shrinking. We're expanding it. Announcing a new weekly video podcast!

the epidemic of men launching podcasts about nothing has gotten out of control

to combat this I am launching a podcast WITH A WOMAN (veteran climate journalist Tracy Wholf) to talk about stuff that actually matters (the planet being destroyed by the worst people alive)

Find subscribe links here:

YouTube video by HEATED Billionaires Are Killing Climate Journalism. Here's Our Response.

Nothing gives me more energy than basking in the work of the REAL ONES who are staying focused on fossil fuels and climate

extremely glorious news on that front: @emorwee.bsky.social is teaming up w/ former CBS climate journo Tracy Wholf for a new video podcast -->>>

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Tax billionaires out of existence.

If you work with ppl who are sensitive to noise or in situations where a scare might be dangerous: the National Emergency Management Agency will be testing the Commonwealth AusAlert emergency warning system on July 27th at 2pm.

Put it in your calendar now with a warning reminder ten minutes prior

Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff One small trick to get you to inbox zero.

Meta Exec Learns the Hard Way That AI Can Just Delete Your Stuff https://gizmodo.com/meta-exec-learns-the-hard-way-that-ai-can-just-delete-your-stuff-2000725450

I know we in Uni IT aren't always the friendliest folks but please PLEASE if you are a student or faculty member, put in an ticket pointing out this service to the IT security team. This service amounts to a serious login credentials security risk to any individual who signs up.

Karen has no criminal record. She is a grandmother who spent eight years working as an admin assistant at a primary school before her retirement. “I don’t even have parking tickets in the background anywhere,” she says. “I am not a dangerous criminal. I didn’t enter the country illegally and I had everything I needed to be there.” So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

Border Patrol is operating as bounty hunters.

Agents are apparently getting paid for each person they put in detention. Even if those people are grandmothers traveling on valid tourist visas.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One of the most important details in all of transportation and climate policy.

The other day I saw a video of an historian (maybe?) saying he didn’t understand why billionaires are opposed to being taxed more because “taxation is the compromise.” And that last ~500 years teaches us what happens when that compromise is not struck.

Can’t stop thinking about it.

‘Strong bank profits’ are a warning sign, not good news When banks make big profits media organisations love to cheer them on as though there are no losers form some of the biggest corporations in Australia making ever more money. But profits don’t come fr...

"When banks make big profits media organisations love to cheer them on as though there are no losers from some of the biggest corporations in Australia making ever more money.

But profits don’t come from thin air, they come from customers: they come from you."
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Wikipedia entry for dinkus In typography, a dinkus is a typographic device or convention that typically consists of three spaced asterisks or bullet symbols in a horizontal row, e.g.   ∗ ∗ ∗   or   • • •  . The device has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work. This latter use is similar to a subsection, and it indicates that the subsequent text should be re-contextualized. Such a dinkus typically appears centrally aligned on a line of its own with vertical spacing before and after the device. The dinkus has been in use in various forms since c. 1850.[1][2] Historically, the dinkus was often represented as an asterism, ⁂, though this has fallen out of favor and is now nearly obsolete.

perennial reminder that this typographic thing:

* * *

is called a "dinkus"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus

Everybody’s talking about the destruction of consumer electronics and that’s bad, but basically everything in modern life has a computer in it. Hospitals, airports, transportation, shipping, medical devices, farm equipment, and point of sale terminals had a good run

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

This is completely correct other than the infrastructure not existing. I think people need to realize WHY this is happening is because, for example, NVIDIA sells GB200 NVL72s (racks of 72 GPUs) with *17TB of RAM* and likely over 500TB of storage.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Picture of a green cargo ship with the headline "China starts sea trials for largest electric powered containership"

You can't prove received wisdom wrong if you don't try... and you've got to give China credit for not being afraid to try. A step on the way to serious reduction of shipping emissions by 2050? Or an expensive experiment with niche coastal uses? Time will tell!

maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

Microsoft AI CEO: 'Most, if not all' white-collar tasks can be replaced by AI within 12-18 months Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft's AI chief, says AI can automate white-collar jobs within 12-18 months, as tech reaches human-level performance in tasks.

M&Ms CEO: 'most, if not all' meals can be replaced by M&Ms within 12-18 months

Politics has always driven everything in the economy. What you mean is different politics now. The idea that there was some golden age in which geopolitics, domestic politics, etc. didn't drive exchange rates, trade, & economic policy is a fantasy. Everything is political economy & always has been.

A CDC toilet seat Headline CDC: Childhood Vaccinations To Be Replaced With Schedule Of Snorting Bags Of Cocaine Off Toilet Rims Story by Barf Gannion and Garret Barnhof Photo from Adobe

CDC: Childhood Vaccinations To Be Replaced With Schedule Of Snorting Bags Of Cocaine Off Toilet Rims

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

Comic of an underwater Parliament house, with submarines above. Speech bubble text: "Sure, we could have done more to prevent the ice caps melting, but luckily we spent the money on these submarines instead."

Vale Jon Kudelka - a brilliant artist who knew the power of comedy in holding truth to power, and effecting change. 

His work showed a genuine and profound love for people and nature - often funny, often heartbreaking, but always incisive. 

Australia has lost a great today.

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Buddy Guy in Sinners. Wearing black hat, blue blazer with polka dot tie and holding guitar.

Buddy Guy’s album Ain’t Done With The Blues. Orange background with profile silhouette of Buddy Guy wearing hat and embroidered top.

So cool for 89-year-old blues legend Buddy Guy to be honored. Appearance in Sinners last year (and on the soundtrack). And just won Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album.

Today I had the good fortune of meeting a few beautiful firetails and until now I far not fully appreciated their fantastic snoots