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A beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, sad song about climate change. Please retweet. youtube.com/watch?v=ZTFFOr_G…
Hey you guys.... hey, maybe we should be paying attention to this... hey you guys... hey you guys...
The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt. If anything, many executives and senior researchers will couch their phrasing in the press to sound sensible - but I hear the same people express fear privately. No other human activity poses this level of danger.
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An idea I need someone to run with: some sort of annual event in Boston that brings tons of Scots here. I’m not sure what the event is, but I think we can all agree that these incredible vibes can’t just be a one-off thing. Who can figure this out?
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Ok fine - maybe you don't want to listen to me. I'm just a 25-year-old on the internet.
But maybe you'll listen to them.
I documented every major warning from the people actually building AI.
Every CEO. Every founder. They're all saying the same thing.
Read this slowly:
• Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI: "Being a lawyer, an accountant, a project manager, a marketing person - most of those tasks will be fully automated by AI within 12 to 18 months."
• Elon Musk: "AI and robots will replace all jobs. Working will be optional." Called AI his "biggest fear."
• Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic: AI will eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs. Unemployment could hit 20%. Called it "unusually painful." Then said: "Most lawmakers are unaware this is about to happen."
• Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI: "Some areas, I think just like totally, totally gone." Said changes that normally take 75 years will be compressed into a short period. Admitted he loses sleep over it.
• Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia: "Every job will be affected, and immediately. It is unquestionable."
• Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase: "It will eliminate jobs. People should stop sticking their head in the sand." Warned mass AI layoffs without safeguards could trigger "civil unrest." Said he'd welcome a government ban on mass-firing for AI.
• Stuart Russell (author of the most-used AI textbook in history): Political leaders are "staring 80% unemployment in the face".
• Kai-Fu Lee, VC & former head of Google China: Called predictions of 50% job displacement by 2027 "uncannily accurate."
These aren't journalists. These aren't influencers. These aren't politicians trying to get elected.
These are the people building it. Funding it. Deploying it.
And not one of them is saying your job is safe.
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Finland is taking a major step toward a future without plugs or cables by developing a wireless power system that can transmit electricity through the air. What once belonged to science fiction is now entering real world testing, showing that energy may soon be delivered without physical connections at all.
For more than a century, electricity has depended on wires, grids, and metal pathways. This new Finnish approach challenges that foundation by using precisely controlled electromagnetic fields to send power safely through open space from a transmitter to a receiver. It signals a potential shift in how energy could be distributed in the future.
#WirelessPower #FutureEnergy #TechInnovation #CleanTech #fblifestyle
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Trumps social media company is merging with a nuclear fusion company backed by Russia…
Days after one of the top US nuclear fusion scientists was gunned down in his home….
wtf?!?
Trump’s social media company is attempting a $6 billion merger with a nuclear fusion company. TAE Technologies partnered with the UK’s atomic agency this month, has financial backing from the Russian gov, and hopes to see fusion power the AI revolution
cnn.com/2025/12/18/business/…
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"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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Economic growth in a finite Earth is a death sentence for life on Earth
What is needed is an end to economic growth and a fair distribution of wealth to lift people out of poverty
An end to billionaire class and population growth
Prioritize the nature that allows us to exist
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Everything we need to know about the climate and ecological crisis, was in the early speeches of @GretaThunberg.
We go wrong looking for complicated explanations, when the simplest, can be the trues. It was the finest analysis ever.
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If you only understand one thing about climate change.
We aren't destroying the planet in real time. We have already destroyed it in the future due to what has happened in the past. This is cause and effect, with long delays in between in an unfathomably complex, planet-sized system full of things that take time to change, that need to be pushed to change.
It takes time for the Earth's oceans, snow/ice, atmosphere etc to respond to humanity's geologically instantaneous explosion of greenhouse gases.
The amounts of human-produced GHGs in today's atmosphere are beyond belief. It will take thousands of years for the changes that human activity on this planet have set in motion to fully play out.
But warming is fast on a century timescale, with 60% or more of the total eventual "equilibrium" warming materialising.
We're in an oven set at 200C. Nothing much seems to happen for some time. It takes time to warm up and get hot, but for this planet it's an inexorable physical process, as certain as a dropped ball hitting the ground.
"There's a lag. If you turn on the oven at home and set it to 200C, it doesn't reach that (level) immediately. It's the same for climate."
"The reason we don't see Pliocene-like temperatures and sea-levels yet today is because it takes a while for Earth's climate to fully equilibrate (catch up) to higher CO2 levels. Our results give us an idea of what is likely in store once the system has reached equilibrium."
"During the Miocene, including the MCO, most proxy records indicate that pCO2 was near or moderately higher than modern values. The MCO was ~7°C–8°C warmer than the modern world"
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Thing that blows my mind about present-day climate "leaders" is that 3 degrees C is virtually guaranteed at this stage.
In the world of 3 degrees C -- which arrives in the timeframe of a current, 30-year mortgage -- vast swaths of suburban car sprawl in the U.S. just ... ends.
I’ll save you having to squint.
The new warming rate “per decade” is .4C or about .7F.
At this rate we near +3C (5.4F) above pre-industrial levels in about three decades, which was ~the “total” consensus warming expected by most climate scientists (given they expected significant international action). The new rate may fluctuate or may even increase.
We are failing miserably.
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I'm only a few chapters into Bill McKibben's stupendous new book *Here Comes the Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization* and I already know it's going to change my outlook forever:
billmckibben.com/books/here-…
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ALT A rooftop solar installation. Behind the roof rages a blazing forest fire. Reflected in the solar panels is the poop emoji from the cover of my book 'Enshittification,' which has angry eyebrows and a black, grawlix-filled bar across its mouth." Image: Bastique (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_Panels_on_Church_Roof_full.jpg CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en
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Let's be absolutely clear what's up for grabs
We can no longer dodge climate catastrophe
A Pliocene climate (3C hotter, sea levels 20m higher) is now certain
We are now fighting to stop a return to the Middle Miocene: 7-8C hotter than PI, sea levels up to 50m higher
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You're being gaslit every waking minute.
Here are some of the things that are, tragically, essentially performative/theatrical in order to keep false hope and shareholder dividend going despite being right in the jaws of the 6th mass extinction...
- "Renewables"
- EVs
- Carbon budgets
- CO2 removal from atmosphere / Direct Air Capture
- BECCS / planting trees
- Emissions cuts
- Net zero
- CCS (CO2 capture/storage at power plants)
- Biofuels
- Carbon trading
- Carbon tax / fee + dividend
- Gas as a transition fuel
- Aerosols are largely unimportant
- Global warming stops at net zero
- Future emissions cause future warming (There's little or no committed warming)
- Climate sensitivity is 3°C
- "Slow" feedbacks hardly even exist
- Anticipated warming at 2100 is 2.7C or 3C
- Estimate of sea level rise ~0.5M or ~1M at 2100 / Linear sea rise
- Temperature Overshoot (cooling of the planet)
- Geoengineering (cooling of the planet)
- Global cooling
- Climate restoration
- Climate stabilisation
- Tipping points
- Climate models (prioritised over paleoclimate as propaganda tool)
- Planetary Boundaries
- Jury still out / dissenting voices on acceleration
- Projected cuts in GDP at 2100
- Warming projections cut off at 2100
- Jury still out on 6th mass extinction
- Rampant uncertainty
- Cooling by aerosols is 0.5C (In reality it was already 0.5C by preindustrial
- Amplifying feedbacks largely ignored (no mention in Summaries For Policymakers)
Etc
Try to imagine all the time spent on solar and wind, an exercise in futility, which by the way have to be replaced every 20-30 years, creating mountains of toxic waste. And there aren't even enough metals left on Earth to make the first "net zero" generation. After decades of intensive fossil fuel meddling, "science" and humanity don't even know which way is up anymore.
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Humanity's true situation is surreal in the extreme. Most people will just dismiss it out-of-hand because it bears no relation whatsoever to their own understanding.
100ppm CO2-equivalent caused 7 degrees C of global warming during the last deglaciation.
Humans have now added a further 293ppm CO2e to the atmosphere.
This causes 10 degrees C of global warming as a requirement of physics.
The planet must warm by 10C in order to restore energy equilibrium, ie. as much energy radiated as absorbed.
So far, 1.4C (multiyear average) of the 10C requirement has been incurred.
Most of the required warming materialises on a century timescale.
The public is not yet alerted to the staggering enormity of future warming because global warming is slowed by the enormous thermal inertia of oceans, the very long timescales required for amplifying feedbacks to respond to warming, and the massive buffering effects of particulate air pollution.
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Takes like this make me feel like crying because the misled public has ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA COVID IS CAUSING INFERTILITY & FUTURE GENERATIONS WILL BE ROBBED OF THE PRIVILEGE OF REPRODUCTION.
It’s literally criminal.
ALT Marty Ahmuza: “We’re witnessing generations of women breaking cycles in real time. Teen girls are being given tools to delay motherhood and older women are embracing it when they’re ready. Both ends of that spectrum are worth celebrating. There’s also something beautifully radical about women” reposts “For the first time in US history, there were more births among women 40 & older than among teen moms”
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Covid is on the rise. If you want to reduce the number of people getting sick, or dying, or getting long covid PLEASE consider downloading & sharing graphics meant to inform & educate. Wide range graphics by many people condense science.
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