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Victor Galaz
@vgalaz.bsky.social
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🇸🇪 🇨🇱 🌎 Associate Prof Pol Sci Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University + Beijer Institute of Ecol Economics at Royal Swe Academy of Sciences. Politics, big money, nuclear risks and new tech in the Anthropocene.👨🏽‍💻ibland för Svenska Dagbladet Kultur. .. more

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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · Nov 25
This took me a while to finish. My new book "Dark Machines - How Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Automation is Changing our Living Planet" can now be pre-ordered at Routledge (UK/US).

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IIASA @iiasa.ac.at · 19h
📰 Your evening read on the IIASA #OvershootConference: @carlschleussner.bsky.social tells @carbonbrief.org that the scientific community is only just “beginning to appreciate” the need to understand & quantify how different overshoot pathways affect adaptation. www.carbonbrief.org/overshoot-ex...
Overshoot: Exploring the implications of meeting 1.5C climate goal ‘from above’ - Carbon Brief
The first-ever international conference on the contentious topic of “overshoot” was held last week in...
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 20h
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21h
NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge
Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 21h
NEW – IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social @iea.org

Read here: buff.ly/moV7Tge
Share of national electricity supplies that depend on imported fossil fuels in 2023, actual (left) and in the IEA’s “low renewable-energy source” scenario (right), in 31 countries that are net importers of coal and gas. Source: IEA.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks for visiting Stockholm @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, great to hear about your work, upcoming book, and more!
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 1d
Med det sagt: forskningen är ganska tydlig med att migration (tillfällig och permanent) under humana och ordnade former, är ett bra sätt att stödja svaga grupper i en tid av klimatförändringar. Synd att detta perspektiv helt kommit bort i klimatdebatten.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 1d
Det märkliga med detta är att det finns så många kloka sätt att minska migrationsutmaningar genom förebyggande arbete som fattigdomsbekämpning, stärkande av social resiliens, klimatanpassning. Istället väljer regeringar i väst åtgärder som signalerar hårda tag och nationella intressen i centrum.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 1d
Sorgligt egentligen, men jag tänker dagligen på vilken tur jag hade som inte fick sitta kvar i Sidas styrelse efter regeringsskiftet. Att det skulle bli mkt svårt att förena Tidö-samarbetets migrationspolitik m bistånd, var tydligt. Resultatet blir det här.

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Meddelanden visar: Kris på ambassaden efter uppgörelsen med Somalia - Ekot
Sveriges uppgörelse med Somalia om biståndspengar skapade så stora konflikter på Sveriges ambassad att inspektörer akut fick skickas ner, visar Ekots fortsatta ...
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 2d
Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 2d
"Some say that medical societies must remain apolitical. […] The principle of medical neutrality, grounded in international humanitarian law, does not mean indifference; it obliges us to condemn any erosion of this norm as a threat to both care and ethics."

This week’s cover of The Lancet.

Reposted by Catherine Baker, Victor Galaz, Patrick Stokes

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 2d
How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?
Google search for "austria hungary in space" Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 3d
”You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 3d
önskar verkligen att jag hann, men tyvärr!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 3d
Note: a lot of old tweets in there, can’t say anything about online responses in general!

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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 3d
Similar misinformation about EAT-Lancet on top of the recommendations timeline on X. No surprises there, I guess.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 9d
Slutligen: Julians bok och andra texter är verkligen att rekommendera. Få fångar vår tid av militarisering, klimatkris och kampen för en bättre värld, bättre än han.

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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 9d
Och som jag skrev i en essä tidigare i år: ”Det känns trösterikt att veta att vår klimatframtid inte bara formas av teknikutveckling och stormaktspolitik. Även unga poeters röster kommer att ge eko i generationer framöver.”

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Otippade ljusglimtar i klimatkrismörkret | Victor Galaz
2025 kan bli året då de globala utsläppen till slut vänder nedåt, förutsatt att Kina menar allvar med att ta över ledarrollen i kampen mot klimathotet. Det är över huvud taget mycket som står på spel ...
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 9d
Denna nyhet gör mig oerhört glad, ett fantastiskt välförtjänt pris till unga jurister, aktivister och poeter som gjorde det omöjliga.

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Urfolksjurist och klimataktivist prisas med Right Livelihood 2025
Människorättsjuristen och författaren Julian Aguon tar hem ett av årets Right Livelihood-priser. Detta efter att han i år, tillsammans med Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change, tog klimatk...
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 10d
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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 10d
Ohhh, this is good.

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Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 11d
“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024
The political killings you don’t hear about
Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 15d
Ohhhh this is good stuff!
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Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 15d
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 15d
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 17d
enjoy @dremmafrans.bsky.social

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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 17d
Wow, who would have guessed this could happen...

"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: [...] Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."

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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 17d
The Trump administration’s attacks on national parks continue

This time, they’ve removed both physical signs and website mentions describing how climate change is damaging the parks

Because if you remove the info, famously, the problem goes away

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National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese detention
The removals come after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March seeking to remove “improper partisan ideology” from federal institutions.
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Victor Galaz @vgalaz.bsky.social · 18d
So this is one way to deal with rising food insecurity in the US - just scrap the data collection tracking it.

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Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity
The Trump administration is ending a decades-long report on U.S. hunger, calling it “politicized.” Last year, the USDA report warned of rising food insecurity.
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