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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10h

Where did "speed to power" come from? Suddenly hearing it everywhere now. It doesn't even really make sense as a phrase?

Tony Dutzik @frontiertony.bsky.social · 18h

All the lip gloss being put on the AI boom as somehow good for climate or the energy transition is masking that, at the present moment, it's a disaster.

Not only more gas generation, but the worst, dirtiest, least efficient kind. Turning the clock back 25 years.
heatmap.news/energy/natur...

Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 12h

Nobelprisen har lenge hatt lite troverdighet. At den gis til noen som støtter Israels folkemord, på ytre høyre, tilsynelatende for å tilfredsstille Trump, er meget on brand for 2025.

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Dr Andrew Boswell #ClimateLitigation @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 Legal win 🚨

Ministers can’t duck environmental duties after this win

Our legal challenge exposed failure to assess environmental impacts of Carbon Capture & Storage - a dirty distraction, locking us into gas

#ClimateJustice Read my op Ed scrapcc.org/IS-EDP-OPED

Press Release: scrapcc.org/PR-IS

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

If you're opposed to opposing fascism, the opposes cancel out and you're just fascist

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Oil Change International @oilchange.bsky.social · 15h

The EU wants to be seen as a climate finance leader, but this is more self-praise rather than progress. It is falling short of ending its fossil fuel subsidies or contributing its fair share to global climate finance.
#COP30 #JustEnergyTransition #ClimateFinance

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EU Ministers Undercut Fossil Fuel Phaseout Leadership with Weak Finance Position Before COP30 - Oil Change International

Today, EU Finance ministers approved the EU Council Conclusions on Climate Finance ahead of COP30. In response, Laurie van der Burg, Public Finance Manager at Oil Change International, said: “The EU…

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15h

The terrifying, brand new threat of people on TV misleading the public. I would say this one is not even in the top thousand most damaging bullshit assertions presented to the public this century so far, and quitepossibly this year.

Michael Savage @michaels... • 37m
NEW: A false claim about Euan Blair found its way into Have I Got News For You.
It was from an X post seen almost 3m times - and it was wrong.
Production chief blames a "digital native" culture.
A very online media class drinking in
social media = danger:

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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 21h

Sløsing, det er når en kunstner får leve over fattigdomsgrensa.

100 milliarder på meningsløse samferdselsprosjekter som alle eksperter advarer mot, det er fornuftig samfunnsbygging.

Jan Arild Snoen @snoen.bsky.social · 21h

Frp vil gjerne snakke om sløsing med offentlige midler. Men når regjeringen endelig har tatt til vettet og stopper Stad-tunnelen, hvem er først på banen og forlanger mer sløsing? e24.no/norsk-oekono...

NRK: Regjeringen skrinlegger Stad skipstunnel

Regjeringen skrinlegger Stad skipstunnel. Tunnelen blir rett og slett for dyr, mener statsminister Jonas Gahr Støre (Ap).

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Truls Gulowsen @trulsgulowsen.bsky.social · 1d

Equinor innrømmer at de gjorde grove feil som førte til at oljeutslippet skjedde, ble mye større enn det trengte å bli, og nådde land i fuglenes hekkesesong i svært verdifulle og sårbare områder.

Men NRK lar seg lure og fokuserer på millioner til rydding i overskriften. www.nrk.no/trondelag/eq...

Equinor har brukt over 120 millionar på å rydde opp etter oljesøl frå Njord A-plattforma

77.000 liter olje blei sloppen ut i sjøen. Etter ti månader har under ein femtedel blitt samla inn.

www.nrk.no

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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 1d

In 2022, @wrexhamuni.bsky.social was the first university in #Wales to ban fossil fuel industry recruitment on its campuses. Yet here it is, hosting #HyNet which is a front for #Cadent, #EETFuels and #Eni to carry on pumping gas and dumping carbon dioxide. Students deserve the truth.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d

The Arab Spring really was a key, decisive event in world politics: it demonstrated to corrupt authoritarian regimes that they needed to move decisively to ramp up surveillance and crack down on dissent to prop up their control. And I do not mean “only authoritarians in the Middle East”.

Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossa... • 5h
Saudi Arabia's investment in Twitter boosted its influence while being used at home to silence regime critics. "They're surveillance states. They're police states.
They want to use the latest tech to stay in power and surveil their populations."

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Are @litterat.party · 1d

Men folkens: Å få ein oppsummering av pensum på barnehagenivå er ikkje å lære. Sjølv om du ser vekk i frå hallusinasjon og dilldall så er KI dårlege læringsverkøy, fordi den kognitive avlastinga frå KI avlastar SJØLVE LÆRINGA.

Det er ikke stjeling å lære
Det handler ikke om å velge mellom papir og KI, men om å møte studentene der de faktisk lærer. Nekter vi dem det, risikerer vi å gjøre norsk faglitteratur irrelevant, skriver høyskolelektor Karl Philip Lund.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Again, the headline here is “government doing some stupid, wildly irresponsible bullshit the Mail and the Sun will love, because otherwise they might fill that space with even more articles explaining how crooked they are”.

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Eivind Trædal @eivindtraedal.bsky.social · 2d

Det er bare å gratulerer Hadle Bjuland med en pangstart i sin nye jobb som spindoktor! www.vg.no/nyheter/i/kw...

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ikke på Tale @ellingvag.bsky.social · 1d

«Det lille man må kunne»

Inntoget av ChatGPT er det beste argumentet mot eksamen som vurderingsmetode på lenge. Målet med å studere er ikke å stå på eksamen, det er å skjønne hele faget.

Are @litterat.party · 2d

Eit godt tips er å ikkje trenge helsehjelp dei neste 20-30 åra

Den kan forklare ting enkelt til deg som eit barnehagebarn, seier studenten Ronja Løtveit.

Som sjukepleiarstudent har ho ei stor og tjukk pensumbok om anatomi, og vel heller å bruke kunstig intelligens som forklarar stoffet på ein enklare måte. Og ho får støtte frå studievenninna.

Eirik Gjesdal/NRK
– Eg brukar mykje ChatGPT, fordi det er veldig lett. Ein treng ikkje lese i fleire timar for å finne den vesle informasjonen ein treng, seier Ida Synnøve Sunde.

Og ho føler at mange andre studentar gjer det same.

– Sjølv har eg kjøpt pensumbøker, men eg har ikkje sett på dei, seier Sunde.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Wondering how this one can be made everyone’s fault, in the same way that we all wanted brutal austerity, or we all bought too many widescreen TVs in 2008. The excuse can’t be that AI was too popular and too many people wanted its extremely useful and valuable services, can it.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Surely not the miracle technology that’s going to rescue us, and Britain in particular

Bank of England warns of growing risk that AI bubble could burst

Possibility of ‘sharp market correction has increased’, says Bank’s financial policy committee

www.theguardian.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

Wild list of errors - significant but subtle enough that someone not paying attention would let is pass - generated by Microsoft's generative software INSIDE Excel formulas

We are so SO MUCH TROUBLE

office-watch.com/2025/facts-a...

ust one more example of Copilot getting facts wrong
We asked Copilot() for a list of UN countries and immediately noticed something was wrong. There are 193 countries in the United Nations not 194 so where is the other country? The answer is complicated.

=COPILOT(“list of UN countries, include headings”,”show short name, full name,date of UN entry and continent”)

Copilot has added Vatican City which isn’t a member, only an “Observer” but at least there’s a note.

Even more curious is Palestine which is also an Observer member only but is listed by Copilot as a full member which joined on 29 Nov. 2012.

That means Copilot has two non-members listed and there must be one member country not listed.

If that wasn’t enough, all the Central American and Caribbean countries are lumped into the “North America” continent which isn’t what most people would expect.

Different results on the same page!
For no explained reason, “Gold Coast Airport” appears in this Copilot() result (B17 result and below) even though it’s not shown in another result on the same page (Cell B3 and the spilled cells). All it took was small and irrelevant changes in the prompt.

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Anders Møller-Stray @amstray.bsky.social · 2d

Frustrerende for Lae Solberg å måtte ta en pause i arbeidet med å gjøre nye kutt i overføringene bydelene trenger for å ha et forsvarlig til bud til barn og unge, fordi man må ta tak i problemene kuttene skaper.

Skjermdump fra NRK: Kaller inn til hastemøte om barnerekruttering
PUBLISERT KLOKKEN 11:02 IBYRÅDET I OSLO
Byrådsleder i Oslo, Eirik Lae Solberg (H), inviterer til et ekstraordinært møte i politirådet i Oslo mandag 13. oktober.

Invitasjonen kommer etter flere alvorlige kriminelle hendelser med mindreårige den siste tiden.

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Anders @andersskyrud.bsky.social · 3d

Altså det bare heter ikke dette, det er ingen som sier det. Ingen snakker sånn. Hvor vanskelig kan det være å bare bruke vanlig språk?

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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 3d

#BigOil behemoth and #HyNet #CCS partner #Eni has been fined €336million for rigging fuel prices. In 2022, it leaked 80,000 litres of oil into the #IrishSea. Eni isn't a fit and proper company, yet its pocketing huge taxpayer subsidies. Why #DESNZ?

Eni among six oil companies fined €936mn over fuel price collusion

Italy’s competition watchdog imposes one of biggest penalties by a national regulator in Europe

www.ft.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d

There's a very nice new report from @climateanalytics.org on precisely this: "Hard to abate" has become its own form of subtle climate delay --->>

@billhare.bsky.social @cindybax.bsky.social

ca1-clm.edcdn.com/assets/Clima...

Conclusion
The persistent classification of iron and steel and cement as “hard-to-abate” sectors has
shaped both policy and industrial responses in ways that risk undermining the urgency
and effectiveness of global climate mitigation efforts.
While the technical and process-related challenges in these sectors are non-trivial, the
evidence presented in this report demonstrates that their decarbonisation is not only
possible but highly achievable with existing and emerging technologies—especially
when guided by integrated, whole-of-system approaches and supported by robust
policy frameworks.
A narrow focus on production-side constraints—such as process emissions in clinker
production or the fossil fuel dependence of BF-BOF steelmaking—has encouraged
decarbonization strategies put forward by the industry to rely heavily on CCUS and
offsetting as core mitigation strategies. This framing assumes that a substantial portion
of sectoral emissions are unavoidable, which justifies delayed action and continued
operation of high-emissions infrastructure. However, our analysis shows that much of
what is labelled “residual” or “unavoidable” emissions can, in fact, be abated at source
through a combination of clean technology deployment, material efficiency, and
demand-side reductions.
In the iron and steel sector, commercially available technologies—particularly electric arc
furnaces (EAFs) coupled with high scrap availability and direct reduced iron (DRI) using
green hydrogen—can replace the BF-BOF pathway. While steel production capacity is
long-lived and capital-intensive, studies show that aligning investment timelines with
early retrofit and decommissioning schedules could reduce cumulative emissions by up
to 66% over 2020–2050, compared to just 47% if low-carbon measures are delayed by
five years.

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Trond Stenvik @trondstenvik.bsky.social · 3d

Det haster å få på plass forbud mot krypto.

«Det kan ikke være sånn at utvinning av kryptovaluta på to datasentre skal legge beslag på all annen utvikling av industri og arbeidsplasser i Midt-Norge. Vi har bruk for kraften til å få ned utslipp og utvikle industriarbeidsplasser.»

Kryptoguruen (+)

Slik bygget en gåtefull milliardær Norges største kryptofabrikker.

www.dn.no

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 6d

It is weirdly perfect for Bluesky's current situation that the clumsy, blunt slopcannon that made this graphic actually produced a picture of a centralised network

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

dec/acc

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 5d

Oppdatering fra UK:

- Labour-regjeringen lover enda en innstramning på grunnleggende rettigheter, etter at den allerede har definert ikke-voldelige aktivister som terrorister.

- Opposisjonen foreslår det de selv beskriver som en britisk «ICE» som skal kaste 150.000 mennesker ut av landet hvert år.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5d

This is exactly how this was presented by the Times in 2011, just with the serial number filed off

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5d

Kemi Badenoch asked where she would send the 150,000 people she says she would deport every year, replies that it's an "irrelevant question".

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