Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - [email protected]
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - [email protected]
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HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
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I had a lovely catch up with the inimitable Giles Parkinson.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9J...
Australia’s Renewable Revolution & the EV Boom — with Giles Parkinson
YouTube video by Everything Electric TECH
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I had a lovely catch up with the inimitable Giles Parkinson.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv9J...
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The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Excellent new @commsdeclare.bsky.social work out today - read the whole thing here: commsdeclare.org/wp-content/u...
The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:
The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:
December 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Excellent new @commsdeclare.bsky.social work out today - read the whole thing here: commsdeclare.org/wp-content/u...
The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:
The Shell-funded education program urging students to 'design their own CCS' inspired me to re-share an original artwork of mine from a few years ago:
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LIsa Wills: "Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem" #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem
Australia’s children deserve the truth about climate change. They deserve to learn science that is free from corporate spin, especially when it comes to industries driving the crisis that will shape t...
thepoint.com.au
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
LIsa Wills: "Why fossil fuel influence in children's education is a democratic problem, not just a climate problem" #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Among many other things, the entire teen social ban saga is a brilliant example of how shitty, badly-researcher airport books can have shockingly outsized influence
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bless IBCK
www.ifbookspod.com
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bless IBCK
www.ifbookspod.com
How Australia became the testing ground for a social media ban for young people
From nascent policy idea in one state to passing federal parliament in just days, it has been a whirlwind journey for the world-first legislation that will take effect from 10 December
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Among many other things, the entire teen social ban saga is a brilliant example of how shitty, badly-researcher airport books can have shockingly outsized influence
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bless IBCK
www.ifbookspod.com
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Bless IBCK
www.ifbookspod.com
Have been collecting up examples of prominent ppl in cleantech and climate spaces relying on chatbots as an information retrieval source........
I can't find a single example *anywhere* of the 2012 India blackouts being blamed on renewables.
archive.ph/NYfMU
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/w...
I can't find a single example *anywhere* of the 2012 India blackouts being blamed on renewables.
archive.ph/NYfMU
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/w...
December 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Have been collecting up examples of prominent ppl in cleantech and climate spaces relying on chatbots as an information retrieval source........
I can't find a single example *anywhere* of the 2012 India blackouts being blamed on renewables.
archive.ph/NYfMU
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/w...
I can't find a single example *anywhere* of the 2012 India blackouts being blamed on renewables.
archive.ph/NYfMU
www.nytimes.com/2012/08/02/w...
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I know this is not new and is just how shit works now and has been for a while. It’s also like fun and vaguely engaging. But so much of the internet is now just “I stole a journalist’s work and am reading it to you and monetizing it for myself.” This has happened endlessly with our Flock reporting
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I know this is not new and is just how shit works now and has been for a while. It’s also like fun and vaguely engaging. But so much of the internet is now just “I stole a journalist’s work and am reading it to you and monetizing it for myself.” This has happened endlessly with our Flock reporting
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a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
allow me to take you on a journey where, once again, we learn we have no idea what’s in our food. at least we know corporations are pure of heart so I’m sure it’s fine🫶🏼🤡
TikTok video by kaelin
www.tiktok.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:10 AM
a type of content that makes me want to launch myself into space and is huge part of why everything is so bad: TikToker goes down a “rabbit hole,” makes 9-minute video. The “rabbit hole” was she found an Eater article. The Eater journalist did all the work: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTruBS8cp/
One of our most significant cultural creations was a skit about America
December 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
One of our most significant cultural creations was a skit about America
“It’s not suppose to taste like anything. It’s should be a disappointment when you open and eat it. And you’re not suppose to look forward to your lunch in Norway"
omg
omg
That grilled cheese video was somehow worse than what Norwegians ACTUALLY do with bread, which is this: youtu.be/JlNmeVK_zLg?...
December 7, 2025 at 7:32 PM
“It’s not suppose to taste like anything. It’s should be a disappointment when you open and eat it. And you’re not suppose to look forward to your lunch in Norway"
omg
omg
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Norway's US embassy had a Christmas tree lighting ceremony sponsored by Equinor, including a massive Equinor logo right next to the tree. Somehow still not as disgusting as the grilled cheese recipe.
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Norway's US embassy had a Christmas tree lighting ceremony sponsored by Equinor, including a massive Equinor logo right next to the tree. Somehow still not as disgusting as the grilled cheese recipe.
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
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External to what?
Today, @madisoncondon.bsky.social makes the case that we should stop thinking of climate change as an externality.
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
The latest in our series on @alybatt.bsky.social's *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.*
Is Climate Change an Externality?
Environmental harms are often cast as externalities, even by those seeking to emphasize their urgency. Yet the major modern environmental statutes, written before America'
lpeproject.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
External to what?
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here's it as a really fast gif
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
here's it as a really fast gif
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Have yourself a merry little petromas
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Have yourself a merry little petromas
Norway's US embassy had a Christmas tree lighting ceremony sponsored by Equinor, including a massive Equinor logo right next to the tree. Somehow still not as disgusting as the grilled cheese recipe.
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
December 7, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Norway's US embassy had a Christmas tree lighting ceremony sponsored by Equinor, including a massive Equinor logo right next to the tree. Somehow still not as disgusting as the grilled cheese recipe.
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
Norway absolutely has its own culture: it's ingrained petroganda :)
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this has become a very important video to me
December 7, 2025 at 4:29 AM
this has become a very important video to me
A daily thing is seeing UK folks genuinely and justifiably disgusted by an anti immigration line that has been the absolute widely accepted norm in Australia for decades
December 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A daily thing is seeing UK folks genuinely and justifiably disgusted by an anti immigration line that has been the absolute widely accepted norm in Australia for decades
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This is huge. Biggest and most important new national park in Queensland in a generation, and all ABC Rural can tell us about are the fúcking opal miners.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Outback opal miners allowed to operate as surrounding land becomes national park
The Queensland government's purchase of Vergemont Station last year led to months of uncertainty for miners with tenures inside the former cattle station, which is larger than the Australian Capital T...
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
This is huge. Biggest and most important new national park in Queensland in a generation, and all ABC Rural can tell us about are the fúcking opal miners.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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«The future of education has already arrived, as a liquidation sale of everything that once made it matter.»
Read this piece!
Read this piece!
«The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”»
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
«The future of education has already arrived, as a liquidation sale of everything that once made it matter.»
Read this piece!
Read this piece!
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«Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice.»
‘Just the way things are’
‘Just the way things are’
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
«Students aren’t being taught to think more deeply but to prompt more effectively. We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice.»
‘Just the way things are’
‘Just the way things are’
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«The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”»
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
«The more we rely on algorithms, the more we normalize their values: automation, prediction, standardization, and corporate dependency. Eventually these priorities fade from view and come to seem natural—“just the way things are.”»
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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📻 Sunday listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:
Spotify unwrapped w/ Liz Pelly
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 12/03/2025 · 1h 36m
podcasts.apple.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
📻 Sunday listening 📻 Liz Pelly joins PTO to talk all things Spotify. We spoke about the self-serving myths Spotify's founders have peddled about the history of the company, how the platform impacts musicians, and its insidious consequences for music listening:
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“Farid says that he now counsels students to not go into AI research, because of the “frenzy” in the field and the large volume of low-quality work being put out by people hoping to better their career prospects”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’
AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:45 AM
“Farid says that he now counsels students to not go into AI research, because of the “frenzy” in the field and the large volume of low-quality work being put out by people hoping to better their career prospects”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Relevant: the Norwegian embassy in America posting thirst trap vids on here of a hunky chef making the most physically repulsive 'traditional Norwegian grilled cheese' imaginable
Imagine being from Norway and having an opinion on Black American culture. Like. Thanks for your pickled fish and beards but I think Black Americans have a lock on the production of vast amounts of culture.
I once got in an argument with a Norwegian coworker who said that America never created any real culture. I pointed out things like jazz and he was like “but really that’s African and Caribbean,” so finally I landed on ranch dressing, and I am proud to confirm that we got that goin for us
December 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Relevant: the Norwegian embassy in America posting thirst trap vids on here of a hunky chef making the most physically repulsive 'traditional Norwegian grilled cheese' imaginable