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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 14h

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 · 18h

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 · 21h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

#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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 4d

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 · 5d

dec/acc

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

"Milei is amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing. That's leadership" - Nigel Farage

Milei would be the "template" for my government - Kemi Badenoch

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Tore Sinding Bekkedal @toresbe.bsky.social · 5d

Steve Bannon: "The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with shit."

NRK & Schibsted: "Denne dritten gir oss dritbra måltall, ingenting annet betyr noe!"

alfhvatne.bsky.social @alfhvatne.bsky.social · 5d

Det er ei merkeleg medieverd. I festtalar er ein motvekta mot propaganda og fake news. Og i realiteten fyller dei alle sendeflater med den same propagandaen. Dei autoritære forstår seg betre på media enn mediene sjølv

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Hannibal Lektor @ivarsorensen.bsky.social · 4d

Om man stjeler for eksempel en bil fra andre og blir tatt for det, da får man ikke beholde bilen bare man betaler ei bot eller kompensasjon. KI-utviklere som stjeler åndsverk for å trene KI, burde blitt fratatt språkmodellene sine.
www.khrono.no/forskere-mis...

Forskere misbrukt til KI-trening. — Det er så drøyt!

Meta har piratkopiert vitenskapelige artikler til å trene opp egne språkmodeller. Flere forskere reagerer.

www.khrono.no

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Johan Sæbø @jsaebo.bsky.social · 5d

Jeg pleide å bekymre meg for deepfake og hvordan det vil bli misbrukt, men det var før jeg fant ut at "høyreaktivister" kan si hva de vil og media vil aldri etterspørre dokumentasjon, faktasjekke, eller stille kritiske spm uansett. De trenger ikke deepfake hvis journalisme bare er videreformidling

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HyNot @hynotnw.bsky.social · 5d

Labour MS carolynthomasms.bsky.social has raised concerns in the Senedd about the environmental impact of the #HyNet carbon dioxide pipeline which will plough through communities, conservation sites and watercourses in #NorthWales. She's the only politician to speak out.

Concerns raised over hydrogen pipeline impact on River Dee

The Welsh Government has said the HyLine Gogledd hydrogen pipeline project could create thousands of jobs in north-east Wales, but concerns have been raised in the Senedd about its potential impact on...

www.deeside.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 7d

Apparently Israel’s genocidal acts are just “daft”.

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 6d

Luke Akehurst har vært en av Israels fremste lobbyister i UK i mange år, samtidig som han har hatt enorm innflytelse i Labour (først som styremedlem, nå som MP). En skikkelig skremmende, skamløs skurk som forsvarer krigsforbrytelser og folkemord.

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 6d

Extraordinary stuff.

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 7d

Nok en hydrogen-fantasi (som her også truet urfolks rettigheter) går i oppløsning. Det er billig grønnvasking for energiselskaper å skrive under på uforpliktende planer som alle vet det aldri blir noe av, men som kan fremstilles som grønt. Snart må media rette kritisk søkelys på falske løsninger.

RWE withdraws from $10 billion Namibia green hydrogen project

German power utility RWE said on Monday that it had withdrawn from Namibia's $10 billion Hyphen green ammonia project, a blow to the southern African nation's ambitions to become a major hydrogen hub.

www.reuters.com

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Aled Dilwyn Fisher @aleddilwyn.bsky.social · 7d

I store deler av verden, kan forsikringen bli for dyr pga. klimakrisen.

Olje- og gassinntektene kan ikke gjøre opp for dette. Vi må unngå disse enda mer katastrofale klimaendringene ved å fase ut fossil energi så raskt som mulig.

Why insurers worry the world could soon become uninsurable

Günther Thallinger, a board member at Allianz, one of the world's biggest insurers, says the climate crisis could make adaptation economically unviable.

www.cnbc.com

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Stefan Fisher-Høyrem @stfisherhoyrem.bsky.social · 7d

Kurs i "prompt engineering" er først og fremst opplæring i å overse og bortforklare teknologiens iboende begrensninger, og skyve ansvaret for tek-selskapenes villedende markedsføring over på den individuelle kunden.

I så måte har de klare paralleller til kursene den kongelige sjamanen tilbyr.

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DeSmog @desmog.com · 8d

🔴 NEW - Labour’s AI Drive Faces Fossil Fuel Pressure at Party Conference

Lobbyists are pushing for the UK’s AI boom to be fuelled by gas.

📝 @writesbright.bsky.social

Labour’s AI Drive Faces Fossil Fuel Pressure at Party Conference

LIVERPOOL – Gas companies and Conservative lobby groups have been leaning on the Labour Party to allow tech companies to use gas to power their energy-guzzling artificial intelligence (AI). A number o...

www.desmog.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 8d

If it seems like clown shit, to be copying ideas that bombed in America because you have nothing at all to say yourself: consider that it’s only six months since the same people told Andrew Marr to expect “a well-behaved, non-mouthy, essentially social democratic, properly dressed Elon Musk”.

Robert Peston & @Peston • 24m
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RUN-BRITAIN
Some party leaders are up all night agonising about their conference speeches, pulling them apart, rewriting. Last-minute essay-crisis panic characterised the last time Labour was in power; it was true of Blair and Brown.
This is not Keir Starmer's way. I am told today's address to his party, and to the country, had its big elements drafted by him three weeks ago, before being handed over to aides to flesh out.
It hasn't changed structurally or fundamentally since then.
So we may hear something today that can be labelled, for the first time, as "Starmerism". It will be a British version of what the US commentator Ezra Klein calls "abundance politics."
Klein's argument is that the centre left became too bogged down in rationing scarce resources, which means - definitionally - centre left governments would always disappoint important members of their voter base - which then become fertile ground for the populist right, the Farages and the Trumps, to harvest support.
Instead Klein says that when the centre left is in power it should go hell-for-leather to generate enough for everyone - creating the conditions for business innovation and growth, expanding clean energy, building much more housing, reducing regulatory obstacles to important infrastructure development, and so on.

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Andy Rowell @andy-rowell.bsky.social · 8d

And yet Namibia is ramping up oil exploration and production, which will exacerbate the climate crisis and the drilling also threatens the iconic Okavango Delta too.

newlinesmag.com/reportage/oi...

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Forsberg™ @magnusforsberg.no · 8d

Jeg. Blir. Så. Eitrandes. www.faktisk.no/kommentar/in...

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