Robert Southon
@barcelunar.bsky.social
Appalling error from @theguardian.com: NO country "runs 100% on renewable energy" or even gets close, something very different from 100% renewable electricity which is typically just 20% of total energy used. Pure #hopium, please pull the video! 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
May 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Appalling error from @theguardian.com: NO country "runs 100% on renewable energy" or even gets close, something very different from 100% renewable electricity which is typically just 20% of total energy used. Pure #hopium, please pull the video! 1/2 www.theguardian.com/world/video/...
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For decades, those wanting to avoid serious discussion of the growing climate risks facing their businesses, assets or homes have attempted to not only deny risk, but also to argue that nowhere is safe — and therefore cost-benefit doesn't apply and every place should get rescue plans, bailouts, etc.
"Virtually nowhere is safe from extreme weather disasters" is riskwashing.
A huge difference in anticipated outcomes between the most and least exposed places, even if the least exposed still face serious rising climate risks.
This has massive downstream implications.
Important to get right.
A huge difference in anticipated outcomes between the most and least exposed places, even if the least exposed still face serious rising climate risks.
This has massive downstream implications.
Important to get right.
Western NC was long thought to be a “climate haven,” but Hurricane Helene and subsequent flooding showed virtually nowhere is safe from extreme weather disasters. In fact, 72% of the state’s counties may face “climate abandonment,” migration driven by a combination of factors.
April 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
For decades, those wanting to avoid serious discussion of the growing climate risks facing their businesses, assets or homes have attempted to not only deny risk, but also to argue that nowhere is safe — and therefore cost-benefit doesn't apply and every place should get rescue plans, bailouts, etc.
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We have a new article out today!
Exploring the degrowth movement: A survey of conceptualisations, strategies, and tactics
Open Access in Energy Research & Social Science. Led by Nick Fitzpatrick and with Dennis Eversberg.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring the degrowth movement: A survey of conceptualisations, strategies, and tactics
Open Access in Energy Research & Social Science. Led by Nick Fitzpatrick and with Dennis Eversberg.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
April 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
We have a new article out today!
Exploring the degrowth movement: A survey of conceptualisations, strategies, and tactics
Open Access in Energy Research & Social Science. Led by Nick Fitzpatrick and with Dennis Eversberg.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Exploring the degrowth movement: A survey of conceptualisations, strategies, and tactics
Open Access in Energy Research & Social Science. Led by Nick Fitzpatrick and with Dennis Eversberg.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
March 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness."
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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🇮🇹Italy’s national journalists union has submitted a criminal complaint to prosecutors in Rome after Giorgia Meloni’s govt shut down questions in parliament over suspicions it had illegally used spyware technology to hack the phones of critics instead of criminals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
Journalists launch legal action against Italian government over spyware claims
Union submits criminal complaint to prosecutors as ministers refuse to answer questions about alleged hacks
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
🇮🇹Italy’s national journalists union has submitted a criminal complaint to prosecutors in Rome after Giorgia Meloni’s govt shut down questions in parliament over suspicions it had illegally used spyware technology to hack the phones of critics instead of criminals.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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There is a really interesting essay to be written by a media studies person on why editorial cartoonists are responding to the current political moment with more clarity and better analysis than almost all the editors and political reporters at the same outlets that publish them.
February 11, 2025 at 11:00 PM
There is a really interesting essay to be written by a media studies person on why editorial cartoonists are responding to the current political moment with more clarity and better analysis than almost all the editors and political reporters at the same outlets that publish them.
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It's a coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
broligarchy.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's a coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
It's a coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
IT IS A COUP
This is what should be on every front page in 150 point banner headlines. All I have is this Substack but I lay it beneath your feet and pray to a higher power that I'm wrong.
broligarchy.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
It's a coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
« Musk, a private citizen, now has vast clouds of citizens’ data, their personal information and it seems likely, classified material. When data is out there, it’s out there. That genie can never be put back into the bottle. »
broligarchy.substack.com/p/it-is-a-coup
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L'ecologisme necessita molta força, carrer i il·lusió. Celebrem que neixi Revoltes de la Terra 🔥
Venen temps interessants :)
@revoltesdelaterra.bsky.social
directa.cat/neix-el-movi...
Venen temps interessants :)
@revoltesdelaterra.bsky.social
directa.cat/neix-el-movi...
Neix el moviment Revoltes de la Terra per impulsar grans mobilitzacions ecologistes
És dissabte 25 de gener al Prat del Llobregat i són les nou del matí. Hi ha poc trànsit i la majoria de naus del Polígon Industrial Fondo del Peixo estan tancades. Només s’aixeca una de les persianes....
directa.cat
February 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
L'ecologisme necessita molta força, carrer i il·lusió. Celebrem que neixi Revoltes de la Terra 🔥
Venen temps interessants :)
@revoltesdelaterra.bsky.social
directa.cat/neix-el-movi...
Venen temps interessants :)
@revoltesdelaterra.bsky.social
directa.cat/neix-el-movi...
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What's happening right now at USAID is probably the most shameful thing I've heard of so far in this new administration.
Withdrawing aid from the poorest people in the world with no notice is intentional harm. A crime against humanity.
Withdrawing aid from the poorest people in the world with no notice is intentional harm. A crime against humanity.
Just, um... yeah. "The White House referred ProPublica to the State Department. The State Department said to direct all questions about USAID to the agency itself. USAID did not reply to our emails. Much of its communications staff was let go in the last week."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.
Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What's happening right now at USAID is probably the most shameful thing I've heard of so far in this new administration.
Withdrawing aid from the poorest people in the world with no notice is intentional harm. A crime against humanity.
Withdrawing aid from the poorest people in the world with no notice is intentional harm. A crime against humanity.
Since all my work is automated these days, I had time to write something about AI.
medium.com/@robertsouth...
medium.com/@robertsouth...
Machine intelligence made me stupider
We need to think about AI. And we need to think.
medium.com
January 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Since all my work is automated these days, I had time to write something about AI.
medium.com/@robertsouth...
medium.com/@robertsouth...
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Definitely, a must read.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:
www.404media.co/declassified...
www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Definitely, a must read.
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🚨This Wednesday
Join Nobel Maria Ressa, journalists Rana Ayyub and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Oscar winner Asif Kapadia in an online conversation about the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the film 2073, just days before the US inauguration.
RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/a-warning-...
Join Nobel Maria Ressa, journalists Rana Ayyub and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Oscar winner Asif Kapadia in an online conversation about the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the film 2073, just days before the US inauguration.
RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/a-warning-...
A Warning to America - 2073 and The Arrival of Techno Authoritarianism
Maria Ressa, Rana Ayyub, Carole Cadwalladr and Asif Kapadia in Conversation. An Event by The Citizens.
www.eventbrite.com
January 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🚨This Wednesday
Join Nobel Maria Ressa, journalists Rana Ayyub and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Oscar winner Asif Kapadia in an online conversation about the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the film 2073, just days before the US inauguration.
RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/a-warning-...
Join Nobel Maria Ressa, journalists Rana Ayyub and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Oscar winner Asif Kapadia in an online conversation about the rise of techno-authoritarianism and the film 2073, just days before the US inauguration.
RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/a-warning-...
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With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n
January 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
With 17 days to go until the US takeover by the new Trump (or Musk?) administration, I thought it might be worthwhile to share a number of recent papers published by our team that counter arguments that have been leveled against misinformation research. 1/n
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La publicación de este cartoon, con Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman/AI, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times, Walt Disney Company/ABC News, e Jeff Bezos/Amazon y Washington Post, dando dinero a Trump, fue rechazada por el Washington Post. Como resultado, su autora, @anntelnaes.bsky.social presentó su dimisión.
January 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
La publicación de este cartoon, con Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman/AI, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times, Walt Disney Company/ABC News, e Jeff Bezos/Amazon y Washington Post, dando dinero a Trump, fue rechazada por el Washington Post. Como resultado, su autora, @anntelnaes.bsky.social presentó su dimisión.
A curious coincidence: on the cover of Catalan digital elnacional.cat today, for the first time since last summer, is a photo that I know all too well of disobedient Spanish judge Joaquín Aguirre.
Let me explain: 1/4.
Let me explain: 1/4.
December 18, 2024 at 3:25 PM
A curious coincidence: on the cover of Catalan digital elnacional.cat today, for the first time since last summer, is a photo that I know all too well of disobedient Spanish judge Joaquín Aguirre.
Let me explain: 1/4.
Let me explain: 1/4.
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Pure enshittification. Jam in a commodity summarising feature because you think you should use it ,while actively degrading the real utility of your product for your most engaged readers.
LOL the Washington Post replaced its archive search tool with an AI that tries to summarize the archive ahead of delivering any actual stories, and which only ranks its findings by "relevance," with no option to rank them by date
December 8, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Pure enshittification. Jam in a commodity summarising feature because you think you should use it ,while actively degrading the real utility of your product for your most engaged readers.
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"Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to stop them." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Sally Rooney: When are we going to have the courage to stop the climate crisis?
Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system
www.irishtimes.com
December 6, 2024 at 11:55 AM
"Because the rich own things, and the poor do not, it is legal for the rich to destroy Earth and illegal for the poor to stop them." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...