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William
@lwwithpride.bsky.social
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He/him. PhD. Progressive politics (centrism has failed), literacy expert, reader, hiker, nature lover, Lord of the Rings, queer fiction, atheist. 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 On Turrbal/Jugerra land - sovereignty was never ceded. Photos: Madrid & Yosemite 💚. Some adult content.
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William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · Dec 1
Growing up in a heteronormative, homophobic time, it took me a long time to realise who I am, even longer to eventually come out. Feeling isolated and different shapes what you believe, your music and reading preferences…and I could go on. That’s why I’m a progressive and feel passionately…1/2
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apnews.com
Architect Frank Gehry, celebrated for his imaginative, genre-shifting designs, has died at 96.
Architect Frank Gehry’s iconic works in photos
Architect Frank Gehry, celebrated for his imaginative, genre-shifting designs, has died at 96. He is known for iconic works such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
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December 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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tamranger.bsky.social
Yosemite Valley never disappoints #elcapitan #yosemite #yosemitenationalpark #yosemitevalley #yose #rangeoflight #sierra #sierranevada #landscapephotography
December 6, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
This whole convo is fantastic - 1.5 hours of very informative chat on climate justice vs the gross economics of tech

Ft @naomiaklein.bsky.social @profwhw.bsky.social @profhvdv.bsky.social, hosted at @ccj-ubc.bsky.social

youtu.be/27BHQhkK52I
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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chrishehim.bsky.social
🎯🐷
December 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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davidewart.bsky.social
#theausinstitute
“We live in one of the richest countries in the world, that can afford to drop a lazy $360 billion on a bad idea . . . yet, when it comes to health, education, aged care, apparently, so many of these things are unaffordable.” - Dr Richard Denniss, co-CEO at The Australia Institute
December 5, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social
Good NYT article about the lacking creativity of generative text
Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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out.com
Yet another TV show with an all-LGBTQ+ cast of incredible actors, writers, and producers has been canceled after just one season.

https://mrf.lu/RxYc
December 4, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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fxmc1957.bsky.social
FACT OF THE DAY. 4 December 1948. George Orwell completed the final draft of his landmark novel 1984 which depicts a totalitarian tyranny ruled by Big Brother and supported by a pervasive secret police operating blanket surveillance of the entire population.
youtu.be/eFvuzu8vtY8?si… via @YouTube
George Orwell's 1984: Why it still matters - BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
https://youtu.be/eFvuzu8vtY8?si…
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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jamellebouie.net
i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.
ericmgarcia.bsky.social Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d
Oh man! This paragraph is brutal. The best thing about this review is it's not trying to be mean. It's just listing how bad the writing is.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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dnamagazine.com
Sex, Gender And Identity Questions Will Be Included In The Next Australian Census 👇
December 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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joaof.bsky.social
Speaking of gay dramas based on novels I recommend Invisible Boys. It’s Australian and the first season came out earlier this year.
Invisible Boys
December 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Honestly, the rot is far worse and more widespread than that. The way the entire energy world is nodding sagely at how adult and unavoidable and realistic it is to perpetually extend coal plants is possibly one of the grimmest things I've seen, and no one seems to have a clue how ugly it has become
jasonandrade.bsky.social Jason Andrade @jasonandrade.bsky.social · 4d
“NSW Premier Chris Minns says keeping the Eraring power station* running for longer than its planned closure date in 2027 will be a good thing for NSW”

*coal fired.

If you want to know how seriously the current generation of political leaders takes emissions..

@ketanjoshi.co
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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yvalarevolution.bsky.social
This is why this garbage is being pushed on us so hard. They want to kill intellectual curiosity and learning.

www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...
ANALYSIS | ChatGPT may help you find information faster, but you learn less | CBC Radio
Bob McDonald’s Blog: Recent studies show that using chatbots like ChatGPT may get us information faster than ever before, but we’re not gaining much knowledge by using it.
www.cbc.ca
December 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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teawithtolkien.com
Our read-along of The Silmarillion begins this week! Here are this week’s notes:

www.teawithtolkien.com/blog/silm-1
The Silmarillion Book Club: Week 1 — Tea with Tolkien
This week’s book club sponsor is Oscha Slings. Their generosity helps make this free book club possible! New Oscha customers can use code “TEA” for 10% off their order ! This Week’s Reading: ...
www.teawithtolkien.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre

@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
A Northern Indiana Public Service Co. affiliate — called NIPSCO Generation, or GenCo — plans to build up to 3 GW of gas-fired generation and battery storage to serve planned Amazon data centers, the companies said Monday. Combined with electric transmission to be built by NIPSCO, the companies expect to spend about $7 billion. Under the arrangement, GenCo plans to build two 1.3-GW gas-fired power plants and a 400-MW, 4‐hour battery storage system to serve the data centers, according to filings at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. In comparison, NIPSCO expects its non-data center load in 2028 will be about 2.3 GW. The IURC on Nov. 19 reaffirmed a September decision to approve the GenCo framework, which is designed to ensure that NIPSCO’s existing customers don’t pay for infrastructure needed to serve hyperscalers like Amazon. Under the framework, GenCo will own and operate power plants for large load customers. NIPSCO, a NiSource subsidiary, expects its 15-year deal with Amazon will produce about $1 billion in savings for its ratepayers. Those savings will be reflected as a credit on customers’ electric bills, according to a Nov. 7 filing by NIPSCO and NIPSCO Generation at the IURC. Residential customers will receive roughly $7 in monthly savings, according to the utility. Also, the 2.6-GW of gas-fired generation GenCo plans to build at its coal-fired Schahfer power plant site could produce nearly four times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the existing Schahfer coal plant emitted in 2023, according to Inskeep.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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oldtechwriter.com
This is good! This is really good! Read this. Thanks, @dennycarter.bsky.social
badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-...
They Banned Woke And Suzy Still Can’t Read
Far-right school board officials are finding out the hard way that the political pendulum has swung
badfaithtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"

A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->

www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
View Amanda Gautier-Ronopawiro’s graphic link Amanda Gautier-RonopawiroAmanda Gautier-Ronopawiro • 2nd2nd Medical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific IllustrationMedical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific Illustration 1d • Edited • 1 day ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon with a large Instagram following (Alexandre Mensier) posted it to teach people about Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. I am the illustrator of the image on the left, it was part of my dissertation. In order to create this work, I witnessed a (breathtaking) fetoscopic laser surgery in person by the specialists of Fetal Therapy LUMC, Leiden I have spent weeks researching in books as well as in the anatomy lab, speaking to specialists, making sure I would get the anatomy and proportions exactly right. Thinking about color use and how that would affect the viewer of the image. Waiting for feedback, sketching, resketching, and eventually painting every stroke by hand and digitally finishing the illustration. All to get to this carefully crafted illustration. And then someone took it. Asked AI to make an image of it, just so they don’t have to pay an actual artist. No permission or credits needed. This is legal theft and there is not a thing I can do about it. Not only did AI ‘take my job’. It, or rather the person using it, took my actual work, time and effort and stripped it of its very core: accuracy. A surgeon without gloves and a random number of fingers on each hand. Don’t even get me started on the anatomy of the mother or the poor fetus getting a laser through its head. I have felt every emotion seeing this monstrosity of an image. Created in mere seconds, directly from not only my work, but all the specialists involved that put their time and knowledge of years into it… a drawing on the left of a needle being injected into a foetus, and a machine-assisted copy of it the surgeon used
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
"The growth of AI has been called the “savior” of the gas industry. In Virginia alone, the data center capital of the world, a new state report found that AI demand could add a new 1.5 gigawatt gas plant every two years for 15 consecutive years"

@ariellesamuel.bsky.social ---->
AI is guzzling gas
Big Tech is paying for gas plants and pipelines to directly power data centers, threatening global climate goals.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“Like so many historical examples of self-preservation sold as a hypocritical message, the Albanese Government is promising to transition away from fossil fuels by expanding the production of fossil gas,” writes Ketan Joshi in The Point.

Read Ketan’s full piece here: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I agree with this but on the inverse principle that Google is absolutely, 100% flat-out lying through their teeth constantly, and opting in or out of anything won't stop them using everything you give them for whatever the hell they want to use it for

(ie: we aren't anti-tech enough)
awest.uk Andrew West @awest.uk · 14d
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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garythoren.bsky.social
And’s a gay man’s perspective ?
And not enough lube would ever make it worthwhile😂😂
Two men posing for a photo, one wearing a black leather jacket and the other in a brown leather jacket. Another person is in the background making a funny face. Text above the image is a humorous comment about the scene.
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
"The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not"

@peterbrannen.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com -->>

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
“In the United States, just 3 degrees Celsius of warming conditions in simulations tend to be hotter—when humidity is factored in—than heat waves in North Africa today,” the Purdue climate scientist Matthew Huber wrote in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “These heat waves of the future could devastate US livestock yields, if they don’t kill the animals outright.” Humans, being animals, would also be killed by the heat. One recent study showed that in a 3 degree–warmer world, deaths resulting from a week-long exceptional heat wave, like the one that struck Europe in 2003, would rival peak-COVID mortality rates, killing 32,000 people in Europe.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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1t2ls.bsky.social
one of the benefits of reading modern poetry is learning to be ok with the experience of a text washing over you, and not needing to have solid answers to “what does it mean” and “why”.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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lesleyhustler.bsky.social
How have I missed this? So excited, plock plock! @jasperfforde.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM