Victor Galaz
@vgalaz.bsky.social
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🇸🇪 🇨🇱 🌎 Associate Prof Pol Sci Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University + Beijer Institute of Ecol Economics at Royal Swe Academy of Sciences. Politics, big money, nuclear risks and new tech in the Anthropocene.👨🏽‍💻ibland för Svenska Dagbladet Kultur.
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This took me a while to finish. My new book "Dark Machines - How Artificial Intelligence, Digitalization and Automation is Changing our Living Planet" can now be pre-ordered at Routledge (UK/US).

www.routledge.com/Dark-Machine...
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
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thomasfuchs.at
How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?
Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.
vgalaz.bsky.social
"Some say that medical societies must remain apolitical. […] The principle of medical neutrality, grounded in international humanitarian law, does not mean indifference; it obliges us to condemn any erosion of this norm as a threat to both care and ethics."

This week’s cover of The Lancet.
vgalaz.bsky.social
önskar verkligen att jag hann, men tyvärr!
vgalaz.bsky.social
Note: a lot of old tweets in there, can’t say anything about online responses in general!
vgalaz.bsky.social
Similar misinformation about EAT-Lancet on top of the recommendations timeline on X. No surprises there, I guess.
vgalaz.bsky.social
Slutligen: Julians bok och andra texter är verkligen att rekommendera. Få fångar vår tid av militarisering, klimatkris och kampen för en bättre värld, bättre än han.
vgalaz.bsky.social
Och som jag skrev i en essä tidigare i år: ”Det känns trösterikt att veta att vår klimatframtid inte bara formas av teknikutveckling och stormaktspolitik. Även unga poeters röster kommer att ge eko i generationer framöver.”

www.svd.se/a/kwbXy6/oti...
Otippade ljusglimtar i klimatkrismörkret | Victor Galaz
2025 kan bli året då de globala utsläppen till slut vänder nedåt, förutsatt att Kina menar allvar med att ta över ledarrollen i kampen mot klimathotet. Det är över huvud taget mycket som står på spel ...
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emorwee.bsky.social
“Year after year, land and environmental defenders—those protecting our forests, rivers, and lands across the world—continue to be met with unspeakable violence.”

146 environmental and land defenders were murdered or disappeared in 2024
The political killings you don’t hear about
Across the globe, standing up for the planet can be a death sentence—and the perpetrators are almost never held accountable.
heated.world
vgalaz.bsky.social
Ohhhh this is good stuff!
kprodani.bsky.social
🚨New article🚨 Why has the promise of universal ownership been broken, as @benbraun.bsky.social has suggested?

Our argument: because the Big Three are hardly universal. They mainly invest in those that can insulate themselves from environmental harm - big tech & financials in the Global North.
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vgalaz.bsky.social
Wow, who would have guessed this could happen...

"A confusing contradiction is unfolding in companies embracing generative AI tools: [...] Employees are using AI tools to create low-effort, passable looking work that ends up creating more work for their coworkers."

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
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emorwee.bsky.social
The Trump administration’s attacks on national parks continue

This time, they’ve removed both physical signs and website mentions describing how climate change is damaging the parks

Because if you remove the info, famously, the problem goes away

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
National parks remove signs about climate, slavery and Japanese detention
The removals come after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in March seeking to remove “improper partisan ideology” from federal institutions.
www.washingtonpost.com
vgalaz.bsky.social
Love this! 😆
oysta.au
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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lukaszolejnik.bsky.social
📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/a...
vgalaz.bsky.social
Browsing through the Washington Post news has become a dystopian experience, a never ending flow of updates on US authoritarianism, science denialism, and evidence of small pockets of resistance.
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willoremus.com
The ability to gather and report information without authorization from the government is pretty much the definition of a free press
scottnover.bsky.social
NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com
Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.
www.washingtonpost.com
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andrewdessler.com
National Academies is releasing their fast-tracked review of the science of the endangerment finding in about 1 hour, with a webcast in about 2 hours.

www.nationalacademies.org/event/45701_...