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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 👀
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"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.

Reposted by: Victor Galaz, Patrick Stokes

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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.
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by Victor Galaz

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”You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it.”
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...
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by Victor Galaz

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önskar verkligen att jag hann, men tyvärr!
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Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘Stop doing this to him’
Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ Zelda Williams, the daughter of the late actor and comedian Robin Williams, has spoken out against AI-generated content featuring her father. “Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad,” Zelda wrote in an Instagram story on Monday. “Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on. But please, if you’ve got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It’s dumb, it’s a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it’s NOT what he’d want. Continue reading...
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by Victor Galaz

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Note: a lot of old tweets in there, can’t say anything about online responses in general!

by Victor Galaz

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Similar misinformation about EAT-Lancet on top of the recommendations timeline on X. No surprises there, I guess.
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by Victor Galaz

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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.

by Victor Galaz

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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.”

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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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by Victor Galaz

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Denna nyhet gör mig oerhört glad, ett fantastiskt välförtjänt pris till unga jurister, aktivister och poeter som gjorde det omöjliga.

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Urfolksjurist och klimataktivist prisas med Right Livelihood 2025
Människorättsjuristen och författaren Julian Aguon tar hem ett av årets Right Livelihood-priser. Detta efter att han i år, tillsammans med Pacific Islands Students Fighting Climate Change, tog klimatk...
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by Victor Galaz — Reposted by: Koen Frenken

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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by Victor Galaz

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Ohhh, this is good.

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Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
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“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.
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by Victor Galaz

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Ohhhh this is good stuff!
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Klaudia Prodani @kprodani.bsky.social · 13d
🚨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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🚨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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by Victor Galaz

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enjoy @dremmafrans.bsky.social

by Victor Galaz

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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."

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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...
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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

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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.
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by Victor Galaz

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So this is one way to deal with rising food insecurity in the US - just scrap the data collection tracking it.

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Trump ends annual report on U.S. hunger amid rising food insecurity
The Trump administration is ending a decades-long report on U.S. hunger, calling it “politicized.” Last year, the USDA report warned of rising food insecurity.
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by Victor Galaz

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20 seconds in, and this is my favorite dj-set of all times.

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Sun Kissed Beats & Afro-Cuban Heat with Shaqdi
YouTube video by MAJ
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Love this! 😆
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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 17d
Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X
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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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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.
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Reposted by: Victor Galaz, Margot C. Finn, Woodrow Hartzog

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📣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...
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by A. E. Dessler — Reposted by: Victor Galaz, Dorothy Bishop, Gavin A. Schmidt , and 3 more

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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.

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by Victor Galaz

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There was a lot of disagreement among nuclear war experts when meeting in Chicago in July, but there was clear consensus on one thing - the “Golden Dome for America” is a terrible idea.

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What’s the Plan for ‘Golden Dome’? Even Experts Aren’t Sure
A sweeping U.S. missile defense program comes with many risks, costs and uncertainties, analysts say
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by Holger Hestermeyer — Reposted by: Victor Galaz, Steve Peers

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Here’s the lawsuit that Trump filed against the NY Times. While there are allegations of defamation - it is a full frontal attack on free speech. It almost reads like a parody. /1
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 22d
Donald Trump sues the New York Times (and Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, and Michael S. Schmidt) for defamation, and the complaint for some reason begins thus: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NATURE OF THE ACTION On November 5, 2024, President Trump won the 2024 Presidential Election over Vice President Kamala Harris in historic fashion, emerging victorious in both the Electoral College and the popular vote, and securing a resounding mandate from the American people. President Trump trounced Harris with 312 electoral votes and a sweep of all seven "battleground" states. This victory was remarkable for many historic reasons, including because President Trump had to overcome persistent election interference from the legacy media, led most notoriously by the New York Times.
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