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Ben Abraham

@afterclimate.com.au
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I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions. afterclimate.com.au sustainablegamesalliance.org Was @afterclimate on Twitter

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 28/09/2026
Matching words with some sort of… Palestine Action, perhaps?
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/09/2026
If you live in the US and have been thinking of getting an EV this is an INCREDIBLE bargain. I know the brand is gone, but the 2 & 3 in particular share a lot of parts with their volvo sister cars
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Crocodile attacks prove need for more habitat closer to population zones.
abc.net.au
OpenAI breach proves need for more data centres, major parties say
Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 26/09/2026
Oh that’s where I left it
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 26/09/2026
Microsoft's data center subcontractor in New Jersey illegally runs a bunch of gas "backup" generators on site, figuring they won't get caught or will just eat the wrist-slap fines if they do. Regulatory enforcement is so bad that a third party had to take drone images to get the state to act.
theguardian.com
New Jersey datacenter fined $1.1m after visual investigation showed dozens of unpermitted generators
State regulator’s record fine for DataOne facility in Vineland follows Floodlight investigation with the Guardian
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Spectrum News NECN @necntv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'Krampus the Christmas demon' spoke out at a Billerica Select Board meeting in favor of the town's use of flock cameras. The costumed individual satirically praised the automated license plate readers while toting a sign saying 'Flock yeah.'
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Markus Montola @montola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
”Israeli military officers describe hacking into young girls' phones and listening, waiting for them to exclaim with happiness that their father has returned. That moment, amid the pure and innocent joy of a child reunited with their parent after a long day, is when the airstrike happens.”
salon.com
"NAZA" could be the tipping point in the public perception of Gaza
As Gaza support builds, the film presents testimony Israel can't easily deny.
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Nitro 🐻‍❄️ 🔜 Asfurmeet @es.nitrobear.gay · 06/08/2026
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skid vicious @skidvicious.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I am hearing that on his deathbed Angry Anderson received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
El Niño is breaking every existing record already, and it's got weeks to go before it's likely to hit a peak. We're going to see a warmer world than any humans before us this year billmckibben.substack.com/p/hold-my-wa...
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Hold my (warm) beer
It’s Existential Crises Week!
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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you wanted an in-depth look at why the Japanese games industry seems to be doing well amid everything, here's something @dominguezf.bsky.social has been working on for a while. He reached out to many people to try and get some local thoughts. Few wanted to chat, but we did get some great folks.
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Goku Missile Crisis @babadooknukem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
lol owned
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Afrikaner ‘refugee’ family who came back to SA for healthcare can’t return to US | News24
An Afrikaner family granted refugee status in the US have been denied re-entry after they undertook a quick trip back to South Africa.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
so we just nearly started a war with china (a nuclear state) because of genAI use
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode.
According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said.
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A woman told me that I was causing "harm" and blocked me for the observation that people are sublimating their existential threat response into fantasy, scifi doomsdays because they are not allowed to actually express acknowledgement of the real one. bsky.app/profile/laur...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/09/2026
Lol, Trump is reducing global greenhouse gas emissions despite himself.
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis - Carbon Brief
Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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Kels, but punished @realkels316.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the destruction of TAFE by liberal and labor governments nation-wide has been a disaster. Ask anyone who has attended training with an RTO.
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
orlandosentinel.com
Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 18/09/2026
Share if you agree
Fat little chihuahua puppy (maybe?) looking extremely round and smiling lying on a tan fleece blanket
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 18/09/2026
A new Sydney suburb has become the testbed for biosolar rooftops in Australia – and the latest results from a groundbreaking project are stunning reneweconomy.com.au/kookaburras-bee…
reneweconomy.com.au
Kookaburras, bees and panels: Australia's first big "biosolar" roof slashes heat, boosts power by nearly 25%
A new Sydney suburb has become the testbed for biosolar rooftops in Australia – and the latest results from a groundbreaking project are stunning.
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Tone Goodfellow @goodfellow.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"On extreme heat days – something western Sydney’s infamous heat island effect is known for – the temperaturd of the green roof was up to 28ºC lower than an aluminium roof." reneweconomy.com.au/kookaburras-...
reneweconomy.com.au
Kookaburras, bees and panels: Australia's first big "biosolar" roof slashes heat, boosts power by nearly 25%
A new Sydney suburb has become the testbed for biosolar rooftops in Australia – and the latest results from a groundbreaking project are stunning.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"At current prices, LNG-fired generation costs around $212 per MWh" "Analysis presented by Richard Katz, Special Correspondent at Weekly Toyo Keizai, showed new solar-plus-storage systems could fall below the operating cost of existing gas plants by 2030, at around $71 per MWh"
energytracker.asia
LNG Struggles to Deliver Stable Power for Asia’s Data Center Boom
Asia data center power costs hit $212/MWh on LNG after Hormuz disruption. Renewables are now closing the gap.
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Jenka @jenka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Every ascendent ideology of the era is a sublimation response to the subconscious awareness of the climate crisis part ♾️ bsky.app/profile/fain...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/09/2026
As I warned you: the superstar media darling AI quitter is explicitly agreeing with Trump and claiming climate threats are "overplayed". Effective altruism / rationalism is a cult of broken priorities that denies the threat of fossil fuels. This is why Anthropic loves burning gas for power.
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible
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Ryan Stauffer @ryanswx.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Montreal Protocol was signed on this date in 1987. The greatest environmental treaty in history. With the current intense polar vortex, 25 years ago we would be observing one of the largest ozone holes on record. Today, a sizable ozone hole, and a sign of slow healing. ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov
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Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"... the first stage of the project could be powered by gas, with three major gas power plants within two kilometres of the proposed site" www.smh.com.au/national/que...
smh.com.au
Anthropic inks deal for $32 billion mega data centre in Queensland
It is the first deal signed in Australia by the maker of Claude, which is hoping to publicly list the company with a valuation of $2.8 trillion.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 16/09/2026
Banishing an intrusive thought by spreading it: guacamole is a type of ceviche
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Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Tracking the true planetary impact of the AI supply chain" with Alistair Alexander is the next (online!) GreenTech SW event, Sep 23. RSVP here: www.meetup.com/greentech-so...
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Tracking the true planetary impact of the AI supply chain, Wed, Sep 23, 2026, 12:30 PM | Meetup
By popular demand from our community to understand more about the environmental impacts of AI, Green Tech South West presents an online event featuring guest speaker Alista
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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: New report by @ketanjoshi.co finds NVIDIA’s indirect emissions have risen 725% since 2020. Reminder, there is no evidence to say AI is a net benefit for climate, and Europe can't lock itself into more fossil gas to power data centres for Big Tech profits. ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Copernicus ECMWF @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Get highlights from the August #C3S Climate Bulletin: joint warmest month ever recorded globally, joint highest average sea surface temperature (SST) over the extra-polar oceans (60°S–60°N), widespread dryness and drought in Europe, exceptionally low river flows, and more. ⬇️
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Sam Wakeling @samwake.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“Every aviation scenario the UK Government has published overshoots the carbon budget Parliament has legislated, before a third runway at Heathrow is even taken into account.” (And even that budget is wildly out of line with 1.5 or 2C)
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The CCC @thecccuk.bsky.social offers Heathrow a thumbs up, conditional on the massive deployment of “snake oil” technologies (SAF & GGR). Report by Tyndall researchers, building on UK Govt commitments, science & maths, reaches a very different conclusion. See: climateuncensored.com/heathrow-exp...
climateuncensored.com
Heathrow Expansion: The Physics Does Not Negotiate - Climate Uncensored
Below is the foreword I wrote for my Tyndall colleagues’ detailed and rigorous report examining whether further expansion of Heathrow can be reconciled with
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 16/09/2026
Since 2020, Australia’s subsidies for fossil fuels have totalled almost six times the amount given in aid to the Pacific, Tuvalu’s climate and environment minister says reneweconomy.com.au/pacific-aid-doe…
reneweconomy.com.au
Pacific aid "doesn't really matter" next to Australia's fossil fuel subsidies, Tuvalu climate minister says
Since 2020, Australia's subsidies for fossil fuels have totalled almost six times the amount given in aid to the Pacific, Tuvalu's climate and environment minister says.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/09/2026
An extensive Financial Times investigative report, done in collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, demonstrates that more than SIXTY FIVE PERCENT of Israeli damage and destruction done to Lebanese population centers occurred AFTER the so-called ceasefire agreement of April 16th.
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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 15/09/2026
Another case of Israel bombing humanitarian and medical personnel. I hope the Democrats immediately condemn Hasan Piker and Macklemore.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15/09/2026
This is a thing everywhere in the world: on-site diesel generation is advertised as "backup" generation, but data centre operators plan to use it way, way more than that. Firmus in Australia now fighting against rules to limit pollution from their fossil-fuelled project
abc.net.au
Data centre company lodges appeal against 'unreasonable' restricted generator use
An energy-hungry data centre that received recent council approval to have diesel generators as backup power is now appealing against the "unreasonable" conditions on how they can be used.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
That's my uni! Instead of actually listening to staff and working with us to make QUT a better and fairer place to work and study, our overpaid management has gone crying to the FWC. Tomorrow we're taking a 2 hour strike to insist they take us seriously www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026
holy moly www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Labor recruits Sussan Ley to key renewables role
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The Albanese government has appointed former Liberal leader Sussan Ley to the board of Snowy Hydro, the massive hydroelectricity project central to Australia’s energy transition, just weeks before the unveiling of a major cost review of the troubled project.

Energy Minister Chris Bowen announced the appointment on Monday, less than 12 months after Ley oversaw the formal abandonment of the Coalition’s commitment to net zero emissions to placate the conservative party’s warring factions.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The letter from 25 Fields Medalists defending the practice of mathematics uses revealing language, describing math as a "creative" endeavor sustained by human-to-human transmission.After decades of contempt for the Humanities looks like we're all Humanists now. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...
Often these solutions are announced in a rush, leaving no time for a proper writeup, the isolation of new methods and ideas, and citing relevant previous work of others. As in all creative professions, this raises severe attribution and plagiarism questions. Moreover, without the willing mathematicians who must take care of their development and integration into the mathematical canon, AI-conceived ideas would never become fully alive and the crucial human transmission chain between mathematicians would be lost.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 10/09/2026
Last month is tied as the hottest month ever recorded globally, with warming 1.65C above preindustrial levels
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August Is Tied for the World’s Hottest Month Ever Recorded
This summer was the warmest measured in Western Europe, said the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
⚠️ "People receiving an income support including disability, unemployment or carers payments had an average mortality rate more than nine times higher than people who did not access the welfare system." What an epic waste of human life. Raise the rates. 7news.com.au/news/shockin...
7news.com.au
'Profound' increased death rate for Aussies on welfare payments
‘Australians facing economic disadvantage are carrying a much higher burden of premature mortality than others.’
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Saudi war on Yemen was one of the most unprecedented crimes in human history. 24 million people, kids without water, food since 2014 Houthis resisted the brutal kings - MBS&MBZ. Were bombed mercilessly by US&UK, when they were only Arab nation trying to stop Palestinian genocide. And now they win.
ft.com
Houthis capture Red Sea port in blow to Saudis
Rebels overrun historic Yemeni port of Mocha as they advance south towards strategic Bab al-Mandeb Strait
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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 11/09/2026
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
climateuncensored.com
There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Martin Jones @martincjones.com · 11/09/2026
Seems sensible: 'EnergyAustralia is pitching its coal power station sites as prime real estate for new data centres, saying their ready-made access to the electricity grid, water and industrial-zoned land makes them the ideal homes for the energy-hungry facilities' www.theage.com.au/business/com...
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‘The sites are ready’: Power giant wants AI data centres built at its coal plants
The owner of the Yallourn power station in Victoria and the Mt Piper plant in NSW says retiring coal sites are the perfect fit for new data centres.
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