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Alex Morrison

@alex-morrison.bsky.social
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founder cha-nge.com, cogapp.com and projectmagpie.org, editor of elephant.earth

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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Exactly. But worse than that. It’s a feedback loop that gets exponentially worse the longer it goes on. Stopping it and then reversing it is the whole game.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Only halfway through New York Climate week - here's a little cheatsheet for the key AI greenwashing tropes you're going to hear. Please go check our latest investigation into NVIDIA's unjustified climate claims here: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jaw dropping. "Three of the country’s largest public pension funds called SpaceX’s governance structure “the most management-favorable governance structure ever brought to the U.S. public markets at this scale.”
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This graph, quite literally, heading off the charts and taking our future along with it.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Finding many important sites inaccessible due to Cloudflare security checks: "Performing security verification This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page is displayed while the website verifies you are not a bot." Thanks, AI mavens for breaking the internet!
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
.. have to fight our way back to 1.5°C by sustained net negative emissions (carbon dioxide removal). That's not going to be easy, but we have to. "Above 1.5°C, risks and impacts will intensify with every extra fraction of a degree and every year." www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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UNEP: World set to cross 1.5°C global warming, but can still limit, adapt to and return from higher temperatures
Global temperature rise is set to cross 1.5°C, likely within the next few years, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, but it is still possible to bring temperatures dow...
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
New post: With climate change now visible all around us opponents of action are changing tack. Dismantling their new attacks helps identify a hidden structure in political argument that is often used to try and kill popular + necessary policies. (£/free trial) samf.substack.com/p/how-to-kil...
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How to kill a popular policy
Opposing action to tackle climate change is getting tricker.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 25/08/2026
Petition to rename mRNA vaccines to “Dolly shots”
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” Dolly Parton RIP www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
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defyanddefend-v1.bsky.social @defyanddefend-v1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"... human traffic is already outnumbered by bots online, which means measures have to be taken for the internet to remain useful to people, or else grind to a halt under the weight of automated traffic." www.techradar.com/pro/cloudfla...
techradar.com
Cloudflare chief says humans will soon be 'a rounding error on the Internet' as bot traffic takes over — so what is it doing to combat this?
Rounding errors don't spend money online
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Yikes!
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Just let this sink in. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Grenfell cladding firm Arconic paid shareholders £23m more in compensation than to fire victims
Report’s author said findings highlighted ‘near-total failure’ to hold corporations accountable over the disaster that killed 72 people
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
3/ Cities don't drown when mean sea level rises to meet them. They drown when one event overtops the defences. Sometimes the people come back. Sometimes they don't.
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Human-driven sea-level rise has quadrupled the frequency of coastal sea-level extremes since 1900 - Nature Climate Change
Sea-level rise in conjunction with storm surge and tidal variations leads to extreme sea levels that threaten coastal systems. Here the authors use tide-gauge data and models to quantify how anthropog...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
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Tom Hardy @tomxr.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some stats for anyone trotting out the crass “it’s only summer, get over it”.
westenglandbylines.co.uk
The Third Horseman: famine looms for all of us
A vision from the Apocalypse. Both climate and ecological breakdown present multi-faceted threats to our food security which are exacerbated to by Government policy or ruinous farming practices. Tom H...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Interesting (as in 'may you live in interesting times')? Worldwide search stats for 'change', 'resilience' and 'disruption' since 2004. I wonder what could be going on. 🤔
Worldwide search stats for 'change', 'resilience' and 'disruption' since 2004.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Uruguay, with 3.5 million people, generates 98% of its electricity from renewable sources. The architect of that transformation, Ramón Méndez Galain, put it simply: "The key is not technology; it is institutions. Once the rules are fair and predictable, the system builds itself."
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Our solar power model isn't working — there's a fairer way
Solar lease-to-own could unlock Ireland's energy future — Uruguay, the Netherlands and Germany have all made this work with straightforward rules, writes Mary Teehan
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Interesting? @chadfowler.com @iroh.computer
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
US taxpayers are being fleeced by their government in order to keep their energy supplies reliant on fossil fuels and carbon pollution. 🤯
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AI has become a plague infesting every SaaS service. So intrusive. I don't ever want to ask [x] AI anything. I don't ever want to hand over my work to some half-arsed AI agent. I just want to get on with my job. 🤬
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The same people who have been telling us "we can't stop climate change, instead we must adapt" have been hammering our capacity to adapt, through their promotion of austerity. What they're really saying is "keep burning fossil fuels for the sake of our donors". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There is absolutely no reason why all profits in the UK (or anywhere else) are taxed at the same rate. Companies' tax rate should reflect their externalities. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Calls for UK bank tax to fund cost of living help as HSBC profits hit £7.5bn
Levy could raise £19bn to help pay for Andy Burnham’s support for those struggling with bills, say campaigners
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Desperate. #OpenAI techcrunch.com/2026/08/01/s...
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Sam Altman is still making the case for parenting via ChatGPT | TechCrunch
OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Brilliant article on the AI Bubble. Feels like a dose of sanity in a mad world.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
This is a great thread. Sums up my reservations about Generative AI.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/08/2026
‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
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‘Worst we’ve known’: UK turns to imports as drought and heat hit vegetable crops
Growers in dismay after scorching weather and lack of rain affect yields, sending wholesale prices rocketing
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"China will crash the US stock market this year They're dumping SOTA open-source models on the US, nearly as good as the frontier labs, basically free Nobody can refuse cutting a $100M AI bill down to $5M Once that deal is on the table for everyone, Anthropic&OpenAI can't justify their valuations"
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Might be interesting @spiralganglion.com beyondloom.com/decker/index...
beyondloom.com
Decker is a multimedia platform for creating and sharing interactive documents, with sound, images, hypertext, and scripted behavior. You can try it in your web browser right now.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
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‘There are a lot of corporate interests’ in pushing back against climate policies – former diplomat
We spoke to Nick Bridge, a former diplomat who was the UK's special representative to the UN on Climate Change from 2017 to 2023.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Big surprise! 🤑🌍🤑
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"But once these factors are no longer predictable, all bets are off — life becomes uninsurable and the world becomes unsafe." www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
‘Climate free fall’: why the biggest risk to our economies is yet to be recognized
Increasing instability of the ocean, ice and atmosphere threatens farming, finance and society. We all need to wake up to that fact.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Where we are in 2026. God help us! heatmap.news/climate/smok...
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How Bad Is Exercising in Wildfire Smoke?
Your mileage may vary — but you’ll probably want to keep the outdoor runs to a minimum.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Very struck by @pvh.ca ‘s remark at @localfirstconf.com that ‘research can be an act of service’. So true, particularly now when research is being cut and undermined.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
'The climate of the 20th Century has now gone': UK Met Office warns weather extremes are 'new normal'. www.businessgreen.com/news/4532829...
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'The climate of the 20th Century has now gone': Met Office warns weather extremes are 'new normal'
Latest Met Office State of the Climate report for 2025 confirms latest wave of record-breaking temperatures and warns further warming is now inevitable
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Updated list of useful links from @localfirstconf.com here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Local First 2026 Web Links
Local First 2026 Web Links Compiled by Alex Morrison (alexm [at] cogapp [dot] com) Tools and Services 2 Organisations and People 4 Ideas, Blogs, Articles and Background 5 Tools and Services UMH...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Acoustic buzz volume as a proxy for intellectual energy - currently buzzing @localfirstconf.com
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
'Partial or full shutdowns of nuclear facilities across France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Romania, and other countries ... Highlighting need for a re-evaluation of nuclear's role in sustainable energy landscape.' www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Atomic rivers. The (Un)sustainability of nuclear power in an age of climate change
The sustainability of nuclear energy amidst climate change and environmental regulations poses critical challenges, particularly in European contexts …
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Research as an act of service.” @pvh.ca
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John Morales @johnmoralestv.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Before, during, and after a disaster, the wealthy 🎩 always fare best while those living paycheck to paycheck suffer economically, physically and mentally for years. Here is a pretty revolting example: www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Great idea. A whole new paradigm A/X = agent experience (c.f. U/X). Via conversation with @gordon.bsky.social
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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026
I know this has been heavily linked to, but Evans’ “Ways to think about token pricing” - www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/202… - is really very good and everyone making a bet on #GenAI should bloody well read it with close attention.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/thehuman...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Also for @localfirstconf.com attendees, an updated list of Local First @bsky.app accounts here (any omissions please let me know): bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
All the links I collected from Day One of the excellent @localfirstconf.com - will keep adding to it as we go. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Local First 2026 Web Links
Local First 2026 Web Links UMH app tldraw offline Yjs tranquil.farm/tranquil-pds at main · Tangled Jake Lazaroff LibSodium.Net How the "4 Types of Luck" can enrich your work-life - Big Think P...
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
@jenson.org talking about Alan Kay’s methodology. @localfirstconf.com
Slide from Scott’s presentation
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Katherine Copsey @katcopseygreens.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Gather round for the story of the Very Hungry Data Centre... 🧵 (1/4) #datacentre #ai
A parody of the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Text reads "The Very Hungry Data Centre" and the image shows a large black-and-brown shape, like a rounded rectangle with the top divided into three 'towers', with a smiling face reminiscent of the Very Hungry Caterpillar in the middle - red with yellow and green eyes.Text reads "One Sunday morning the warm sun came up and - pop! - out of nowhere came a very hungry data centre."

Image shows the VHDC on brown ground with the orange sun rising.Text reads "On Monday he drank a quarter of the city's annual drinking water." 
Image shows a blue shape, with a circle cut out of the middle, reminiscent of the foods with circles cut out in the Very Hungry Caterpillar.Text reads "On Tuesday he ate so much that he doubled demand on the country's power-grid.
So he opened a new gas plant, just for him."
Image shows two yellow spiky shapes representing electricity, also with circles cut out of them.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Many people in the climate movement think that political action against the environment is ‘stupid’. It’s not stupid. The people involved know exactly what they’re doing. They benefit from their actions via fossil fuel political donations and media support. It’s disgusting. But it’s not stupid.
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toonerman @dptoon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Can we get a comment from William ‘3°C of warming is optimal’ Nordhaus?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
I’m not a doomer but it feels like we’re pretty far to the right side already.
A satirical timeline titled "Climate Change," featuring phases of denial and acceptance. The phases include "Climate change isn't real," "OK, climate change is real, we're just not convinced it's caused by humans," which together occupies most of the timeline. This is followed by "Oops," and finally "fuck”.
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