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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 · 17h
We are so screwed! 🔥🌍🔥
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
You give them too much credit. It’s deliberately misleading.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s an entirely predictable situation given the financial incentive for reckless development combined with the total lack of any effective system of accountability. 🤯
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m afraid we’re running out of ‘next times’. 😢
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bazouzabou @bazouzabou.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Les opérations de blocage des lycées se poursuivent ce lundi 5 octobre dans de nombreuses villes de Lorraine Cervelles Rarement Sollicitées (CRS)
"on crie SOS 
ça envoie les CRS"
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
‘We’ is doing a fair bit of work here. The sad and tragic truth is that policy is made by wealth far more than by popular appeal.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In the end this is all about accountability. If the platform owners were meaningfully liable this would stop tomorrow. While no one is accountable it will continue and get worse.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Any tips? Trade secrets?
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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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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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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why is the Government not releasing the unredacted report ? Keep pressing @adrianramsay.bsky.social
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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
So disingenuous. If that’s truly what they believe then they should walk their own talk. But they don’t and won’t.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What do they think 'fiduciary duty' means if it isn't about protecting investors from this kind of scam?
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
But it seems like they will invest in spite of their own concerns; their fiduciary duty to pensioners will trump their concerns over SpaceX’s corporate governance." from this excellent article: dissentmagazine.org/online_artic... by @advaitarun.bsky.social
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The SpaceX Sham - Dissent Magazine
The chief scandal of the AI boom is not the secretive financial machinations of tech oligarchs, but how much money they have raised on the open promise of an automated, transhumanist future.
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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 · 12/09/2026
I'm not going to 'like' this post, but grateful, I suppose, to see it. Love and rage. 🔥🌍🔥
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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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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
True but a) its emissions are driven by production of goods to meet the demands of Western capitalism; b) it has a huge population, emissions per head are relatively modest; and c) China is leading the green energy transition.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We don’t (just) have a climate crisis, we have a capitalism crisis. Capitalism has escaped from its guardrails and is trashing the environment and society at an ever increasing rate. The solution starts by reining it in. 🔥🌍🔥
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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...
unep.org
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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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Great article. Thank you.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Great article, sad situation. 🔥🌍🔥 Also this relates - maybe interesting: kumu.io/alex-morriso...
kumu.io
Climate, Pollution and Politics
This theory, expressed as a causal loop diagram, is derived from, and confirmed by, 10 years systematically indexing the climate and environmental emergency via online sources. The theory is my own...
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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...
theguardian.com
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This report spells it out: www.common-wealth.org/publications... See also The Unaccountability Machine book by @dsquareddigest.bsky.social
common-wealth.org
Unpunished and Undeterred: Corporate Accountability After Grenfell
Legal frameworks governing corporate malpractice are not fit for purpose.
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Defy & Defend @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 · 21/08/2026
Perl has been described as a write-only language. More or less impossible to understand. Good luck!
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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...
theguardian.com
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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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I think this only just beginning. Sadly.
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Making stuff up to suit your prejudices and your paymasters is not the same as being ignorant. It’s much worse. They are the human equivalent of the worst LLMs - stochastic orcs.
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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.
nature.com
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...
fortune.com
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."
irishexaminer.com
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
It’s obscene.
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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...
sciencedirect.com
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Alex Morrison @alex-morrison.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I’m probably one of a tiny handful of people who actually designed for the light pen: an early route planning system. It worked ok but didn’t inspire much excitement. ✍️
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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...
theguardian.com
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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