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Graeme Smyth

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
asscam
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/08/2026
This fucking company needs to be wiped from the earth.
wired.com
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“The world's best AI training data is sitting on a shelf,” ISBNdb ... says on its site. “Books represent curated, peer-reviewed, domain-specific human knowledge, structured in a way no web crawl can replicate. Dense, edited, authoritative.” 🤦‍♂️
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Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Another Lego life raft has surfaced, nearly 30 years after it fell into the sea. This one was found last week by Belgian fisherman Diego Vandierendonck, who hauled it up in his nets while fishing south of the Isles of Scilly. Picture credit: Diego Vandierendonck.
Picture shows a sea weary yellow Lego life raft on a black textured surface. The life raft has the remains of various marine organisms attached to it. Picture shows a yellow Lego life raft on a black textured surface. The picture has been taken on board a fishing vessel, which is visible in the background.
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Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
THIS IS FINE 🔥🪑🐶☕ One video shows a hacker asking Meta’s AI support bot to link the target account with a new email. The AI sends an 8-digit code to the attacker’s email address, which the attacker uses to get a password reset email – and access to the account
404media.co
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 30/05/2026
It is often said that a “wave” or “tsunami” of technological change is heading our way. These metaphors are powerful because they shape our sense of what is reasonable, and what is unreasonable. What does AI as a "wave" imply is a reasonable course of action? (1/...)
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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
please stop booing I have a lot of speech to go
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Greetings, Class of 2026! Have You Heard About AI? Wait, Why Are You Booing?
I thought this pro-AI speech was bound to be a hit.
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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026
My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The world is getting happier. Western teenagers are not. Social media isn’t the root cause. Light use is fine. Heavy use hurts, but only as an amplifier. The real issue is a loss of real-world belonging. Feeling part of a school or community matters far more than screen time. buff.ly/TNpG5wA
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The world is getting happier. Western teenagers are not.
In many countries, teenagers are happier than previous generations. But in Australia and much of Western Europe, the opposite is true.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Elizabeth Lopatto: The tech bros are not okay www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/...
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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱
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Mass drowning of chicks puts emperor penguins at risk of extinction
Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/04/2026
Incredible @jack-thrower.bsky.social chart here for @thepointau.bsky.social - the # of utes FAR exceeds the number of tradies and farmers in Aus These are land-based luxury private jets, fossil-fuelled,heavily subsidised by the gov't and justified on flimsy pretence thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
But don’t people need SUVs and utes for work and the weekend?
A common argument is that these ever-larger vehicles are needed by tradies and farmers for work or by families to pull caravans and boats. Any attempts to reduce the growth in the ‘big car’ fleet meet spurious cries about being ‘unfair to tradies’ or ‘destroying the weekend’.

But such claims don’t hold up.



In the statistics, utes are categorised as light commercial vehicles (LCVs). There are non-utes in this category (for instance vans), but it is overwhelmingly (at least three-quarters) utes. Back in 1988, there was less than one (about 0.7) LCV for each tradie and farmer. From 1988 to 2024 the number of tradies and farmers grew by a third (32%) while the number of LCVs more than tripled (244% growth). This means today there are nearly two (1.9) LCVs for each tradie or farmer.

When it comes to the weekend, we already have around five times as many SUVs as boat trailers or caravans.
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
So when someone offers a breezy “glass half full” take on a prolonged Hormuz closure, what they’re really saying is: the people who can’t afford to bid for fuel can just go without. That’s not optimism. That’s moral detachment. The unlucky 7 Billion have names and families.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Chinese Taipei valiant to the end but simply dominated and out-classed. DPR Korea qualifying for FIFA Womens World Cup in Brazil. #TPEvPRK #WAC2026
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Unreal ball skills and coordination from DPR Korea players! Going to be a long tough night for Taiwan team. #WAC2026 #TPEvPRK
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Fantastic goal by Angie Beard for Philippines in #WAC2026 play-off game 1. #UZBvPHI
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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It's easy to hide what this means behind words. But the President of the United States is threatening (over one million) lives to secure minerals. www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...
seattletimes.com
U.S. considers withholding HIV aid unless Zambia expands minerals access
A draft State Department memo outlines ways the Trump administration may ratchet up pressure on the African country by ending health support “on a massive scale.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Terrific game between China and Bangladesh at Women’s Asian Cup!! Group B looks like 🔥🔥 (and love that China away strip) #CHNvBAN #WAC2026
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TweetingTechno @tweetingtechno.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I find myself slightly suprised to be recommending a video from the Norwegian Consumer Council, but it's bloody good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
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A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator
YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I'm loving these preview pods from @thefarpostpod.bsky.social team to get ready for AFC Women's Asian Cup Football tournament. Matildas play Philippines in opening game on Sunday.
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Sam Lewis (she/they) 🌈 @battledinosaur.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
some big (and pleasant!) surprises in the #Matildas squad for the Women’s Asian Cup 👀 we’re recording a reaction pod later today @thefarpostpod.bsky.social - send us your thoughts and questions!!!!
The Matildas announce their 26-player squad for the 206 Women’s Asian Cup.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/02/2026
This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.
A Kudelka cartoon about how no one listens to the IPCC.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
A few years ago we crossed some invisible line where it became cheaper to generate electricity from the sun and wind than from burning fossil fuels. www.theengineer.co.uk/content/opin...
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Bill McKibben on solar power's remarkable rise - The Engineer
US environmentalist and author Bill McKibben discusses the ongoing rise of solar energy and its future potential
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I don't think you have to be perfect to want everything to be better, but it does exasperate me a bit that, while many forms of climate action (wind farms, bike lanes, etc) need high-level coordination, others do depend on people not getting what they're used to having.
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Ideally at the country level, not the individual level. But governments won't do it if individuals won't! (I always see the high polling numbers for climate action and they're great, but how many people in favour of climate action still want to fly off regularly on holiday?)
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Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The best thing to do about this is to reduce our dependence until we can say to the big fossil firms: "no thank you, we do not want or need what you are selling", and walk (or cycle, take an electric bus or drive an electric car) away.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
These lines; give the speech writer a raise! “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” “Our view is the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo
Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16/01/2026
The scale of China's clean energy buildout is difficult to fathom. Check out these pictures.
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Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China's Wind and Solar Buildout
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Sometimes you just have to let @lopatto.bsky.social say it out loud www.theverge.com/policy/85990...
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Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
Once you’ve traded your principles for proximity to power, do you even run your own company?
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/01/2026
I found this discussion really interesting (and validating of some of the thoughts I’ve been having about certain aspects of politics for a while).
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 17/07/2025
Hey friends! I did a TEDx talk and it's now up on the TED Conferences YouTube. It's possibly the best and most important talk I've ever done. I would ask that you watch it, and please SHARE it broadly and widely. Thank you! youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg #AI #Tech #TED
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Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
This is excellent! "New manners for a post-smartphone society" by @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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Laurie Laybourn @laurielaybourn.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The world missed its goal for tackling climate change What happens next? That's the question I'm asking in a new documentary series We uncover the fantasies that brought us here and meet the people with ideas to navigate what's next Listen to the trailer👇 open.spotify.com/episode/2ICK...
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Overshoot: a new podcast about a world beyond 1.5°C – trailer
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world." ~Adrienne Rich from fly sheet of "All we can save" Ed @ayanaeliza.bsky.social & @kkwilkinson.bsky.social
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Trond Hjorteland @trond.hjorteland.com · 31/08/2025
Highly recommend spending half an hour on this talk by @chrissimon.au on the bulshit that LLMs produce. Yup. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bF_... #AI #LLM #ChatGPT
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Programmable 2025: AI is a Hype-Fuelled Dumpster Fire - Chris Simon
YouTube video by Banks Productions
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 04/09/2025
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A must-watch talk from @scott.hanselman.com. Scott and I are of the same vintage, and I am embarrassed (mortified!) by how revolting some of our generational peers have become. Technology still has a unique power to improve our lives, but wow, do we ever have work to do. youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vg?...
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Tech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortland
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Federal Court Justice Wigney is beginning his summary of his decision in Pabai Pabai v Commonwealth with a sketch of the changes to the Torres Strait islands. He is describing profound changes to the landscape. /n
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Robert Rohde @rarohde.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Some people are suddenly very opposed to cloud seeding and all forms of weather modification. Boy, are those people going to be upset when they realize how fossil fuel burning has been changing the composition of the atmosphere and modifying the weather for everyone.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Just realised that from today (July 2) it’s now closer to the year 2050 then it is to 2000.
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
apropos of nothing, this is my holiday reading this week.
Front cover of book titled “Nuclear war: A Scenario” by Anne Jacobsen. Cover graphic features a mushroom cloud in white against a dark blue sky. The base of the mushroom cloud is deep orange and red.Rear cover of book “Nuclear war: A Scenario” by Anne Jacobsen
The blurb on the rear cover reads as follows: “Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen. This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next. It has to be read to be believed.
The first rule of nuclear war is that there are no rules.
Until now, no one outside official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. These are the real-life protocols that choreograph the end of civilization as we know it.
If a single nuclear missile is launched, it could provoke dozens in return. Frantic calls over secure lines work to confirm the worst as armoured helicopters are scrambled outside. Decisions that affect hundreds of millions of lives need to be made within six minutes, based on partial information, in the knowledge that once launched, nothing is capable of halting the destruction.
Based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, been privy to the response plans, and taken responsibility for crucial decisions, this is the only account of what a nuclear exchange would look like.
Nuclear War is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever.”
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 13/06/2025
Next week it is time to #ShowYourStripes again. We encourage everyone to download their warming stripes graphics and use them to start climate conversations on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June. www.ShowYourStripes.info Graphic: Change in global average temperature from 1850-2024.
Warming Stripes showing changes in global temperature from 1850-2024. One stripe per year. Colours represent the temperature of that year. Reds are hot. Blues are cold.
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Graeme Smyth @gjsmyth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
If you watch only one video today, let it be this one. Watch NYU Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway’s outstanding commentary on what prosperity and wealth should mean in America. His words could not be more on point and timely. Please pass it on.
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Terry Hughes @profterryhughes.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Another ABC article about the cost of climate change that forgot to mention either climate change or the resulting sea level rise. 'It doesn't look like it's going to stop'. Genius. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Gippsland residents fear erosion measures no match for rising tides
The Victorian government spent more than $500,000 earlier this year on protective works that have already failed to stop erosion in a coastal community.
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