Reposted by Jussi PasanenDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 17hHard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells 622032751
Reposted by Jussi PasanenMatt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 09/10/2026US live streaming firing squad executions @theageaustralia.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/world/north-... 24552267
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 56mRelated: 'Workday’s own VMS unit has told HR Executive that non-employees already average 36 percent of Fortune 500 workforces and are expected to reach 50 percent by 2027.' thenextweb.com/news/papaya-... 000
Reposted by Jussi PasanenJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 14hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 8171963034
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 8hState sanctioned extractivism www.theage.com.au/world/south-...theage.com.auMountains of Trouble: Bumpy road for Rinehart’s offshore mining pushAustralia’s richest woman’s company is chasing copper and gold in the Andes. Local communities want no part of it. 000
Reposted by Jussi Pasanen🎃👻🧙♀️ Vio the VVitch 🧙♀️👻🎃 @viothevvitch.myatproto.social · 08/10/2026this is so fucking sad 882117271422
Reposted by Jussi PasanenGlen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Successive projections of Norwegian Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) emissions lead to smaller net uptake. In 2019, average uptake to 2100 was estimated ~20MtCO2/yr In 2026, average uptake to 2100 was estimated ~5MtCO2/yr These are big changes, with big policy implications. 2176
Reposted by Jussi PasanenBen Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Illustration from today’s @theguardian.com to accompany piece by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on the government’s Prepare campaign, which gives the public advice on how to avoid disasters whilst policies that lead us closer to crisis are given the green light www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 3369140
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 20h"‘Techno-optimism’ may lead to reliance on unproven solutions at expense of societal changes needed" 011
Reposted by Jussi PasanenSpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards Jeremy Clarkson spending decades denying global warming only to sink his fortune into a farm just as global warming really starts to kick in 971280242
Reposted by Jussi PasanenJoshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings 31192270
Reposted by Jussi PasanenLeah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 04/10/2026New today in the old tale of externalizing costs while privatizing profits: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tells Politico, “We believe the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology.”politico.comSam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AIThe OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic. 2020996
Reposted by Jussi PasanenMatt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026the tech industry is about to invent books 571214884187
Reposted by Jussi PasanenTere Vadén @terevaden.net · 07/10/2026Tämä. Nyt istutettu kuusi ei ehdi aikuiseksi ennen kuin kuuselle sopiva ilmasto on mennyttä. "Suomessa päättävät eivät ole esimerkiksi täysin tiedostaneet sitä, kuinka paljon lämpenevä ilmasto vaikuttaa yhteen taloutemme kivijalkaan, metsäteollisuuteen." yle.fi/a/74-20249365yle.fiSuomen ilmasto lämpenee parhaimmillaankin yli turvallisen rajan, pahin ennuste pyyhkii hyvinvointivaltion kartaltaSitran tuore raportti moittii Suomea hitaasta varautumisesta ilmastonmuutokseen. Suomesta voisi tulla ruuan ja vihreän sähkön viejä. 715742
Reposted by Jussi PasanenDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7069961914
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026“It’s a lesson,” said Chaleerat Chamrasporn, 55, a resident. “The kids are into doomsday-themed content, so now they can see what the ‘end of the world’ is actually like, or rather, that this is just the beginning.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...theguardian.comBangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakesWith 40 dead and a disaster declared across all 50 city districts, experts warn extreme flooding will only worsen across south-east Asia 000
Reposted by Jussi PasanenProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The planning contradiction is impressively neat: it accepts that 809Mt of GHG emissions will worsen global warming. It says leaving the coal in the ground would make a difference …then approves the mine anyway. Climate science only matters up until the decision. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comThe green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina WoodsThere is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair? 813265
Reposted by Jussi PasanenCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026For a long time I've wanted a sense of how trump has or hasn't interacted with chatbots (we know he posts a lot of slop sure). And this TIME anecdote about Grok arguably leading Trump into war is just extremely bracing 14137891250
Reposted by Jussi PasanenProf Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/202623,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comWorld’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy useThe injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification 10374235
Reposted by Jussi PasanenJeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I give up. I’m moving into a cave. 743490676
Reposted by Jussi PasanenBIOS-tutkimusyksikkö @bios.fi · 30/09/2026Ympäristöajattelun zombit valokeilassa: kirkkojakaupunki.fi/-/mellastava... #12käsitettäkirkkojakaupunki.fiMellastavatko korviesi välissä ympäristöajattelun zombit? – näin tunnistat ja häädät neYmpäristöajattelun zombit ovat ajattelutapoja, jotka tyhmistävät meitä, johtavat umpikujiin – ja pompahtavat esiin yhä uudestaan. Ympäristöfilosofit Ville Lähde ja Tere Vadén kertovat, miten ne häädet... 0124
Reposted by Jussi PasanenSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Every glaciated region on the planet lost ice for four years in a row now. From 2023–2025 alone, glaciers lost around 1,400 gigatonnes of ice, equivalent to roughly 560 million Olympic swimming pools (the official weird measure for anything water related). Source: bit.ly/WMOStateofWa... 313557
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026'An office lease is a forecast. When a company signs a ten-year lease, it is predicting how many people it will employ, where they’ll live, what they’ll do, and how often they’ll need to be in the same room for the next decade. That made sense when more revenue reliably meant more people.' 011
Reposted by Jussi PasanenAlan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Selections From the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards Top 100 - Organizers of this year’s Audubon Photography Awards shared some of their top-100 selections—featuring a rainbow-bearded thornbill, a northern pygmy-owl, Andean condors, and more. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/... 095
Reposted by Jussi PasanenMegan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026A lot to process. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social 13418
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'We flat-out ignore the many interconnected, escalating transformations that are unfolding within and between the systems that we use to run our civilization.' 010
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'Even today, we largely act as if society as a whole has been unchanged by this crisis — as if chaos spreading through the climate and biosphere were not a new context but one manageable issue among many.' alexsteffen.substack.com/p/dancing-wi... by @alexsteffen.bsky.socialalexsteffen.substack.comDancing with inevitability.Sitting with the discomfort of what will now happen, to clarify what we still have the power to change. 1115
Reposted by Jussi PasanenAntti Jauhiainen @anttiveikko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Yksinäisyyttä pohtiessa keskitytään usein sukupuoleen. Nick Kepplerin hieno artikkeli Slatessa tuo esiin, miten köyhyys ja sosiaalisen infran kato ovat todellinen jakolinja yksinäisyyden ja yhteisöllisyyden välillä. Tiivistäen voi sanoa, että ilman rahaa ja aikaa ihminen putoaa yhteisöistä.slate.comThere Is No Male Loneliness Crisis. What’s Actually Happening Is So Much Darker. (Gift Article)The data tells a different story. 37321
Reposted by Jussi PasanenPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The idea of a "tech industry" has always relied on "computer" being a special kind of medium, akin to alchemy. And if tech demands to be king, AI hype has now elevated LLMs to a king of kings. But the solipsism has hit a dead end. The only way forward is to recognize that computers are not special.productpicnic.beehiiv.comLLMs are just normal technology. But tech is just a normal medium.The more we focus on a particular technology, the more we lose sight of what normal people actually care about. 1034097
Reposted by Jussi PasanenKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/09/2026The AI doom / extinction lie is coming from the exact people with an addiction to burning methane and a climate denialist worldview. I am pretty mad about it. New piece here: www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a... 112246
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026‘So if you are hopeless, or maybe you’re pessimistic, or you’ve got anger or rage, maybe it’s important to think about those emotions too. Maybe we need the full gamut of emotions.’ 020
Reposted by Jussi PasanenAstra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.” 282160855
Reposted by Jussi PasanenEli Perencevich @eliowa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026“Housing is ruinously expensive. Child care is costly, too. Jobs are demanding and insecure…From this perspective, the fertility slump is a record of frustrated longing” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...newyorker.comWhat’s Really Behind the Baby Bust?Are people having fewer children because modern life makes parenthood too difficult—or because the meaning of a satisfying life has changed? 043
Reposted by Jussi PasanenKevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Dr @dancalverley.bsky.social & I provided an expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians challenging their Govt's support for Australia's coal & gas exports & their associated climate& human rights impacts. The report & associated links are here: climateuncensored.com/australias-f...climateuncensored.comAustralia’s Fossil Fuel Exports: Climate Responsibility and Human Rights - Climate UncensoredMy colleague Dr Dan Calverley and I recently provided a detailed expert report in a landmark case brought by ten Australians before the UN Human Rights 23520
Reposted by Jussi PasanenGlen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Current [El Nino] forecasts suggest that the 2026 event could push global mean surface temperatures in 2027 to almost 1.8°C above pre-industrial levels" 😱 Good rundown of El Nino impacts via @zekehausfather.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... 14819
Reposted by Jussi PasanenAtte Harjanne @atteharjanne.vihreat.fi · 24/09/2026”… yliarvioimme talouskasvua ja aliarvioimme julkisen talouden velan muodostumista, jos emme pysty huomioimaan talousennusteissa, ettei nykyinen luonnonjärjestelmä kestä sitä nykyistä tuotantotoimintaa ja kulutuskäyttäytymistä.” www.uusijuttu.fi/juttu/sY8ASw...uusijuttu.fiRaportin mukaan ilmastonmuutos ja luontokato voivat vaikuttaa talouteen kuin sota. Suomessa niitä ei osata ottaa riittävästi huomioon talousennusteissa.Arki-iltapäivisin julkaistavassa Pihvi-ohjelmassa valitsemme yhden olennaisen uutisen ja selvitämme, mistä se oikeastaan kertoo. Tekstiversio on lyhennetty tiivistelmä kuunneltavaksi tehdystä ohjelmas... 39715
Reposted by Jussi PasanenMark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The choice is clear: Either we give up carbon capitalism to appease our earthly gods, or our world will continue to burn." Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Our Forests Are Demanding a Sacrifice (Gift Article)Wildfire converted me from a tree-hugger to a tree-worshipper. 021
Reposted by Jussi PasanenRobbie Andrew @robbieandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hydrogen cars are the future. And if you believe that, I know a guy in Norway with 82 of them he's desperate to unload. 3337
Reposted by Jussi PasanenKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026Buried at the end of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's NYT interview: the single most terrible yet somehow confusingly appropriate metaphor for fossil-fuelled AI I have ever seen ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n... 20278122
Reposted by Jussi PasanenKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product 41645231
Reposted by Jussi PasanenAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bull’s-eye example of what @doctorow.pluralistic.net calls a Reverse Centaur situation, with humans supporting technology instead of technology supporting humans. 212246
Reposted by Jussi PasanenDr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/20261/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵 3313153
Reposted by Jussi PasanenRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful. 47271643220
Reposted by Jussi PasanenYale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 22/09/2026In the first half of this year, Tasmanian salmon farmers detonated nearly 1,800 underwater explosives to scare away seals intent on nabbing fish, government figures show.e360.yale.eduTo Deter Seals, Tasmanian Salmon Farmers Have Set Off 1,800 Bombs This YearIn the first half of this year, salmon farmers on the Australian island of Tasmania detonated nearly 1,800 underwater explosives to scare away fur seals intent on nabbing fish, government figures show. 398
Reposted by Jussi PasanenMark Hurst @markhurst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Surveillance glasses giving corrections on proper behavior. Next up: the glasses tell you to stop criticizing tech companies. 0427
Reposted by Jussi PasanenAlan Taylor @kokogiak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2026 - A selection of some of the winning entries from this year’s bird-photography contest. Competition organizers were kind enough to share some of the winners & runners-up, chosen from over 24,000 entries. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/photography/... 1154
Jussi Pasanen @jopas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Some irony: over half a century of developing increasingly sophisticated data storage and retrieval systems, and 2026 brings us MEMORY.md 'The agent’s home directory contained SOUL.md, IDENTITY.md, USER.md, MEMORY.md, AGENTS.md, and TOOLS.md.' 020