Reposted by Leo EdwardssonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Most people are underreacting to this El Niño. 1524348
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonTim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026‘Organised crime groups are using artificial intelligence to streamline their global drug-trafficking operations and create fake documents, identities and business records to facilitate large-scale imports and money-laundering.’ www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...smh.com.auHow Australia’s underworld is weaponising AI for drug importsCriminals are exploiting the technology to increase the speed and scale of importations flooding Australia’s lucrative illicit market and avoid police detection. 1127
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAlex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots 372085577
Reposted by Leo Edwardssonjess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners. 1087403991
Reposted by Leo Edwardssonashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 05/10/2026this is my favorite example ever of an interactive clearly, creatively illustrated concept 10459212
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonJessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If humans hacked Medicare and the NSW govt they would be arrested, prosecuted and jailed. If Russia or China hacked Medicare and the NSW govt, just imagine the international incident. OpenAI gets to call it a whoopsie and… keep doing it? Nice for some. 26227
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The neocloud bubble is wild. Aussie startup Firmus has an IPO next week forecast at $30b. Its plans include 2 data centres that will suck 15% of the electricity in Tasmania, the main customer is OpenAI, it has no audited financials, and its co-founder is a criminal www.reuters.com/business/5-b...reuters.com$5 billion Firmus IPO divides investors after valuation triples in two monthsAs Australian data centre operator Firmus prepares to launch a $5 billion initial public offering, the country's second-largest ever, prospective investors are questioning the firm's surging valuatio... 29211111
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonChristopher Wright @chriswrightau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026AI now seen as - "the malformed offspring of a small clique of malignant narcissists in Silicon Valley, delusional futurists toying with algorithms that promise to render redundant hundreds of millions of jobs around the world, all the while poisoning the planet"!: www.theage.com.au/national/ai-...theage.com.auAI data centres are springing up in communities across the country. Now, residents are fighting backFor these locals, the prospect of a vast new data centre – just one block away from a school and 16 metres from a home – was too much. So they got to work. 011
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonSimon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen stated that good journalism focuses on “Not the odds, but the stakes”. Speers is master of the odds: horserace political reporting that is all about politics, personalities and polls, and largely ignores consequences for the nation. #insiders #auspol 27926
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026@washingtonpost reported earlier that hospitals insurance costs next year are projected to spike by the most in 2 decades, partly "due to medical providers’ increased use of artificial intelligence to find more claims they can bill for" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... 510967
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonColette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I made this video *just for you*...here's a link to read the compact and if you scroll down you'll see the button to click to email your university leadership! www.standupforscience.net/sufs-compact... 411746
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonMatt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o... 58755121512
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc 103070982
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAmbassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.opb.orgOregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new reportA first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities. 7931191843
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonCommercial Solar Guy @commercialsolarguy.com · 19/09/2026‘18 radiation sensors, 14 weather stations, 14 soil temperature & moisture probes…Grain specific weight, an indicator of quality, 3% higher than in control plot…On the coldest nights, temperatures beneath the canopy were up to 3 C higher…reduced the average daily temperature range by about 1.5 C’pv-magazine.comFrench agrivoltaic trials cut water loss, lift maize yields by 19.6% - pv magazine GlobalTSE’s agrivoltaic trials in France recorded barley yields of up to 96% of those in a control plot and reduced seasonal evapotranspiration by 20%. At a separate site, maize yield beneath the canopy was... 625689
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... 1221089
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026I know this'll ruffle feathers but I agree with this Food/Water watch analysis. Diverting renewable energy away from fossil phase-out and climate adaptation and towards melting graphics card to power chatbots is the formal end of moral purpose for clean technology. 321141347
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 30/08/2026“Why didn’t scientists warn us?” 271727769
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Are the countries claiming that they have a working deal with Trump ready to admit yet that there’s no such thing? No country can have a deal with Trump, because Trump is incapable of sticking to any deal. Suggesting otherwise is make-believe. 1532475
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This study is a good reminder that building cities where children can thrive means reducing car dependency and designing streets centered around people 1558131
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026i don’t want “accelerated”, “increased-speed” or “fast-paced” research. in fact, am not interested in any shortcuts to mindful, intentional, and slow science 12837187
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonUrsula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words. 3285118
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it. 23247472019
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAdam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...currentaffairs.orgThe Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human CivilizationThinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat... 501007485
Reposted by Leo Edwardssonjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126127999
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 31/07/2026Per UBS, OpenAI and Anthropic will account for 27% of Google Cloud's 2026 revenue and more than 48% of 2027's. Investors are being sold a story about diverse AI demand that is simply not true - hyperscalers spent a trillion dollars to feed money back to themselves and pretend it's real growth. 171168274
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 31/07/2026The reality is that Anthropic and Google's rental fees are keeping these obscene turbines running. They should be catching at least as much flack as SpaceX over this! 15010
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026The fact that it’s poisoning Black people is not seen as a negative to these folks.techcrunch.comSpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunchSpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months. 451372586
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 31/07/2026At this point I consider any article that covers this story without also mentioning that these specific turbines power the paid tier of Claude, the vibe coding tool Cursor and (soon) Gemini Enterprise, to be distorting the truth. 16220
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 25/07/20261. Incredible new title given to me by the Financial Times 2. This is a great piece about how AI skepticism feels like the consensus now ftav.substack.com/p/this-is-nu... 3048952
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonMother Jones @motherjones.com · 25/07/2026A new report exposes what's behind the "clean" gas liemotherjones.comHow fossil fuel companies made us believe gas was cleanA new report from the Center for Climate Integrity exposes "decades of deception." 11303149
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonTechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 25/07/2026At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.techcrunch.comLibrarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunchAt libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand. 2043391769
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonDave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Everything is on fire, but I just saw one of these drinking from the pond. We cannot let the fascists destroy our world. 302218375
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/07/2026On top of AI brain rot, companies are proactively obliterating every trace of organizational knowledge they managed to accrue, by annual waves of mass layoffs targeting the most tenured (expensive) people. 214236
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonGreg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/07/2026I know that most of our digital tools are controlled by awful billionaires and it's almost impossible for us to divest ourselves of all of them. But I think that X and Substack are so horribly toxic that everyone should avoid them as much as possible. 141427432
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonPeter du Toit @peterdutoit.com · 18/07/2026Yes, the smoke threatening the World Cup final on Sunday is indeed powered by Aramco “Will the Canadian wildfire smoke affect Spain vs Argentina World Cup final?” www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/... 05522
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonMasuke🐶+rocogirl👩 @rocogirl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I'm Masuke, and I'm 17 years old. I went for a lively walk again this morning! Here are my plans for the three-day weekend: ① Eat ② Take a nap ③ Keep an eye on Mom while she studies for her exam Is everyone going anywhere? 1020721
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAll Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 17/07/2026On this day (July 17) in 1819 Eunice Foote entered the world. Who she? This she. allouryesterdays.info/2022/08/23/a...allouryesterdays.infoAugust 23, 1856 - Eunice Foote identifies carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas - All Our YesterdaysOn this day in 1856 American scientist and women’s rights campaigner Eunice Foote illustrated her findings in a paper entitled, “Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun’s rays,” which was accepted... 33420
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAmalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly. 5544281530
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 13/07/2026I'm not seeing anyone speaking ill of Sam Neill, because he was a good man who harmed no one and brought joy to many RIP to a real one 122891409
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonComms Declare @commsdeclare.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Vale Sam Neill 🥹 An actor that used his platform to raise awareness of environmental issues, including single use plastics and climate change. He spent this year fighting a mining project in Otago, NZ. A true role model. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...abc.net.auBreaking: Actor Sam Neill dies aged 78New Zealand actor Sam Neill, who starred in My Brilliant Career and Jurassic Park, has died aged 78. 41088310
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonAlexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13/07/2026This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke. 1339901150
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/07/2026The thing about being ruled by a gerontocracy is that cohort mortality is a probability density, meaning all these fuckers start dying around the same time -- in clusters. The same Weibull Distribution "bathtub curve" explains why batches of light bulbs and hard drives all die in the same month. 472022451
Leo Edwardsson @leoedwardsson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Crapistocracy: government by enshittification 000
Reposted by Leo Edwardsson👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 12/07/2026Internal combustion engines 330331
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonBetty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I am reposting this August 28, 2025 article which explains why there is this cyclosporiasis outbreak. CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program. www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-di...cidrap.umn.eduCDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program 5246183
Reposted by Leo EdwardssonPavel @spavel.bsky.social · 12/07/2026You simply cannot "individual responsibility" yourself into 300 million individual-scale Centers for Disease Control 6504106