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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026
Here are considerations for statisticians and scientists, about system thinking and onboarding context 🧵 #liveability #Cybernetics #inference #modeling #modelling #complexity #systems #generalization #statistics #models #ML #evolvability #doubleDescent #overfitting #overparameterization #stats […]
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026
About the #AI policy middle ground: "Negotiating the burden" (of software contributions): destructured.net/negotiating-the-bu… by @lrhodes #praxis #praxisters #praxister #litigation #FOSS #FLOSS #dev #community
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Negotiating the burden
FOSS communities are currently undergoing a series of minor crises around the questions of what extent to accept LLM-generated contributions, and how to respond to would-be contributors who feel...
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 30/09/2026
We use AI to think less. Cogitation is costly; so: • the more we use AI, • the more we offload processing, • the less we ponder, • the shallower our thinking becomes. References: data.yt/kit/how-ai-i... 🧵
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
"Mediators, confounders, colliders – a crash course in causal inference" by Florian Hartig (2019): theoreticalecology.wordpress.com/20… 🧵 #policy #intervention #graphs #causality […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
Confounding: Smoking is upstream of Exercise and Lung cancer
Mediation: Immune function sits in between Exercise and Lung cancer

from Florian Hartig at https://theoreticalecology.wordpress.com/2019/04/14/mediators-confounders-colliders-a-crash-course-in-causal-inference/
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
> Computational models in psychology are typically judged by a single standard: empirical fit. [However, it's] misleading as a sole criterion, as the same result can arise [in] different situations: theoretically faithful models, mathematically flexible ones, miscalibrated operationalizations […]
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
"I mean yes, if you exclusively look at the fact that Apple made gobs of cash selling derivative cack at impossible scale to the thunderous applause of greedy assholes... Tim Cook was a smashing success." karlbode.com/apple-ceo-tim-cooks-le…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook's Legacy Is Dull Products And Spineless Capitulation
Tim Cook enthusiastically supported global authoritarian policies while turning Apple Computer into a dull simulacrum of an interesting company.
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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026
Models to assess scenarios of futures often reflect Western concerns and values. They assume persistent inequalities, obscure ethical or normative choices, and systematically fail to include stakeholders and scientists from other cultures. " • We explore limitations of modelling science in […]
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 29/06/2026
Climate change impacts ecosystems and makes some of them emit more carbon gas. 🧵 Below is incremental heating that would come on top of activity-induced warming. Beware that the ridge is entirely plausible: σ is a measure of the uncertainty; σ is way smaller that the extent of uncertainty:
"Stacked WIE-induced warming for
(a), SSP1-2.6,
(b), SSP2-4.5, and
(c), SSP4-6.0, split by permafrost (gray), wildfire (brown), freshwater (pink), and wetlands (green).
CH4 contributions are shown with cross-hatching, while CO2 contributions are shown with circular hatching. (d), Total WIE-induced warming for SSP1-2.6 (blue), SSP2-4.5 (orange), and SSP4-6.0 (red), with shading showing ±1 standard deviation, propagated from emission sensitivity uncertainty and climate response uncertainty added in quadrature. All WIE-induced warming is relative to a 2020 baseline."

excerpt from Sam Abernethy et al. (2026). https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.15002332/v1
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 09/08/2026
From #Ireland Land Use Review latest report: “sustainable land use requires very significant change”. Journalist: "Agriculture is the main polluter of waterways, half of which fail to meet minimum environmental standards. "It is responsible for 38 per cent of national emissions." archive.ph/Al4qw
Extra land demands / hectares by 2030
Biggest are:
biomethane (130,000)
tillage (70,000)
forestry (60,000)
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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
"Most attempts to quantify health burdens associated with future climate change consider modest increases in global temperature, typically less than 2°C." "In prediction you ask first what is most likely to happen. In risk assessment you ask first what we care most about."
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 26/07/2026
Consequence paths of CO₂ #emissions from land use change and fires: (Mining [not shown in chart],) climate change and forest management contribute to forest degradation and wildfires; which in turn force the greenhouse effect. #feedbacks #GreenhouseForcing #carbon #CDR #DAG
Consequence paths of CO₂ emissions from land use change and fires:
(Mining [not shown in chart],) climate change and forest management contribute to forest degradation and wildfires; which in turn force the greenhouse effect.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 06/08/2026
More electricity implies more pollution in subordinate areas. "Demand for electric vehicles, batteries and renewables to increase lithium demand roughly fivefold by 2040, with cobalt and rare earths rising by 50-60%. These deposits are located in Latin America, Central Africa and Southeast Asia."
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Green Development, Green Capitalism or Degrowth?
Dr. Tanaya Majumder examines green capitalism, green development and degrowth through the political economy of climate justice and North-South inequality.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 26/07/2026
I am starting a thread on global land loss 🧵 #sediments #mining #climate #rivers #deforestation #soil #carbon #causality #land #footprint #dataViz
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 04/08/2026
Climate forcing: some activities force the climate to drift. Forcing activities include fossil energies, mining, bovine husbandry, tree plantations, etc. 🧵
A methane gas burner heats a pan.
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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026
"The hotter and drier the weather, the drier the scrub, grass and woodland become. Dry vegetation doesn’t just burn more easily, it burns faster, spreads further, and is far harder to bring under control once it’s alight. A spark that would once have fizzled out on damp ground can now, in […]
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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026
Experience shows that mandatory #DataRetention doesn't increase crime clearance rates. Targeted undercover investigations in perpetrator networks are what actually catch abusers and save kids—not indiscriminate #ChatControl on unencrypted commercial US platforms! 5/6
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026
The weathers, they are a-changing. We can make sense of pattern evolution. I am starting a thread about Europe's new #climate conditions. 🧵 (You may read stories in the "ALT" descriptions.) #trend #heatwave #dataViz #chart #loess #linearRegression #statistics […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
The chart is temperatures plotted against years (from 1940 to 2026).
It graphs temperatures averaged over four weeks in European France since 1940 [the month Pétain made his first broadcast to the French people].
A curve in red is made from statistical regression (loess method: smoothness determined with cross-validation) to build a statistical central trend.

We may look at the difference between monthly index and trend:
The red point represents the average of mid-June to mid-July 2026. Its high position is not absurd: it shows within the distribution of variability around the trend.
June 1976 and 2003 were outliers, "black swan" like, events: June and mid-June to mid-July 2003 were 3.7 °C away from the trend, when 2026 June is only 1.7°C.
The same kind of extreme period this year would have shown an average at 2°C more.

The calculations and graph were made by Denis Mongin‬ ‪@denismongin.bsky.social‬
The above comments were built from his. Below comments come from me.

Incidently you may note that 2022 was the year the French President said "Mais qui aurait pu prédire ?" and the monthly index exactly is at the trend curve.

Data was mangled by averaging over the month. This has the benefit of showcasing a general enhancement: across the country, day and night.
Data was uploaded from weather stations located in Europe. The method was chosen by the national weather service.
The method purposely excludes weather stations located in France but not in Europe – such as Guyane, a territory neighbour to the Amazon basin.

Florent Malouda was born in Guyane. He is one of the greatest wingers in the history of the Chelsea football club. Malouda represented the France national football team on 80 occasions from 2004 to 2012, including in two FIFA World Cups and two European Championships. He was part of the French team which reached the 2006 World Cup final.

Among the players selected for the 2026 FIFA World Cup is Mike Maignan. He plays as the goalkeeper for and captains Serie A club AC Milan. Mike Maignan was born in French Guiana, to a Haitian mother and a Guadeloupean father.
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026
During the second heatwave of 2026, temperature in France was in the band of trend variability. (You may read stories in the "ALT" description.) Hat tip to @denismongin.bsky.social‬ #football #chart #dataViz #loess #linearRegression #statistics #climate […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]
The chart is temperatures plotted against years (from 1940 to 2026).
It graphs temperatures averaged over four weeks in European France since 1940 [the month Pétain made his first broadcast to the French people].
A curve in red is made from statistical regression (loess method: smoothness determined with cross-validation) to build a statistical central trend.

We may look at the difference between monthly index and trend:
The average of mid-June to mid-July 2026 is not absurd. It is shown within the distribution of variability around the trend.
June 1976 and 2003 were outliers, "black swan" like, events: June and mid-June to mid-July 2003 were 3.7 °C away from the trend, when 2026 June is only 1.7°C.
The same kind of extreme period this year would have shown an average at 2°C more.

The calculations and graph were made by Denis Mongin‬ ‪@denismongin.bsky.social‬
The above comments were built from his. Below comments come from me.

Incidently you may note that 2022 was the year the French President said "Mais qui aurait pu prédire ?" and the monthly index exactly is at the trend centre.

Data was mangled by averaging over the month. This has the benefit of showcasing a general enhancement: across the country, day and night.
Data was uploaded from weather stations located in Europe. The method was chosen by the national weather service.
The method purposely excludes weather stations located in France but not in Europe – such as Guyane, a territory neighbour to the Amazon basin.

Florent Malouda was born in Guyane. He is one of the greatest wingers in the history of the Chelsea football club. Malouda represented the France national football team on 80 occasions from 2004 to 2012, including in two FIFA World Cups and two European Championships. He was part of the French team which reached the 2006 World Cup final.

Among the players selected for the 2026 FIFA World Cup is Mike Maignan. He plays as the goalkeeper for and captains Serie A club AC Milan. Mike Maignan was born in French Guiana, to a Haitian mother and a Guadeloupean father.
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026
Your Apple or Microsoft device has an identifier (or two). The software reports part of what the device is doing. Using a VPN does not protect your from your operating system. Trackers are placed ahead of due process. Regulations are always late, and insufficient. In the EU, @noybeu is a […]
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Carrie Shanafelt @carrideen.c18.masto.host.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026
Well, that's alarming. Last night, I saw a debit card on the sidewalk with no one around. Picked it up, tried to find the person online but search is useless now. Chase FAQ says, don't try to contact the person; just call us and cancel it. They force me to verify all my acct info (what if I […]
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 10/07/2026
Verdicts are avoidable: "By conditioning updates on explicit judgments about proximity within a Bayesian latent variable discovery model, a proximity-guided INK strategy renders several potential limitations of the INK strategy as visible, interrogable features rather than hidden liabilities."
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 09/07/2026
"Tell me that I could wake up each day and hear birds outside my window again, and that I can cycle safely to work on clearly-marked bike lanes. Tell me about a world where the rise of job-shares and redistributed wealth means that I only have to work 20 hours a week". Read @casshebron.bsky.social:
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The left needs to cut jargon to build power
Our language is alienating the people we should be recruiting.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 21/06/2026
Study: methane gas emissions would be reduced by about 20 % in ten years if stopping bovine livestock. A climate policy could be to generalize the current practice of turning male calves into steers. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Lines of moderate ascend plus a spillway curve from above 170,000 to above 120,000 Gg CH₄/year. In ten years, methane emissions from agriculture activities are cut in two if bovine stop.

Figure shows methane emissions at a slight trough in 2027. The dent in methane emissions is due to a disruption in the delivery of fossil fuels from March 2026 (itself due to the Persian Gulf production being put offline by war).

Figure also shows curves of moderate ascend, drifted from current emissions, current activities, technical promises. Each year, the CH₄ production is similar in cases "CH₄ drift", "as usual", "tech potential", "factory cap". You could say that mitigation only goes so far.

Bovine stop would be a dramatic policy. It has its contribution fall from full to null over time. The figure shows a spillway curve falling by 60 Tg CH₄/year: emissions would diverge if bovine husbandry was curtailed.

After ten years of intervention, methane emissions from all activities if bovine stop would be 80 % of methane emissions from all activities if no intervention. We can see that bovine cessation would bring a throughput abatement of almost 80 Tg/year in ten years. This amount can be represented at 20 % of all methane emissions from activities if they are forecast at 400 Tg.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 07/07/2026
Surface water south of Greenland is about 2°C lower than normal. The North Atlantic jet stream routes around the #ColdBlob and conveys southern air to Western Europe. We have a pattern of #heatwaves for this summer. You may learn how #weather works by playing: earth.nullschool.net#2026/06/18/1...
Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly during the second European heatwave this year; pointing at an ocean location 7°C below normal
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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
20% of methane emissions would be avoided if we stopped raising cattle. Preprint uses causal inference to demonstrate the impact of such a public policy: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19019693 It notably cites works by @vincentab, Susanne Dandl, @topepo, Kjell Johnson, Judea Pearl and others
directed acyclic graph of CH₄ from agriculture:
➞ buffaloes ➞ CH₄ ⬅ cattle ⬅
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Wolfgang @w101.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026
And the fight against #grapheneos continues youtu.be/JLDszIQhA20 Straight up lying and claiming security concerns, when GrapheneOS is more secure than stock Android. Use the damn standard Android hardware attestation API already. Looking at you, #volkswagen, #banking apps, official […]
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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/06/2026
RE: hamishcampbell.com/the-eus-tech-sov… So well put: " #OpenSource is not simply a collection of code repositories, it survives because communities maintain it. "The danger is that #Europe treats open source as a procurement strategy rather than a social ecosystem […]
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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026
Accountancy is the distraction international climate institutions pursue. They err because reducing emissions would imply devaluing the fossil fuel assets of powerful actors. 🧵 #assets #assetStranding #carbonPricing #fossilFuels #carbonCredits #offsets #industrialPolicy #climatePolicy #economy […]
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 17/05/2026
'When engineers frame their work as apolitical or “purely” technical, they are not being naïve. […] Many rhetorically employ a strategic naivety, because they know it allows the IETF to continue to exist, and their employers to continue to benefit from its decisions about internet standards.'
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 03/05/2026
If #meetings don't deliver, change format. Example: Unlike COPs, the purpose was to "debate practical ways to move away from coal, oil and gas". The representatives described the conference as a “safe space for discussion”. “That kind of space I haven’t seen in my 10-year history with the UNFCCC.” …
a person takes the microphone at a meeting of the first Conference for the Transition Away from Fossil Fuels, on 28 April 2026
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026
"A free course offering the core concept of Calculus, with a visuals-first approach aimed at making you feel like you could have discovered the subject yourself." by Grant Sanderson: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQ… #learn #learning #calculus #maths […]
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026
'US spy tech company Palantir published a manifesto extolling the benefits of American power and implying some cultures are inferior to others – in what MPs have called “a parody of a RoboCop film” and “the ramblings of a supervillain”. … also called for an end to the “postwar neutering” of […]
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 19/04/2026
Hyperscaler projections may lack electricity in 2027. The physical substrate "cannot be compressed to the timetable equity markets currently imply." This bottleneck would delay deliveries, which implies a market correction. (Copper this year. Magnificent 7 next year.) … #infrastructure #electricity
four images of the same bubble bursting
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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2026
New study uses causal inference to demonstrate that we would avoid 20 % methane emissions if one commodity was replaced. I have just published a preprint article at doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19019693 #decoupling #agriculture #beef #cattle #carbon #causality […] [Original post on mas.to]
Greenhouse gas emissions go down 20 % in ten years as cattle stop reproduction
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Ben Ramsey @ramsey.dev · 04/04/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@beyondmachines1/1… The story here focuses on LinkedIn, who should definitely be held accountable for what they’re doing with our data, but the real question is “Why does Chromium allow this?” If Chromium allows this, then anyone—not just […]
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026
World total population, in years 1–2100 (log scale), from Danny Dorling's book Slowdown #demographics #charts #dataViz
World total population, in years 1–2100 (log scale), from Danny Dorling's book Slowdown.

We can see big losses in 1500–1600, 1820–1850 and 2020–2100.
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Eric Maugendre about carbon @maugendre.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026
Critical mineral mining and rare earth elements (REEs) processing are disrupted by both the destruction of energy assets in the Gulf and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz: thesoufancenter.org/intelbrief-2026… #military #inflation #IranWar #warInIran #sulphur #helium […]
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/03/2026
"Five skills. Each one is counter-cyclical (becomes more valuable as hype recedes), resistant to LLM automation (requires human judgment that pattern-matching can’t replicate), and directly tied to the business outcomes executives actually pay for." by Kaushik Rajan […]
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
It's deeply unimaginative to think the purpose of any endeavour is the destination. The journey is the fun part. The satisfaction of reaching the end depends on how you got there. If you think you can achieve the intellectual peak of what is possible in 2026 with yourself + AI, you're naive. 6/n
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025
AI does not reason. It applies probabilities. It’s like eating an apple and assuming that everything will be as tasty: data.yt/kit/how-ai-is-made.html
A dog is shown an apple core with seeds
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Boy/Pup Praxis @dkub.dev · 16/03/2026
Hi. Hello. Someone tried to scold me for moving a default branch from master to main by being very pedantic with the Oxford Dictionary so I just said, "Yeah well there are some men I call master so when I see the word I get an awkward chub," and immediately won the argument.
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Eric Maugendre @data.yt · 18/11/2025
“This paper shows that as an underlying driver, international trade should not be ignored, and that consumer countries should play a role to – or be held accountable – for part of that deforestation as well." #CO2 #carbon #deforestation #EUPol #palmOil #emissions #forests #agriculture #beef #meat
Annual changes in deforestation footprints show that many developed countries, China and India have obtained net forest gains domestically at the expense of foreign forests

Excerpt from Nguyen Tien Hoang & Keiichiro Kanemoto (2021): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-021-01417-z.epdf?sharing_token=gW0dAxz1m2PjWUhgENZUotRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MFqPG3Hup0UdoBt27CZ-9Dsh28L5LJnoS7rm_cBtC65hnHQw-G-vOTTxaw2kg3IE8eZXdHj8ATyI4CnLE8PqFzafqCkuaGmY9SCt-ZDdO7c4_bWbPL3pFBjLjFaOaj6KsNBADmCH2lehENx1lWrQEPHQiqCEPUZgrzW2aJjtSdGL2dZspkpk49SxH0sdaByqU%3D&tracking_referrer=www.carbonbrief.org
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Juan Nunez-Iglesias @jni.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025
This is an absolute banger of a piece by @erlend. > The result has been an ineffectual "open source revolution" that maintains the status quo of our modern day hellscape by facilitating an upwards transfer of wealthand power, amassed by the hyperscalers who are now entering their final […]
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Eric Maugendre about data @maugendre.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2025
AI does not reason. It applies probabilities. It’s like eating an apple and assuming that everything will be as tasty: data.yt/kit/how-ai-is-made.html
A dog is shown an apple core with seeds
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