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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 10h

Daily bunny no.3469 is pressing some flowers

A large bunny carries a daisy blossom in it's mouth, placing it near several others that are lying in pages of a blank book. A smaller bunny sits on the pages as well, keeping the book open. They are in a garden or vegetable patch amongst greenery

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 10h

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13h

Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.

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Project Drawdown @projectdrawdown.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Plug-in solar was approved in CA, and it's turning homes into a distributed network of tiny power plants. “It’s really ideal to use renewable electricity exactly where it’s generated.” - @amandadsmith.bsky.social, sr. scientist @mrmattsimon.bsky.social bit.ly/4xSqxCf #cleanenergy

grist.org

California just made it legal to turn balconies into tiny power plants

The state is the biggest to approve solar panels that plug into walls, giving residents a cheaper way to generate their own electricity.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13h

IT IS ALWAYS THEM. ALWAYS.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

i'm going to be piloting a new, free public health newsletter in the coming weeks. if you've been wanting to benefit from my public health news addiction and analytic experience in peace without all the shitposts or tangents in between, this is for you! 😊

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Shawn Harris @shawnforcongress.bsky.social · 19h

Help me reach voters across GA-14 before early voting begins! Join our virtual text banking kickoff Monday, Oct. 12, 6–8 PM EDT. We’ll train you and get you sending texts from home. Sign up: www.mobilize.us/shawnharrisforcongr… Leadership Matters!!

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

My god. A Virginia data center ran backup diesel generators full blast for 24 hours, creating a giant cloud of toxic smoke that choked its human neighbors. The government claimed there was nothing they could do.

gadgetreview.com

Virginia Data Center Ran Diesel Generators for 24 Hours. Residents Fled Their Homes

Virginia data center diesel generators ran nearly 24 hours during a Code Red alert, leaving neighbors with no regulatory recourse under current state permits.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

I don’t understand why there are so many people eager to ignore this in order to get the left “onboard” with AI

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This is more or less what I expected (the AI math "proofs" are worthless since there's no point in manually verifying them) I think example 4.4 is particularly digestible to someone without a heavy duty math background.

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 11/10/2026

The actual math in this paper is over the heads of non-mathematicians but the core argument is pretty easy to follow: AI theorem-prover formalizations can't actually be trusted to faithfully be the same argument as the natural-language paper they come attached to arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...

arxiv.org

Navier-Stokes lost in translation: Why Lean verification of AI autoformalisation does not guarantee correct natural language proofs

Autoformalisation is increasingly used to verify mathematical texts, including those generated by AI, as in OpenAI's announced proof of blow-up of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations. In this pro...

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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

OpenAI, like many for-profits, has little interest in foundational research. What they want is marketing, and that's what their AI math proofs are. OpenAI never bothered to check if the formalization of their AI proofs matched the actual text in the proof. Basic stuff. 🙄 arxiv.org/abs/2610.081...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

V v good new @earthjustice.org report on the genuinely nutty numbers behind the data centre fossil fuel boom in the US This new update shows emissions from off-grid gas plants for data centres are WAY worse than previously estimated earthjustice.org/feature/data...

Climate & Public Health
▪ Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total
and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of
August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP
projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built,
nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S.
would be data center gas BYOP.
Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals
would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide equivalent ( MTCO 2e) annually, increasing
the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23% .
Ozone and particulate matter pollution from
these projects could cause an estimated $5 –10B
in monetized health damages each year. 1
▪ Majority gas: Building on prior reports, we
estimate that for current BYOP proposals,
approximately 80% of energy generation will
come from gas.
▪ Inefficient gas technologies with more air
pollution: More than half of disclosed gas BYOP
capacity uses technologies that are less efficient
and more polluting than typical gas power plants.

Majority gas: Building on prior reports, we estimate that for current BYOP proposals, approximately 80% of energy generation will come from gas.

Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built, nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S. would be data center gas BYOP.

Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO2e) annually, increasing the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23%. Ozone and particulate matter pollution from these projects could cause an estimated $5–10B in monetized health damages each year.

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David Moore @davidrussellmoore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

New: actual gas pipeline CEO Sen. Alan Armstrong (R-OK) says his legislation weakening environmental reviews for pipelines will be in the permitting reform bill, to be taken up after the midterms. It's been an oil & gas priority. He stands to make a fortune more if Williams Companies' stock rises.

readsludge.com

Pipeline CEO Turned Senator Wants to Limit States’ Power to Block Pipelines

Sen. Alan Armstrong holds tens of million in stock in Williams Companies, the company he led, plus performance awards that could pay him up to $32.5 million. Williams has publicly backed his bill.

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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Your periodic reminder that phasing out fossil fuels would largely pay for itself in avoided death and disease from air pollution alone:

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

BAAJA prevents a future President by law from stopping the permitting of methane gas? Uhm, that is very, very bad.

Jane Flegal @JaneAFlegal
X.com
Another claim is that a president can't set a clean energy or climate goal. NOT TRUE. The bill says statements or policies favoring or opposing a technology that aren't about PERMITTING don't count as evidence.
A clean energy goal is fine. A "stop permitting gas" order prob isn't

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

Guess who isn't going to vote for #BAAJA

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 10/10/2026

Wouldn't it be wild if one of the energy modeling groups that supported previous iterations of federal permitting bills came out with a new study and was like, "You know what, I ran the numbers on the new bill and it turns out it's pretty bad for public health and climate. The data say I was wrong!"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026

Here is my pitch for anyone who has worries about rail: I think that building out rail is a necessary (but not sufficient) step in transforming American cities from totally car dependent to slightly walkable, in a way that no other form of transit is.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

By energy, PJM's queue is dirtier (73% fossil) than its current generation mix (61% fossil). If the whole queue got built, PJM would get even dirtier (67% fossil). A permitting bill that sped up buildout of this stuff would sicken and kill more people from air pollution and speed up climate change.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 05/10/2026

Not sure people realize how much gas-fired electricity generation US developers are planning to bring online. PJM's updated interconnection queue, for example, is 71% gas by capacity and 73% gas by likely energy generation. And this is *electricity*; the other 82% of final energy is ~all fossil.

kevinjkircher.com

What energy infrastructure are people trying to build? – Kevin J. Kircher

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

Stop #BAAJA now - it's Trump's lame duck ploy to strip key water, land, air protections and fast-track dirty-energy data centers everywhere.

oilchange.org

Senate permitting bill would be a gift to data centers and their massive gas buildout - Oil Change International

In short:

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 10/10/2026

#BAAJA is backed by the White House, the Oil & Gas Association and the Corporate Energy Buyers Association (the trade association of hyperscaler companies) because it will hyperaccelerate dirty-energy data center development.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 10/10/2026

Thanks to Apple for pushing a giant Apple Intelligence iOS updated that completely filled the hard drives of the iPads used by our small, non-profit, local folk festival, rendering them essentially unusable a day before the fest started

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 10/10/2026

Data centers, especially when powered by dirty energy, are driving up our energy bills, straining water supplies, and polluting our air and water. Despite this, Trump is trying to rapidly build data centers all over the country. Trump stands with Big Tech billionaires, not the American people.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

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Gwen 🌈🌺📚 @gwen4braves.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Good morning! 🪶

A rose-breasted grosbeak on a branch is not enjoying the rainy weather

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Turns out we don’t have to invoke weapons of mass destruction when talking about ocean heat uptake. The ocean absorbed a record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat last year, equivalent to 40 times the energy used by humanity. It’s not going to end well.

theguardian.com

World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use

The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 10/10/2026

My teen daughter: ARE WE SERIOUS RIGHT NOW.

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camerontalley.bsky.social @camerontalley.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rainbow Connection is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, muppets or otherwise.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

we built a machine that can automate internet crimes. who should be held accountable? nobody of course

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 10/10/2026

LOOK AT THAT LITTLE FACE@@@@!!! 🪶

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I keep trying to think of any historical example where a given technology's PROMOTERS AND TRUE BELIEVERS were like 'we are absolutely going to ruin your fucking life so be prepared like it's the end of the world'

Andrew Curran: Axios is reporting that the top labs are wargaming scenarios for the aftermath of a catastrophic event in the next 6 - 12 months, that some executives now see as being inevitable.

Axios: Top executives at Anthropic, OpenAl and other Al companies are privately gaming out scenarios for a public and political revolt after a catastrophic AI event.
Why it matters: These officials anticipate a large-scale event, most likely a cyberattack, that shuts down access to financial services, internet connectivity, or even power and water.

Edouard Harris: This is our view as well. Relatedly, average people will want to increase their level of personal resilience and preparedness as their resources allow. We will be publishing about this soon.

Nick Farina: Best ways to be prepared? Generators, water, books and DVDs?

Edouard Harris: Power, water, food, sanitation for most part. Parts of this depend on your geo latitude - solar vs propane for eg.

But also: set aside a computer that is not (and ideally has never been) connected to the internet. Buy faraday pouches and tape. Print out essential docs on paper.

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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 09/10/2026

The US will be impacted by 2 tropical systems this weekend. Hurricane #Isaias is approaching the Gulf Coast today & Tropical Storm #Rachel will approach the West Coast later this weekend. Be sure to keep up to date with the latest from BOTH storms at hurricanes.gov and weather.gov.

Satellite imagery overlaid with three forecast track cones: Rachel tracking toward Southern California/Nevada, Simon moving north into western Mexico, and Isaias tracking from the Gulf of Mexico northeast across the U.S.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The vice president just partied with Putin. Like, get a grip, @nytimes.com, and stop it with the free adverts for Anthropic.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Concern for flash flooding Saturday into Sunday am has increased from northern GA into the southern Appalachians as the track of #Isaias has shifted more to the east. Latest 24-hour high res ensemble (REFS) probability of 5+" of rain ending Sun 8 am ET now quite high in this area.

NWS WPC day 2 risk of excessive rainfall/flash flooding

REFS 24 hour probabilities of rainfall greater than 5" ending at 8 am ET Sunday

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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 10/10/2026

nothing is better than buying a shirt on a whim, completely forgetting you did it, and having it show up a week later

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

US Big Tech putting its thumb on the scale for Flávio Bolsonaro.

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

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Ann LeBlanc @robotleblanc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

friday is for kafkaposting

tumblr post poem by kleinergeist

I don't care if Monday's stressed
Tuesday, Wednesday, Kafkaesque
Thursday, feeling like a pest
It's Friday, I'm a bug

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Miles Grant @milesgrant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

AI is such a rebuttal to the argument of “oh do you hate capitalism & the climate crisis, why don’t you stop buying cheap clothes & driving, consumerism is the real problem” No one wants AI, but our billionaires still force add it to every product!Consumers literally cannot say no!!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

To wit. They're already doing it. "Acting on their own". Nope, that's not a thing

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Feature not a bug. A big piece of the "AI thinks for itself" is getting morons (apparently a lot of them already here, more than I expected) to believe this is true so when the Musk/Altman/Amodei put their thumb on the scale to get the results they (or whomever is paying) want, their hands are clean

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City of Minneapolis @minneapolismn.gov · 09/10/2026

Today, and every day, we stand with the Somali community.

The marquee at Cedar Culture Center with the message "We love our Somali neighbors" written out.

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