iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

AI is melting the planet while they tell #NYClimateWeek it's a cure. Dont fall for it. Nvidias emissions are up 725% to fuel the AI bubble. AIgreenwashing.org

Ice sculpture of the planet with "AI is melting the planet" and logos for Meta, Google, anthropic, openai, nvidia and Microsoft logos with flames

Later shot of a more melted version of the Ice sculpture of the planet with "AI is melting the planet" and logos for Meta, Google, anthropic, openai, nvidia and Microsoft logos with flames

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

Thank you @heatmap.news for covering in your daily newsletter :) NO THANK YOU to mister Donald Trump for confusing use of the word "hoax" on the days before our report heatmap.news/am/trump-dat...

Nvidia’s emissions, meanwhile, appear to be soaring. A new Greenpeace analysis of Nvidia’s own climate reports by the pro-renewables analyst Ketan Joshi found that emissions relating to the supply chain for chip manufacturing soared by 725% since 2020, adding nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Two weeks after accusing data center opponents of wanting “to end up being backwards and poor,” President Donald Trump has landed on a new defense of the artificial intelligence buildout. It’s a lot like his old one for abdicating on the federal government’s responsibility to deal with climate-changing emissions. Essentially, it boils down to: My critics are making it all up. “It’s a hoax,” Trump told Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang during the five-minute call the executive put on speaker on stage at a conference Monday in Los Angeles. “The robots are not going to be taking over the world. That’s not going to happen.” He later posted on his Truth Social platform: “The AI Hoax being perpetrated by the Radical Left Dumocrats is reminiscent of their Global Warming Scam of not so long ago, where everyone was going to die from extreme heat. What happened? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!” Three-quarters of Americans are now opposed to data centers in their backyards, according to Heatmap Pro’s poll from last month. But Trump has recently bucked with some populist positions on technology that have cross-partisan appeal. While law-and-order Republicans in red states are now turning against the Flock cameras that watch for petty crime, Trump defended the technology in a recent Air Force One chat with reporters. “Trump deserves more respect for his anti-slopulist instincts,” Peter Meijer, a former Republican member of Congress who voted to impeach Trump during his previous administration, wrote in a post on X.

NVIDIA’s AI climate hoax
New analysis on NVIDIA’s rising
emissions and greenwashing

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Beyond Fossil Fuels @beyondfossilfuels.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨BREAKING: New report by @ketanjoshi.co finds NVIDIA’s indirect emissions have risen 725% since 2020. Reminder, there is no evidence to say AI is a net benefit for climate, and Europe can't lock itself into more fossil gas to power data centres for Big Tech profits. ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Friends of the Earth U.S. (Action) @foeus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For the past two years, the world’s largest tech companies have been selling a hoax: AI will help solve climate change. Executives from Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI have said that AI will accelerate the path to a sustainable future. It’s a deeply misleading fairy tale.

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Graham Edwards @grahamedwards439.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If META was wiling to settle for $17.1 billion, it means that there is a company-killing lawsuit in their future. No company is willing to cough up this much money unless their lawyers think they are highly, highly exposed and hope no one will notice. If you have META stock, sell it.

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Meta to Pay Up to $17.1 Billion in Landmark Settlement Over Social Media Addiction Claims (Gift Article)

The social media giant settled with 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories, and agreed to make major changes to its products over claims its platforms endangered children.

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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Meta is so worried about hiding its harms that they hired Edelman, one of Big Oil's favorite public relations firms. caad.info/wp-content/u...

Newell says that onus ought to be on the social media platforms to clean up their
act. “If it’s not their intention to amplify harmful content then they should make
product decisions that stop amplifying harmful content,” he tells me. “If Big Tech
can't keep their customers safe, then they shouldn't exist.”
Queries I sent to the social media platform X about CAAD’s findings went
unanswered. A spokesperson from the PR firm Edelman, which represents Meta
and its sites Facebook, Instagram and Threads, declined to answer questions
about the CAAD report, instead referring me to Meta’s misinformation policies.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

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ceej @ceej.online · 16/07/2026

gonna start talking like this to my boss

screenshot where claude is saying "Good catch -- I fabricated that figure."

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Big First Amendment victory in @thecoalition.bsky.social v Rubio. Congrats to my colleague @carriedecell.bsky.social and to the @knightcolumbia.org & @protectdemocracy.org legal teams! knightcolumbia.org/documents/d4...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/07/2026

Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado on Wednesday fired two members of his clemency board after they spoke out against his decision to commute the prison sentence of the election denier Tina Peters.

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Colorado Governor Fires Officials Who Opposed Freeing Election Denier

Gov. Jared Polis commuted the sentence of Tina Peters, who tampered with voting machines in an attempt to show that the 2020 election had been rigged against President Trump.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Sorry to lib out but I guess my thought on the Fourth is that if it wasn’t possible for this country to really be an egalitarian multiracial democracy someday, the most disgusting people alive wouldn’t be trying so hard to foreclose that possibility

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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

NEW: Andy Burnham votes for net zero – but will climate action survive? The would-be Prime Minister has drillers to the Left of him, and drillers to the Right. Me in @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/andy-burnh... Cites: @desmog.com @unearthednews.bsky.social @carbonbrief.org

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Andy Burnham votes for net zero – but will climate action survive?

The would-be Prime Minister has drillers to the Left of him, and drillers to the Right.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Air America filed bankruptcy with $20 million in debts and was chewing through an annual budget of something like five to $10 million, depending on who you believe. Its four or five years on the air did not amount to the rounding error on a single D-list conservative media project.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

There is not one organic Success Story among them, unless you count Rogan, who isn't really a pure product of the right-wing ecosystem but simply slotted himself into it because he's a meatheaded reactionary. It's all a money pit. Look at what the people putting up the money have gotten for it.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

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Popstonox @popstonox.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

lmao far right content makers are getting almost all of their revenue from rich benefactors and supplement sales, not paid subscribers. It's smoke and mirrors.

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Michael Khoo @michaelkhoo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Love this piece. Unchallenged power is the point so of course climate (and pesky LGBT folk) are the enemy.

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 12/03/2026

74% (!!) of claims about AI's ability to help with climate change are unproven. Nearly 1/3 *don't cite any evidence at all*. #GreenSky

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

🚨New from @techpolicypress.bsky.social: The Great Green AI Hoax Machine @michaelkhoo.bsky.social looks at how Silicon Valley’s claims that AI will slash emissions & “fix the climate” stack up against AI’s exploding energy demand. Spoiler alert: the math doesn’t add up. buff.ly/MlsPH0L

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The Great Green AI Hoax Machine

If AI companies want to claim they are helping solve the climate crisis, they should be required to show their math, writes Friends of the Earth's Michael Khoo.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/02/2026

Frame: the left is hurting itself by not engaging with the god machines Negation: but this technology doesn't do the things you claim kirby: the people writing these stories get funding to support narratives of power and inevitability, and that's what we should be scrutinizing

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Now we know. Epstein emails may explain why Trump never pressures Russia. They reveal deep links between Epstein, former Norwegian PM Jagland, & Moscow, pointing to a blackmail operation that likely “compromises”Trump.

From: jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]
Sent: 6/24/2018 1:59:24 PM
To: Thorbjen Jagland
Re:

churkin was great. he understood trump after our conversations. it is not complex. he must be seen to get something
its that simple.

On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:28 PM, Thorbjon Jagland <

I'll meet Lavrovs assistant on Monday and will suggest

Thank you fo a lovely evening. I'll com to un high level week

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søn. 24. jun. 2018 kl. 15:18 skrev jeffrey E. < jecvacation@gmail.com>:

I think you might suggest to putin, that lavrov, can get insight on talking to me. vitaly churkin used to but he died.?!

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Big Tech never met a climate claim it couldn’t greenwash. While AI-driven electricity demand throws the fossil fuel industry a lifeline, we’re told AI can help solve the climate crisis. The reality? 74% of claims about AI climate benefits are unproven. bit.ly/AIGreenwash

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

⚡️ The data centres needed to power the govt's AI revolution would use more electricity than the UK consumes at peak. According to Ofgem, around 140 sites are seeking grid connections totalling 50GW (vs 45GW today), a surge MPs warn could put Britain’s climate targets at risk. buff.ly/Q2N6pbC

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AI data centre surge would put UK’s climate change targets at risk

MPs call for ‘national conversation’ on potential drawbacks of sharp rise in data centres, which would use more power than the UK uses at its peak

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Michael Khoo @michaelkhoo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The new AI Climate Hoax, brought to you by the same silicon valley people who said social media would bring people together. 74% of these greenwashing claims are unproven. Very proud to be part of this project led by @ketanjoshi.co with @foeus.bsky.social @caadcoalition.bsky.social

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

This is fantastic, and it's something that we've been saying for years. When companies say that are using "AI for climate change", they are referring to much smaller models used for doing things like climate modeling. Massive generative AI models are NOT USEFUL for mitigating climate change.

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Nathan Taft @nathantaft.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

AI data centers are throwing the fossil fuel industry a lifeline. "But AI will solve climate change, right?" Wrong. @stand.earth's new report authored by independent researcher @ketanjoshi.co clearly lays out Big Tech's AI climate hoax. See for yourself here: stand.earth/resources/ai...

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Renata Gomes @renatagames.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

There's a parliamentary COUP taking place in Brazil right now, aided by Meta – who is shadow banning left wing Instagram profiles, including president Lula's.

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Michael Khoo @michaelkhoo.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The 2nd best part of this decision, is that it shows the political/media pundits are full of sh*t in predicting the EU would fall to JD Vance and Peter Thiel's penis waving. Also, can we pls stop debunking the fascists' framing "censrhip"? This is simply justice served and basic accountability.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/11/2025

Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible. A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597

CLINB: A Climate Intelligence Benchmark for
Foundational Models
Michelle Chen Huebscher1
, Katharine Mach2
, Aleksandar Stanić1
, Markus Leippold1,3, Ben Gaiarin1
, Zeke
Hausfather4
, Elisa Rawat , Erich Fischer5
, Massimiliano Ciaramita1
, Joeri Rogelj6
, Christian Buck1
, Lierni
Sestorain Saralegui1 and Reto Knutti5
1Google DeepMind, 2University of Miami, 3University of Zurich, 4Stripe, 5ETH Zurich, 6
Imperial College London
Evaluating how Large Language Models (LLMs) handle complex, specialized knowledge remains a
critical challenge. We address this through the lens of climate change by introducing CLINB, a benchmark that assesses models on open-ended, grounded, multimodal question answering tasks with clear
requirements for knowledge quality and evidential support. CLINB relies on a dataset of real users’
questions and evaluation rubrics curated by leading climate scientists. We implement and validate a
model-based evaluation process and evaluate several frontier models. Our findings reveal a critical
dichotomy. Frontier models demonstrate remarkable knowledge synthesis capabilities, often exhibiting PhD-level understanding and presentation quality. They outperform “hybrid" answers curated
by domain experts assisted by weaker models. However, this performance is countered by failures
in grounding. The quality of evidence varies, with substantial hallucination rates for references and
images. We argue that bridging this gap between knowledge synthesis and verifiable attribution is
essential for the deployment of AI in scientific workflows and that reliable, interpretable benchmarks
like CLINB are needed to progress towards building trustworthy AI systems.

Total Reference URLs Generated
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Ablations We perform several ablation studies with the autorater (Table 4). Notably, removing
the question-specific rubrics from the prompt changes the results only in the bottom half, with the
Hybrid answers overtaken by Gemini 2.5 Flash and Claude Sonnet 4. This suggests that the additional
resolution provided by the rubrics applies primarily to the kind of responses used to develop the
rubrics. Or, in other words, that rubrics are far from complete. Hence, it is important that rubrics
adapt to new data as better models become availab

A New Expert-Grounded Benchmark for Scientific AI We introduce CLINB, a benchmark for modelbased evaluation of frontier models on complex, multimodal scientific communication. Its core is a
new dataset of real-world climate questions paired with data-driven, question-specific evaluation rubrics,
curated and validated by leading climate scientists through a novel three-phase, human-in-the-loop
process.2
PhD-Level Synthesis vs. Attribution Failures Frontier models demonstrate remarkable knowledge
synthesis, often exhibiting a PhD-level understanding. However, this performance masks a critical
inadequacy in grounding. We report substantial hallucination rates for references (10% to 25%)
and even more failures for images (50% to 80% in certain settings), exposing a major gap between
synthesis and verifiable attribution.
Insights into Human-AI Collaboration Dynamics Autonomous frontier models surpass ’hybrid’
answers (curated by experts using weaker AI assistance), revealing the assisting model’s capability—not
human oversight—as the primary bottleneck. Counter-intuitively, highly motivated non-specialists
(our ’Advocates’) who deeply engage with AI tools can produce higher-quality answers than domain
experts who engage less with AI during answer curation.
A Validated Methodology for Scalable Oversight We validate a rigorous, rubric-based autorater.
Ablation studies demonstrate that structured prompts and automated evidence-checking are essential
for mitigating inherent LLM judge biases. This process is hampered by inaccessible sources (up to
50%). Furthermore, we identify evaluation challenges, including model familiarity bias in human
raters and the limitations of rubrics to generalize across models.

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

António Guterres: info integrity is vital at COP30: “We cannot achieve climate action without information integrity. We must preserve both the information environment necessary for democratic decision-making and the global cooperation essential for addressing the climate crisis." buff.ly/81zBNzH

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Good that Canada joins coalition to fight against climate disinformation (so maybe don't weaken greenwashing law?) www.euronews.com/green/2025/1...

euronews.com

Countries commit to tackling climate disinformation at COP30

It is the first time states have formally committed to information integrity and fighting back against climate disinformation.

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

After years leading FEMA's external affairs through environmental disasters like Hurricane Helene, Justin Ángel Knighten warns that tackling disinformation must be a priority. buff.ly/fgoWizG 🧵 1/2

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At COP, disinformation is the next crisis to tackle

If Canada steps up and joins co-signers like the U.K., France, and Spain, others will follow. Doing so would put the country’s resilience, strength, and democratic values on full display. This is how…

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

🚨 Our new report, Deny, Deceive, Delay: Demystified, is out now. 🚨 The report explores how Big Carbon and Big Tech use disinformation to sabotage climate action and why, despite 89% of people worldwide demanding stronger action, progress gets derailed.

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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Macron and Lula warn of the dangers of climate disinformation ahead of COP30 "Climate disinformation today threatens our democracies, the Paris agenda and therefore our selective security"

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Macron and Lula warn of the dangers of climate disinformation ahead of COP30

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Oculus Imperia @oculusimperia.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Kinda impressive how OpenAI has managed to occupy a seemingly quantum state between "imperial project", "non-profit research foundation", and "criminal enterprise".

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Michael Khoo @michaelkhoo.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

We will have Nuremberg trials over this, and their many other crimes.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Using a government jet to fly you to a girlfriends country music gig/wrestling match and then covering it up and rage tweeting about it on X is sort of a microcosm of Trumpism. thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-fbi-director-private-jet-problem-nashville

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...