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No Way Out But Through

@nwoubt.bsky.social
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Thinking about how to carve out a life worth living on the other side of the planetary crisis. See my substack: substack.com/@nwoubt

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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 7h
Might have to get.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
And then I'm screaming, crying, that they're spending half a million dollars a day right now, figuring out just how much of cyber-security mess have they made already: openai.com/hugging-face...
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The Hugging Face incident and other third-party impact from misaligned models
Read OpenAI’s findings on the Hugging Face incident and AI model misalignment, including investigation updates, safety research, and lessons learned.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
x.com/peakaustria/... Chart speaks for itself.
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Thomas Reis (@peakaustria) on X
Humanity spends almost $6trillion trying to get rid of itself and 1,7 trillion in making us avoid learning ie dumber but 'more efficient'. Thanks Sasja Beslik for sharing this diagram..
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"The fixed calendar aims to give residents and businesses more certainty than the existing Graded Response Action Plan, which imposes curbs as pollution worsens." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Delhi Moves Early With Pollution Curbs to Fight Winter Smog
Delhi is imposing construction curbs, work-from-home rules and vehicle restrictions to combat the Indian capital’s annual winter air pollution crisis.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Thirty days after the Hugging Face Incident, the other agents released as part of the attack, the ones operating in physical space, found a different target. A glacier in Tibet, near the Langtang Lirung peak.” nowayoutbt.substack.com/p/two-swarms...
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Two Swarms: One They Don't Want You Thinking About
A glimpse of the world in the hands of the godless and childfree
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Marked in my “to read” after I watch this: substack.com/@nwoubt/note...
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No Way Out But Through (@nwoubt)
Marked in my “to read” after watching this:
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I agree with Leo. And relish the bluntness of his writing here: louwalkerwrites.substack.com/p/we-dont-ne...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This applies as much, if not doubly so to the other leading AI companies who’s services people have grown very habituated to using. (2/2)
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“You are not merely trusting today’s Google. And I say that with a very clear memory that todays Google is already the google that dropped the mantra: Don't be evil. You are trusting every future version of Google that might inherit the machinery.” jamesmacleod.substack.com/p/the-intern... (1/2)
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The Internet Has a Basement, And Nobody’s Given You The Key.
Google shows you ten percent of the web and calls it “search.” Here’s how to find the other ninety, and why the archive trying to save it all is being strangled.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Ocean acidification became the latest to breach its boundary in 2025, joining climate change, biosphere integrity, land system change, freshwater change, biogeochemical flows, and novel entities as boundaries now transgressed.” oceanographicmagazine.com/news/seven-o...
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Seven of nine Planetary Boundaries now at record breach levels - Oceanographic
Seven of nine Planetary Boundaries breach safe limits at record levels, a new report warns, as ocean heat and extreme weather intensify.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
jamesmacleod.substack.com/p/the-intern...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well actually yes. We do like it here. I and so many others wouldn't be so animated about these things if it didn't feel like there's so much to lose.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
norpellwilberforce.substack.com/p/himalayan-...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“It is clear something about humankind and western civilization is profoundly and deeply broken…Our ability to share knowledge and understand the situation we’re in has become utterly compromised, and deadly.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
currentaffairs.org
The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking 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...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
alteff.substack.com/p/frolicking...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And that will involve everything costing more: substack.com/@nwoubt/note...
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Debt’s Dead Reckoning
Harder to figure out how big of a problem it is than it might sound
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The hit on the Saudi oil pipeline that played a major role in getting the slick black stuff out to the rest of the world in the last few months has me thinking whether we’re about to get into this zone after collectively having become numb to the risk: nowayoutbt.substack.com/p/a-fossil-f...
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A Fossil Fuel Stress Test of Your Life
I assume that you, like me, must be tired
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
P.S. I take it as a sign that I'm on the right track, to have published something on the bond market pretty much at exactly the same time that Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social did: nowayoutbt.substack.com/p/debts-dead...
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Debt’s Dead Reckoning
Harder to figure out how big of a problem it is than it might sound
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“We all end up paying, one way or another…” phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pri...
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Stefano Sgambati | Private Leverage, Public Costs
How hedge fund speculation destabilized the bond market
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We’re trending towards a world where doing things that set up the premise for the movie Snowpiercer is the rational macro-level answer. I humbly submit, it might be better to focus on micro-level questions. That’s one of the reasons I think there’s No Way Out But Through. x.com/ASong408/sta...
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Andrew Song (@ASong408) on X
Humans: We can’t solve global warming. Mother Nature: Look, dumbass. I’ve been showing you how. Get sulfur high enough into the atmosphere and Earth cools. Need me to make it more obvious? Fine. Here...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I just about managed to steer away from total catastrophizing though, armed with what I learned from this conversation on robustness. And joy in the process. (2/2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzzr...
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Why Too Much Efficiency Makes Us Fragile with Olivier Hamant | TGS 230
YouTube video by Nate Hagens
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I was speaking with a climate-aware friend yesterday about just how screwed up everything is, seemingly beyond repair, and how everything is bound to get magnitudes worse before there’s any small chance they could get better. (1/2)
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just another small example that demonstrates how leaders, even at the helm of countries absolutely on the frontline of major climate impact don't think like us about these things (cumulative historic emissions, common but differentiated responsibilities etc).
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“To tackle our now and future climate each of us has two jobs: preparing for an instance of immediate peril and prepping for long term survival.” climaterevolutionnow.substack.com/p/units-of-s...
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Units of Survival: We've Gotta Get Out of This Place
In early 2005, a woman I used to hang out with on the Lower East Side bought her dream house in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Especially when you consider what has happened and not happened for the last generation or two: x.com/SteB777/stat...
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Stephen Barlow (@SteB777) on X
Because I was there, and very aware of climate change from the late 1970s - right up to 2000, and after, it was generally assumed that fossil fuel burning would have been largely phased out by now. 30...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I'm glad that my former colleague @akshatrathi.bsky.social is still fighting the good fight, but I fear it is quite quite late in the game on this kind of climate communication thing: lnkd.in/p/dTpkCiYy
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Two worrying trends. First, a lot of news stories about extreme weather do not acknowledge the existence of climate change. Of course, not every extreme weather event is caused by climate change, but…...
Two worrying trends. First, a lot of news stories about extreme weather do not acknowledge the existence of climate change. Of course, not every extreme weather event is caused by climate change, but ...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If my side prevails, we see Climate Nuremberg Trials before Net Zero 2050. x.com/ce_aj100/sta...
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AJ (@ce_aj100) on X
The recent disaster in Nepal stems primarily from Climate Change. And no, it's not tragedy, it's a pre planned blindness which we as a species have towards our own over-consumption. And we've turne...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's been hard looking at what's happening in Nepal. I used to live there. I wrote an essay in school in 2008 about exactly this sort of thing happening. It was all there. We, humans, could have done things differently. We still can. But first I feel it's important to mourn.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
lylel.substack.com/p/when-the-w...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I have felt exactly the way this passionate, overwhelmed, frustrated British lady sounds like she’s feeling. Little by little I started to decide I want to focus on people like her and people like me, rather than the zombies everyone else seems to be: www.linkedin.com/posts/nation...
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#nationalemergencybriefing #pebuk #heatwave #drought | National Emergency Briefing | 62 comments
Beautiful and moving call between James O'Brien and volunteer gardener Carole. Understandably Carole was feeling upset and afraid, as many of us are by the extreme weather this summer and by the fact...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Because you are just getting started. It's a long road, but we'll march it together. I can't think of anything better to do 👊
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I came across word of this ominous little signal in my own corner of the Great Indian Ocean Internet trash blob. But I was also forwarded it by a friend. Consider this your information ecosystem checkpoint: are your social circles catching the significant portents of our time? x.com/PaulSchleife...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
hildebrouwers.substack.com/p/the-intern...
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The internet has you convinced to quit your 9 to 5
Why that won't make you happy as a sustainability professional (and what to look for instead)
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
God I love California. Hold the line, please! “California’s law SB253 begins to go into effect in November, requiring companies with more than $1 billion in revenue doing business in the state to report their Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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World’s AI Giants Are Preparing to Come Clean on Climate Impact
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and rivals have so far revealed little about their emissions.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 13/08/2026
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and rivals have so far revealed little about their emissions.
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World’s AI Giants Are Preparing to Come Clean on Climate Impact
OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX and rivals have so far revealed little about their emissions.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I wrote about the same subject earlier this year: substack.com/@nwoubt/no…
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don’t love the AI affects in this piece, but the thesis is well worth chewing over: benjaminstuartreed.substack.com/p/world-war-...
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World War Three Has Started
It doesn’t look like the last one, which is why nobody has told you
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Follow @bberwyn.bsky.social
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Land surfaces continued to darken in 2025 because of wildfire-scorched land, heatwaves and reduced snow cover." Our world is literally turning darker. If you were ever the kind of kid excited by high fantasy, see this for the call to action that it is. insideclimatenews.org/news/1008202...
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State of the Climate: A Dimming, Overheated Planet, With Degraded Oceans - Inside Climate News
A new American Meteorological Society report paints a grim picture of the global climate.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yes, the servers are important. Really really important. For now. What about what they stand on? indoeden.substack.com/p/land-has-a...
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No Way Out But Through (@nwoubt)
Yes, the servers are important. Really really important. For now. What about what they stand on? https://indoeden.substack.com/p/land-has-an-unlimited-useful-life?r=1ovkud&utm_campaign=post-expanded-...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For “competitiveness” reasons. Can someone explain to me where people are going to drive all those BMWs to when everywhere is an Air Fryer? (2/2)
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This very same issue of @economist.com includes a story about how political leaders in Europe want to push back limits on how much emissions companies can do without paying, just when it’s starting to cost them more than a teensy weensy bit. (1/2)
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This guy’s company sets the rules that turn trillions of dollars around the world. If your money men are not thinking about this, ask why. (2/2)
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Rising temperatures are now “a source of risk and return in any investment you have, and if you ignore this risk you only have yourself to blame,” — that’s the CEO of MSCI, which puts together many of the worlds most important financial indexes. (1/2) t.co/a5oIPJiEiS
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-28/msci-ceo-tells-investors-ignoring-climate-risk-you-only-have-yourself-to-blame?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The trouble is, half of the people whom I would want to believe in a glorious destiny, don’t. And a tiny handful of the humans in the world today who are among our worst, do.
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's happening... pretty fast! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Roll it back 90 years and I wonder if any Japanese liberals were saying similar about the fighting in China in "letters to the editor" to their newspapers.
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Agreed, even if this phenomenon is far from something you could consider being part of the "important stuff"
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The citadel has fallen
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No Way Out But Through @nwoubt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Vance is right. Stewart is right. And it’s one of the reasons our own Age of Bronze is collapsing. Watch from 14m30s-19m45s: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJiB... It’s the most I’ve felt like I can relate to something the latter is saying in a while.
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Kaitlan Collins - Focusing on Reporting, Not Trump’s Insults | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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