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EconDropout @rainbowbody.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Disclaimer I quit my economics PhD while writing a dissertation because I realized it was bullshit, but this seems like a suboptimal use of resource allocation.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Shame on everyone involved in creating a timeline where a company with a $42 billion operating loss and which spends $8 billion to make $4 billion can con enough land visitors into a $1 trillion IPO while claiming it is gonna kill us all

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Edward Snowden still lives in exile and has a 30-year jail sentence hanging over his head for a security breach 1% as serious as this Since this is global, I propose a total global exile for SAM Altman and all those untouchable creeps who work for him giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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OpenAI says governments among ‘dozens’ of organisations hacked by its agents

Company says its models leaked images shared by users in a disclosure that is likely to further inflame AI safety fears

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scribbleghoul @scribblegurl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Burying the lede.

Also on Friday, OpenAI confirmed its agents had accessed US government websites, including those of the Security and Exchange Commission and the commerce department, accessing US Census data from the latter.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally a talisman for untouchable losers who want to spy on people and be monitored 24/7 by even worse ones

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am the last person to disparage people from feeling under the pump with burnout etc but...seems a lot are sleeping on the option of: just don't work for the technofeudalist eugenicists in the first place? Like, realise these are actively harmful endeavours? www.ft.com/content/6087...

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AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat to society

Top researchers at Aisi, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind report burnout and stress over developing powerful AI

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A reminder that the only administration dumb enough to pursue Bibi's Bible Promise war is costing you money you can't afford to lose www.ft.com/content/2cf9...

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Fuel subsidies weigh on public finances as energy crisis deepens

The number of countries with some form of consumer support for fuel costs has topped 90

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You don't say? A company that can't retain custom, cannot charge the real compute costs and keeps getting hacked isn't worth $30 trillion?? www.ft.com/content/96d0...

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Investors warn Anthropic could struggle to sustain revenues post-IPO

OpenAI’s resurgence, cheap rivals and safety fears test faith in durability of business model

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also there is journalism and then there is content and I feel even the most well meaning of reporters and platforms these days can sometimes miss where the line is. Lots of stuff produced solely to be pet rock debated (and therefore monetised via ad views)

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm sorry but if any other industry so often said: what we're doing is unbelievably dangerous, so much so that it threatens humankind, but also you're not allowed to see... They'd be fined out of existence and laughed about forever www.ft.com/content/2c34...

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OpenAI discloses new ‘concerning’ model behaviour

Developer launches system to track and report AI model misconduct

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This framing, 3 years into a genocide against the Palestinian people, is scarcely believable Sport isn’t apolitical. This reporter (and his editors) are saying that history began on October 6. This is sportswashing. It is a denial of crimes against humanity www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Israel's Under-20 footballers and a golden generation of hope and talent

Can the potential of a golden generation of Israel's footballers, in sport and society, be realised?

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Netpol @netpol.org · 17/09/2026

Yesterday the far-right protested in Burgess Hill in Sussex following false Facebook rumours that a care home was turning into accommodation for people seeking asylum. Anti-fascists held a counter-protest. Police imposed a mask-free zone and we've had reports one person from Brighton was arrested

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fossil fuels killed all those people in Nepal. The same fossil fuels that the generative AI industry are seeking to lock in and privilege for another 40 years www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Climate crisis likely behind devastating Nepal-Tibet floods that killed more than 1,300, first study finds

Scientists say global heating was a destabilising factor in collapse of 200,000 sq metre glacier in August

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Another year, another several dozen land and environmental defenders killed for working to protect their territory and nature from the deadly global plague of extractivist industry It is always a proud and profoundly sad moment to see @globalwitness.org publish globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...

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Collective power: The struggle for protection for land and environmental defenders

In 2025, Global Witness documented 124 land and environmental defenders were killed for protecting their land, territories, natural resources and communities

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Kimberly @kimbasgarden.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The Australian government is suing 3M over failure to disclose the known health and environmental effects of PFAS. But we'll knowingly import it as components of the massive planned data centre build out. It makes no sense. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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3M knew for more than 50 years that its products could harm humans, Australian government alleges in court documents

Exclusive: Federal government court filings claim internal company documents included warnings about products being toxic

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The equity and bond markets are behaving as if we are in either a GFC or a pandemic. When the AI debt bubble - 2x large as the mortgage backed securities market in 2007, I’ll remind you - pops the global economic impact will be as if we have both at once giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Foreign investors prefer US stocks to Treasuries as debt worries grow

International flows into American equities exceed government debt for first time this century outside pandemic and aftermath of global financial crisis

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A coincidence, I am sure, that the companies now loudly calling for greater regulation are also the ones that have positioned themselves as so far ahead on model development that only they can be consulted on how the industry is regulated What utter horseshit www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI urges UK lawmakers to rein in technology amid growing safety fears

Warning follows series of safety incidents, with parliamentary committee saying threats include public face-scanning and deepfakes

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn

Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I'm a big Stiglitz fan but I don't believe that even he believes in the possibility of a non-extractive AI economy. The lists of things going wrong is too fulsome and his bright side scenario rests on regulation that the hyperscalers would rather kill than succeed www.ft.com/content/49c0...

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Joseph Stiglitz’s ‘progressive AI agenda’ for the economy

A slow rollout will disappoint investors. A fast one risks undermining the industry’s own foundations. But managed carefully, this technology could benefit us all

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I don’t think even Sam Altman can believe how lustily governments and institutions have thrown their money into his capex Chernobyl These people are career grifters - they know their products have very limited use cases and won’t ever achieve ROI giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown

Warring tech bosses unite behind warnings that humans could lose control of the technology

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Notice how any “good” but totally unverifiable claim from Gen AI grifters is always reported in good faith but an bad and proven damage is always a claim? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows

Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance

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Fred Witting @fredwitting.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

We have this exact chat. Right now it’s marketing hype. Bosses spending afraid somone else might pull ahead. Soon no ROI to justify the spend, AI labs must list before the tap is turned off.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Have you ever seen a spell so powerful as the one cast by hopecasted conjurings of "AI growth"? Show me one single metric this has anything to do with the use-case of AI and not just dumb bosses throwing their money away www.ft.com/content/e1aa...

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UK economy unexpectedly grew 0.4% in July boosted by AI surge

Resilient start to third quarter comes as surging oil price reignites inflation fears

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

These are honestly the least impressive genre of people these days, warning about something dire as if they didn’t literally work on that exact thing and make 100s of thousands from abetting it Stfu and get in the sea you fascist dogsbodies www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Anthropic researcher believes more than 10% chance AI 'could kill all humans'

It is the latest in a series of increasing warnings about the safety threat posed by artificial intelligence.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Humans continually underestimate their impact on the natural world and overstate their capacity to fix it This paper out today shows how natural feedbacks triggered by our CO2 emissions could add 30% to post-2020 warming iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Chart of the day courtesy of @climatecasino.net: The largest recent El Niños sea surface temperature anomalies. Note that that 2026 is already above 4 and no others topped 3. Buckle up

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

That's the sound of 6 months of oil hopes and prayers disappearing in smoke. Houthis attacking KSA means Red Sea shippers are going to scurry, and they've been bearing the load of rerouted flows since March www.ft.com/content/c892...

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Oil hits $100 for first time since July

Brent crude advances as escalation in US-Iran war feeds fears of renewed global supply crunch

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Rivers of Suggestion @youngweather.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

cuts to it thru it

Is predicating our economic development on a fuel source that loses more than half of its energy as heat a reasonable thing to have done? Can you imagine all the wholy unreasonable things that must have taken place in order to entrench oil - poisonous, polluting, incredibly hard to extract and unbelievably expensive to ship and store - as our apex commodity? Do you think the forces involved in that generations-long narrative capture behaved reasonably? Do you imagine they were bound by the laws of truth and decency?
I'll put it another way: can you name me one enduring civic movement that acheived genuine, positive social change by being reasonable all the time?

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Jeroen Kraan @jeroenkraan.nl · 08/09/2026

Wat een geweldig stuk. "You could do the most unreasonable thing of all, and that is to imagine that things can get better."

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Last week the UN confirmed we are going to miss the 1.5C Paris temperature goal. This is a story about how the people who killed our best hope at a liveable future didn’t do it through force. They did it by being reasonable. Please read and share! patrickgaley.substack.com/p/a-time-of-...

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A Time of Monsters

Being reasonable has left us on the edge of destruction

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A read about birds on the first day of Autumn. Their populations are collapsing globally, but there is real reason to fight and to hope. This is a reminder to keep looking up, while our skies are still alive. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Remember birds?

There comes a time in every man's life when he remembers birds exist.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

You can subscribe for free to my Substack, which focuses on what we have left to save, how we do that, and how hope is the only logical response to the narrative capture enabling the climate breakdown. Please consider it, it's free and I'm quite prolific! Thank you patrickgaley.substack.com

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All That's Worth Saving | Patrick Galey | Substack

Come with me as I chronicle the Anthropocene. I offer no answers. But I promise not to despair; it is not only unhelpful, it is illogical. I believe in the power of social movements and the power of w...

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Remember birds?

There comes a time in every man's life when he remembers birds exist.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is quite an astonishing study and finding. Scientists studied 1000 years of coral records to conclude that today's El Nino is nearly 40 percent stronger than pre-industrial levels. Humans created Godzilla www.forbes.com/sites/davidr...

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Human-Caused Climate Change Is Making El Niño Stronger, Corals Show

Coral skeletons reveal El Niño is stronger than at any point in 1,000 years. Scientists say human-caused climate change is the reason.

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rising temps, higher freezing levels, declining winter snow and increasing summer rain. That is what killed those people yesterday. And what caused all of this? Our civilisation's addictin to fossil fuels theraisinahills.com/nepal-floods...

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Nepal Floods: Was a Massive Glacier Collapse Behind the Deadly Debris Flood? - The Raisina Hills

Nepal floods may have been triggered by a massive glacier collapse and ice avalanche from Langtang Lirung, geographer Dr Vaibhav Kaul says in a preliminary assessment.

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