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Patrick Galey

@patrickgaley.bsky.social
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Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises. Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling

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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 8h
A reminder that by far the largest use case for LLM-based AI products is "therapy and companionship". The Epstein class's hostile takeover of the global economy depends on our isolation and disconnectedness. The more we pour into chatbots, the less power we have datareportal.com/reports/digi...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 9h
While I am yet to be convinced these models have any world changing use case, I can see a lot of misuse cases: they are perfect for scammers and hackers www.ft.com/content/353b...
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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 · 20/09/2026
It's actually $3 trillion fyi
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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 · 26/08/2026
Dolly left us her poetry, both by and on her
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I can’t help noticing a pretty major track buckle at the Lewes train crash site on the hottest day of the year
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
2026 is shaping up to be the hottest year ever and the burn area is well ahead of the EU average in terms, and we've still got a lot of the dry season to go forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.s...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Well.
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Drought in Wales. Hosepipe bans for 10s of millions. Data centres don't have to declare their water use. Pick a side: humans, or Silicon Valley eugenicists and fertility cults
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What is happening, I'll remind you, is the result of a US administration dumb enough to allow Israel to drag it into a bible promise war. Everyone in the world, apart from the people doing the killing and price gouging the oil, is poorer as a direct result
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The next time any politician or talking head talks about debt or how there isn't enough money to fund things like social housing or assisting processing of some of the world's most vulnerable people, remember that asset managers exist and are taxable www.ft.com/content/ea81...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Posted this over a year ago. Yesterday the industry’s supervillain lobby confirmed:
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
And the bailout has begun: Just as I have been saying it would for a while now. These companies cannot make any money, so they leveraged themselves to be Too Big To Fail
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What the flying fuck does "rockets-to-AI" mean and can you explain why it is raising billions of dollars outside of stealing people's pensions? Can we stop treating this like it isn't legalised theft? Can we stop sanewashing the pump and dumps? www.ft.com/content/1890...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
They aren't asking investors to buy anything, they have rigged profitability and passive investing rules to force people to give over their pensions on a bet that rockets don't explode www.ft.com/content/70fa...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
lol how about FUCK NO FIFA
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Please enjoy this graph from a FT article explaining that AI hasn’t added any value (no, debt and circular investment isn’t value) It has produced More Stuff, it’s just the Stuff isn’t useable or fixable. Welcome to the age of everyone making apps no one uses
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This fucking shapeshifter
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Here is what the bottom feeder said when Sarah Everard was murdered:
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
I am 100% sure Brendan would have been clutching his pearls at the George Floyd protests. A better question, one someone non incel might come up with: Why are these people raging at Henry Nowak’s death but not at Sarah Everard’s?
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Starting to wonder if even supposedly sensible media has suffered a traumatic brain injury
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
To be extremely clear, this is fraud. SpaceX's "valuation" will be met by indexes voluntarily rigging their own rules on profitability and passive investment, and I think if someone had fallen into a coma in 2022 and woke up today they would assume this is all an extremely poor joke.
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Should leopards eat your face?
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
People who question my questioning of AI future profitability like to tell me that Amazon went from making very little to making a lot and while that's true that's only half of the story because... Amazon hadn't spent TENS OF BILLIONS a year developing its products before it became profitable
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Compute costs are too high, and Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI will have to ditch their below cost pricing models or else Oracle and CoreWeave go bankrupt this year (90 percent of frontier compute cost is subsidised by PE currently)
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
For those taking notes, the US is pushing for a deal where the SoH is open and freely transited, but which will also see Iran’s assets unlocked and its nuclear programme enshrined $40 billion for this
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I cannot quite believe this framing on BBC News bulletins this morning: - WHO declares Ebola emergency - SpaceX launches a rocket If you insist on mentioning Musk every 20 seconds, can you at least mention the fact that these people are dying in DRC because of him???
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Nvidia is quite obviously committing fraudulent investing, paying money to its customers to buy its productsand calling it growth www.ft.com/content/c6b3...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
BBC persisting with the “rival protests” framing which is false equivalence and, also, wrong The pro-Palestine march doesn’t exist in opposition to the racists. It’s for Nakba Day. Saying it is designed to rival the racists invents motive and animus that don’t exist
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Sorry BBC, this framing is not only false equivalence, it is wrong in point of fact. The pro-Palestine march today commemorates the anniversary of the Nakba, the tragedy of Zionist colonisation of Palestine. Nakba Day was yesterday. Painting this as a “rival” march is a fallacy, and invents animus
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
No lies detected 👇
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Shell appears to have received more than £50 million in taxpayer handouts for its North Sea operations in 2024, the last year it reports government payments Shell made $7 billion profit in Q1 this year www.shell.com/sustainabili...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The US lost this war, and with it its global currency hegemony. This was the biggest singular foreign policy error by any US administration in history. The first four items of the BBC World Service's 8am bulletin this morning were about Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The UK: where adults walk on train tracks and vote for Russian assets in the name of nationalism The ignorance is appalling
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Nice to see our research reaching the big man
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Shot. Chaser
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Pet rock journalism. Debating the merits of not mitigating civilisational collapse while continuing to provide billions a year to the fossil fuels that are both killing his and are responsible for most of food price rises
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Nothing will ever progress in British politics until we have meaningful voting reform. In 2019 Corbyn got 41% of the and 33% of seats. In 2024 Starmer wone 35% of the vote but bagged 65% of seats. This is so fundamental I am amazed more parties don't campaign on it
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
One wonders why a paper owned by an oligarch would wish to deplatform the party coming 2nd in the polls
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Every additional $10 per barrel of oil nets Total an extra $2.3 billion
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
SoH crisis is seeing oil tankers bribe canal officials so they can jump ahead of SHIPS CARRYING FOOD Sulphur supplies are all going to copper manufacturing (because higher margins) and away from... MAKING STUFF WE NEED TO MAKE FOOD It is MAD how normal govts are acting www.ft.com/content/648a...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Me checking in on the world's number one networking site, and where I see the phrase "AI lowers barriers" the most:
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Oh, that's right
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
JP Morgan's report on tipping points is both extremely terrifying and extremely weird how they aren't screaming in 72-point font AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO KILL FOSSIL FUELS jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Hi, Gen AI doesn't "lower barriers", it actively lifts them up and out of reach. As predicted, AI adoption is exacerbating inequality and widening the labour and pay gap. www.ft.com/content/0873...
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
What is it about the spell weaved by the whispered promise of Gen AI that turns ordinarily ontological, evidence driven individuals to completely upend every bit of economic and practical logic when talking about it?
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