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You don't know me... but i unfortunately know a lot about climate denial, propaganda and rightwing disinformation

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If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 18h
This month's bonus episode is about how climate change is fake but the hosts' body horror is real.
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Conspiracies of Yore: Climategate | If Books Could Kill
Michael and Peter discuss Climategate, the scandal that rocked the climate science world. With scientists on one side, and paid lackeys for
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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · 18h
A very fitting and timely episode, as conservative forces are once again gearing up to steal the emails of scientists (including mine) to help avoid accountability for climate change impacts www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers
A POLITICO investigation reveals more than 100 open records requests demanding documents from climate scientists nationwide.
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Noel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When advertising looks like journalism, corporate PR gets mistaken for public-interest reporting. That is Big Oil’s native-ad playbook. And Big Tech is now using it to sell AI data centres. Read Michelle A. Amazeen's new piece on the blog. buff.ly/xYFnOF1
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The Datacenter Playbook: How Big Tech Is Copying Big Oil’s Native Advertising Tactics
We've seen this story before. A struggling region needs economic relief. An industry arrives with promises of jobs, tax revenue, and progress. Sleek, editorial-style content – indistinguishable from journalism – celebrates the arrival of prosperity. Local concerns about environmental damage, strain on infrastructure, and resource depletion get buried beneath narratives of regional rescue.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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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 flamesLater 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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Clare Fieseler, PhD @fieseler.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am honored to be a winner of this year’s @coveringclimatenow.org awards. But even more honored to be among @sammyroth.bsky.social’s favorites. Thanks, pal! ❤️
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More info on all the winners, including two of my person favorite projects of the last year, the Carbon Bros podcast by @drilledmedia.bsky.social @amywestervelt.bsky.social and "The Man Behind the Fall of Offshore Wind" by @fieseler.bsky.social: coveringclimatenow.org/projects/the...
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The 2026 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards — Covering Climate Now
Covering Climate Now is proud to announce the winners of the 2026 CCNow Journalism Awards. Our awards program, now in its sixth year, honors excellent reporting on many critical dimensions of the clim...
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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow, I am extremely grateful to be honored as a @coveringclimatenow.org Journalist of the Year! Especially after leaving legacy media to start my own newsletter, CLIMATE-COLORED GOGGLES, and shifting gears to write about climate and culture, which no one else is doing. Congrats to all the winners.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:
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Republicans don’t have a Nazi problem—they are the Nazi problem
A spate of recent revelations have shown the ideologies and their adherents are one and the same.
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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 17/09/2026
NVIDIA is the largest company in the world, and has an ever increasing pollution footprint to match. In fact, since 2020, its indirect emissions have risen 725%, enough to match the product use emission of state-owned Russian coal. And they still claim to be a sustainability leader. #GreenSky 🧵
Background photo of a microchip. REPORT icon in top left corner. “NVIDIA’s AI climate hoax: Analysis on NVIDIA’s rising emissions and greenwashing” “NVIDIA’s indirect emissions have risen 725% since 2020, despite claiming AI will be a ‘net benefit’ for climate.” Arrow icon in bottom right corner.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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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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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Well actually, it wasnt our wedding, it was just an unrelated two day party after our wedding." How is that a defense!?!??!
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
wrote about how bad faith politics flow from an algorithmically-generated unreality badfaithtimes.com/the-brains-w...
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The Brains Will Be Cooked Until Further Notice
We can't be afraid of social media rules and regulations forever. It's the only way to dismantle the right's unreality.
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
there are ways to make society slightly less sick! bsky.app/profile/denn...
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've been talking for a while about how Big Oil has tied its fate to Big Tech & vice versa. Big Oil was just running out of products to pitch until Big Tech came along with its energy-destroying data centers. Now, a fantastic name for the unholy alliance: "Fossil Tech." substack.com/inbox/post/2...
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Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech
Final sneak peak before launch day of my latest book with Astra Taylor
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tell me again how AI will help the environment. Shut all these data centers down until they can prove they will do no harm. And prosecute them when they do harm like this. www.nj.com/hudson/2026/...
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Data center spills diesel fuel into N.J. river tributary
The clean-up will likely continue into the week, state environmental officials said.
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“Whatever they say about it, it’s clear that this is indoctrination,” said @andrewdessler.com, a Texas A&M University atmospheric sciences professor who has taught a climate change course that regents recently voted to remove from the core curriculum. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/u...
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How University Core Curriculums Are Getting Political (Gift Article)
Politics and other factors are causing universities to reconsider what classes are core requirements. In some places, civics and classics are replacing climate change and sociology.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly
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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"it’s not that public opinion shifted, it’s that billionaires started pumping out negative propaganda against trans people... That is what has caused the shift."
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Ira Hyman @irahyman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Theft of intellectual property. If you use AI, the systems will add your prompts and ideas into their training material. If you store info on the web, it’s being added into training material. In OpenAI vs. Anthropic, an N.Y.U. Mathematician Comes Out Bruised www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/s...
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The Mathematician Crushed Between OpenAI and Anthropic Over a Math Problem
Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.
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404 Media @404media.co · 09/09/2026
After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
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'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI
After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 09/09/2026
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-i...
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> Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down

> Facebook is filled with AI-generated videos of children being beaten, burned, and bludgeoned with heavy objects. Meta doesn't seem to care.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 09/09/2026
"Oh, you're criticising data centres? But you USED A DATA CENTRE to publish your post??? Hypocritical much????" Time to put this fossil fuel PR inspired talking point to bed forever. Why the 'Mr Gotcha' gambit is wrong in two very important ways:
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
I’m old enough to remember people calling them the ethical ai company.
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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect
New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.
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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 08/09/2026
If the implication here is correct, nobody should use OpenAI models for anything that might compete with them. Even if it's not, it's still clear that OpenAI has behaved in a really shitty way.
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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Adding "I am too talented to need shortcuts" to my linkedin
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026
Speaking of plagiarism: www.scientificamerican.com/article/open...
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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say
OpenAI released 10 AI-generated results over the weekend. Some mathematicians are unhappy with their approach
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
accidentally washed many shrimp jesus stickers. There is now a school of shrimp jesus living in my washing machine
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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 03/09/2026
some fun news: i'm going to be writing a weekly column on everyone's favorite topic: DATA CENTERS i'll be taking over the @wired.com sunday newsletter from now until the midterms to yap about all things DCs it's going to be tons of fun (in MY opinion)!
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CAAD_Coalition @caadcoalition.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
New from @corporateeurope.org: A deadly alliance of Big Tech and Big Oil. Behind the AI boom, tech firms are teaming up with oil giants to greenwash fossil-fuelled data centres, strengthening the power of two industries driving climate breakdown. buff.ly/avfXvWw
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 02/09/2026
New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit alleges
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Scott Doney @scottdoney.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Misrepresentation of Human Climate Fingerprint in DOE Report - Santer et al. - 2026 - Earth's Future - @agu.org @aguscipolicy.bsky.social @andrewdessler.com agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Misrepresentation of Human Climate Fingerprint in DOE Report
A July 2025 DOE report claimed that there is no human fingerprint on the vertical structure of atmospheric temperature change This claim was based on a comparison of modeled and observed temperat...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.
Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."
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Adam Barnett @adambarnett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thirst trap: will AI solve climate change? (No) I wrote an explainer on data centres’ impact on climate & environment for @theleaduk.bsky.social national.thelead.uk/p/the-lead-u...
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The Lead Untangles: AI data centres
They are being built at a rapid rate to handle the explosion in data capacity needed for our modern lives, but what’s the environmental impact?
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
‘Viewpoint diversity hires’ are a jobs program for mediocre white men who can no longer compete against the women and POC who clawed their way into the academy over the past 50 years. Cofnas’ case is part of a concerted campaign to legimate misogyny and racism. 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026
Did I miss the big open letter signed by a hundred academics opposing this?
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Stars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
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West Point professor fired after pushing back on limitations to teaching climate change, lawsuit says
Adam Kalkstein pushed back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change, the lawsuit says.
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David at FOIAball @foiaball.com · 26/08/2026
Wanna know something I think would be crazy? It would be crazy if XX-XY Athletics, the apparel firm stoking outrage against the WNBA, had a secret, Koch brothers-aligned, oil rich family fortune behind it. But that would be crazy, right??? www.foiaball.com/p/xx-xy-athl...
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The oil money lurking behind the WNBA outrage
XX-XY Athletics has an interesting paper trail.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 26/08/2026
Today is a good day to follow news outlets that take a strong stand against Generative AI slop: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"We made an app that kills your credibility if you use it. Give us all your money." GenAI is a monekypaw, except instead of being magic and powerful just gives you ebola
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PhENtastic.bsky.social @phenominal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
FTA: One former senior official, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told MS NOW: “In the end, it’s not the greatest consolation on earth to find out that the people who wrecked 10 years of your work and your career are a bunch of galaxy-level dipshits.”
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A man angrily says "DEBATE ME!" A baby responds "GA." The man shouts "APPEAL TO EMOTION!" The baby, angrily says "BA." The man retorts "AD HOMINEM"
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We collected data before and after the 2024 Presidential Elections (N = 1,377 representative US sample), and Americans remained highly polarized along partisan lines. osf.io/preprints/ps... This project was led by @tspampatti.bsky.social and @LauraKGlobig
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The 2024 US Presidential election was heralded as a “vibe shift” with public support swinging away from content moderation and towards freedom of speech. However, the pundits were wrong! In a new study we found that the so-called vibe shift in societal norms was largely an illusion.
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