**Grandfather, you lived through an explosion of renewables beyond even the most optimistic forecasts. Yet fossil fuels persisted. What happened??** **Well, grandson, you see, a very large number of people thought a sentence-generating software program had a little guy inside it. And then, **

Public service announcement: this is a FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS Not an 'energy crisis'. People need energy: it keeps them alive. This is a crisis due to forced dependency on the most unreliable and unstable fuel product in human history. THIS IS A FOSSIL FUEL CRISIS.

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies. imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!! nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

This is so wild. "climate groups talk too much about climate, focus on affordability instead" is out; now climate groups are talking too much about affordability (because that threatens the tech industry and data centre growth??)

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DAY TWO OF ME ENDLESSLY PROMOTING SOMETHING I'M PROUD OF Here's a new video summary, focusing on the flimsy evidence behind the claim AI tech will make global emissions plummet by gigatonnes and how similar that is to something you might recognise..... ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b...

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

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