Durand D'souza🍃
@dldx.org
Coffee, climbing, cocktails, cooking & climate.
Astrophysics PhD dropout.
Data Scientist @carbontracker.bsky.social
Astrophysics PhD dropout.
Data Scientist @carbontracker.bsky.social
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For the latest episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast (we're back!), I spoke to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics, developmentalism and her essay "Lula's Dilemma"
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
Lula’s Dilemmas and COP30
Adrienne speaks to Sabrina Fernandes about the complexities of Brazilian ecological politics at the start of the COP30 climate conference.
www.break-down.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
For the latest episode of @the-breakdown.bsky.social podcast (we're back!), I spoke to @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social about Brazilian ecological politics, developmentalism and her essay "Lula's Dilemma"
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
Listen below / wherever you get your podcasts 🌳🍃
www.break-down.org/lulas-dilemm...
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It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
Not enough people know about Homer City. The single largest fossil fuel plant that's being built *explicitly* to power a data centre.
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
This isn't a future projection, or some hollow marketing. This is physical stuff happening right now.
bsky.app/profile/keta...
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It's funny how hard we have to work to convince the world that uncontrolle data centre expansion is a climate risk when there's a fossil gas power station called the EXXONMOBIL POWER PLANT being built explicitly to power a data centre
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Great choice in picking Lina Khan! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team as he prepares for New York mayoralty
Team includes Lina Khan, the FTC commissioner under Biden, and other Democratic former city officials
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Great choice in picking Lina Khan! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Hopeful day, not just for NYC but for the western world as a whole.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of New York on winning night for Democrats
Democratic socialist, 34, becomes city’s first Muslim mayor as Democrats triumph in several other key races
www.theguardian.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Hopeful day, not just for NYC but for the western world as a whole.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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🚨You need to read Rei's feature on UK Labour's love affair with US authoritarian Big Tech, a coterie of firms now openly undermining democracy worldwide.
I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to!
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇
The sheer scale of Labour's deals with Trump-donating Big Tech firms has been seriously under-reported.
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
Not only are they being allowed to build climate-wrecking data centres, they've also been given permission to embed their tech within Whitehall, the NHS, and defence 👇👇
📝 @rtakver.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🚨You need to read Rei's feature on UK Labour's love affair with US authoritarian Big Tech, a coterie of firms now openly undermining democracy worldwide.
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honestly a little annoyed at how much mental energy a billionaire lecturing the world about how to alleviate poverty and human suffering is taking up in my brain. the cognitive dissonance is overwhelming
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 PM
honestly a little annoyed at how much mental energy a billionaire lecturing the world about how to alleviate poverty and human suffering is taking up in my brain. the cognitive dissonance is overwhelming
For anyone that points to the UAE's greenwashing projects, this is the real impact of the emirates...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik
The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community acts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
For anyone that points to the UAE's greenwashing projects, this is the real impact of the emirates...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Bank of England is actively harming the energy transition right now by raising interest rates for green while the status quo continues to emit.
New report from @wwf.org.uk accuses Bank of England of not doing nearly enough to account for climate and nature risks. www.businessgreen.com/news/4521224...
WWF: Bank of England 'must do more' to address climate and nature risks
Bank urged to better account for climate impacts and ramp up efforts to boost green growth
www.businessgreen.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The Bank of England is actively harming the energy transition right now by raising interest rates for green while the status quo continues to emit.
We are 25% through the 21st century and this sort of nonsense is still happening. Utterly despicable.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’
Goli Kouhkan, 25, on death row for seven years for killing her abusive husband, has until December to settle with the victim’s family
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
We are 25% through the 21st century and this sort of nonsense is still happening. Utterly despicable.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
Satellite images show most el-Fasher civilians likely still trapped
Latest images suggest that majority of 260,000 civilians still in captured city, as mass RSF killings continue
www.middleeasteye.net
November 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue
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The EU’s 2014 ‘Khartoum Process’ of border externalisation channeled €4.5 billion to African states, some of which ended up in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces, now inflicting famine & gen*cide in #Sudan. Find out more and support solidarity groups👇
October 23, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The EU’s 2014 ‘Khartoum Process’ of border externalisation channeled €4.5 billion to African states, some of which ended up in the hands of the Rapid Support Forces, now inflicting famine & gen*cide in #Sudan. Find out more and support solidarity groups👇
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We used to own our essential services, like water, energy, and transport. Not anymore.
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
We used to own our essential services, like water, energy, and transport. Not anymore.
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
This week @kmilb.bsky.social, co-director of @abundance-org.bsky.social, joined the New Economics Podcast to talk Radical Abundance: how to win a green democratic economy.
🎧 linktr.ee/neweconomics...
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Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
October 31, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Great read from @iandunt.bsky.social on whether Starmer should stay or go, including the mystery of how, if you’re launching a popular climate, energy, and growth strategy, why wouldn’t you stage a press conference on it?
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
iandunt.substack.com/p/a-world-wi...
It's a shame the data ends in 2022 but I can't think of many who still rank US as #1. The UK's fall from grace has been obvious for a while. It's incredibly difficult to move here as an immigrant and to live here. Quality of life is often much better in other parts of the world.
The US remains the most popular destination among educated young adults worldwide, but its lead over #2 has narrowed from 20pts to 9pts, while the UK has plummeted from a consistent #2 ranking to #7, again with a steep fall after 2016.
October 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
It's a shame the data ends in 2022 but I can't think of many who still rank US as #1. The UK's fall from grace has been obvious for a while. It's incredibly difficult to move here as an immigrant and to live here. Quality of life is often much better in other parts of the world.
As a general rule, it is fair to say that billionaires have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to most things outside their lane (and sometimes even inside it...)
notes on gatesnotes, in a thread
"A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES
On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense
"A new way to look at the problem" - er, no, he's been running this line for DECADES
On the headline: you can absolutely guarantee anyone presenting themselves as telling tough, hard truths is about to deliver some self-aggrandising nonsense
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 PM
As a general rule, it is fair to say that billionaires have no idea what they are talking about when it comes to most things outside their lane (and sometimes even inside it...)
Homelessness has a huge financial and social cost to society. Private social housing providers aren't able to deliver. It is time the government recognises the need for publicly owned council housing, funded by central government borrowing and taxes on land. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Out of reach’: stalled newbuilds leave Labour’s social housing targets in tatters
As some families face a 200-year wait for an affordable home, what exactly has gone wrong?
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Homelessness has a huge financial and social cost to society. Private social housing providers aren't able to deliver. It is time the government recognises the need for publicly owned council housing, funded by central government borrowing and taxes on land. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Some data scientist really messed up big time here but there is also a wider question of why HMRC is delegating these immensely consequential decisions to an algorithm. Where is the human in the loop?!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC pauses child benefit crackdown after 23,500 families caught up in data error
Parents say they were treated as fraudsters because Home Office travel records failed to show their return to UK
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Some data scientist really messed up big time here but there is also a wider question of why HMRC is delegating these immensely consequential decisions to an algorithm. Where is the human in the loop?!
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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If you need an injection of positivity, I strongly recommend watching Power Station, if it's on near you (screening list & trailer here: power.film/pages/screen...). It's a beautiful story of a community taking action to make their on electricity supply cleaner, greener and cheaper. Brilliant stuff.
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
If you need an injection of positivity, I strongly recommend watching Power Station, if it's on near you (screening list & trailer here: power.film/pages/screen...). It's a beautiful story of a community taking action to make their on electricity supply cleaner, greener and cheaper. Brilliant stuff.
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For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
For the record, Melissa's main targets of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, and the Bahamas account for, respectively, 0.016%, 0.0089%, 0.064%, and 0.0038% of the global annual total of CO2 emissions.
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.