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Gil Greening
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retired scientist, kiwi in Oz - Ngunnawal Country, avatar from Iceland, aurora australis from sister in Dunedin. #nzpol Vaxxed to the max.
Mostly just a lazy reposter.
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mongabay.com
In 2025, climate disasters hit 87.8M people worldwide. Drought drove the biggest toll, while rare, intensified storms killed thousands.

Researchers warn climate change is pushing preparedness and adaptation to their limits.
More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025
In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The…
news.mongabay.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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kiwichar.bsky.social
This. 👇
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h
You know who’s not in the Epstein files?

Undocumented immigrants
Drag queens
Trans people
The poor, unhoused, marginalized and disabled

The people you’ve been taught to hate weren’t involved in the sex trafficking ring.

The billionaires were. The wealthy. The ruling class.
February 1, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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sago1950.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social
@senatorwong.bsky.social
Your good friends, #Zionist #Israel, are killing innocent civilians every day during the 'ceasefire' and you reward them by inviting #Herzog and his war criminal friends to visit Australia.
Rescind the invitation in the name of social cohesion.
February 1, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Just fyi
February 1, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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edzitron.com
Premium Post: This is the Hater's Guide To Oracle: an evil company that profits off of strongarming its customers to boost its declining revenues. It needs $150bn more to complete its data centers, and if OpenAI can't pay its bills, Oracle runs out of money.

www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
Premium: The Hater's Guide to Oracle
You can’t avoid Oracle. No, really, you can’t. Oracle is everywhere. It sells ERP software – enterprise resource planning, which is a rat king of different services for giant companies for financial ...
www.wheresyoured.at
January 30, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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edzitron.com
Before we discuss the numbers, let’s explain what Oracle is.

In short, it’s a company that sells a bunch of database and business management programs that are really expensive, have insane pricing structures, and are really hard to decouple from.
www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide...
You see, Oracle charges on a per-processor basis, and for the Enterprise version, you’re paying a one-off price of $47,000 per processor. And by “per-processor,” I mean “per core of your processor.” No, really, check out Oracle’s own pricing. Here’s where it gets complicated. The thing is, if you’ve got a multi-core processor, you pay more — and believe me, it’s 2026, you most certainly have a multi-core processor. So, Oracle the license fee for each core is 50% of the $47,000. If a server has one 32-core CPU, you’re essentially paying the $47,000 sixteen times (32 multiplied by 0.5). Intel revealed back in August that it had a Xeon processor with 288 cores, or around $6.78 million for an Oracle license for a single chip. This is the case even if you’re renting through a cloud platform like Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. In general, Oracle counts two vCPUs as one processor license if multi-threading is enabled, and one vCPU as one processor license if it isn’t. Oh, and Oracle requires you to use “Authorized Cloud Instances.” For smaller organisations, or databases running on less powerful hardware, Oracle has a licensing scheme where companies are charged based on the number of named users. This is $950 for each named user — with a minimum 25 users per processor. If Oracle runs on an eight-core CPU, then you have effectively (by its math), four processors (because each core is equivalent to 50% of a processor). That means you need to buy 100 licenses, bringing the total annual cost to $95,000. In both cases, you have updates and support, which come to 25% of your total license fees. As Oracle grew, it added more products, with one of the most lucrative being its ERP system, which it launched in 2012. ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning. This is, essentially, the thing that ties the entire organisation together. It’s the single source of truth for the company, and depending on the modules you add, can handle things like accounting, HR, manufacturing, analytics and reporting, supply chain, and so on. And you always need more fucking modules. You’ve probably seen giant ads for it in airports or on the Wall Street Journal and had your eyes immediately glaze over, and that’s part of the plan. Oracle doesn’t want you to understand ERP, because the more you understand, the more it becomes obvious that the confusion created in this category is entirely by design. This is a big industry, too. SAP — a company that employs nearly 120,000 people — pretty much does this, and this alone. Microsoft has Dynamics, and while it’s fairly popular, I don’t think Redmond has made as much headroom in the space as it would like. And as with Oracle’s database systems,, this is expensive software — it’s Oracle, after all — so expensive, in fact, that it nearly bankrupted England’s second-largest city, and Europe’s largest council. No, really, Birmingham City Council said that the Oracle switch was partly responsible for it going bankrupt.
January 30, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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openpolicy.bsky.social
Reminder that this kind of price gouging is what New Zealand’s Inland Revenue Department bought into when it chose Oracle over other providers in 2014 for its NZ$1.4 billion ‘business transformation’ programme.

Since then other govt departments have been sucked in
www.reseller.co.nz/article/1300...
January 31, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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petergeoghegan.bsky.social
"There is a global wave of governments being captured by big money, whether that’s big crypto money or big tech money."

Great to talk to @oliverbullough.bsky.social about how money laundering has gone global - and it's capturing our politics

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/dirty-mone...
Dirty money is buying up democracy
I talk to Oliver Bullough about how corruption and money laundering have gone global - and are capturing our politics
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:12 AM
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
“She had as much ‘motive to falsify’ then as she does now, because on both occasions her conduct was being called into question,” Justice Treston wrote of the former Director of the Professional Services Review agency. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Screenshot of part of the linked article which reads: In making this finding, Treston has also put other senior public servants on notice. “Misfeasance in public office claims are extraordinarily difficult to make out, because of the high legal standard required,” one lawyer with experience in the specialised field tells The Saturday Paper. “It is not for nothing that they are so infrequently litigated. That makes this a very significant decision and may provide guidance for plaintiffs in future misfeasance claims. “The judgement is highly critical of the defendant’s conduct, particularly given the significant authority exercised by the director of the Professional Services Review agency. As the trial judge said, ‘With such power, comes responsibility.’ It is rare to see a judgement so critical of public sector conduct – going so far as to find that the director ‘failed the test of public probity’ in her conduct.”
January 30, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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tzemingdynasty.bsky.social
the mana on them uncles and aunties
From RNZ story: photo by (lol) Gaurav Sharma of the head of the march with banner saying 'Toitū te Aroha: Uniting to protect our communities', being held by three Sikh uncles full flight in turban and beards, an aunty in a hijab and keffiyeh, plus a Māori aunty in black brimmed hat and moko kauae https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/585561/two-protests-in-auckland-s-cbd-monitored-by-police-with-cordons-road-closures
January 31, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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spiderandme.bsky.social
Some advice for our upcoming election, #nzpol
January 31, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
New misfeasance in public office decision dropped. A cracker: Judge awarded $2m in damages, including v. rare punitive exemplary damages, against former head of Medicare watchdog. Matters are RARE. Wins rarer. A boon to potential Robodebt + other cases. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
Exclusive: Misfeasance case paves way for robodebt action
A damning judgement of ‘highhandedness or cynical disregard’ by the Medicare watchdog has established a new front for civil litigation of public servants named in the robodebt royal commission.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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andrewdessler.com
Anyone who’s worked with hydrogen in the laboratory knows it’s very dangerous. Hard to keep from leaking and very explosive. I think it may have some commercial uses, but not for the general public.
janrosenow.bsky.social Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 6d
Consumer organisations have consistently advocated against heating with hydrogen. Why? Because they understand that it would be highly inefficient, costly and impracticable.

My now dated meta-review has come to the same conclusion back in 2024. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 26, 2026 at 4:21 PM
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andrewdessler.com
Nice quote from @daviddoniger.bsky.social that sums up my opinion, too.
The agency’s scientific argument for repealing the endangerment finding, released in July, primarily relied on an Energy Department report that was written last spring by a working group of five known climate skeptics. Scientists say the report is riddled with errors, and environmental groups have sued, saying the secretive way the department produced the report violated federal law. The working group has since been disbanded. “Their work was obliterated. The criticism leaves nothing standing,” said David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
January 29, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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andrewdessler.com
Article updates on the repeal of the endangerment finding for CO2. The administration is worried that their case is not strong enough to withstand legal challenges.

Gift link (courtesy of @donboesch.bsky.social): www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump’s biggest climate rollback stalls over fears it will lose in court
Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of the agency’s “endangerment finding” over concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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andrewdessler.com
to clarify, I did not reject the report b/c of their names. I read the report and concluded it was incompetent and biased, and rejected it for that reason.

See this for the receipts: essopenarchive.org/users/260056...
Climate Experts’ Review of the DOE Climate Working Group Report
In response to the Department of Energy's recent climate report, more than 85 scientists came together to submit a detailed rebuttal. Our motivation was simple: the DOE report misrepresents the state ...
essopenarchive.org
January 23, 2026 at 2:18 AM
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bobkopp.net
I look forward to the legally required, transparent peer review process required by the US Global Change Research Act and the Information Quality Act. I always thought they would try to do a NCA with Judith Curry, five old men and a LLM.
It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.
Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net
December 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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charlierichmond.bsky.social
Winter Park Ski Resort Taps Cloud Seeding to Make It Snow Amid Dry Winter - Bloomberg www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Cloud Seeding Programs Are Spreading Across the Western US
As drought becomes a growing concern, states and ski resorts are looking for new ways to make it snow.
www.bloomberg.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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chelseaeharvey.bsky.social
Today from @scottpwaldman.bsky.social, who reveals that the Trump admin has tapped Judith Curry, & potentially other authors of the DOE's recent misinformation-filled climate report, to helm the next NCA. Other authors could include Ryan Maue + Grok. Yup, that Grok. www.eenews.net/articles/its...
It’s the gold standard of US climate research. Contrarians could write the next one.
Researchers who have downplayed the threat of global warming have been asked to author the next National Climate Assessment.
www.eenews.net
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
🧵🧵🧵 I'll be collecting reviews of the "Melania" movie in this thread. 🧵🧵🧵
Variety:
"A Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia"
‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner’s First Lady Documentary Is a Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia
There's no drama to Brett Ratner's cheeseball First Lady documentary, which should have been called "Day of the Living Tradwife."
variety.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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brantman.bsky.social
This is a beautiful lede.
January 31, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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markjacob.bsky.social
🧵🧵🧵 "Melania" reviews 🧵🧵🧵
weisselberger.bsky.social weisselberger @weisselberger.bsky.social · 1d
The Melania film reviews are out!
January 30, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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cecallihelper.bsky.social
Urgent: Contact Republican Senators to ask Trump to Save New START Treaty nuclearactive.org/urgent-conta... NPT TPNW #nuclearban #nonukes #natsec nuclear AI #cybesec Security Risk Policy #law @murray.senate.gov @peters.senate.gov @captmarkkelly.bsky.social @duckworth.senate.gov @pogo.org @hrw.org
January 31, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
This. Beyond a certain threshold, money exists primarily as power. Power to sway markets. Power to set policy. And power to get away with doing whatever the hell you want.
gregpak.net Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d
Years ago, a friend asked me why billionaires want MORE money when they could never spend the tiniest fraction of what they have.

My answer is that they want immunity. The immunity to do literally any horrific they want without consequence.

Nothing I've seen since has changed my mind.
January 31, 2026 at 3:47 PM