Ketan Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
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Big grid batteries are killing gas on Australia's power grid
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Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾
Read:
1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
Watch ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...
Two fun and goodnewsy pieces for @thepointau.bsky.social - grid-scale batteries are just over-performing when it comes to pushing fossil gas out of the grid 🥂🍾
Read:
1-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
2-> thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
Watch ->
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FWq...
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White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.
Read more:
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A “Who’s Who” of Global Far Right Extremists Gathered to Share Plans for Whites-Only Communities
White supremacists from the U.S., Europe, South Africa, and Australia gathered in February to openly strategize about building whites-only communities and deporting millions. Hosted by Arkansas-based ...
globalextremism.org
February 13, 2026 at 6:17 PM
White supremacists from around the world met in February to plan whites-only enclaves, expand recruitment, and advance mass “remigration.” Hosted by Arkansas-based Return to the Land, the summit convened neo-Nazi leaders invoking the “Great Replacement” and coordinating across borders.
Read more:
Read more:
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I fucking told you so in the very beginning and got brutal replies. Who's making fun of me now?
"Sure, Lee Oldham told me, he had spread radioactive fracking waste on Texas farmland. But in his defense, he never in a million years thought anyone would put a school there."
The oil industry's radioactive secret is getting more attention but the damage has been done.
The oil industry's radioactive secret is getting more attention but the damage has been done.
Whistleblower Says Radioactive Fracking Waste Site Melted His Jaw. Now There’s an Elementary School There.
Then an elementary school was built on top of it.
thebarbedwire.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM
I fucking told you so in the very beginning and got brutal replies. Who's making fun of me now?
I think we can guess where those supercomputers are going
A leading American research lab is slated to lose its critical supercomputing facility, according to a letter released by the National Science Foundation.https://cnn.it/3MoF7zU
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
I think we can guess where those supercomputers are going
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Another story where you realise that absolutely no one has any idea how to deal with all the AI papers being cranked out.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How AI slop is causing a crisis in computer science
Preprint repositories and conference organizers are having to counter a tide of ‘AI slop’ submissions.
www.nature.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Another story where you realise that absolutely no one has any idea how to deal with all the AI papers being cranked out.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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New analysis: 0.25% of 2025 Bluesky posts contained citations to research...while only 0.000006% of X/Twitter posts did.
In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky
In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky
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The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app
Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web.
We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.
The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app
Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web.
We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
New analysis: 0.25% of 2025 Bluesky posts contained citations to research...while only 0.000006% of X/Twitter posts did.
In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky
In raw numbers, X still has 2x the research-based posts that Bluesky does (though they are harder to find): but it took Twitter 10 years to get there vs just 2 years for Bluesky
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Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
"We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend"
May I reccomend watching Scavenger's Reign (2023), I struggle to think of a show that fits that bill better (and is better than the best Star Trek by a mile)
May I reccomend watching Scavenger's Reign (2023), I struggle to think of a show that fits that bill better (and is better than the best Star Trek by a mile)
February 14, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend"
May I reccomend watching Scavenger's Reign (2023), I struggle to think of a show that fits that bill better (and is better than the best Star Trek by a mile)
May I reccomend watching Scavenger's Reign (2023), I struggle to think of a show that fits that bill better (and is better than the best Star Trek by a mile)
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Why do the fascists want to keep you hooked on fossil fuels? Because it keeps them in power. If you don't need their fossil fuels, they lose a lot of that power. True for Putin, Trump and the Princes.
The smartest national security move now is to switch to renewables and electric transportation.
The smartest national security move now is to switch to renewables and electric transportation.
Cubans turn to electric vehicles as US tightens oil blockade
HAVANA, Feb 13 () - The rumble of 1959 Chevrolets, once the rhythmic heartbeat of Havana, is fading to the near silence of electric vehicles as the island faces its worst fuel shortage in years. For...
finance.yahoo.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Why do the fascists want to keep you hooked on fossil fuels? Because it keeps them in power. If you don't need their fossil fuels, they lose a lot of that power. True for Putin, Trump and the Princes.
The smartest national security move now is to switch to renewables and electric transportation.
The smartest national security move now is to switch to renewables and electric transportation.
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He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a calm and reassuring message to America's allies in Munich, after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often-hostile rhetoric toward allies. n.pr/4qHYOAJ
Rubio reassures trans-Atlantic ties with Europe at Munich Security Conference
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a calm and reassuring message to America's allies in Munich, after more than a year of President Donald Trump's often-hostile rhetoric toward allies.
n.pr
February 14, 2026 at 11:14 AM
He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.
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“we report on the results of a survey distributed to scientists on Twitter and Bluesky (n = 813). Results overwhelmingly confirm that changes to Twitter have made the social media platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, and that many scientists have abandoned it in favor of Bluesky”
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:41 AM
“we report on the results of a survey distributed to scientists on Twitter and Bluesky (n = 813). Results overwhelmingly confirm that changes to Twitter have made the social media platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, and that many scientists have abandoned it in favor of Bluesky”
Another v v good piece of analysis from @onlyfacts.io here - showing how the shift to uts and SUVs in Australia is a major component of rising transport emissions
Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus
onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...
Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus
onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Another v v good piece of analysis from @onlyfacts.io here - showing how the shift to uts and SUVs in Australia is a major component of rising transport emissions
Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus
onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...
Remarkable how unassailable this deadly trend is, in Aus
onlyfacts.io/newsletters/...
Australia's household battery boom suffers from the same walled-garden ecosystem lock-in that's been enshittifying tech across so many different areas
Imagine what's going to happen when Tesla collapses under the weight of its own racism and bigotry, for instance......
Imagine what's going to happen when Tesla collapses under the weight of its own racism and bigotry, for instance......
Australia’s home battery boom risks locking households into closed ecosystems
Many households only realise after installation they’ve bought a battery system that is locked to a single manufacturer’s software.
reneweconomy.com.au
February 14, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Australia's household battery boom suffers from the same walled-garden ecosystem lock-in that's been enshittifying tech across so many different areas
Imagine what's going to happen when Tesla collapses under the weight of its own racism and bigotry, for instance......
Imagine what's going to happen when Tesla collapses under the weight of its own racism and bigotry, for instance......
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i often think about this review
February 14, 2026 at 3:13 AM
i often think about this review
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Remember that Anthropic is the "ethical" AI company.
"the amount of compute the industry is building this year is probably, call it, 10-15 gigawatts. It goes up by roughly 3x a year. So next year’s 30-40 gigawatts. 2028 might be 100 gigawatts. 2029 might be like 300 gigawatts" #energysky
"the amount of compute the industry is building this year is probably, call it, 10-15 gigawatts. It goes up by roughly 3x a year. So next year’s 30-40 gigawatts. 2028 might be 100 gigawatts. 2029 might be like 300 gigawatts" #energysky
Dario Amodei — "We are near the end of the exponential"
"That's why I'm sending this message of urgency"
www.dwarkesh.com
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Remember that Anthropic is the "ethical" AI company.
"the amount of compute the industry is building this year is probably, call it, 10-15 gigawatts. It goes up by roughly 3x a year. So next year’s 30-40 gigawatts. 2028 might be 100 gigawatts. 2029 might be like 300 gigawatts" #energysky
"the amount of compute the industry is building this year is probably, call it, 10-15 gigawatts. It goes up by roughly 3x a year. So next year’s 30-40 gigawatts. 2028 might be 100 gigawatts. 2029 might be like 300 gigawatts" #energysky
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Southaven, Miss., is a diverse suburb of Memphis with higher than average levels of air pollution, was selected by XAI because the state will do nothing to protect the community. This would be one of the largest fossil power plants in MI & one of the largest data center complexes in the world.
New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Southaven, Miss., is a diverse suburb of Memphis with higher than average levels of air pollution, was selected by XAI because the state will do nothing to protect the community. This would be one of the largest fossil power plants in MI & one of the largest data center complexes in the world.
I'm genuinely curious: is there any organisation in Aus doing this same tracking against targets for the country's 2030 goals, besides the annual report from the climate change authority?
bsky.app/profile/clim...
bsky.app/profile/clim...
Canadian Climate Institute (@climateinstitute.bsky.social)
Canada’s path to its climate goals is getting steeper: our latest modelling shows the country is now further from its targets. Read more ⬇️…
bsky.app
February 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I'm genuinely curious: is there any organisation in Aus doing this same tracking against targets for the country's 2030 goals, besides the annual report from the climate change authority?
bsky.app/profile/clim...
bsky.app/profile/clim...
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As an air pollution guy this is straight up false. EPA called them "stationary sources" and you cannot operate one without a permit. It couldn't be more simple
February 13, 2026 at 9:39 PM
As an air pollution guy this is straight up false. EPA called them "stationary sources" and you cannot operate one without a permit. It couldn't be more simple
New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
February 13, 2026 at 8:53 PM
New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...
My grand theory here: Anthropic, Microsoft and Trump are running what superficially seems like a social responsibility line because it creates permission space for a *massive* build-out of off-grid fossil gas: a shadow fleet of ultra-polluting petrotech.
Anthropic suggest a TARGET for building gas
Anthropic suggest a TARGET for building gas
February 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
My grand theory here: Anthropic, Microsoft and Trump are running what superficially seems like a social responsibility line because it creates permission space for a *massive* build-out of off-grid fossil gas: a shadow fleet of ultra-polluting petrotech.
Anthropic suggest a TARGET for building gas
Anthropic suggest a TARGET for building gas
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they definitely looks like 'we have evs at home' evs
The Vector and Borealis are Canada’s way of saying: “We have EVs at home.”
insideevs.com/news/787202/...
insideevs.com/news/787202/...
Canada Just Unveiled Its Boldest EVs Yet
The Vector and Borealis are Canada’s way of saying: “We have EVs at home.” Here's what they look like.
insideevs.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
they definitely looks like 'we have evs at home' evs
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“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis
Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
Prominent climate scientist argues it's time to ditch the 'myth of neutrality' | CBC Radio
Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe talks to Bob McDonald about the polarization of science and why she thinks scientists should stop pretending to be neutral when it's our planet at risk.
www.cbc.ca
February 10, 2026 at 4:25 AM
“Scientists should stop trying to be neutral and instead embrace their values,”says a group of top climate scientists, including @katharinehayhoe.com. The neutrality myth is harming the reputation of science right when we need it most.” #ClimateCrisis
Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
Science isn’t neutral. It’s science.
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In 2023, the EU’s coal mining operations made up 60% of EU energy sector methane emissions.
With the proper abatement mechanisms, the EU Methane Regulation can help decrease coal mine methane emissions 62% by 2030.
ember-energy.org/lat...
With the proper abatement mechanisms, the EU Methane Regulation can help decrease coal mine methane emissions 62% by 2030.
ember-energy.org/lat...
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 PM
In 2023, the EU’s coal mining operations made up 60% of EU energy sector methane emissions.
With the proper abatement mechanisms, the EU Methane Regulation can help decrease coal mine methane emissions 62% by 2030.
ember-energy.org/lat...
With the proper abatement mechanisms, the EU Methane Regulation can help decrease coal mine methane emissions 62% by 2030.
ember-energy.org/lat...
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Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
This whole series is so great 😎
Our third and last part of the Reframing Impact: AI Summit 2026 series is out now!
ICYMI, we’re tackling some of the buzziest buzzwords before world leaders and tech execs flock to Delhi for the AI Impact Summit 2026. ⬇️
ICYMI, we’re tackling some of the buzziest buzzwords before world leaders and tech execs flock to Delhi for the AI Impact Summit 2026. ⬇️
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
This whole series is so great 😎