Trivik Verma
@trivikrama.bsky.social
Professor at Loughborough
Occasionally with NatGeo
cities, inequalities, and justice
https://trivikverma.com/
Occasionally with NatGeo
cities, inequalities, and justice
https://trivikverma.com/
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We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University.
Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Professor Joanna Bullard (1969-2025) | Obituary
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Joanna Elizabeth Bullard, Professor of Physical Geography at Loughborough University.
www.rgs.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We will be celebrating Jo Bullard's life on Thursday 4th December, from 2.30pm at Loughborough University.
Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
Please register here if you would like to attend: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
The @rgsibg.bsky.social have published an obituary of Jo:
www.rgs.org/about-us/our...
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More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
More people need to read "Why does he do that?" because a great deal of people are bullied and we don't turn into abusers. The narrative these people are victims is perverse to the goal of stopping abuse because it's not only false but contributes the cycle.
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
dn790007.ca.archive.org/0/items/Lund...
AI is as likely to take over the world as your toaster
Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
https://restofworld.org/2025/data-centers-jobs-microsoft-google-chile/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1763146621
November 15, 2025 at 12:11 PM
AI is as likely to take over the world as your toaster
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nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
An Amazon-backed AI model tried to blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down, a safety report revealed
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence
Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline
In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.
www.huffpost.com
May 24, 2025 at 8:12 PM
nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.
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Sometimes during COP, we forget there is a real world out there. News from Groningen about a 3.4 magnitude earthquake. It's where Exxon and Shell extracted gas irresponsibly for decades and have now filed a case against the Dutch government for closing the gas field
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.reuters.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Sometimes during COP, we forget there is a real world out there. News from Groningen about a 3.4 magnitude earthquake. It's where Exxon and Shell extracted gas irresponsibly for decades and have now filed a case against the Dutch government for closing the gas field
www.reuters.com/business/env...
www.reuters.com/business/env...
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A new global fund meant to reward tropical countries for protecting forests may instead drive deforestation and deepen debt in the developing world, civil society groups warn.
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) aims to pay countries up to $4/hectare ($1.62/acre) of standing forest yearly.
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) aims to pay countries up to $4/hectare ($1.62/acre) of standing forest yearly.
COP30 tropical forest fund may drive debt and deforestation, groups warn
A new global fund meant to reward tropical countries for protecting forests could instead drive deforestation and deepen debt in the developing world, civil society groups warn. The Tropical Forests…
news.mongabay.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A new global fund meant to reward tropical countries for protecting forests may instead drive deforestation and deepen debt in the developing world, civil society groups warn.
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) aims to pay countries up to $4/hectare ($1.62/acre) of standing forest yearly.
The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) aims to pay countries up to $4/hectare ($1.62/acre) of standing forest yearly.
Chancellor of the UK does not understand how inequality operates.
"Some people say, gosh, what a terrible time to become Chancellor."
Rachel Reeves lays out the trade-offs she faces — and the choices that define her economic plan.
Rachel Reeves lays out the trade-offs she faces — and the choices that define her economic plan.
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Chancellor of the UK does not understand how inequality operates.
Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning standing up for trans people.
It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!
It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!
November 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
November 5, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."
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Best poster I've ever seen -- check how the shape reflects the contents! (By Anastasia Vybornova & @trivikrama.bsky.social) #ODISSEI2025
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Best poster I've ever seen -- check how the shape reflects the contents! (By Anastasia Vybornova & @trivikrama.bsky.social) #ODISSEI2025
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We are recruiting at Loughborough University: Join us as Lecturer, SL, Reader or Professor in one of three strategic areas:
⚙️ Digital engineering and transformation
🔋 Renewable energy, hydrogen research, and infrastructure
♻️ Sustainability and circular economy
www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...
⚙️ Digital engineering and transformation
🔋 Renewable energy, hydrogen research, and infrastructure
♻️ Sustainability and circular economy
www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...
Join your team. Bring your team. Build your team.
Loughborough University is seeking top research talent from around the world to build, join and shape the teams facing down the most pressing challenges of our time.
www.lboro.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
We are recruiting at Loughborough University: Join us as Lecturer, SL, Reader or Professor in one of three strategic areas:
⚙️ Digital engineering and transformation
🔋 Renewable energy, hydrogen research, and infrastructure
♻️ Sustainability and circular economy
www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...
⚙️ Digital engineering and transformation
🔋 Renewable energy, hydrogen research, and infrastructure
♻️ Sustainability and circular economy
www.lboro.ac.uk/join-us/acad...
Love this: Epic Grifter Nigel Farage.
October 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Love this: Epic Grifter Nigel Farage.
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The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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October 26, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Trump Action Tracker has an update!
Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions.
www.trumpactiontracker.info?
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There is literally not one person who can exist in modern society without using the big tech platforms daily, at least indirectly. That doesn’t mean it’s futile to try to reduce dependency or investment, but I also am not judging anyone harshly for that, least of all those who are most vulnerable.
Before I go to bed, unfriendly reminder that boycotting Amazon and other services is just *not feasible* for some people. Income, disability, access to other services, lack of transportation, delivery fees, etc.
It doesn't mean they're "complicit". It means they're a victim of capitalism too.
It doesn't mean they're "complicit". It means they're a victim of capitalism too.
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
There is literally not one person who can exist in modern society without using the big tech platforms daily, at least indirectly. That doesn’t mean it’s futile to try to reduce dependency or investment, but I also am not judging anyone harshly for that, least of all those who are most vulnerable.
Labour repeatedly abuses the electorate and expects them not to turn to other means or bad influence.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Local election wipeout would see off Starmer, MPs say after Caerphilly rout
Crushing defeat in Welsh byelection triggers renewed outpouring of anger and concern within Labour
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Labour repeatedly abuses the electorate and expects them not to turn to other means or bad influence.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This is a literal nightmare.
As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.
As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.
Major scoop from @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social:
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Stardust Solutions, the Israeli geoengineering startup led by a team of Israeli physicists, just raised $60 million to develop the technology to artificially cool the planet by reflecting sunlight as soon as the 2030s.
heatmap.news/climate-tech...
Exclusive: Stardust Solutions Raises $60 Million to Build a Solar Geoengineering System by 2030
A U.S. firm led by former Israeli government physicists, Stardust seeks to patent its proprietary sunlight-scattering particle — but it won’t deploy its technology until global governments authorize s...
heatmap.news
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
This is a literal nightmare.
As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.
As a global civilization, we haven't even begun slowing the rise in greenhouse gases yet. Starting a *privatized* geoengineering project at this point in history will make the global climate crisis even worse.
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deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
October 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
deeply wild clip of a fossil fuel economist on norway's state broadcaster claiming
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
- 3 degrees of warming is a "problem we can live with"
- Extreme weather is not a threat to human welfare
- We need to dig up Norwegian oil and gas to help 'poor Africans in huts' get rid of polluting cooking fuels
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I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything
This whole debate has become absurd. Obviously forced deportation of settled residents is deeply unjust and completely unnecessary. But the idea promoted on this site that one cannot even discuss reducing immigration lest it helps fascists is irrational and counterproductive. /1
I sat in the British Library reading League of Empire Loyalists, BNP & National Front literature for my book and even they claimed to promote *voluntary* repatriation. Forcible deportation was always the ghost behind those ideas, but it’s amazing that UK politicians don’t even bother to hide it.
October 23, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I mean this isn’t what I’m saying. I don’t think we should even discuss reducing migration because a) I think migration is a good thing and b) nobody has ever been able to show me evidence that reducing it would have a positive effect on anything
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Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales.
Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
The AI Circular Economy
Big tech companies and wealthy investors are driving an AI bubble - but they won't be the ones feeling the pain when it bursts.
graceblakeley.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales.
Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-cir...
This is HUGE
A court has ruled that TotalEnergies has misled consumers by presenting itself as a “major player in the energy transition”.
It is the first judgement in the world ruling an Oil & Gas major has misled the public by greenwashing its image.
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
A court has ruled that TotalEnergies has misled consumers by presenting itself as a “major player in the energy transition”.
It is the first judgement in the world ruling an Oil & Gas major has misled the public by greenwashing its image.
www.clientearth.org/latest/press...
Historic win against greenwashing as Court rules TotalEnergies misled consumers on net zero
View the press release
www.clientearth.org
October 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This is very cool as a visual and also yes I agree that a whole lot of people have not/do not want to realise this. It will reduce traffic to the busiest area, thereby reducing traffic in the ‘thru’ zones, without reducing access TO the ‘thru’ zones
I made an infographic map. Oxford's Congestion Charge scheme (from 29th Oct) is not like most congestion charge schemes, because you can get to most streets in the city without being charged. My impression is a lot of people haven't realised this.
October 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
This is very cool as a visual and also yes I agree that a whole lot of people have not/do not want to realise this. It will reduce traffic to the busiest area, thereby reducing traffic in the ‘thru’ zones, without reducing access TO the ‘thru’ zones
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Privatised water companies awarded themselves £80 billion in dividends while loading themselves up with £70 billion in debt. And now it's your problem, because they've won an appeal to finance all this by hiking YOUR bill even further. Nationalise now.
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Privatised water companies awarded themselves £80 billion in dividends while loading themselves up with £70 billion in debt. And now it's your problem, because they've won an appeal to finance all this by hiking YOUR bill even further. Nationalise now.
How can London afford such investment in people but the rest of the country relies on trains from the 1950s? 🧐
The DLR just got better.
54 brand new, state-of-the-art trains are rolling out over the next year - with more space, air con, phone charging points and improved accessibility.
54 brand new, state-of-the-art trains are rolling out over the next year - with more space, air con, phone charging points and improved accessibility.
October 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
How can London afford such investment in people but the rest of the country relies on trains from the 1950s? 🧐
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«By refusing to account for qualitative breaks [ie tipping points] in the climate, the IAMs protected capital from a burst of destruction and thereby increased the likelihood of such breaks - a loop between ideas and material reality if ever there was one.»
The Long Heat, Malm&Carton.
The Long Heat, Malm&Carton.
October 8, 2025 at 8:22 AM
«By refusing to account for qualitative breaks [ie tipping points] in the climate, the IAMs protected capital from a burst of destruction and thereby increased the likelihood of such breaks - a loop between ideas and material reality if ever there was one.»
The Long Heat, Malm&Carton.
The Long Heat, Malm&Carton.
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