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William
@lwwithpride.bsky.social
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He/him. PhD. Progressive politics (centrism has failed), literacy expert, reader, hiker, nature lover, Lord of the Rings, queer fiction, atheist. 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 On Turrbal/Jugerra land - sovereignty was never ceded. Photos: Madrid & Yosemite 💚. Some adult content.
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William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · Dec 1
Growing up in a heteronormative, homophobic time, it took me a long time to realise who I am, even longer to eventually come out. Feeling isolated and different shapes what you believe, your music and reading preferences…and I could go on. That’s why I’m a progressive and feel passionately…1/2
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ketanjoshi.co
JFC. Three gigawatts of fossil-fuelled power for a new Amazon data centre

@beninskeep.bsky.social points out the new gas plant could produce 4x the harmful climate pollution as the coal plant it's replacing 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱

www.utilitydive.com/news/nisourc...
A Northern Indiana Public Service Co. affiliate — called NIPSCO Generation, or GenCo — plans to build up to 3 GW of gas-fired generation and battery storage to serve planned Amazon data centers, the companies said Monday. Combined with electric transmission to be built by NIPSCO, the companies expect to spend about $7 billion. Under the arrangement, GenCo plans to build two 1.3-GW gas-fired power plants and a 400-MW, 4‐hour battery storage system to serve the data centers, according to filings at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission. In comparison, NIPSCO expects its non-data center load in 2028 will be about 2.3 GW. The IURC on Nov. 19 reaffirmed a September decision to approve the GenCo framework, which is designed to ensure that NIPSCO’s existing customers don’t pay for infrastructure needed to serve hyperscalers like Amazon. Under the framework, GenCo will own and operate power plants for large load customers. NIPSCO, a NiSource subsidiary, expects its 15-year deal with Amazon will produce about $1 billion in savings for its ratepayers. Those savings will be reflected as a credit on customers’ electric bills, according to a Nov. 7 filing by NIPSCO and NIPSCO Generation at the IURC. Residential customers will receive roughly $7 in monthly savings, according to the utility. Also, the 2.6-GW of gas-fired generation GenCo plans to build at its coal-fired Schahfer power plant site could produce nearly four times the amount of greenhouse gas emissions that the existing Schahfer coal plant emitted in 2023, according to Inskeep.
November 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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oldtechwriter.com
This is good! This is really good! Read this. Thanks, @dennycarter.bsky.social
badfaithtimes.com/they-banned-...
They Banned Woke And Suzy Still Can’t Read
Far-right school board officials are finding out the hard way that the political pendulum has swung
badfaithtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
"Next time you render your free AI-image in a couple of seconds, will you think of all the work, knowledge and skill that we HUMANS created over hundreds of years that made it possible?"

A medical illustrator had her work stolen by a famous surgeon dudebro ->

www.linkedin.com/posts/amanda...
View Amanda Gautier-Ronopawiro’s graphic link Amanda Gautier-RonopawiroAmanda Gautier-Ronopawiro • 2nd2nd Medical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific IllustrationMedical Illustrator at Gautier Scientific Illustration 1d • Edited • 1 day ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow AI is everywhere. In general, as many other (medical) illustrators I am sure, I have feared it will one day take our jobs. Yesterday, my friend Stephanie E. sent me the image on the right. A surgeon with a large Instagram following (Alexandre Mensier) posted it to teach people about Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome. I am the illustrator of the image on the left, it was part of my dissertation. In order to create this work, I witnessed a (breathtaking) fetoscopic laser surgery in person by the specialists of Fetal Therapy LUMC, Leiden I have spent weeks researching in books as well as in the anatomy lab, speaking to specialists, making sure I would get the anatomy and proportions exactly right. Thinking about color use and how that would affect the viewer of the image. Waiting for feedback, sketching, resketching, and eventually painting every stroke by hand and digitally finishing the illustration. All to get to this carefully crafted illustration. And then someone took it. Asked AI to make an image of it, just so they don’t have to pay an actual artist. No permission or credits needed. This is legal theft and there is not a thing I can do about it. Not only did AI ‘take my job’. It, or rather the person using it, took my actual work, time and effort and stripped it of its very core: accuracy. A surgeon without gloves and a random number of fingers on each hand. Don’t even get me started on the anatomy of the mother or the poor fetus getting a laser through its head. I have felt every emotion seeing this monstrosity of an image. Created in mere seconds, directly from not only my work, but all the specialists involved that put their time and knowledge of years into it… a drawing on the left of a needle being injected into a foetus, and a machine-assisted copy of it the surgeon used
November 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
"The growth of AI has been called the “savior” of the gas industry. In Virginia alone, the data center capital of the world, a new state report found that AI demand could add a new 1.5 gigawatt gas plant every two years for 15 consecutive years"

@ariellesamuel.bsky.social ---->
AI is guzzling gas
Big Tech is paying for gas plants and pipelines to directly power data centers, threatening global climate goals.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“Like so many historical examples of self-preservation sold as a hypocritical message, the Albanese Government is promising to transition away from fossil fuels by expanding the production of fossil gas,” writes Ketan Joshi in The Point.

Read Ketan’s full piece here: thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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rutgerbregman.com
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I agree with this but on the inverse principle that Google is absolutely, 100% flat-out lying through their teeth constantly, and opting in or out of anything won't stop them using everything you give them for whatever the hell they want to use it for

(ie: we aren't anti-tech enough)
awest.uk Andrew West @awest.uk · 5d
The malwarebytes Google opting-your-emails-into-ai-training thing is not true. The post is based on one bad tweet.

I know anti-tech lamenting is a Bluesky core principle, but please use the same judgement you would for any other clickbait.

www.theverge.com/news/826902/...
Google denies ‘misleading’ reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
Google says “we do not use your Gmail content for training our Gemini AI model.”
www.theverge.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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garythoren.bsky.social
And’s a gay man’s perspective ?
And not enough lube would ever make it worthwhile😂😂
Two men posing for a photo, one wearing a black leather jacket and the other in a brown leather jacket. Another person is in the background making a funny face. Text above the image is a humorous comment about the scene.
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
"The entire financial system, including government bonds and mortgages, is premised on the idea that tomorrow will look something like today. In a world that’s 3 degrees warmer, it assuredly will not"

@peterbrannen.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com -->>

www.theatlantic.com/science/2025...
“In the United States, just 3 degrees Celsius of warming conditions in simulations tend to be hotter—when humidity is factored in—than heat waves in North Africa today,” the Purdue climate scientist Matthew Huber wrote in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “These heat waves of the future could devastate US livestock yields, if they don’t kill the animals outright.” Humans, being animals, would also be killed by the heat. One recent study showed that in a 3 degree–warmer world, deaths resulting from a week-long exceptional heat wave, like the one that struck Europe in 2003, would rival peak-COVID mortality rates, killing 32,000 people in Europe.
November 23, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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1t2ls.bsky.social
one of the benefits of reading modern poetry is learning to be ok with the experience of a text washing over you, and not needing to have solid answers to “what does it mean” and “why”.
November 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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lesleyhustler.bsky.social
How have I missed this? So excited, plock plock! @jasperfforde.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
The ALP truly hates progressives and loves nothing more than sucking up to conservatives in the hope they'll be let into the club.
grogsgamut.bsky.social Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 7d
What a brain-dead dumb, completely shite appointment. @tonyburkemp.bsky.social
Appointment to the National Library of Australia Council The Albanese Labor Government has appointed the Hon Christopher Pyne as a member to the National Library of Australia Council for a three-year term.
November 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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shadowdra126.bsky.social
One last season. About four more than I thought I’d ever get. This show while aimed at kids is maybe more interesting and more compelling than all of the Chris Pratt Jurassic movies put together. I’m gonna miss this show.
The poster for Jurassic World Chaos theory season four
November 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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australia.theguardian.com
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
‘Pry open the jaws of Treasury’ to fund CSIRO amid hundreds of job losses, Labor MP Ed Husic tells own party
Husic, who oversaw CSIRO cuts as the former science minister, said some in government see scientific agency funding as a ‘cost’ not an ‘investment’ Ed Husic has challenged his own government to “pry open the jaws of Treasury” to boost funding for Australia’s national scientific agency after it announced up to 350 research jobs would be cut to deal with an imminent budgetary cliff. The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) announced on Wednesday it would look to cut between 300 and 350 research unit roles as part of efforts to narrow its research scope and address an ageing property portfolio in need of urgent modernisation. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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youngteenlit.bsky.social
We have many questions after reading the November 2025 @sljournal issue, which featured 4 middle grade and 2 middle school (in the YA section) reviews.

WHERE ARE THE BOOKS WITH BOY NARRATORS?
❌Two of the six books had male narrators, one being a young Arthur Conan Doyle. (1/4)
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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davemilbo.bsky.social
Your choice is quite literally a bipartisan cabal of pedophilic drone-wielding genocidal oligarchs that suck each other off in depraved games of domination and blackmail, or, socialism and a habitable planet, and you're struggling with that choice?! Dafuq is wrong you?
November 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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michaelmazengarb.bsky.social
That's more than 1,100 jobs lost at the CSIRO over the last two years.

"Combined, the staff association estimates that equates to cutting the agency’s size by a third."

This is more cuts to the CSIRO than was attempted by the Abbott government.

www.smh.com.au/national/csi...
CSIRO to slash hundreds of jobs in cost-saving drive
The staff association at the nation’s leading scientific research organisation says the latest round of cuts marks “a sad day for publicly funded science”.
www.smh.com.au
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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shannonmaebreen.bsky.social
💙💙💙CHARLOTTE IS WOKE💙💙💙
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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forbes.com
Data Centers, Crypto Mining To Push Electricity Costs Higher In 2026
Data Centers, Crypto Mining To Push Electricity Costs Higher In 2026
This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at Tesla’s engineering exodus and helping the electric truck market expand
www.forbes.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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lenoret.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The short answer is no. We’re around the middle of the pack, and a little further down the list after accounting for our relatively high incomes.
Are Australians really paying more for electricity than other countries?
Australia’s electricity prices have gone up a long way over the past decade or so, but global energy trends have also pushed up bills in other countries
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." Malcolm X.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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drrachelclarke.com
"We are not surrounded by cretinous, vicious imbeciles but mostly by careful, thoughtful people who may disagree with us but usually have good reasons for doing so."

Fascinating & wise piece from @naomialderman.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Don’t argue with strangers… and 11 more rules to survive the information crisis
Feeling overwhelmed by divisive opinions, endless rows and unreliable facts? Here’s how to weather the data storm
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the internet. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...
B.C. Attorney General ‘deeply disturbed’ by social media giant’s intimate image case
British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the intern...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 15, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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chrishehim.bsky.social
Disgraceful! The council is now the environmental vandal.
November 15, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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chrishehim.bsky.social
You should always judge people by the company they keep.

The anti-Christ portrait loving billionaire and her puppets.
November 14, 2025 at 10:40 PM