Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley.bsky.social
Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises.
Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
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The Secret Lies of AI
I recently listened to an excellent podcast from the team at QAA, investigating a phenomenon that is both at once very new and extremely…
medium.com
With Forbes warning the Gen AI bubble bursting will wipe $40 trillion off global markets, I wrote about the foundational lies the industry tells about the usefulness, durability, accuracy and - yes - intelligence of its products
All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
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All of which are weapons-grade horseshit
medium.com/@patchgaley/...
Like, these people are private shareholders. They profit when Booz Allen profits, and every 50 cents on the dollar that ends up in their pockets comes from the US taxpayer
I wonder why we put up with this
I wonder why we put up with this
November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Like, these people are private shareholders. They profit when Booz Allen profits, and every 50 cents on the dollar that ends up in their pockets comes from the US taxpayer
I wonder why we put up with this
I wonder why we put up with this
Reposted by Patrick Galey
America, every nook and cranny, is essentially a scam.
Hi. Booz Allen (they of murder tanks and those idiot robot dogs, not to mention the $300m ballroom) gets all of its money from US taxpayers and spins half of it into profit and I’m asking again how capitalism rewards those who hustle on.ft.com/48draMb
November 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
America, every nook and cranny, is essentially a scam.
Hi. Booz Allen (they of murder tanks and those idiot robot dogs, not to mention the $300m ballroom) gets all of its money from US taxpayers and spins half of it into profit and I’m asking again how capitalism rewards those who hustle on.ft.com/48draMb
November 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Hi. Booz Allen (they of murder tanks and those idiot robot dogs, not to mention the $300m ballroom) gets all of its money from US taxpayers and spins half of it into profit and I’m asking again how capitalism rewards those who hustle on.ft.com/48draMb
Put another way:
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said
November 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Put another way:
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
Neoliberalism isn’t the thing to fight fascism and it never was.
(It’s Socialism, btw)
I see the world’s most advanced AIs score zeros on any ARC-AGI intelligence test (the type the LLM hasn’t already learned the answers for) and I am certainly not thinking:
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
Renewed drive for autonomous cars as tech giants muscle in
Legacy manufacturers seek to keep pace with advances in self-driving technology as the next competitive front
on.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I see the world’s most advanced AIs score zeros on any ARC-AGI intelligence test (the type the LLM hasn’t already learned the answers for) and I am certainly not thinking:
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
I sure trust these things with several tonnes of metal travelling at high speeds
on.ft.com/3Lkh04n
Not all of the UK's woes link back to Brexit, but *all of our exceptional economic woes* do
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
Headline from a serious and long working paper on the economic impact of Brexit. Possible that this has been feeding into OBR and HMT discussions?
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Not all of the UK's woes link back to Brexit, but *all of our exceptional economic woes* do
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
It's time politicians stopped ignoring the elephant in the room (and use Farage's larcenous support of it as a way of reining Reform's neck in)
Is this not also a colossal self-own from the Tories, defining things like "accurate reporting public figures' words" and "death tolls from a genocide" as implicitly left wing
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Is this not also a colossal self-own from the Tories, defining things like "accurate reporting public figures' words" and "death tolls from a genocide" as implicitly left wing
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
In so doing they are equating fake news, bias, imbalance and agenda-led coverage as defining right wing sensibilities
I am struggling with this, because... Trump did call for an insurrection? The fact that he did this in a rambling, unhinged way doesn't make his words unsaid.
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
BBC resignations are result of internal ‘coup’, says former Sun editor
David Yelland says Tim Davie and Deborah Turness were undermined by people close to BBC board
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I am struggling with this, because... Trump did call for an insurrection? The fact that he did this in a rambling, unhinged way doesn't make his words unsaid.
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
We are at a point when reporting populists' own words is too hurtful for their supporters.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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The remaining democracies (a shrinking and threatened group) should band together, creating a 'values aligned common market'. It should rank everyone (including its members) by human rights compliance and give preferred market access on that basis.
I Used Chat-GPT to Write a Better Tariff Policy than Trump’s.
www.writeinstone.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The remaining democracies (a shrinking and threatened group) should band together, creating a 'values aligned common market'. It should rank everyone (including its members) by human rights compliance and give preferred market access on that basis.
Hi British patriots.
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK vice-chair in Epping shares stage with member of neo-Nazi group
EXCLUSIVE Footage obtained by Stand Up to Racism can exclusively reveal that Orla Minihane, vice-chair of Epping Forest Reform UK and Reform UK election
standuptoracism.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Hi British patriots.
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
If you support Reform, you don’t get to wear a poppy or say “lest we forget” today.
Because, clearly, you forgot. You forgot our grandfathers chased people like you back to Berlin
standuptoracism.org.uk/exclusive-re...
And yeah, he’s trying to frame western solidarity with Palestine as selective or performative - had he ever been to a protest he’d have seen the Sudan flags only slightly less numerous than the Palestinian ones
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
I agree with @barneyronay.bsky.social we should boycott Man City for their owners’ complicity in the genocide in Sudan
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:59 AM
And yeah, he’s trying to frame western solidarity with Palestine as selective or performative - had he ever been to a protest he’d have seen the Sudan flags only slightly less numerous than the Palestinian ones
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
But it’s easier to sneer from the sidelines
(Also MTA fans are violent hooligans)
I agree with @barneyronay.bsky.social we should boycott Man City for their owners’ complicity in the genocide in Sudan
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?
Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I agree with @barneyronay.bsky.social we should boycott Man City for their owners’ complicity in the genocide in Sudan
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Just as we should boycott Israel for its genocide in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
*Sighs deeply*
A 1% on earnings above £500k would generate £35bn a year for the treasury.
And if these rich threaten “well we will just leave, then”… good. Because they will then need to sell their assets
Why are we scratching round the edges for pennies?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A 1% on earnings above £500k would generate £35bn a year for the treasury.
And if these rich threaten “well we will just leave, then”… good. Because they will then need to sell their assets
Why are we scratching round the edges for pennies?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told
Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
*Sighs deeply*
A 1% on earnings above £500k would generate £35bn a year for the treasury.
And if these rich threaten “well we will just leave, then”… good. Because they will then need to sell their assets
Why are we scratching round the edges for pennies?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A 1% on earnings above £500k would generate £35bn a year for the treasury.
And if these rich threaten “well we will just leave, then”… good. Because they will then need to sell their assets
Why are we scratching round the edges for pennies?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Hey, so. These slop machines are made in the image of their makers, right?
We can agree that they are taught to prioritise what their patrons prioritise?
Musk. Zuckerberg. Altman.
Are we surprised this is what products of the Epstein class really want?
eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
We can agree that they are taught to prioritise what their patrons prioritise?
Musk. Zuckerberg. Altman.
Are we surprised this is what products of the Epstein class really want?
eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
Her 12-year-old son was talking to Grok. It tried to get him to 'send nudes.'
Farah Nasser was driving home in her Tesla with three young children when a conversation with Grok's AI assistant took an inappropriate turn.
eu.usatoday.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Hey, so. These slop machines are made in the image of their makers, right?
We can agree that they are taught to prioritise what their patrons prioritise?
Musk. Zuckerberg. Altman.
Are we surprised this is what products of the Epstein class really want?
eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
We can agree that they are taught to prioritise what their patrons prioritise?
Musk. Zuckerberg. Altman.
Are we surprised this is what products of the Epstein class really want?
eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
Reposted by Patrick Galey
Something is #rotten in Europe...
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
Gabriele Nunziati was fired for asking if Israel should pay for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
Italy: IFJ-EFJ call for the reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati
Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati, Brussels correspondent for the Agenzia Nova news agency, was told his collaboration with the agency was stopped ...
europeanjournalists.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Something is #rotten in Europe...
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
#Journalist is fired just for asking a relevant question?!
#genocide #WarCrimes #Gaza
What happens when a journalist gets fired isn't confined to news sites.
It undermines our ability to identify truth and use it to enact basic social safeguards. It erodes society's ability to check messaging against reality.
It is a fundamental backsliding in social agency.
It undermines our ability to identify truth and use it to enact basic social safeguards. It erodes society's ability to check messaging against reality.
It is a fundamental backsliding in social agency.
Gabriele Nunziati was fired for asking if Israel should pay for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
Italy: IFJ-EFJ call for the reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati
Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati, Brussels correspondent for the Agenzia Nova news agency, was told his collaboration with the agency was stopped ...
europeanjournalists.org
November 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
What happens when a journalist gets fired isn't confined to news sites.
It undermines our ability to identify truth and use it to enact basic social safeguards. It erodes society's ability to check messaging against reality.
It is a fundamental backsliding in social agency.
It undermines our ability to identify truth and use it to enact basic social safeguards. It erodes society's ability to check messaging against reality.
It is a fundamental backsliding in social agency.
Gabriele Nunziati was fired for asking if Israel should pay for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
Italy: IFJ-EFJ call for the reinstatement of sacked journalist Gabriele Nunziati
Italian journalist Gabriele Nunziati, Brussels correspondent for the Agenzia Nova news agency, was told his collaboration with the agency was stopped ...
europeanjournalists.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Gabriele Nunziati was fired for asking if Israel should pay for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
This isn’t even a controversial question; it was framed as a test of the EU’s moral equivalence
This is appalling and cowardly and why we need a boycott
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2025/11...
Boycott Tesla. Boycott X.
This is nothing more than wealth transfer, level of which one man should never approach, and no sane or responsible shareholder would ever sanction
When this bubble bursts, it won’t be him or his fluffers who pay
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is nothing more than wealth transfer, level of which one man should never approach, and no sane or responsible shareholder would ever sanction
When this bubble bursts, it won’t be him or his fluffers who pay
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Tesla shareholders approve $1tn pay package for Elon Musk
Chants of ‘Elon’ erupt after compensation plan approved despite opposition from several high-profile investors
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Boycott Tesla. Boycott X.
This is nothing more than wealth transfer, level of which one man should never approach, and no sane or responsible shareholder would ever sanction
When this bubble bursts, it won’t be him or his fluffers who pay
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is nothing more than wealth transfer, level of which one man should never approach, and no sane or responsible shareholder would ever sanction
When this bubble bursts, it won’t be him or his fluffers who pay
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Facilitate one genocide, shame on you.
Facilitate 2 within 18 months?
Your name is going down in history
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
@labourlewis.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Facilitate 2 within 18 months?
Your name is going down in history
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
@labourlewis.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
UK rejected atrocity prevention plans for Sudan despite warning of possible genocide
Exclusive: British government adopted ‘least ambitious’ option months before RSF’s massacres in El Fasher
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Facilitate one genocide, shame on you.
Facilitate 2 within 18 months?
Your name is going down in history
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
@labourlewis.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Facilitate 2 within 18 months?
Your name is going down in history
@yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social
@darrenpjones.bsky.social
@labourlewis.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
The history of humankind will contain a chapter wherein a small group of white men from colonising nations known as “shareholders” sacrificed civilisation’s future for some stock buybacks and a company car
And it won’t judge those who profited. It will judge those who allowed this
And it won’t judge those who profited. It will judge those who allowed this
MADNESS.
Greenhouse gas emissions rose 4X faster last year (+2.3%) than the average over the last 15 years
We are 10 years on from Paris. Not only are we not slowing climate breakdown, we are actively pressing ever harder on the accelerator www.unep.org/resources/em...
Greenhouse gas emissions rose 4X faster last year (+2.3%) than the average over the last 15 years
We are 10 years on from Paris. Not only are we not slowing climate breakdown, we are actively pressing ever harder on the accelerator www.unep.org/resources/em...
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The history of humankind will contain a chapter wherein a small group of white men from colonising nations known as “shareholders” sacrificed civilisation’s future for some stock buybacks and a company car
And it won’t judge those who profited. It will judge those who allowed this
And it won’t judge those who profited. It will judge those who allowed this
Reposted by Patrick Galey
NO COUNTRY PLANS TO REDUCE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS.
AUSTRALIA INCLUDED @davemilbo.bsky.social
AUSTRALIA INCLUDED @davemilbo.bsky.social
I am sorry WTAF are we doing and why are we allowing them to do it???
NO COUNTRY PLANS TO REDUCE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS
NO COUNTRY PLANS TO REDUCE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS
November 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
NO COUNTRY PLANS TO REDUCE OIL AND GAS PRODUCTION ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS.
AUSTRALIA INCLUDED @davemilbo.bsky.social
AUSTRALIA INCLUDED @davemilbo.bsky.social
Why are defence and surveillance contractors Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin and Palantir donating to Trump's ballroom?
Because he's not building a ballroom. He's building a bunker. fortune.com/2025/10/26/3...
Because he's not building a ballroom. He's building a bunker. fortune.com/2025/10/26/3...
November 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Why are defence and surveillance contractors Booz Allen, Lockheed Martin and Palantir donating to Trump's ballroom?
Because he's not building a ballroom. He's building a bunker. fortune.com/2025/10/26/3...
Because he's not building a ballroom. He's building a bunker. fortune.com/2025/10/26/3...
Reposted by Patrick Galey
Can’t phrase it better.
Nvidia, especially, is in for a fall — what happens when the bottom falls out and GPU demand doesn’t just momentarily dry up, but there’s a glut of GPUs on the market meaning a longer term fall off in demand?
Nothing good, that’s for sure.
Nvidia, especially, is in for a fall — what happens when the bottom falls out and GPU demand doesn’t just momentarily dry up, but there’s a glut of GPUs on the market meaning a longer term fall off in demand?
Nothing good, that’s for sure.
Wait.
So a company that needs another company to blast light at superheated liquid tin 50,000x a second, in a vacuum, which itself relies on the one company on Earth that makes the machine to do that, in order to make its product... isn't worth $5tn??
Shocked.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
So a company that needs another company to blast light at superheated liquid tin 50,000x a second, in a vacuum, which itself relies on the one company on Earth that makes the machine to do that, in order to make its product... isn't worth $5tn??
Shocked.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Global stock markets fall sharply over AI bubble fears
Drop in US, Asia and Europe follows warning from bank bosses that market correction could lie ahead
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Can’t phrase it better.
Nvidia, especially, is in for a fall — what happens when the bottom falls out and GPU demand doesn’t just momentarily dry up, but there’s a glut of GPUs on the market meaning a longer term fall off in demand?
Nothing good, that’s for sure.
Nvidia, especially, is in for a fall — what happens when the bottom falls out and GPU demand doesn’t just momentarily dry up, but there’s a glut of GPUs on the market meaning a longer term fall off in demand?
Nothing good, that’s for sure.
I'm not making this up www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...
November 6, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I'm not making this up www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9C...