sujato
@sujato.bsky.social
Buddhist mendicant.
Pali translations: https://suttacentral.net
Forum: https://discourse.suttacentral.net
Recorded talks: https://lokanta.live
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io
Writings: https://sujato.me
🚫 AI
Pali translations: https://suttacentral.net
Forum: https://discourse.suttacentral.net
Recorded talks: https://lokanta.live
Events: The Monastery at the End of the World https://lokanta.github.io
Writings: https://sujato.me
🚫 AI
Proposal to “clear 50,000 ha” of “critical habitat” impacting “water resources in arid region”; not for “communities experiencing energy poverty and injustice” but for “sustainable” “green industry” AKA “hyperscale” AI data center.
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
‘Gobsmacking’ solar farm that could power AI data centres ‘possibly unparalleled’ in Australia or world
SunCable says massive energy project proposed in NT could position Australia as global leader, but critics are concerned about scale
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Proposal to “clear 50,000 ha” of “critical habitat” impacting “water resources in arid region”; not for “communities experiencing energy poverty and injustice” but for “sustainable” “green industry” AKA “hyperscale” AI data center.
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
Alternatively, don’t.
#banai #butlerianjihad
The extreme right are just nazis and we should stop pretending otherwise. Use the word for the thing.
‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school
A former friend and others who were at Dulwich college with the now Reform UK leader speak of his behaviour
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
The extreme right are just nazis and we should stop pretending otherwise. Use the word for the thing.
I am begging people to understand that claims about reduced emissions are routinely based on dodgy accounting like this.
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’
Report commissioned by conservationists suggests some recorded new growth is misclassified or otherwise not equivalent to losses in species-heavy forests
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I am begging people to understand that claims about reduced emissions are routinely based on dodgy accounting like this.
His every word is a debasement. Don't use his language, not as a joke, not ironically, not to turn it around.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
His every word is a debasement. Don't use his language, not as a joke, not ironically, not to turn it around.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
Use the correct word for what he is: rapist, pedophile, sadist, career criminal, liar, fraud, felon, bully, coward, narcissist, psychopath, idiot.
Evil.
Things were sooooo different way back in the 80s, sex-wise! Boys were boys and no-one thought twice about it. Or so they say.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Things were sooooo different way back in the 80s, sex-wise! Boys were boys and no-one thought twice about it. Or so they say.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
Meanwhile, 2000 years ago in the robustly patriarchal Manusmṛti, a man who has sex by violence is called a monster, and one who rapes an intoxicated woman is a demon.
Can you hear, can you hear that thunder?
November 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Can you hear, can you hear that thunder?
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"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
'A national humiliation': Australia at bottom of new renewables ranking
As the Coalition abandons net zero, Andrew Forrest has quietly moved on not just to net zero, but to real zero.
johnmenadue.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"Australia’s bottom-tier ranking reflects decades of bipartisan policy failure: reliance on extraction rather than production; property speculation, not innovation; privatisation over public investment; and political capture by fossil capital." #renewables #auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...
In body text on the web, never use:
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
In body text on the web, never use:
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
- negative letterspacing
- < 400 weight
- > 1.6 lineheight
- < default font size (16pt)
- geometric sans
- low contrast
- justification
Readability matters!
This lil fella appeared to me today. Who is it?
November 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
This lil fella appeared to me today. Who is it?
Government by AI is a direct path to global oligarchical totalitarianism.
Government using machine learning to help create draft plans for NDIS participants, documents reveal
Exclusive: NDIA defines machine learning as a subset of AI that uses algorithms to learn from data and make decisions or predictions
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Government by AI is a direct path to global oligarchical totalitarianism.
The idea that Chinese industry will save the planet is nuts, yet mainstream environmentalists say this all the time. Turns out they’ve been secret accelerationists all along.
November 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The idea that Chinese industry will save the planet is nuts, yet mainstream environmentalists say this all the time. Turns out they’ve been secret accelerationists all along.
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
November 11, 2025 at 1:47 AM
This will be my thread for thoughts while reading Disabling Intelligences by @fractalecho.bsky.social this week.
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
I'm all wrapped up in a fleece blanket, I have my highlighter and page flags, and on page 2 I'm already love their writing style.
🧵
Tomorrow a few of us are walking across the Harbor Bridge— come and join us!
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Tomorrow a few of us are walking across the Harbor Bridge— come and join us!
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
We’re meeting at 5pm, Wynyard Station, George St. side. We’ll walk over to Milsons Point, then either train or keep walking to Crows Nest Centre for the 7pm talk and meditation.
Always two there are; no more, no less: the abuser and the enabler.
November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Always two there are; no more, no less: the abuser and the enabler.
Amazing essay, please read it.
I have a feature essay for The Guardian today on the mirage of AI medicine, why care cannot be automated, and how overwhelming uptake of AI by American health capitalism threatens to undermine the very possibility of democracy.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Amazing essay, please read it.
“For a moment it felt like maybe things mightn’t be too bad. The moon shed her light over land and sea, over the living and the lifeless, knowing no distinction of race or color or country or creed. Once, men strode upon her as conquering heroes and planted the flags of their proud nations. 1/x
The Harbingers
A cli-fi novel of despair and enlightenment for the reasonably hopeless.
sujato.me
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 PM
“For a moment it felt like maybe things mightn’t be too bad. The moon shed her light over land and sea, over the living and the lifeless, knowing no distinction of race or color or country or creed. Once, men strode upon her as conquering heroes and planted the flags of their proud nations. 1/x
Yesterday a young guy mentioned how is mum is always at the blokes to do the recycling properly. I realized, albeit belatedly, that since recycling is domestic drudgery, it ends up being women’s work. So recycling is basically men dumping crap on women to clean up.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Yesterday a young guy mentioned how is mum is always at the blokes to do the recycling properly. I realized, albeit belatedly, that since recycling is domestic drudgery, it ends up being women’s work. So recycling is basically men dumping crap on women to clean up.
Fun tip for Buddhists: when someone new shows up, say hello.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Fun tip for Buddhists: when someone new shows up, say hello.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
For literally 30 years now, I've seen new folks show up, then EVERYONE ignores them.*
*Bonus points if the teacher says hello to a woman, and not one but two men butt in as if she's not there. Not that this happened to me or anything.
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This is evil.
Don't use AI. Don't download AI apps. AI kills jobs, the planet, and people -- intentionally.
Don't use AI. Don't download AI apps. AI kills jobs, the planet, and people -- intentionally.
This conversation between ChatGPT and the young man it encouraged to commit suicide is just...my god
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
This is evil.
Don't use AI. Don't download AI apps. AI kills jobs, the planet, and people -- intentionally.
Don't use AI. Don't download AI apps. AI kills jobs, the planet, and people -- intentionally.
It was a mistake to imagine we could sit down with oil companies and develop climate policies. They are not partners to be negotiated with, but enemies to be defeated.
How thousands of fossil fuel lobbyists got access to UN climate talks – and then kept drilling
Exclusive: Research shows oil, gas and coal firms’ unprecedented access to Cop26-29, blocking urgent climate action
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:35 PM
It was a mistake to imagine we could sit down with oil companies and develop climate policies. They are not partners to be negotiated with, but enemies to be defeated.
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
Something AI gurus have in common—they grew in a womb, were nurtured by milk, and were held in mother's arms. So now they are dedicating their lives to making sure no-one has to do that in the future.
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Something AI gurus have in common—they grew in a womb, were nurtured by milk, and were held in mother's arms. So now they are dedicating their lives to making sure no-one has to do that in the future.
and there it is
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 10:52 AM
and there it is