Secretary Noem must be impeached.
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AI Expert Tells Bernie: “The Humans will be Discarded”
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
Will AI become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.
Here’s what they had to say:
04.03.2026 22:21
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I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
04.03.2026 15:33
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Results: Progressives win all four of these primaries, ousting incumbents Cunningham, Willingham, and Majeed, while Pierce held off Wray’s comeback.
extraordinary night for state progressives in North Carolina
via boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
04.03.2026 04:17
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The world is getting a reminder, once again, of the enormous economic and geopolitical risks associated with dependable on fossil fuels. And a reminder of the incredible independence that renewable energy provides from those risks.
#fossilfuels
#renewableenergy
#iran
02.03.2026 17:15
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Green views ‘as important as good looks’ for Gen Z
A study revealed that three quarters of young daters prioritise environmental values as much as physical compatibility
Environmental values makes you sexier
Nearly three in four young daters say shared environmental values matter as much as physical attraction, with many ditching dates over littering, fast fashion or climate apathy.
www.thetimes.com/article/2e83...
02.03.2026 12:17
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Climate change: Doom versus gloom
Should we hope for the best and prepare for the worst when tackling climate change?
"Thinking through the implications of 4C warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain & suffering that is going to cost. There is no science on how we are going to adapt to 4C warming" @neiladger.bsky.social
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Evacuation warning for parts of South Boulder due to the Bluebell Fire:
28.02.2026 20:44
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Smoke rising from the foothills, pine tree in foreground, snow-covered mountains in background.
This would be the Bluebell Fire, near Chautauqua, west of Boulder, just reported, as seen from east of Boulder.
28.02.2026 20:22
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Solar panel with doodles in yellow and blue of hearts, flowers, trees and a smiley face. Says in English: United we stand. And says the same in Ukrainian
On another day of global violence, I was grateful Sunflower Seeds Ukraine allowed our high school kid to Zoom with people in Ukraine & send them solar panels with uplifting messages of solidarity 🌻 🇺🇦 ☮️
28.02.2026 19:04
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Next time someone hypes the potential climate benefits of LLMs, maybe think about how they enabled mass fabrication of "public" comments that killed an important climate policy. Just one harmful application of software that can quickly generate lots of truthy-sounding bullshit.
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"If lawmakers are concerned with public safety in Colorado, immigration enforcement is not the way to achieve improved public safety.
We show that here in Colorado with the data, but that’s also true across the whole country."
-- me today in the Boulder @dailycamera.com
27.02.2026 21:11
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5. Support for data centers is nosediving
Last fall, this publication’s energy intelligence unit Heatmap Pro commissioned a nationwide survey asking thousands of American voters: “Would you support or oppose a data center being built near where you live?” Net support came out to +2%, with 44% in support and 42% opposed. Earlier this month, the pollster Embold Research ran the exact same question by another 2,091 registered voters across the country. The shift in the results, which I wrote about here, is staggering. This time just 28% said they would support or strongly support a data center that houses “servers that power the internet, apps, and artificial intelligence” in their neighborhood, while 52% said they would oppose or strongly oppose it. That’s a net support of -24% — a 26-point drop in just a few months.
Among the more interesting results was the fact that the biggest partisan gap was between rural and urban Republicans, with the latter showing greater support than any other faction. When I asked Emmet Penney at the right-leaning Foundation for American Innovation to make sense of that for me, he said data centers stoke a “fear of bigness” in a way that compares to past public attitudes on nuclear power.
"The hyperscalers have fumbled the comms game here," Emmet Penney, an energy researcher and senior fellow at the right-leaning Foundation for American Innovation, told me.
A historian of the nuclear power sector, Penney sees parallels between the grassroots pushback to data centers and the 20th century movement to stymie construction of atomic power stations across the Western world. In both cases, opponents fixated on and popularized environmental criticisms that were ultimately deemed minor relative to the benefits of the technology - production of radioactive waste in the case of nuclear plants, and as seems increasingly clear, water usage in the case of data centers.
Likewise, opponents to nuclear power saw urgent efforts to build out the technology in the face of Cold War competition with the Soviet Union as more reason for skepticism about safety. Ditto the current rhetoric on China.
Penney said that both data centers and nuclear power stoke a "fear of bigness."
Heatmap found a 26 point (!!!!!!) drop in public support for data centre development and the right-wing think-tanker they interviewed put it down to "a fear of bigness"
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27.02.2026 13:20
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I can’t imagine how it must feel for them to have their hard work used without permission or compensation. Poor dears.
26.02.2026 05:33
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Trump’s “Drill, baby, drill” agenda does nothing to help protect our beautiful, nature-filled lands and waters.
25.02.2026 02:23
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Trump: "I kept my promise to 'drill, baby, drill."
The result? Electricity prices have increased nationwide by 13% last year and are projected to continue rising at 2x the rate of inflation.
But, hey, at least our air and water are more polluted than ever and climate change is running amok! #SOTU
25.02.2026 02:28
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Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing.
These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted.
Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc
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The world has entered a new era of ‘water bankruptcy,’ U.N. report says
Researchers say this is not merely a temporary crisis, but a permanent failure that requires rethinking the world’s approach to water scarcity.
⚠️ The UN just declared a state of Global Water Bankruptcy. Climate change is disrupting the water cycle our kids rely on. It’s time to get serious about climate adaptation. #ClimateFacts #ActOnClimate #MothersForEarth
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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From the UN - World enters era of ‘global water bankruptcy’
The world has moved beyond a water crisis and into a state of global water bankruptcy, says a new flagship report released on Tuesday by UN researchers.
For decades, scientists, policymakers and the media warned of a “global water crisis,” implying temporary shock – followed by recovery.
What is now emerging in many regions, however, is a persistent shortage whereby water systems can no longer realistically return to their historical baselines.
“For much of the world, ‘normal’ is gone,” said Kaveh Madani, Director of the UN University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.
“This is not to kill hope but to encourage action and an honest admission of failure today to protect and enable tomorrow,” he told a press briefing in New York on Tuesday.
We have finally entered era of ‘global water bankruptcy’.
Please stop using AI gratuitously & unnecessarily.
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