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James Tindall 3d ago

we all need to spend less time on x and more time on alt-networks like CAN and its gorgeous new activity feed 😍 (you’ll need to login) https://www.creativeapplications.net/activity

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CreativeApplications.Net

James Tindall Mar 13

George Monbiot Mar 13

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one. #NoBrainer www.theccc.org.uk/2026/03/11/c...

Cost of Net Zero by 2050 l...

Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock – CCC - Climate Change Committee

The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitude is likely to be as large as the total net additional cost of meeting the pathway to Net Zero across every year to 2050.

Climate Change Committee

James Tindall Mar 13

Joseph Cox Mar 12

In Kenya, we spoke to the data labelers powering U.S. AI companies. They include someone who had to watch porn all day, annotate it, then had to flirt and sext with people over an AI chatbot. The users thought they were sexting an AI. It was actually a person.

https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

404 Media

James Tindall Mar 13

George Monbiot Mar 13

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one. My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

UK energy prices are soaring –...

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why

The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

James Tindall Mar 13

Greg Egan Mar 13

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs”

“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/

AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think

AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs

Scientific American

James Tindall Mar 13

danmcquillan Mar 12

My paper also focuses on AI's overlap with energy & water utilities but points the other way; at reclaiming them as resources for the common good. (Also: abolish AI). https://zenodo.org/records/18908530

James Tindall Mar 13

AI = Predictive Capital
https://www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predictive-capital/

James Tindall Mar 10

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George Monbiot Mar 10

From 1941 to 1952 in the UK, the top rate of income tax was 98%. A luxury goods purchase tax introduced in 1940 later rose to 100%. Result? The share of incomes captured by the richest 0.1% fell from 7% in 1937 to just over 1% in 1975. That's what we need today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Things are not going to get be...

Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies

If we want the kind of fair, functioning state Britain saw post-1945, we need to take on the economic powers that wrecked it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

James Tindall Mar 10

George Monbiot Mar 10

I wasn't intending to turn this into a thread, but it seems to have happened anyway. It's about the great plague on our lives: the extreme wealth of a tiny number of people. And what to do about it.

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​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC - Climate Change Committee

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why

AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think

Things are not going to get better as long as oligarchs rule the roost in our democracies

Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock – CCC - Climate Change Committee