Ketan Joshi

A new post + vid for you, for the Klimakultur blog, on a WILD new survey that shows Norwegian society overestimates Equinor's renewable energy sales by an extremely massive amount It is a shocking demonstration of fossil fuel marketing prowess -->>> www.klimakultur.no/nyheter/equi...

Top tech company leaders are meeting with religious leaders to further their own business reasons and not to engage with questions of faith, says Father Paolo Benanti who has been an AI advisor to two popes

I liked Digger but in a weird way I still agree with basically most criticisms of it? Including Adam's here which are very thoughtful and well put together:

and a GIGANTIC SUCK SHIT to Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.

The numbers for potential climate harm from direct fossil-fuelled data centres are just phenomenal. It makes no sense to help them realise their dreams here

According to @earthjustice.org, BAAJA actually gives behind-the-meter gas turbines a boost. earthjustice.org/feature/bipa...

New from me: The US has faced a higher cost than any other country from the global Hormuz oil shock, with the crisis adding $160 billion to its fuel bill — or $471 per person on average — despite being the world’s largest oil producer.

I watched the box-office flop Digger last night and loved it. I was reminded that unless you’re rich/ powerful, our future will be satire about the new “norm” of climate disasters to laugh at so we don’t cry. And Australia is great source material with all the fossil fuel projects we approve.

"I wrote up a proposal for a moratorium on AI data centers in Lochbuie. The ensuing public meeting drew more attendees than I had ever seen. They overwhelmingly supported it, and it passed easily." Mayor Jamie Jeffery believes you can pass a data center moratorium:

I am blown away by how physically ugly smartwatches universally are now. The best looking ones are like one tiny fraction less bad than the worst-looking ones. There's no inventiveness, no thoughtfulness, nothing cool or compelling. Just ugly AF www.zdnet.com/health/googl...

sucked in ya gronk www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

This takes @ipcc.bsky.social’s AR6 WG1 chart (Fig. SPM.10) & adds proven reserves from the Global Registry of Fossil Fuels ( @carbontracker.bsky.social with @globalenergymon.bsky.social data), the IPCC’s own 0.45 °C per 1,000 GtCO₂, & the 2 °C budget from Forster et al. 2026. CO₂ from burning only

How much of the world’s proven coal, oil and gas (i.e. already found, pays to extract at today’s prices) can still be burned for a 66% chance of holding 2 °C? About 30%. The other 70%, 2,040 billion tonnes of CO₂, are stranded assets. Burn it all and CO₂ alone means roughly 2.7 °C Purple = added

Roose does a very nice job signaling in the second paragraph what sort of book this will be. He decided to write it the night after partying with ketamine-snorting effective accelerationists. He isn’t e/acc himself, but he hangs with that crowd and accepts their premises as newsworthy,

A new twist in the MACH Energy coal expansion saga - the company had plans to "influence curriculum". 🧵 Reported today in Nine Newspapers www.smh.com.au/environment/...

That’s moderation the French way—the complete opposite of the usual US approach. We ban things if there’s no nudity. 🤗

Hei på deg, Equinor.

"A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women."

Very nice work @yellowdotstudios.bsky.social / @ghostpanther.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJyQ...

Twelve-year-old wins Australian slam competition prize with poem about ChatGPT: ‘It’s totally unnecessary’

hello, SPOTLIGHT? please figure out why my phone isn't working

The wildest one of these I got was a three PDF "press release" rollout from someone who said his ChatGPT sometimes got something wrong and that OpenAI didn't respond to his support ticket and fashioned himself as a kind of big tech whistleblower

this is happening because big tech customer support basically doesn't exist and desperate people are asking ChatGPT what to do. ChatGPT is sending them to journalists

In the last few weeks i've been bombarded with emails from people who have minor tech support problems. ChatGPT is telling them to email me, writing their emails, and compiling "evidence packets" after convincing them they have stumbled on a major story: www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

as a long time fan of paris's work i absolutely loved HYPERSCALE, his new book, which really pulls together so many disparate threads of the data center convo—past, present, in the us and abroad—into a ripping narrative caught up with him about it for my latest power play newsletter!

“For many people in the 21st century, freedom is a set of keys.” So said a druid protesting against traffic curbs in Oxford. Stuart Jeffries on the car as a symbol of identity: