"This is an industry run on data. Good data destroys bad companies. And there's a ton of bad companies to be destroyed."

Ed in peak form, as usual. #AI

https://youtu.be/CudIfoRiVYQ?t=1579

Musk tuned an entire chatbot to put a far-right spin on everything.

In other words, the fascist US is actively on Russia's side now and not even pretending any more.

Evil. Pure, craven evil.

So I've been dragging NASA's science comms this morning because they can't talk about #climateBreakdown but I should also point out that our very own tRumpian coalition has been on a similar anti-science crusade for the past three years, and as part of the bycatch our geological hazard warning system was down last week because of funding cuts.

In one of the most tectonically active regions on the planet.

Don't look up. Save the landlords.

See how science communication gets twisted when an authoritarian regime prevents scientists from talking about what's really happening. NASA is dead.

"The Arctic ice extent keeps shrinking! We're not sure why! We sent people to the moon!"

#climate

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/arctic-sea-ice-shrinks-to-its-2026-minimum/

Not to mention the most obvious benefit: food kids would actually eat, and was good for them.

You get what you pay for when all you care about is the lowest bid.

El Niño: How it's going:

#climate

Finally, a move toward accountability. No more hiding behind the "we shipped it overseas, it's someone else's problem" dodge. #climate

https://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/exporting-coal-owning-the-damage-a-legal-reckoning-arrives-for-australian-mining-20261007-p613md.html

Time for legislation that removes monetary policy from the toolkit. This is the legacy of the far-right Don Brash, the handiwork of the Business Roundtable, and the forerunners of the Atlas Network.

Their aim is to destroy the ability of democratic states to function as anything other than lapdogs and handmaidens to multinational corporations. Chaining the creation of money in the economy to inflation targets is an innocuous-looking way to achieve this end.

Brazil? Are you ok? Holy shit.

Fair bit of frost about the place this morning, but the sun is warming things up nicely now.