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ApaulD
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art 🖼️ street gardening 🦜forests 🌳 citizens’ assemblies
looks like we won’t stop fking our environment
Climate 🤦🏻‍♀️ ai data centres 🤦🏻‍♀️ 315ppm📍Naarm

#auspol #climate #environment #taxultrarich
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Photograph: Victoria Central Highlands
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apauld.bsky.social
What the fk is wrong with #australia #politics that all these hugely wealthy corporations pay zero tax.
#auspol #taxtherich #tech #technology
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Billions of dollars, none of it taxed: ATO reveals the tech giants paying zero income tax
Database names big companies – including Microsoft subsidiary and Netflix – that pay little corporate tax but notes there could be legitimate reasons
www.theguardian.com
October 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
apauld.bsky.social
A First Dog best ever - funny educational hopeful.
#nature #australia
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The bogong moths are back! Perhaps they are a sign that all is not lost | First Dog on the Moon
Remember – these moths are not an inconvenience they are a blessing
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2026 at 1:03 PM
apauld.bsky.social
archive.li/cNjIt
#ai #technology #climatechange #australia
‘Cooked’: This $1.1b data centre mirrors Melbourne’s much wider conflict
archive.li
September 26, 2026 at 1:09 AM
apauld.bsky.social
De- electrification
#energy
Indiscriminate AI & data generation & storage, and fk planetary boundaries
#environment #climatechange
A curse on tech bros, their fossil fuel friends, our oblivious rapacious governments
#ai #tech #technology

www.wired.com/story/us-dat...

archive.li/4fsUg
Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
www.wired.com
September 24, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
This is actually the first major de-electrification we're seeing in the mid-transition era and I cannot fucking believe my eyes in seeing the core advocates of electrification celebrating and welcoming and encouraging it

www.wired.com/story/us-dat...
Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US
There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
www.wired.com
September 23, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Trying to contain myself this week but "the electrification of information" has sent me

INFORMATION WAS ALREADY ELECTRIC. GenAI is taking existing info, making it wrong + 1,000,000x more energy intensive and then BUILDING HUMANITY'S BIGGEST GAS PLANTS

that is the OPPOSITE OF ELECTRIFICATION
September 23, 2026 at 9:32 AM
apauld.bsky.social
Bullying…for the money & political manipulation that the algorithm creates.
#technology #tech #ai #politics #usa #australia

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
Trump administration warns Labor social media crackdown is ‘censorship’ of Americans’ protected speech
Trump administration expresses ‘serious concerns’ that forcing firms to allow algorithm opt-out would infringe Americans’ free speech
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2026 at 12:56 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
I think if you're concerned about planetary boundaries you might consider not doing partnerships with the tech companies that are helping to breach those boundaries - partnerships that very explicitly and directly serve to distract and greenwash from the harms being caused by those companies
September 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
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If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s a fucking duck! Doesn’t matter how many times you deny it!
Pauline Hanson’s fury over KKK endorsement — news.com.au
The One Nation leader is furious after a long-time white supremacist leader in the US gave her the tick of approval.
apple.news
September 22, 2026 at 12:43 AM
apauld.bsky.social
“green-hushing” 🤐

a general reticence to talk about global heating #climatechange

“While there is little time to reverse this parlous situation, humanity does still possess the knowledge & capacity to do so”

This is no time for silence. Or distraction.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn
New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2026 at 12:47 AM
apauld.bsky.social
Although, of course ai tech is contributing to destruction by climate & environment via its extreme energy usage, enabling the fossil fuel industry to continue raking in the moolah while spewing emissions 💰
#ai #technology #energy #environment
September 22, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
Maybe there's still a lack of awareness, but it's baffling that there're people out there still prepared to serve/eat industrially-farmed, antibiotic-loaded, potentially diseased Tasmanian Salmon with a side of exploded seal

(do Huon, Tassal & Petuna leadership eat it with their families❓)
September 20, 2026 at 10:23 PM
apauld.bsky.social
Apparently threat of extinction by computer is more scary than threat of extinction by destroyed climate & environment (air water food). Go figure.
#ai #tech #politics #australia
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia has done precious little to prepare for the dangers of AI. Where is brilliant leadership when you need it? | Zoe Daniel
Australia faces stark choices about the most significant technological development since the splitting of the atom in the 1930s
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2026 at 8:16 AM
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loonyleftmedia.bsky.social
Watch this 👀
twitter-exile.bsky.social Twitter Exile @twitter-exile.bsky.social · Jun 22
#PeteWhishWilson

Nobody is talking about this...
We all need to wake up to this!
The rise of #OneNation is so off the charts it defies usual political explanations.
#Greens won't let this potential foreign interference slide by unchecked. Nothing less than our democracy is at stake.

#AUSPOL
September 18, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
When society knowingly puts people in a "position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death…when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life… knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain"—it's social murder
September 19, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
While we all frantically tried to frame every single piece of climate advocacy as if it's there to reduce power bills, on the grounds of centrist hand-wringing that we're not meant to mention human safety and life and health because it's just not what ppl care about (which is wrong)
September 18, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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yungenchee.bsky.social
Fri 18 Sep

For SHAME‼️

Since 2020, Australia's subsidies for fossil fuels have totalled nearly 6 times the amount of aid given to Pacific neighbours - Minister Talia, Tuvalu

There is no version of reduced emissions while extraction [of oil, coal & gas] continues - Minister Regenvanu, Vanuatu
Protestors at the weekly Friday protest outside the allegedly pro-environment Josh Burns' St Kilda office put up banners opposite his office Yellow banner says TAX GAS EXPORTS Red & white banner says SHAME LABOR DON'T DRILL 12 APOSTLES Stslwart protest crew at the weekly Friday protest outside Josh Burns's office hold up placards & handout flyers On the right, protester holds up a TOOT FOR CLIMATE ACTION sign (& TOOT they did!!)
September 18, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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mosmanresources.bsky.social
It is obvious that politicians of our political duopoly no longer even pretend to listen to the electorate. This will only be stopped by voting all the involved parties out of power. Vote Independent or Green.
September 17, 2026 at 6:50 AM
apauld.bsky.social
It's not often you see a petition with more than one million supporters
humanstatement.org
#ai #technology #tech #humanrights
The Pro-Human AI Declaration
A declaration for keeping humans in charge of artificial intelligence, and the people and organisations who have endorsed it.
humanstatement.org
September 18, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!!

NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate.

We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record:

ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
September 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
apauld.bsky.social
They stole/steal all available content regardless. But there must be a legal loophole that people are using to fight back. I’m hoping the bullying tactics have lost weight. I mean, now that Trump has splattered tariffs indiscriminately anyway, the threat is meaningless.
#ai #technology #usa
September 17, 2026 at 4:27 AM
apauld.bsky.social
my head is exploding 🤯
1. #usa have weapons in space
2. #labor #auspol is facing pressure from big tech to make it legal for “AI companies to get unrestricted access to everything Australians create online by default”
#ai #technology #australia fk them

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 3:59 AM
apauld.bsky.social
Lithium batteries are a stepping stone.
Sodium Ion batteries are the more ecologically sustainable next step.
#energy #technology #sustainability #climatechange

www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/12/1...

archive.li/zXExw
Sodium-ion batteries: 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2026
A cheaper, safer, and more abundant alternative to lithium is finally making its way into cars—and the grid.
www.technologyreview.com
September 16, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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australiainstitute.org.au
"[One study] covered one billion offset credits...and found that less than 16% would be verifiably real."

"So 85% of offset credits don't pass the first hurdle. They're not real."

- University of Melbourne Senior Research Fellow Dr Kate Dooley at today's #ClimateIntegrity Summit 2026
September 15, 2026 at 4:49 AM
apauld.bsky.social
do it do it do it 💪
#australia #auspol proposal:
– let people switch off the algorithm that decides what they see & instead let them decide themselves
#tech #politics
pushback immediate❗️cos the algorithm is worth $$$billions+effective tool for political manipulation act.getup.org.au/act/take-bac...
Angertainment: the outrage machine behind the far right
Webinar with Ed Coper, author of Angertainment, on how the far right has gamed social media and how we can fight back. Thursday 17 September, 6pm.
act.getup.org.au
September 15, 2026 at 7:01 AM