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3.7–3.9 million tonnes of pesticide active ingredients are used worldwide every year — more than double the amount in 1990.
Most of us never see the fields. But this invisible flood is saturating soil, water, pollen, and nectar. Our food system is being quietly poisoned.
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Trees don’t just exhale oxygen.
They release microscopic chemicals (sesquiterpenes) that seed clouds. Scientists discovered that adding just 2% of these molecules can DOUBLE cloud formation.
Forests are quietly engineering the weather itself.🌳
Nature’s original climate machine!
Oxford researchers just published a paper arguing LLMs cannot invent anything. Mathematically impossible.
The reason is simple and brutal. A model trained to predict the next word can never believe something the existing data says is wrong. And every real breakthrough in history started with exactly that belief.
In 1903 every prediction machine on Earth would have told the Wright Brothers that human flight was one to ten million years away. Nine weeks later they flew. Not because they had better data. Because they had a theory the data hadn't caught up to yet.
That is the gap between AI and human thinking. LLMs mirror the past. Humans reason into a future that doesn't exist yet. Oxford just proved mathematically that those are two different things.
I use these models every day. This matches what I see. The new stuff always comes from the human at the keyboard who decides the data is wrong.
LLMs don't think. You do.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The paper was not "just published", it was published on December 2nd, 2024 - 21 months and 16 days before the post.
pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/st…
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Big Short investor Steve Eisman says the AI labs know they have no moats and are manufacturing a crisis to get regulation that hands them a duopoly
"I think this is all nonsense."
[ You think it's all nonsense? ]
"All nonsense. I think that there's something else completely going on here. ... What I think is happening is that token maxing is over. The open weight models are taking big market share. I think these companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation, and that they think they can then manipulate to create the moats, to create the duopoly that they want."
[ Wow. ]
"That's what I think is going on."
"Honestly, I think this whole Terminator thing is garbage. That's for sure."
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Corredor de Tornados Atualizado.
De acordo com a renomada Universidade UNICAMP, este é oficialmente o corredor de tornados da América do Sul.
Fonte: Brasil Chasers / UNICAMP
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RECORD WATER VAPOR- EXTREMELY BAD NEWS
Water vapor GHG increases with warming and is at an accelerating rate (global warming is accelerating). This is a deadly heat amplifying feedback loop. It is increasing floods, that is reducing global rice yields. theclimatebrink.com/p/the-at… #flood #climatechange #globalwarming
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🔎 CURIOSIDADE | Estas imagens não são de uma ficção científica. Elas são reais.
O que você está vendo são cenas de 'Lições da Escuridão' (1992), documentário onde o cineasta Werner Herzog registrou os poços de petróleo do Kuwait em chamas após a Guerra do Golfo. Em vez de fazer um jornalismo tradicional, Herzog filmou o desastre sob o olhar de um alienígena visitando um planeta morto.
Ele transformou o maior desastre ecológico do século XX, onde 6 milhões de barris de óleo queimavam por dia e o meio-dia virava noite, em uma obra de arte sombria.
Mais do que o petróleo ardendo, o vídeo retrata um espelho da autodestruição humana.
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35 DEGREES IN SIBERIA IN MID SEPTEMBER
The brutally hot air from Middle East is moving East with 40C in Kazakhstan,35C In Siberia at 53N latitude.
Next days the hot air will enter China and Mongolia with temperatures up to 35C at 1000m asl
It's a never ending fabric of heat waves
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We don’t need to "save the planet." The planet will be fine. We need to save the conditions that allow human civilization to thrive. Let's be clear about the stakes.
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People really have woken up to the fact that climate change is happening but unfortunately they, in the main, have little or no clue how dire the climate crisis is right now. I wonder how many people realise that 4 billion people are going to die within decades if we continue on our current trajectory. I don’t see any other political party other than the Greens that actually understands the problem & wants to solve it. That to my mind is number 1 through 80 billion in order of importance, we lose the lot if we don’t get the climate emergency resolved, that’s the truth of the matter.
Labour has delayed its plans to allow new North Sea drilling until after the Holborn and St Pancras byelection.
A Green win on 8th October will add pressure on Labour to reverse this shortsighted and dangerous plan.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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The Climate Crisis is not simply the consequence of too much carbon in the atmosphere.
It is the consequence of too much greed, too much corruption, too much foolishness and too much denial, operating within systems that repeatedly reward short-term interests over long-term survival. The science has spoken.
Now the question is whether our conscience will.
#ClimateActionNow
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The Toba supereruption occurred around 74,000 years ago in Sumatra, Indonesia, and was one of the largest explosive eruptions in Earth's history. It blasted out an estimated 2,800 cubic kilometres of material, a volume so enormous it dwarfs many of the most famous eruptions in history. The eruption buried huge areas in ash and created the massive caldera that is now Lake Toba.
For years, Toba was blamed for triggering a catastrophic volcanic winter that nearly wiped out early humans, but the evidence doesn't support that apocalyptic version of events. Climate modelling suggests there was significant cooling, but the severity and duration are still debated, and there is no evidence that humanity came close to extinction.
Archaeological evidence is particularly interesting. Stone tools found in India show people were living there through the eruption, with little change in their technology or way of life before and after the ash layer. Evidence from southern Africa also shows humans survived and even thrived around this time. Toba was an absolutely enormous eruption, but it didn't come close to wiping us out.
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If you missed it in @guardian recently, you can now read my piece about how global heating is affecting the solid earth, in my #CoolEarth substack newsletter
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"The AMOC is now at its weakest in at least 1,000 years." - Watch PIK’s Stefan Rahmstorf explain how climate change is putting the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation #AMOC at risk and what this could mean for Europe and the world.
➡️ Full video: youtube.com/watch?v=sNOSCWxr…
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Bingo!!!!
This is horrifying and every American needs to hear this
California resident exposes what’s really going on with Flock Cameras in America
“I want to be clear what these cameras actually are, and I say that with somebody with 20 years of experience in IT. I've served as the chief network architect for Fortune 500 companies, I've designed data centers, and today I work on cloud infrastructure for one of the largest loan origination companies in the country. I'm not speculating on how this technology works. I've read their patents and I know how it works.
Flock advertises these cameras as simple license plate readers. But their own patents tell a different story.
They're AI-powered surveillance machines that capture every passing vehicle and person and transmit that data to a private corporate cloud, making it queryable by a multitude of state and federal agencies. The city of Corona does not control that database, and Corona residents have no public record rights against a private company's servers. Our daily movements are being harvested by a $7.5 billion corporation, that only answers to venture capital investors, not to us. Flock did not reach that valuation on their per-camera subscription fees. That math doesn't add up
The city council should also understand who they're doing business with. Flock CEO was asked whether the company had any federal contracts. He said no. That was a lie.
Public records revealed that Flock had been secretly running a pilot program giving the US Border Patrol access to local police camera data without the knowledge of the cities that paid for the cameras.
Now consider who's behind the company and where your data flows. Flock integrates directly with Palantir, a data fusion platform, with a $30 million contract with ICE. Peter Thiel, the founder of Palantir, is also one of Flock's primary investors. These are not separate companies with separate agendas. They are connected actors that are building a connected infrastructure.
Palantir's own CEO stated publicly just this month that his technology is being used as a political instrument, designed to reduce the political power of certain voters. And that's the ecosystem that our Corona cameras are feeding into.
We're not anti-police at all. We're against mass surveillance of innocent residents by a company with a documented record of deception, built by investors with a stated political agenda. We're asking the City Council to start auditing the queries made against Flock's database, to disclose any data sharing agreements, and to take a vote to cancel the Flock safety contract”
I looked more into this and he is 100% right
Patents describe broader object detection, including tracking people and pedestrians, patents like US11416545B1. The system uses a centralized cloud database for nationwide queries
Data goes to Flock’s private cloud, AWS-based, encrypted. Nationwide lookup is common, 75%+ of customers are enrolled enabling cross-jurisdictional searches. Residents have no direct public records access to the corporate servers.
This creates a mass surveillance network feeding a private company’s infrastructure
If you ask me this is laying the infrastructure for a mass surveillance network in America. We are being lied to. Cancel all contracts nationwide
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"likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years"
Make no mistake, this is going to be an unprecedented and catastrophic weather/climate event
Harvests will be especially badly hit
Without wishing to sow concern, stocking-up would be judicious
theguardian.com/environment/…
