As a Uni lecturer, it’s depressing that every student assignment you read has become a Turing Test. Am I marking the effort of a tyro intellectual, or the average of the average of what a plagiarism machine spits out after burning a 🔥 a ton of CH4 ? It‘s insulting to us humans, & to the humanities.
On the destruction of US science:
"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country. The motives include sheer bloody-minded hostility along with a desire to get their own hands on the funding.
[Why?] it’s mostly stupidity, arrogance, & greed."
www.science.org/content/blog...
"The cost of data centre growth in Ireland: Households paid an estimated €715 million more in electricity bills"
Excellent, detailed new FOE Ireland modelling confirming with hard evidence that this industry is making power less accessible
www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/the-cos...
"In effect on the ground there is no ceasefire. There are daily multiple bombings primarily across the south, Israeli troops are occupying dozens of villages & towns in the south"
Alex Crawford reporting from Lebanon
JUST DROPPED: For years I thought industrial electrification potential was limited.
How wrong I was.
Engineering studies point to 90%+. Long term scenarios support this.
Technology is much further ahead than we think. Question is whether policy keeps up.
janrosenow.substack.com/p/industry-f...
Video
Coach Finstock
Paul Price
How far can industry run on electricity?Much ffurther and faster than the 'hard-to-abate' label suggests.
* Concrete Destruction: Costs and Damages of the Concrete and Cement Industry and the Future of Construction *
By me, @urbanusnils.bsky.social, @conradkunze.bsky.social, Paulina Orozco & @matthiasschmelzer.bsky.social
Read the full study here: www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rl...
Rusal, the company that owns the Co Limerick industrial plant Aughinish Alumina, continues to be controlled by sanctioned Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, according to a confidential report by Swedish tax authorities.
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Ketan Joshi
"Despite blasé demeanour of the Taoiseach & his ministers, missing our legal #climate targets is not a trivial matter. Govt’s own expert advisers have warned the state is facing a “staggering” EU non-compliance bill of €8-€26 billion"
My take in @thejournal.ie
www.thejournal.ie/readme/clima...
Saul Staniforth
Jan Rosenow
Dr Jeremy Walker
www.irishtimes.com
Oligarch Oleg Deripaska is under EU sanctions over his role in supporting the invasion of Ukraine
"If data centres were a country, they would be the second-largest destination for gas turbines ordered from Q1 2025 to Q1 2026"
New IEA report confirms this isn't a normal industry. It is a fossil-fuelled, high-polluting heavy industry producing socially corrosive products at massive climate cost.
