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Growing up on the west coast of Ireland, I'm well used to wild weather conditions and usually take storms in my stride, but this is a whole other level lads. If this is accurate we are about to be bashed by winds stronger than those of Oíche na Gaoithe Móire in 1839 #StormEowyn

Bankers and policymakers simply don't understand that we risk a 50% GDP loss in our children's lifetimes due to #ClimateChange, because current economic climate models are not even "roughly right," but "precisely wrong." My latest for The New Republic: newrepublic.com/article/190566…

🌍 In het KNMI-rapport De staat van ons Klimaat 2024 wordt duidelijk dat 2024, samen met 2023, het warmste jaar in Nederland was sinds de metingen in 1901. De gevolgen van klimaatverandering zijn overal zichtbaar. Lees het volledige bericht en rapport 🔗 knmi.nl/over-het-knmi/…

The global humanitarian response capacity of the United States has been broken tonight. If there is an earthquake or hurricane somewhere in the world next week, the US will be conspicuously absent. This evening the staff that do that work are being purged from USAID.

California State University is becoming the first AI-powered university system, with ChatGPT Edu being rolled out to 460,000 students and over 63,000 staff and faculty.

January 2025 was the warmest January ever recorded, confirmed our colleagues at Copernicus ECMWF. Last month was 1.75°C above the pre-industrial level and 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average. Details: climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-jan…

The year is 2025. The CEOs of two of the world's leading AI companies have (i) told the President of the United States of America that AGI will be developed in his presidency and (ii) told the world it will likely happen in 2026-27. 1/9

Here’s a great summary of the French fiasco I just attended (article link in reply)

It’s certainly an innovative approach to a negotiation to make very major concessions even before they have started. Not even Chamberlain went that low in 1938. That Munich ended very bad anyhow.

35 years ago, I captured the image that would come to be known as the Pale Blue Dot. From my vantage point beyond Neptune and about 3.7 billion miles from the Sun, my team asked me to look back toward home one final time. -V1 What do you think of when you see this image?

There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World. This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.

America, give this a listen. This is how our closest allies now view us. MarshFamilySongs

Very relevant piece by Kevin Roose in The New York Times, 3 points that particularly resonate with me: 1⃣ AGI's arrival raises major economic, political and technological questions to which we currently have no answers. 2⃣ If we're in denial (or simply not paying attention), we could

#Earthquake confirmed by seismic data.⚠Preliminary info: M7.7 || 7 mi N of #Mandalay (#Myanmar) || 8 min ago (local time 12:50:53). Follow the thread for the updates👇

🇲🇲#Myanmar #Earthquake M 7.7 máx Int-IX Alerta roja por decesos relacionados con el Sismo. earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev… 🙏

Il passaggio delle onde sismiche del #terremoto di M 7.7 del #Myanmar visto attraverso alcuni dei sismografi italiani ed europei. I colori rappresentano il movimento del suolo: rosso (sollevamento) e blu (abbassamento). Video di EarthScope Consortium

Interesting academic AI abuse: I was told of a case where an author of a preprint discovered that his preprint had apparently been fed into an LLM with the task to rewrite it (text, tables etc.), and the reworked version was submitted to another journal as new work. Ethan Mollick

Author & journalist Karen Hao says AGI has become a quasi-religious movement among the people building it. “One side says AGI will bring us utopia, the other says it will kill us all.” What shocked her most? Many in AI genuinely believe that they're creating God or the devil.

Current AI “alignment” is just a mask Our findings in The Wall Street Journal explore the limitations of today’s alignment techniques and what’s needed to get AI right 🧵

Today is July 2, 2025 — the exact midpoint between the year 2000 and the year 2050. Exactly 9,131 days have passed since the start of 2000, and exactly 9,131 days remain until 2050 begins. From this day forward, we are closer to 2050 than to 2000.