The Grok fiasco underlines one of the biggest threats from AI: technocrats using it for social engineering purposes. Sure, this time it was obvious, but don’t think there aren’t ten thousand other ways it’s more subtly biasing society towards the interests of malevolent power

Governments are paying $7,000,000,000,000 a year in fossil fuel subsidies just so we all get the chance to be the person holding the camera.

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP

30 State Alliance Moves to End Gaza Atrocities. Weapons bans, financial divestments, prosecutions: a coalition of 30 states spanning Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe has launched an international initiative aimed at ending the ongoing atrocities in Gaza and the West

Owing to a range of issues, US favorability is collapsing world-wide. Meanwhile, owing to China's peaceful international behavior, and other factors, China's favorability is increasing. People want peace.

If doing this to the Indigenous People caused Intergenerational Trauma, what did it do to White People who were causing this? You mean to tell me all that killing and stealing did nothing to the White person? #LandBack

There are currently 12 large fires affecting 127,000 acres across the Pacific Northwest, with seven in Oregon and five in Washington. 🧵🔥

Sorry, I'm not crying for Stephen Colbert.

ICYMI: “Smoke billowing from wildfires is leading to poor air quality and reducing visibility throughout most of Manitoba this weekend” cbc.ca/news/canada/ma… - CBC Manitoba #Manitoba #MBFire #Wildfires #Winnipeg

Today Flash flood in silver spring, Maryland, USA.

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT WAVE IN ASIA Dozens of thousands of records are falling from Japan to Caucasus in every country with Mins up to 26C near the Ukrainian border. Unprecedented Hot tropical nights even in Northern Mongolian highlands up to 2000m asl ! 23.3 Hovd 22.0 Ulgi

“The Placer Creek wildfire east of E.C. Manning Provincial Park, 3,100 hectares in size, remains out of control” chemainusvalleycourier.ca/news/favourabl… via Chemainus Valley Courier #BCNews #BCWildfire #PlacerCreekWildfire cc: #PrincetonBC

This afternoon: Flooding in Washington DC, USA.

Heat Dome returns over east central U.S. next week #bcheat #bcwx #heatdome expands west and north into Canada through the end of July severe-weather.eu/global-weather…

Whoahh! Earthquakes off the east coast of Kamchatka, Russia in the last couple of hours with the biggest being an M7.4 👀👀

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN JAPAN Hundreds of records falling every single day for months. BY FAR harshest heat wave in history. Last HIGHEST MAX. AND HIGHEST MIN RECORDS: And all this after the summers 2023 and 2024 broke thousands of records every day from 1 June to 31 August too.

2025 HIGHEST TEMPERATURE 52.8C at Shabankareh IRAN yesterday: Being the 53C+ in Kuwait not confirmed, This is the highest temperature so far in the world this year. Iran (and most of Asia) have been breaking records no-stop since March.

Among the thousands of HIGH MINIMUMS RECORDS allover Asia Mins up to 31C in KAZAKHSTAN 29.5 Tushchybek 29.4 Arys 28.4 Shaulder 27.1 Ujuk 26.1 Kyrgyzsai 1272m ! 26.7 Basshi 24.4 Moiynkum RUSSIA 27.7 Cimljansk russia 26.4 Konstantinovsk 26.2 Zimovniki TAJIKISTAN 28.6 Parkhar

🌡️EXTRAORDINARY 51 DEGREES IN CHINA 50.7C Mangxiaohu 2nd HOTTEST DAY WORLDWIDE ABOVE 40 LATITUDE 50.2 Gaochang 48.7 Turpan Dongkan all time record Fierce heat allover Asia KAZAKHSTAN 41.3 Fort Shevchenko (Caspian Sea) July record, 0.1 from ATR 38.6 Terekty 1000m AT Record