Benjamin Riley Casual reminder that Stuart Ritchie, a scientist who currently works in Anthropic’s comms department, once wrote this bizarre defense of Francis Galton, the racist godfather of eugenics.
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Benjamin Riley 
Rest of World 1 / 3
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.” https://restofworld.org/2026/south-africa-ai-data-center-protests/
Jer Thorp 1 / 3
Yesterday I ran a little drop in workshop on Governors Island where we made bird data portraits with cyanotype. Bird data can help us understand a place— and making art with it can be really fun!
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ 1 / 3
> ‘We cannot continuously tell you what our science means; what it will be good for; because we simply don’t know yet. Science needs time – Bear with us, while we think.’ Resisting consensus always exposes us to sniggers, but I will expose my position even further by daring to defend...
Carl T. Bergstrom As best as I can tell, RFK Jr.'s latest antivax stunt runs counter to the WMA Declaration of Helsinki. Withholding HepB vaccination clearly does not meet any definition of clinical equipoise. Doing it anyway, overseas, is straight up colonialist medicine.
Carl T. Bergstrom After leaving tanker, oil from Exxon Valdez devastates Alaskan coastline on its own, killing over 250,000 seabirds.
Gil Durán Coming Nov. 3: "The Nerd Reich" in Italian! They translated it as "Silicon Reich: The Rise of the Tech Giants and the War On Democracy." This is one of MANY forthcoming translations—Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian, French, Polish, Greek, Finnish, Japanese, South Korean, and Vietnamese!
bianca wylie first draft of the less computer handbook is done :) lesscomputer.ca
Ketan Joshi "A proposal by the Alberta Electric System Operator (AESO) to power data centres in the province will only allow natural gas-powered projects to connect to the grid" The worst petrostates on the planet are scrambling to cement AI slop as a new demand source for fossil fuels