Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

This is wild. The head of OpenAI's Robotics division resigns because she is concerned about her products being used to kill people without human supervision or control.

📝OUT NOW

In 2029, Reform UK could win on under 30% of the vote according to some polls. Our new research paper shows our voting system has a hand in this.

Read more & find out why electoral reform is not a nice-to-have, but an emergency.

#ukpolitics #PR #FPTP #VotingSystem

The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

Meanwhile, Irish agriculture system entirely incapable of meeting fundamental food needs of our population, with its export-based model predicated on massive fertiliser, animal feed imports.

We are shockingly vulnerable yet nobody is even talking about it.

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How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible

At the same time water supplies are stretched in England, farmers are finding they need to use more water, agricultural use in England more than doubling in the past 5 years, as Watershed's Rachel Salvidge revealed last year:

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‘A big burden for farmers’: Gulf shipping crisis threatens food price shock Iranian blockade of the strategic strait of Hormuz is hitting global fertiliser supply chain

Or, to put it another way, wars are a bad thing and affect lots of industries. We’ll have to see how it goes.
UK farming very reliant on high inputs - many would say too reliant and too high inputs. Check a waterway near you to see where some end up. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

US war on Iran: Starmer should have stood up to Trump - now he's complicit Starmer won’t join Israel and the United States in bombing Iran. But he will allow the US to use UK bases to enable their war of aggression

"Less than 48 hours after his party’s historic victory over Labour in the Gorton & Denton by-election, Polanski emerged as the only frontline British politician calling for Britain to stay out of America & Israel’s illegal, stupid & barbarous war on Iran."
www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/us-w...

Esto es absolutamente aterrador.

La falta de ambición renovable de la Comunidad de Madrid El Gobierno regional niega la correspondencia que debe haber entre zonas de producción y consumo

"La falta de ambición renovable de la Comunidad de Madrid" @fferrando.bsky.social @frenovables.bsky.social

Solo el 2% de la demanda eléctrica madrileña se cubre con generación renovable producida en Madrid, frente al 59% a nivel nacional. Yo diría inexistente

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AIs Don't Kill People. People Kill People We need a constitution to put the brakes on the actions of AIs, but more than that, we need to put the brakes on the actions of evil people.

The last few days have caused a dramatic acceleration in our perception of the role of Artificial Intelligence in our world.

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The end of population growth - Club of Rome 09 February 2026 -

What does the end of the era of population growth mean for societies around the world?

In The End of Population Growth, a new report to the Club of Rome, Ugo Bardi challenges traditional fears of overpopulation.

Read more and get the book ➡️ vist.ly/4sxax

Historical deforestation drives strong rainfall decline across the southern Amazon basin - Nature Communications The authors find that historical deforestation has substantially altered regional observed precipitation over the southern Amazon basin through inter-regional atmospheric moisture transport, which is ...

Improved representation of these processes in climate models will support more reliable projections of Amazon resilience, ultimately informing policies on forest conservation and climate mitigation.

Full paper in @natcomms.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Revealed: Europe’s water reserves drying up due to climate breakdown Exclusive: UCL scientists find large swathes of southern Europe are drying up, with ‘far-reaching’ implications

As we've previously reported, climate change is driving shifts in groundwater levels even in rainy England, with many parts of the South & East likely to become increasingly dry, & some areas already water-stressed:

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I was listening to @johnkempf.bsky.social talking about microbes going from the soil into plants and ‘delivering’ nutrients to the plants. Plants also help microbes and fungi providing them with root exudates. Fascinating #microbiome!

#WorldBookDay #Microbes #Microbiome

Party Total reported Donations accepted (excl. public funds) Public funds accepted Total accepted in this quarter Alliance - Alliance Party of Northern Ireland £65,140 £20,538 £44,602 £65,140 Conservative and Unionist Party £4,216,224 £2,401,452 £1,614,729 £4,016,181 Co-operative Party £131,180 £131,180 £0 £131,180 Democratic Unionist Party - D.U.P. £104,320 £0 £104,320 £104,320 Green Party £294,069 £189,010 £98,764 £287,773 Labour Party £2,043,007 £1,943,824 £31,836 £1,975,660 Liberal Democrats £2,190,101 £1,314,139 £749,173 £2,063,312 Open Party £197,151 £155,067 £0 £155,067 People Before Profit £8,605 £0 £6,453 £6,453 Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales £63,967 £30,000 £33,967 £63,967 Reform UK £5,473,000 £5,456,000 £0

The funding gap between Reform UK and the Greens is astounding.

New Electoral Commission stats today reveal the reportable donations in Q4 2025:

🟢 Green Party: £189,010
🟣 Reform UK: £5,456,000

Greens are bringing in barely 3.5% of Reform UK's large donations - but still polling around 20%.

New report highlights how UK rivers are suffocating Analysis of the largest citizen science water quality dataset in UK rivers The Angling Trust has released its third Annual Water Quality Monitoring Network (WQMN) report, analysing the largest citizen...

anglingtrust.net/2026/03/04/h...

Sea Levels Are Already Higher Than Many Scientists Think, New Study Shows

"Coastal sea levels are, on average, eight inches to a foot higher than these scientific studies and maps indicate worldwide, the research found."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/c...

Who is Polly Halite? And why is she in the news? Anglo American has provided an update on its plans to continue digging for polyhalite, 1,600 metres beneath the North York Moors.

Anglo American has provided an update on its plans to continue digging for polyhalite, 1,600 metres beneath the North York Moors
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When I was in college they taught me that capitalism means that there are capitalists, who own productive resources, like say factories, and they hire people to make stuff and then sell it. They can’t pay their workers so much that they don’t make a profit, but they have to pay them at least enough that they can afford to buy the stuff the factory produces. Feudalism, in contrast, is when you just take your profits directly by charging rent, fees and dues, turning people into debt peons, or otherwise shaking them down. Nowadays the vast majority of corporate profits don’t come from making or selling things but from “finance,” which is a euphemism for other peoples’ debts—charging rents, fees, interest and whatnot. It’s feudalism in the classic definition: “direct juro-political extraction” as they sometimes put it. David Graeber

From an interview David Graeber gave about Bullshit Jobs.

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Call for national television briefing on climate crisis - Diocese of Norwich The Bishop of Norwich has joined fellow-Parliamentarians in calling for a prime-time televised national briefing on the risks posed by climate change and nature loss. The cross-party list of MPs […]

Thank you Bishop Graham Usher for calling for the Government to stage a prime-time televised emergency briefing on the threats posed to the UK by climate change and nature loss.
@churchofengland.org
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#NEB2025 #TimeToStepUp

Fin de obra FASE1adecuación morfológica y restauración del Ebro en El Ortigoso, Milagro (Navarra) Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

En El Ortigoso #Milagro, Navarra, el río vuelve a tener espacio para su llanura de inundación.
La Fase 1 #EbroResilience retiró defensas, retranqueó motas y restauró brazos fluviales, recuperando 6 ha de hábitat.
Menos riesgo, más biodiversidad.
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BBC One - Question Time, 2026, 05/03/2026 Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Kettering.

I'm on Question Time tomorrow. Hold onto your seats! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Iran War’s Most Precious Commodity Isn’t Oil The CIA calls it the “strategic commodity” of the Middle East. But it’s not referring to oil or natural gas. What the American spy agency has in mind is far more prosaic: drinking water. Don’t underes...

It's not just oil.

About 100 million people live in Gulf States now "under Iranian attack. Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on [water] desalination plants .."

@javierblas.bsky.social
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Trump Administration Announces First Step in Rolling Back Rule Protecting Whales The Trump administration today took the first official step in rolling back a 2008 regulation vital to protecting critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from deadly vessel strikes. Filed in...

Press release: President Convicted Felon officials today took the 1st official step in rolling back a 2008 regulation vital to protecting endangered right whales from deadly vessel strikes. (Right whales give birth to their young off the #Florida coast.) defenders.org/newsroom/tru...

The Trump Administration wants vassals, not allies. It is threatening Spain with an embargo after the Spanish government refused to support the use of joint bases for its illegal attack. It will only allow their use for humanitarian aid.

Qué mundo este en el que los que más vociferan en nombre de la patria defienden ser vasallos del que manda y usar nuestra soberanía como moneda de cambio.

Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

Make chalk streams an irreplaceable habitat

PETITION: You can help to protect special chalk streams by sending an email to support The Wildlife Trusts' response to the consultation.

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