Jussi Pasanen

Today, Macquarie taking AI fearmongering to the next level:
www.afr.com/chanticleer/...

Samalla kun toimittajat juoksevat milloin minkäkin pikkupaikkakunnan huoltoasemille kysymään nyt "päivän ämpeen" bensan hinnasta, olisi entistä tärkeämpää antaa runsaasti tilaa niille asiantuntijoille (kuten @terevaden.net!) jotka ovat varoittaneet pitkään nyt käsillä olevasta tilanteesta.

Global Warming Is Accelerating, Study Shows Carbon dioxide levels are at the highest point in at least 2 million years. While humans continue to pump ever greater amounts of carbon into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels, the ability of the planet to soak up our emissions is weakening. Degraded by fire and drought, forests that were once carbon sinks are now becoming sources of emissions. 

The planet is warming at the fastest rate on record, a new study finds.

Table taken from this article, showing the animals that killed the most humans in 2023 https://ourworldindata.org/deadliest-animals

Human exceptionalism
Our World in Data asks today "What are the deadliest animals?" w/out mentioning that humans are, by a long way (especially if one includes direct & indirect killings), the deadliest of animals, for both our own species & other animal species: we kill *billions* of fish each day

the really fun thing about this is that even this text's seeming factual accuracy—it can't be called "honesty"—is *also* just a coincidental artifact of these glorified Markov chains being structurally incapable of differentiating truth from falsity and meaning from nonsense.

Bloomberg's John Authers is tracking global fertilizer vulnerability. Even if the war ends next month, Brazil—the largest fertilizer importer—is unlikely to restock in time for the next soybean planting. Higher food prices will land in time for the US midterms. www.bloomberg.com/account/news...

German car manufacturing was the envy of the world. Currently it is in stark decline while still large in scale. Big parts of Europe managed to grow their manufacturing sector in the meantime. Source: buff.ly/gDmANuL

Amazeballs🤯--the world gets fossil fuelled climate disasters, repeat global mass coral bleaching, toxic algal blooms that kill marine life over tens of thousands of sq km, destruction of irreplaceable Indigenous rock art cultural heritage

Meg O'Neill gets a fancy 11.7 million pound pay check 🤬🤬🤬

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire . ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire .

Um, fewer flames?

*gestures around*

Americans Are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

WSJ finds that of 279 arrested for attacking ICE in what it unfortunately labels an "aggressive public-relations tactic," 181 were US citizens; none was convicted. But onviction isn't the point; harassment is.
Americans are Now a Target in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

This is not good (regardless of that the Iranian regime is dreadful). The war will make the water shortages so much worse. In all of the region (and different nations are blowing up adversaries desalination plants in addition, as part of this war...)

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Iranian women enjoying the new freedoms bestowed on them by the United States and Israel

We. Are. The. Bad. Guys.

Vihreä siirtymä | Päästökauppajärjestelmän muutokset uhkaavat Suomen miljardi-investointeja Muun muassa Italian ja Itä-Euroopan maiden painostuksen alla komissio lupaa esittää muutoksia EU:n päästökauppa­järjestelmään.

Never trust pledges

The only business is usual

www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000011862066.html

This is what ecocide looks like.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

omg, nailed

Yes, this is what scares me. We are not ready for it.

40 Years of UX: Legacy Process Fading, AI Revolution Ahead | Jakob Nielsen posted on the topic | LinkedIn 40 Years of 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 Become 40 Years of 𝗕𝗲𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗪𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗴. AI is obsoleting the manual UX process I spent four decades evangelizing. Should I be ashamed? No. When I taught the 𝗼𝗹𝗱 ways, they were the 𝗿𝗶...

The LinkedIn post: www.linkedin.com/posts/jakobn...

Jakob Nielsen's LinkedIn post titled '40 Years of Being Right Become 40 Years of Being Wrong.' https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jakobnielsenphd_40-years-of-%F0%9D%97%95%F0%9D%97%B2%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%BB%F0%9D%97%B4-%F0%9D%97%A5%F0%9D%97%B6%F0%9D%97%B4%F0%9D%97%B5%F0%9D%98%81-become-activity-7434629393999876096-MmUF

Jakob Nielsen is calling it

...the only issue is, when you click on the main link in the post, the article is so full of Al slop cartoons I had to immediately close the tab and rinse my eyes:
www.uxtigers.com/post/ux-roun...

And no, marginally 'less unsustainable' is not the same as 'more sustainable'

Can you spot the 'sustainable' in this?

PWC online advertisement: 'Moving tons of equipment to 24 races isn't a side story. It's a backbone of Formula 1® race operations. To keep pace with growth, Formula 1® turned to PwC, its Official Consulting Partner, to help deliver the Future of Race Operations program-and make each season smarter and more sustainable. Go trackside to see the transformation.'

'Moving tons of equipment to 24 races isn't a side story. ... [to help] make each season smarter and more sustainable.'

Moving tons of equipment _by air_ is not, and cannot be, sustainable

Cool story bro

www.pwc.com/us/en/librar...

Suomessa talousajattelua leimaa voimakkaasti konservatiivinen, fatalistinen ajatus maailmasta, jossa on ankaria "ihmisen ulkopuolisia" sääntöjä, joihin järkevät ihmiset pyrkivät sitten sopeutumaan. Suhdannevaihtelut paraatiesimerkkinä.

*Checks notes*

0.35℃ per decade = over 1.0℃ each 30 years, even _without_ any further acceleration – which seems mighty unlikely given all the recent indicators

Wile E Coyote, meet Cliff

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …

“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”

washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

One of the most terrifying graphs I've seen. The rate of global warming is going up, and far faster than feared. The heartbreak is that there's so much more we could have done. The hope is that we can can still do it. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Red light for new green investment slows race to renewable target Despite warnings that Australia will not hit its renewable energy target, the May federal budget will have no new cash for wind and solar farms.

Never trust pledges

Business as usual

‘The push to halt spending on the nation’s net zero agenda will reverse the trend since Labor came to power in 2022’

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

END/ 2 wars in 4 years. This war will accelerate Solar +Batteries + EVs as real Energy Security

"rest of the world will learn an important lesson from China. Build out your renewables so you aren't as dependent on imported fossil fuels & the whims of idiots"

Be like Spain.
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