Down at the Pasticherria

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

Let me keep going with the languages and the drawing. May I try a little harder.

2020年作 「木曽川河川敷あたり」 #透明水彩研究会 #透明水彩画 #watercolor

Best estimates using models that have performed well on recent warming trends show that we will cross 2C at some point in 2029-2030 for the first time for a single year The long term moving average will likely already be breaching 2C by as early as 2034 or as late as 2036 - it will be the mid 2030s

The picture my friend liked enough to ask for

In January 2026 Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo announced names of 72 women scientists proposed to be added to 72 male scientists already engraved on the Eiffel Tower. The Association Femmes & Sciences was tasked with preparing a list of 72 women scientists since 1789. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words. On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape. www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...

No one should accept anything less than universal basic income as a policy response to AI. There is only one way to make sure AI works for all of us and that's to MAKE THEM LITERALLY WORK FOR ALL OF US via a universal dividend that grows as national productivity grows. Also universal healthcare too.

Deeply worrying. "Trump has attacked judges and weakened global safeguards. Someone needs to stand up to the US and stop the erosion of democracy."

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An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

I would like the right to exclude AI from my life.

How do people stay in jobs? Every time I look at any job description I feel so terribly bored and sad. How do they even apply for them? If I had a pet to look after would that motivate me?

Concerning when EA knows of a site and says it is local council’s responsibility but local councils have no process or strategy. In the early 80s it was completely normal for farms to have ‘dumps’ in dingles and gullies. Bound to impact ground water eventually.

I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY! Out in August.

Important, shocking report that needs & deserves much attention (more than eg. Tony Blair & oil & gas interests) .... #pollution #wildlife #marinelife #biodiversity #climate

In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in: - Hagerstown, MD: $102 million - Surprise, AZ: $70 million - Hamburg, PA: $87 million - Tremont, PA: $120 million - San Antonio, TX: $82 million - El Paso, TX: $123 million - Social Circle, GA: price unknown This is unprecedented.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

OOFF! Just seen a preview of Dirty Business (Ch4 factual drama) on the sewage scandal. This will start a conflagration. Tears and fury. Could it spark a Post Office-style reckoning? I think it could. Watch it later this month. Kudos to the heroes Ash Smith and Peter Hammond from WASP

‘To live a normal life again, it’s a dream come true’: UK’s first climate evacuees can cast off their homes and trauma

To all those who say “but air pollution is within legal limits” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Besides being costly, means-testing creates potentially lethal false negative errors and non-takeup issues that universality eliminates in favor of non-lethal false positive errors that can be addressed via the tax system Universal basic income and healthcare and progressive taxes are the way to go

Water stress - where water companies are always close to not having enough water to meet demand - results in the ever-present threat of a drought where firms have to take extra water from already low rivers - robbing wildlife of their homes. share.google/GSmbX5qOYGfg...

ICE uses extrajudicial violence and intimidation for political ends. It's unconstrained by the law, unaccountable to the public. Its crimes are endorsed at the highest levels. What does this tell us? That it's the force of paramilitary thugs all fascist movements & governments use. It is Trump’s SS.

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

An illegal landfill isn't just unpleasant - breathing in hydrogen sulphide & methane, chemical pollutants seeping out from a huge, unlined, unfiltered, poorly managed tip - none of this is good for the health of people, wildlife or waterways.

Ofcom, which enforces the UK's Online Safety Act, says it is aware of "serious concerns" about Grok undressing people including children on X “We have made urgent contact with X and xAI to understand what steps they have taken to comply with their legal duties to protect users in the UK," it says

I just charge. $1 if you ask. $2 if I have to get up to find it. $3 if it was exactly where I said it was, and yes, the fees do stack. My son has stopped asking, he's scared of being negative on his allowance.

Disappointed to see this. 160 union workers are fighting for a fair contract at Individualized Shirts, a US factory that makes high-end men's button-ups. The managers there have rejected the union's request for fair wages and health insurance. The union is asking for support 🧵

"A ticking time bomb" Dr Barbara Kneale tells Martin Stew what it's like to live near the Jameson Road Landfill. Local residents describe foul odours from the landfill, bordering a former chemical plant waste site. ITV News covered our report on landfill pollution with @investigate-europe.eu

follow your dreams 😌 #art #comic

New evidence in support of universal basic income. This is via the Rx Kids program that's going to babies for their 1st year of life. The $500/mo has led to a 32% reduction in allegations of maltreatment among infants compared to the control group. This has also been seen as a result of Alaska's UBI

Random experiment to see if cheating in school could be stopped by designing math problems for children that AI will refuse to handle. Results are mixed.

The Cook County, IL budget for 2026 that just passed sets aside $7.5 million per year from the county budget for a permanent guaranteed basic income program, making it the largest permanent county-level GBI program in the US. No details yet on design, just funding. It could pay 1,250 people $500/mo.

New report uncovers cause of shocking string of whale deaths 🐋 NOAA data shows that since 2007, more than 920 humpback whales have been maimed or killed by fishing lines, many linked to commercial crab operations. 🦀🎣 www.yahoo.com/news/article...

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

Claims of felling 250 year-old trees + shipping them thousands of miles to burn in a power station, releasing fine particulate pollution linked to breathing + heart conditions. Perhaps, instead of subsidising this, our tax money could go to treating people with those conditions? 🧵 1/2