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My bias, my bad…

Terra Infirma

At the weekend, I took part in unconscious bias training and, like Kylie, I can’t get it out of my mind. Bias followed by bias, followed by bias – I fell into a lot of traps… In the second part we were given real life scenarios like a phone message saying “single parent, council tenant, needs help.”

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Yes, Investing in ESG Pays Off

Andrew Winston

This article got some good debate on my LinkedIn post. We humans are notoriously bad at predicting the future. At the macro level we’ve long passed the point where the cost of action is far lower than the cost of inaction — i.e., huge swaths of the planet becoming uninhabitable, which, again, is kind of bad for business.

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ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding – here’s how you can be on alert

DeSmogBlog

Geoffrey Hinton, former head of AI development at Google, quit to be free to sound the alarm, saying, “It is hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things.” A query on what percentage of the world has had COVID-19 returned an answer prefaced by “as of my knowledge cutoff date of September 2021.”

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Slow, [Expensive] and Amazing - Nuclear Power [2/3]

Mr. Sustainability

Every nuclear power plant loses 5 billion euros during its lifetime” About a year ago, I saw a headline in the Dutch General Newspaper that caught my attention. When you read the fine print, there is quite a bias in how the numbers are presented and the most convenient aspects for that source are emphasized. View fullsize.

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Why I lost half my body weight last year - and never before

Mr. Sustainability

It also elaborates on the biases I had to overcome which kept me from losing weight my entire life. I have been there my friend. At my fattest time during college, I weighted more than 125 kilograms. That is almost 50% more than my current weight. Struggling with weight was part of my life. Or how you feel.

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Why I lost half my current body weight last year - and never before

Mr. Sustainability

The habits I used to quickly lose weight were: 1) to track my calories, 2) intermittent fasting and 3) reduce carb intake. I have been there my friend. At my fattest time during college, I weighted more than 125 kilograms. That is almost 50% more than my current weight. Struggling with weight was part of my life.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

I never did find out the results of my complaints to the OPUC about NW Natural,” he wrote. A year after taking his complaints to regulators, Dye reached out to agency employee Ken Zimmerman, hoping for an update. “I Any information you can give me?”. Zimmerman told Dye his complaints had been handed off to the DOJ.