Patrick Galey
@patrickgaley
Anti-Fascist. Anthropocene Pepys. Gen AI Cassandra. Journalist taking names on the fossil fuel industry and its role in the climate, energy, and cost of greed crises. Other than that, mainly dogs and cycling
I can’t help noticing a pretty major track buckle at the Lewes train crash site on the hottest day of the year
2026 is shaping up to be the hottest year ever and the burn area is well ahead of the EU average in terms, and we've still got a lot of the dry season to go forest-fire.emergency.copernicus.eu/apps/effis.s...
Drought in Wales. Hosepipe bans for 10s of millions. Data centres don't have to declare their water use. Pick a side: humans, or Silicon Valley eugenicists and fertility cults
What is happening, I'll remind you, is the result of a US administration dumb enough to allow Israel to drag it into a bible promise war. Everyone in the world, apart from the people doing the killing and price gouging the oil, is poorer as a direct result
The next time any politician or talking head talks about debt or how there isn't enough money to fund things like social housing or assisting processing of some of the world's most vulnerable people, remember that asset managers exist and are taxable www.ft.com/content/ea81...
Posted this over a year ago. Yesterday the industry’s supervillain lobby confirmed:
And the bailout has begun: Just as I have been saying it would for a while now. These companies cannot make any money, so they leveraged themselves to be Too Big To Fail
What the flying fuck does "rockets-to-AI" mean and can you explain why it is raising billions of dollars outside of stealing people's pensions? Can we stop treating this like it isn't legalised theft? Can we stop sanewashing the pump and dumps? www.ft.com/content/1890...
They aren't asking investors to buy anything, they have rigged profitability and passive investing rules to force people to give over their pensions on a bet that rockets don't explode www.ft.com/content/70fa...
Please enjoy this graph from a FT article explaining that AI hasn’t added any value (no, debt and circular investment isn’t value) It has produced More Stuff, it’s just the Stuff isn’t useable or fixable. Welcome to the age of everyone making apps no one uses
Here is what the bottom feeder said when Sarah Everard was murdered:
I am 100% sure Brendan would have been clutching his pearls at the George Floyd protests. A better question, one someone non incel might come up with: Why are these people raging at Henry Nowak’s death but not at Sarah Everard’s?
Starting to wonder if even supposedly sensible media has suffered a traumatic brain injury
To be extremely clear, this is fraud. SpaceX's "valuation" will be met by indexes voluntarily rigging their own rules on profitability and passive investment, and I think if someone had fallen into a coma in 2022 and woke up today they would assume this is all an extremely poor joke.
People who question my questioning of AI future profitability like to tell me that Amazon went from making very little to making a lot and while that's true that's only half of the story because... Amazon hadn't spent TENS OF BILLIONS a year developing its products before it became profitable
Compute costs are too high, and Anthropic, Microsoft and OpenAI will have to ditch their below cost pricing models or else Oracle and CoreWeave go bankrupt this year (90 percent of frontier compute cost is subsidised by PE currently)
For those taking notes, the US is pushing for a deal where the SoH is open and freely transited, but which will also see Iran’s assets unlocked and its nuclear programme enshrined $40 billion for this
I cannot quite believe this framing on BBC News bulletins this morning: - WHO declares Ebola emergency - SpaceX launches a rocket If you insist on mentioning Musk every 20 seconds, can you at least mention the fact that these people are dying in DRC because of him???
Nvidia is quite obviously committing fraudulent investing, paying money to its customers to buy its productsand calling it growth www.ft.com/content/c6b3...
BBC persisting with the “rival protests” framing which is false equivalence and, also, wrong The pro-Palestine march doesn’t exist in opposition to the racists. It’s for Nakba Day. Saying it is designed to rival the racists invents motive and animus that don’t exist
Sorry BBC, this framing is not only false equivalence, it is wrong in point of fact. The pro-Palestine march today commemorates the anniversary of the Nakba, the tragedy of Zionist colonisation of Palestine. Nakba Day was yesterday. Painting this as a “rival” march is a fallacy, and invents animus
Shell appears to have received more than £50 million in taxpayer handouts for its North Sea operations in 2024, the last year it reports government payments Shell made $7 billion profit in Q1 this year www.shell.com/sustainabili...
The US lost this war, and with it its global currency hegemony. This was the biggest singular foreign policy error by any US administration in history. The first four items of the BBC World Service's 8am bulletin this morning were about Donald Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...
The UK: where adults walk on train tracks and vote for Russian assets in the name of nationalism The ignorance is appalling